The Fourteenth International Conference on Food Studies featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Associate Professor, Department of Consumer and Food Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
“Tracing Culinary Identity through Sense of Place: Perspectives Gained from Past Lessons to Inform Future Structures"
Assistant Professor, Universidade Europeia of Lisbon, Portugal
"Let the Simplicity of Form Lead to the Complexity of Taste: A ‘Rissol’ in Shape or the Shape of a ‘Rissol’"
Full Professor, Academic and Programmes Co-Director, Department of Food and Nutrition, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
“Does ‘Place’ Really Matter? On Food, Culture, Heritage and Socioeconomic Development"
University of Pretoria, South Africa
(English)
University of Guadalajara, Mexico
(Spanish)
Vice President of Higher School of Education of Lisbon, Lisbon Polytechnic, Portugal Coordinator of the Visual Arts and Technologies DegreeDesignLab4U Founder
Pró-Presidente, Comunicação e Imagem Institucional, Coordenadora Mestrado design de identidade digital, Polytechnic University of Portalegre, Portugal
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2024 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
The Fork Front, USA
(In-Person)
São Paulo State University, Brazil
(In-Person)
University of Tasmania, Australia
(In-Person)
PUC Rio, Brazil
(In-Person)
University of Windsor, Canada
(In-Person)
North Carolina State University, United States
(In-Person)
Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, Germany
(In-Person)
University of Cape Town, South Africa
(Online Only)
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(Online Only)
University of Porto, Portugal
(Online Only)
Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
(Online Only)
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
(Online Only)
University of London, UK
(Online Only)
Portalegre, Portugal