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09-10.02.2012 - FOST Conference

On February 9 and 10, 2012, FOST will be organizing a conference entitled 'A Taste of Home. Food, identity, place and memory in Europe from a historical perspective (19th-20th centuries)'. Please find the Call for Papers here.

16-17.12.2011 - FOST Conference

On December 16 and 17, 2011, FOST will be organizing the conference 'Labour, Labour Relations and Occupational Identities in Hotels, Restaurants and Cafes (18th-20th centuries)'. More information can be found here.

1.12.2011 - Lecture Karen Arijs

From December 1st until December 3rd, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NIAS) organises a colloquium on "The Construction of Local Identities through Culture and Language in the Dutch Province of Limburg". Karen Arijs will present a paper titled "Public celebrations and (food) consumption as proxy for the study of identity in cross-border-region Limburg: a suitable approach?" Click here for more information.

13-16.09.2011 - Lecture Anneke Geyzen

From 13 until 16 September 2011, the International Commission for Research into European Food History (ICREFH) organises its 12th colloquium. This year's theme focuses on 'The History of the European Food Industry in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century'. FOST member Anneke Geyzen will present a paper titled 'The representation of food preservation types in Flemish women's magazines, 1945-1960'.

Click here for Anneke's presentation.

Click here for the conference programme.

13.09.2011 - Lecture Nathalie Parys

On Tuesday, September 13th, the Centre for Material Texts in Cambridge will be hosting a workshop entitled Eating Words: Text, Image, Food. FOST member Nathalie Parys will talk about 'Using cookbooks as historical sources: obstacles and challenges'.

Click here for Nathalie's presentation.

Click here for the workshop's programme.

09.09.2011 - Ph.D. defense Nelleke Teughels

On Friday, September 9th (3pm) FOST member Nelleke Teughels' Ph.D. defense will take place. Her dissertation is entitled: 'Smaakvolle boodschappen: archeologisch onderzoek naar iconografie, materiële cultuur en identiteit in de Belgische kleinhandel, ca. 1870-1940'.

Click here to see the invitation.

Please rsvp via email.

02.08.2011 - Lecture Sarah Daniels

On August 2nd, Sarah Daniels will talk at the IATUR Conference. Her lecture is entitled: 'More than just preparing a meal? Concerning the meanings of cooking'.

16.06.2011 - Lecture Anneke Geyzen

At the conference 'Food and Drink: their Social, Political and Cultural Histories' in Preston (UK), Anneke Geyzen will talk about 'What's in a name? Recipes and geographical connotations in postwar Flanders'.

01.05.2011 - Lecture Peter Scholliers

On May 1st, the 'Day of Cultural Heritage' will take place. FOST member Peter Scholliers will talk about 'Bettelman en pain à la grecque: armeluiskost op rijke tafels'.

For more information and the complete programme, click here.

08.04.2011 - Lecture Karen Arijs

On April 8th, FOST member Karen Arijs will talk about the construction of identity in Belgian and Dutch Limburg (19th and 20th centuries).

Click here for more information.

07.02.2011 - Masterclass FOST

On 7 February 2011, dr. Alain Drouard and FOST will organize a masterclass titled 'Histoires des cuisiniers et de la cuisine en France (XIXe - XXe siècles)'.

Practical information: 3-6pm, room 5C402 (professors' room at the Faculty of Arts - VUB).
Dr. Drouard is directeur de recherche CNRS, associated with the Centre Roland Mousnier (Paris) and chairman of ICREFH (International Commission for Research into European Food History). He has published several books amongst which Histoire des cuisiniers en France (XIXe - XXe siècle) (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2004, herdruk 2007), Les Français et la table: Alimentation, cuisine et gastronomie du Moyen Age à nos jours (Paris: Ellipses, 2005), and together with Jean-Pierre Williot, he has edited Histoire des innovations alimentaires, XIXe et XXe siècles (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007).
Dr. Drouard is one of the few historians in the world who has researched labour market, hierarchies, migrations, unions and strikes of personnel working in hotels, cafés and restaurants.
The masterclass entails three parts: a lecture by A. Drouard (in French), a practical excercise (based on a text or photo) and a debate (in French or English).

10-11.12.2010 - FOST Colloquium

On 10 and 11 December 2010, FOST will organize its yearly colloquium. This year the theme is "Food: Convergence and Divergence in Europe since 1800 (Cuisine of Elites, Bourgeois, and Middle Classes)."

Click here for more information.

To register, please click here.

30.11.2010 - Lecture about eating habits in Roman Antiquity

On November 30, professor Paul Erdkamp will be giving a lecture about eating habits in Roman Antiquity.

More information can be found here.

12.11.2010 and 16.11.2010 - FOST during the Week of Taste

This year too, FOST will be participating in the Week of Taste in Flanders (November 11-November 21). On November 12, Patricks Keuken in Ninove will be the stage for several lectures about 'forgotten vergetables'. Lecturers are Anneke Geyzen, Olivier de Maret, Nelleke Teughels and Daniëlle De Vooght. More information can be found here. On November 16, Peter Scholliers will be taking about 'Belgian cuisine' in Aalst. More information can be found here.

Registration is necessary. Please refer to the previously mentioned websites

04.06.2010 - FOST Masterclass

On June 4th, the annual FOST Masterclass will take place. Master@Work is Allen Weiss. He will talk about 'Food, Memory, Heritage'. To subscribe, please visit the FARO-website.

22.04.2010 - FOST Ph.D. defense

On April 22, 2010, FOST member Daniëlle De Vooght will defend her dissertation entitled 'Display at the Dining Table? Culinary Networks of Power at the Belgian Royal Court of the Nineteenth Century'. This research is a part of the FOST research programme on convergence and divergence in European food habits.

06.03.2006 - FOST goes online (in English)

As of today, the FOST website is also available in English!!! This website aims to provide information about social and cultural food studies, on both a national and international level. You can get to know the FOST members, learn about FOST research activities, read about publications and take a look at interesting food websites.
So be our guest, and take a look around...