Sixteenth International Conference on Food Studies
- Living with Water: Food and Life
- 10-12 October 2026
- Center for Education in Liberal Arts and Science (CELAS), University of Osaka, Japan + Online
The Sixteenth International Conference on Food Studies featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Tully Knoles Endowed Professor of History, University of the Pacific, USA
"Drinking Water in the Western Tradition, Dangerous or Essential?"
President, Japan Food Study College, Japan
"The Blessings of Water -The Current State and Potential of Freshwater Fish Consumption in Japan"
Food studies researcher and Representative Director, Japan Food Studies College, Japan
"Oishii Kamigata Studies: Osaka’s Culinary Philosophy for the Future of Food"
Director, Geolib Research Institute and Professor Emeritus, Kobe University, Japan
"WashokuーBlessings from the Japanese Archipelago"
Professor and Director, Center for Regional Food Studies, University of Arizona, USA
"Rethinking the Food-Water Nexus in the Context of Polycrisis"
Professor, Sojo University, Japan
"Food Metabolomics: Decoding Food Quality, Flavor, and Fermentation"
University of Pretoria, South Africa
(English)
University of Guadalajara, Mexico
(Spanish)
Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities, The University of Osaka, Japan
Japan Food Studies College Director; Lecturer of Otani University
Japan Food Studies College Director; International Consultant in Food Systems
Japan Food Studies College Director; Lecturer, Graduate School of Business Strategy, Kwansei Gakuin University
Japan Food Studies College Director; Lecturer Osaka Tourism University
Japan Food Studies College Director; Food Activities. Founder of Cocowell Corporation
Japan Food Studies College Director; Board Member, Japan Tourism Nation Platform General Incorporated Association
Japan Food Studies College Director; Food Activists. Owner Chef
Japan Food Studies College Founder
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 2026 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
Hiroshima University, Japan
University of Toronto, Canada
The Foodscapes Collective, German
Leiden University, Japan
Geological Society of London, United Kingdom
Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters, United States
Università degli Studi di Milan, Italy
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, United States
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
University of Tokyo, Japan
Banaras Hindu University, India
University of Genoa, Italy
University of Bologna, Italy
Torrens University, Australia
Adigrat University, Ethiopia
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
Universitat de Girona, Spain
Osaka, Japan
Osaka, Japan
