List of past events
ICAF CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA
1978 Meeting to found the Commission of IUAES New Delhi, India
1980s
1980 Organizational meeting to discuss 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 Bhubaneswar, India
reference to children and youths (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
Forthcoming meetings planned for 2025
2025 Food Landscapes: Territories and sustainable identities Barreiros, Spain
2025 Political economy of food heritage: critical approaches
and interdisciplinary intersections Antigua, Guatemala
2025 Food and Gastronomy: Social Perspectives Mexico City, Mexico