[ecrea] CFP International Conference "Eating Knowledge" _ AAC "Alimentation en savoirs"

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Eating Knowledge: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Food Information, 
Communication and Education

International and Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Lille Humanities and Social Sciences

December 6-7 2018

Keynote speakers:

Peter Scholliers, Department of History at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

*Gianfranco Marrone* Department of Cultures & Society, University of 
Palermo, Italy

Conference Website*:* https://foodice.hypotheses.org/colloque_2018


Important dates:

Submission deadline: July 1, 2018

Author notification: September 15, 2018

Proposals should be addressed to: Susan Kovacs, 
(susan.kovacs /at/ univ-lille3.fr) <mailto:(susan.kovacs /at/ univ-lille3.fr)>

The circulation of knowledge about food has increased significantly over 
the past few decades. A variety of actors – including doctors, 
researchers, food industry representatives, public institutions, 
communications agencies, journalists, teachers, publishers of textbooks 
and of healthy living how-to guides – produce, reformulate, adapt and 
circulate images and texts relating to food practices, in order to 
inform, educate and influence different publics. At the same time, 
members of the general public, whether they be consumers, gastronomes, 
bloggers, parents, pupils, students or patients seek, retrieve, and 
appropriate information about food and in turn produce and publish 
information and knowledge about food, using a variety of media.

Several recent studies in the humanities and social sciences have shown 
the extent to which food production and commercialization, culinary 
preparation and food consumption and nutritional practice have become 
public sphere issues. Certain authors have explored the ways in which 
the actions and initiatives of public authorities and of agrofood 
industrial actors have ‘invaded’ the private sphere. Such blurring of 
the boundaries between the private and public spheres can be seen as 
directly related to the rise of information, communication and education 
initiatives which form an integral part of the activity of the food 
industry sector as well as of governmental agencies.

This interdisciplinary international conference is organized by three 
research laboratories – GERiiCO 
<https://geriico-recherche.univ-lille3.fr>, CIREL-Théodile 
<http://cirel.recherche.univ-lille3.fr>and CERIES 
<https://ceries.univ-lille.fr>– and is sponsored by the University of 
Lille through the ALICE international project. This conference aims to 
explore issues arising from the informational, communicational and 
educational practices which contribute to the circulation of knowledge 
about food. We seek to advance understanding of the processes of 
formulation, mediatization, circulation and reception of knowledge and 
norms relating to food, within different social environments (education, 
business, information activities, urban public places...) and within a 
variety of informational and communicational contexts, including public 
communication, popular science publications, informal blogs, journalism, 
advertising...

We welcome contributions which deal in particular with the following 
issues and questions related to food information, communication and 
education:

1. Characterizing knowledge about food: how does such knowledge circulate?

--What kind of knowledge about food circulates today? How is scientific 
knowledge presented and how is it linked to common sense knowledge or 
family tradition? Which areas of knowledge are given particular weight 
or importance: knowledge about the body, about foods, about nutrition, 
health, food production and distribution systems, commensality and 
sociability…? What characterizes knowledge about food risks and dangers 
(health risks, environmental risks, agricultural risks…)?

--How does knowledge about food circulate? What types of media, 
documents, devices and artifacts, ‘transport,’ transpose, publish and 
transform knowledge about food: publications, web sites, posters, school 
textbooks, films, media coverage, blogs, YouTube channels and videos, 
television documentaries and fictional shows... ? What discursive 
material forms, documentary forms and enunciative patterns characterize 
the structuring and mediatization of knowledge about food?

  2.  Actors and actions of food knowledge production and circulation. 
The focus here is upon public and private sphere actors who carry out 
information, communication and educational initiatives on the local, 
national and international level and upon the artifacts which they produce:

-- Who is responsible for the creation, circulation and mediatization of 
norms and knowledge about food? What are the roles of: public entities 
(governmental ministries and agencies, local authorities, public 
institutions); private sector actors (firms, foundations, institutions, 
communications agencies); associations and organizations?

-- What are the major issues and questions arising from the 
communication, information and education initiatives conceived and 
carried out by these actors within the public and private spheres, 
whether it be on the local, national or international levels ? 
Contributions proposing analysis of municipal, regional, and national 
programs and official documents, of school curricula, of health and 
nutrition awareness campaigns, of events, of informational-pedagogical 
devices and of advertising campaigns are welcome.

