Event Type: Local / Community

Takes Place: 15th December 2025

Time: 11:59

Venue: University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Description: A one-day interdisciplinary conference on the relationships between food, identities and power dynamics. From medieval feasts to McDonalds, we aim to explore the complex interplay between what we eat, how we eat, and who we are. Keynote: Professor Anne Murcott (SOAS, UK) We invite 250‑word abstracts for 20‑minute papers, to be submitted by 15 December 2025. The conference explores how everyday practices of eating and drinking construct and cross boundaries—of bodies, spaces, identities, class, race, religion, taste and disgust—linking material culture, identity and power. Selected papers may be considered for an edited collection published with Routledge (Warwick Humanities Series) Suggested topics include: global/local food histories; food industries; gender/labour/kitchens; materiality of food & drink, consumption and consumerism; ritual and religion; sensory/emotional boundaries of taste & disgust; climate anxiety, sustainability, preservation/innovation techniques; food heritage, authenticity and national cuisines. This conference is sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick's Global History and Culture Centre, and the Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre. Where & when: University of Warwick, 14 March 2026. Submission deadline: 15 December 2025 . Send your 250-word abstract to edibleboundariesconf@gmail.com Full website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/eb/

How to book: Send a 250-word abstract with title and keywords to edibleboundariesconf@gmail.com by December 15, 2026

Price: Free

Email: eloisa.ocando-thomas@warwick.ac.uk

Website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/eb/

Lecturer: Anne Murcott

Region: West Midlands