Food Studies

Food Studies is an inclusive group of researchers at all levels whose research explores aspects of the intersection of food and culture throughout history and around the world. We welcome members from institutes and departments around the university, including from outside the humanities and social sciences. Many of us are particularly interested in the modern and contemporary world. However, leveraging the universality of food as a human experience, we facilitate and encourage dialogue and discourse across time, place, and discipline, from production to consumption, and encompassing the environmental, social, economic, and political dimensions of food.

Our regular activities aim to support academic writing and publishing for scholars at all career stages and build interdisciplinary relationships toward future collaborative research. These activities include a writing support group to share in-progress research drafts and receive peer feedback and a lecture series open to the public with both UiB and invited scholars as speakers.

In addition to the goals and activities laid out above, our primary long-term goals include:

1. to develop large-scale collaborative project proposals for NFR, ERC, etc., based on our research results
2. to develop opportunities for graduate students and early-career researchers in the humanities to engage in and with food studies
3. to transform our research into research-based teaching across the curriculum at UiB by workshopping courses, syllabi, readings, and teaching strategies