-- What kinds of knowledge (and know-how) -- in the fields of nutrition, 
medecine, communication, agrobiology, psychology, law... -- are 
mobilized by actors who produce and circulate food knowledge and 
information? What role is played by experts and expertise in these 
initiatives, whether it be medical or other scientific expertise 
(nutritionists, dieticians, biologists, etc), teachers and pedagogical 
expertise, agrofood industry expertise (restaurant and food service 
professionals, chefs, gastronomes, private foundations or institutes), 
marketing, management or communication professionals’ expertise 
(communication agencies, communications officers and public relations 
professionals, popular science journalists or bloggers), parents, 
consumer advocacy groups, pupils and students?

  3. Information and knowledge practices: seeking, retrieving, 
processing, and appropriation of knowledge and information about food:

--How do individuals (consumers, families, workers, patients, teachers, 
information or health professionals…) seek information about food? What 
are their objectives and motivations (health concerns, consumption, 
cooking…) What sources of information are preferred and trusted? What 
sources are explored and used?

--What informational tools are used to organize, categorize, archive, 
share and circulate knowledge about food: terminologies, thesauri, 
classifications, categorizations, indexation tools? How do these tools 
contribute to the construction and reception of knowledge about food?

--What kinds of expertise are recognized and deemed or perceived to be 
relevant and trustworthy by information seekers or by individuals 
(information professionals, teachers…) who produce or process 
information? What do information practices tell us about the ‘relevance 
criteria’ which are applied to knowledge and information sources on 
food? In particular, what weight is given to different types of 
expertise by information seekers? Upon what basis are the discourses 
which present food knowledge and food information considered trustworthy 
and credible? How are the trustworthiness and credibility of food 
information sources constructed for/by information seekers?

  4.  Power and governmentality: cultural prescriptions, values and 
recommendations which circulate about food:

-- What socio-economic and political issues, questions and values 
(concerning health and well being, individual action and power, economic 
productivity, environmental activism) are associated with the 
circulation of knowledge about food? What does the circulation of 
knowledge and norms about food (nutritional recommendations and 
prescriptive discourses, discourses about agricultural practice and 
about consumption behaviors, norms and practices, etc) reveal about the 
strategies, positions and thought systems of different actors, and about 
ideas of empowerment, of individual or familial choice, of subjectivity 
and agentivity?

-- What importance is given to the governmentality and 
“responsibilization” of individuals, groups, communities within food 
knowledge artifacts and devices? How does the circulation of nutritional 
or health norms, rules, and implicit or explicit guidelines contribute 
to the elaboration of an ideal or ‘expected’ set of behaviors for 
individuals, families, consumers, pupils and students, workers? How do 
these ‘ideal’ behaviors vary in relation to geographic context (country, 
region, town) or to individuals’ socio-economic background, age?

-- How are ideas (and values) related to performance and wellbeing 
implicitly or explicitly conveyed or connoted by messages which 
circulate about food? How are the principles defining performance 
(physical, intellectual, economic performance) related to the issues of 
social relations and social bonds at work, at home, in the community? In 
what ways do quantitative and qualitative standards of measurement and 
evaluation support, underlie or undermine values (of performance, well 
being...) associated with food?

Submission guidelines :

We welcome proposals for papers in French or English, approximately 6000 
characters in length including spaces (doc or odt format, 12-point Times 
New Roman font). Submissions should include the title of the proposed 
paper and should present the main research questions, hypotheses, 
methodology, principle results, key bibliographical references, and five 
key words. Please include: the author(s) name(s), the authors’ affiliations.

Evaluation process:

Submissions will be subjected to double blind peer review by members of 
the scientific committee. Selected papers will be organized into speaker 
sessions.

Scientific Committee:

Jean-Jacques Boutaud (Université de Bourgogne)
Françoise Hache-Bissette (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en 
Yvelines)
Simona De Iulio (Université de Lille)
Nicoletta Diasio (Université de Strasbourg)
Gianfranco Marrone (Università di Palermo)
Sidonie Naulin (Sciences Po Grenoble)
Marino Niola (UNISOB, Naples)
Didier Nourrisson (Université de Lyon)
Christian Orange (ULB Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Denise Orange Ravachol (Université de Lille)
Isabelle Pailliart (Université de Grenoble)
Jean-Philippe de Oliviera (Université de Grenoble)
Peter Scholliers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Kilian Stengel (Université de Tours)
Monica Truninger (Universidade de Lisboa)


Organizing Committee:

  Marie Berthoud (Geriico, Université de Lille)

Catherine Boyer (CIREL-Théodile, Université de Lille)

Patrice de la Broise (Geriico, Université de Lille)

Philippe Cardon (Ceries, Université de Lille)

Simona De Iulio (GERiiCO, Université de Lille)

Thomas Heller (Geriico, Université de Lille)

Susan Kovacs (Geriico, Université de Lille)

Denise Orange (CIREL-Théodile, Université de Lille)

Elodie Sevin (Geriico, Université de Lille)


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