Professor Charles Spence is an experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford, where he explores the impact that sight, sound and touch have on our perceptions of taste. With more…

Dr. Vivienne Lo is a Senior Lecturer at University College London specializing in the history of Asian medicine and classical Chinese medicine. Her work explores, among other things, the social…

Harold McGee started his professional life as literature and writing instructor at Yale University, focusing on Romantic poetry: his dissertation was entitled “Keats and the Progress of Taste.” But he…

Professor Krishnendu Ray is Chairman of the Department of Food Studies at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. A sociologist by training, Ray’s interests focus…

We’re over the moon (appropriately for this year’s subject) that Margaret Atwood has agreed to address us in our fortieth anniversary year on Fictional Foodies. As one of Canada’s best…

Eric C. Rath, culinary historian and enthusiast for all foods Japanese, will illuminate The Imaginary Cuisine of Medieval Japan. As Professor of history at the University of Kansas, he teaches…

Environmental activist Rob Hopkins will address the big questions in What is to What If – Unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want.  Campaigner, broadcaster, keen…

Janet L. Beizer, professor of Romance Languages and Literature at Harvard University, will deliver our concluding keynote from the perspective of the flâneuse, the erudite wanderer through the many metaphorical…