Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526—93)
The Vegetable Gardener, ca. 1590
Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona

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Oxford Symposium Programme

The next Oxford Symposium will take place at St Catz on 12-14 September 2008. The Topic is Vegetables.

To download the 2008 proposal abstracts please click here.

For the Draft Programme for the 2008 Oxford Symposium
please click here.

To download a Registration Form please click here.

Registered 2008 Symposiasts' Members only area (password protected) - you can download the 2008 papers here.

2008 Oxford Symposium: The American Friends of the Oxford Symposium invite you to a Celebration of Cricket and Traditional English Picnic. For more details click here.

An Exhibition: Food and Feasting Treasures from the Bodleian
Designed for the benefit of Oxford Food Symposiasts, a wonderful display of some extraordinary food-related Bodleian treasures will be on display during the Symposium.  All Symposiasts are invited, and admission is free. For further information click here.

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Calls for papers:

Tasting histories: Food and Drink Cultures through the Ages - a research symposium, graduate workshop and public conference February 27-March 1, 2009 Robert Mondavi Institute, University of California, Davis, California
We are interested in receiving papers that explore critical issues in food and drink production and consumption that relate to the body and that deploy a world historical lens. For further information click here.

CFP:  Food, Culture, and the Law - a call for papers
The field of food studies has grown enormously over the last decade, as evidenced in part by the steadily increasing number of academics and professionals in the humanities, social and nutrition sciences, culinary arts, and hospitality studies who have become engaged in cross-disciplinary conversations about food.  Operating in tandem with the explosion of popular fascination with food, these conversations have been joined of late by academics, attorneys, and activists who are particularly concerned with the question of how our relationship to food is, has been, and should be, mediated through law.  In response to this emerging area of inquiry, we are soliciting both conference papers and publishable essays that integrate multidisciplinary scholarship in food studies with legal scholarship related to food in existing fields such as agricultural, constitutional, criminal, administrative, tort, intellectual property, and international trade law. For further information click here.

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The previous Oxford Symposium took place on 8 & 9 September 2007 at St Catherine’s College (St Catz), Oxford. The Topic was 'Food and Morality'. To read a report on the proceedings, click here

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The 2009 Oxford's Symposium’s dates are 11-13 September. The Topic for 2009 is Food and Language.

In 2010 the Oxford Symposium will change to a July date. The 2010 Oxford Symposium's dates are 9-11 July. The topic will be Cured, Smoked, and Fermented Foods.

Guidelines for
authors of Symposium papers

The Sophie Coe Prize for Food History

Maps of Oxford

Oxford restaurants