Conferences

List of Historical Conferneces

ICAF CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA

1978 Meeting to found the Commission of IUAES                                 New Delhi, India

1980s

1980 Organizational meeting to discuss topics topics
Bad Homburg, Germany

1981 ICAF meeting at ICAES InterCongress                                         Amsterdam, Holland

1982 Coping with Uncertainty in Food Supply                                       Bad Homburg, Germany

1983 Fatness, Obesity and Culture                                                        Victoria, Canada (IUAES)

1984 The Sharing of Food: From Phylogeny to History                          Bad Homburg, Germany

1988 Cultural and Physiological Aspects of Fatness and Obesity        Zagreb, Croatia (IUAES)

1989 Seasonality                                                                                  Seoul, Korea (IUAES)

1989 Il fermento divino                                                                         Palermo, Sicily

1990s

1990: Food for Humanity                                                                      Oxford, UK

1990 Nutritional Problems of the Elderly                                               Vienna, Austria

1991 Food and the Status Quest                                                            Tegernsee, Germany

1992 The Mediterranean: a style of food and a way of life
Almeria, Spain

1993 Food Preferences and Taste                                                          Oxford, UK

1993 ICAF meeting at the XIIIth ICAES, Congress                                Mexico City, Mexico

1994 The Mediterranean Diet: Ideal models and reality                          Seville, Spain

1995 Food Specialities: Tradition and innovation                                   Evora, Portugal

1997 The Road of Food Habits in the Mediterranean Area                      Naples, Italy

1998 Drinking: An Anthropological Approach            Williamsburg,USA (ICAES)

1999 Food Habits: Crossing Borders, East and West                              Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania

1999 Children, Food and Growth                                                          Prague, Czech Republic

2000s

2000 Meat: Environment, Health, Food and Nutrition                            Bordeaux, France

2001 Fluid Bread, Images and Usages of Beer in Cross-cultural Perspective
Seewiesen, Germany

2001 The Cultural Arbitrary: Rationality and Irrationality in Food Choice
Borja, Spain

2002 The Culture of Water, practices, symbolism and ritual
Crotone, Italy

2002 Research Methods in the Anthropology of Food                              Oxford, UK

2003 Anthropology, Nutrition and Wildlife Conservation
Florence, Italy (IUAES)

2003 Hunting Meat, Drinking Wine                                                       Poysdorf, Austria

2004 Beer in Prehistory and Antiquity                                                   Barcelona, Spain

2005 Non-Food as Food                                                                       Oxford, UK

2005 Food in the Ports of the World                                                      Veracruz, Mexico

2005 The Kitchen and Cooking as Territories                                         Toulouse, France

2006 Mountains, Food and Nutrition                                                     Vallouise, France

2006 The Contemporary Uses of Cultural Heritage; processes of food, resources and culinary systems
Seville, Spain

2007 Food and Rites of Passage,                                                           Barsana, Romania

2008 Sharing Food; Sharing Bonds                                                       Beijing, China (ICAES)

2008 Contribution of Biodiversity to Food and Nutrition                         Paris, France

2009  Fish and Seafood                                                                         Kamilari, Crete, Greece

2010s

2010 Food and Conflict                                                                        Oxford, UK

2010 Food and Globalisation                                                                Bilbao, Spain

2010 Food Habits and Food Problems in the Middle East and Mediterranean Area
Bellaterra, Spain

2011 Food in Zones of Conflict                                                              Leiden, Holland

2011 Food, Globalisation and Human Diversity                                     Perth, W.Australia

2011 Food Sharing                                                                               Lasseube, France

2012 Birds as Food: Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary aspects         Sopron, Hungary

2012 Food and Love                                                                             Daroca, Spain

2012 Growth and Nutrition: a bio-cultural synthesis with special reference to children and youths
Bhubaneswar, India (ICAES)

2013 Food and Art                                                                                Kamilari, Crete

2013 Coevolution of Humans and their Foods                                        Manchester, UK (ICAES)

2013 Alimentary Responses to the Economic Crisis                                Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain

2014 Food, Internet and Social Media                                                   Extremadura, Spain

2015: Pure Food                                                                                 Bremen, Germany

2015 Anthropology and Ethnography of Food                                        Puebla, Mexico

2016: Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century                     Liverpool, UK

2017 Food, Gastronomy and Tourism                                                    Tossa de Mar, Spain

2017 Foodways in Motion, Food Sovereignty, Producer movements and Living Traditions
Ottawa, Canada

2017 Transdisciplinary challenges in the Anthropology of Food              Puebla, Mexico

2018 Food Matters in Anthropology of Food: debates. limits and challenges
Florianopolis, Brazil

2019 Food Solidarity: moral economies of food production and consumption as a foundation for human and environmental security    Poznan, Poland

2019 The Diversity of Mediterranean Cultures and Food Systems Palermo, Italy

2020s

2020 Gastronomy, Sustainability and Development                              (virtual) Caceres, Spain

2021 Fish as Food: lifestyle and a sustainable future                              (virtual) Liverpool, UK

2021 Small Scale Food Producers, Legacies and Food Systems               (virtual) Huetla,Mexico

2021 Food Heritagization, Public Policies and Tourism in Global Context
Merida, Mexico

2022 Popular Cuisines and Today’s Gastronomies: common popular products and preparations go to gastronomic tables                     Evora, Portugal

2023 Food for the Future: Livelihoods, Food Systems Security, Resilience and Renewal in the Age of Permacrisis
Delhi, India

2023 Food and gastronomy for the rest of the 21st Century. heritages, territories, innovations and good practices
Mexico City, Mexico

2023 Debates on the Anthropology of Food: Iberian perspectives: Past, present and future
A Coruña, Spain

2024 Tourism, Food and Culture                                                            Lisbon, Portugal

2024 Remaining Knowledge about Anthropology of Food
(virtual) Johannesburg, South Africa