Summer School
Asian Food: History, Anthropology, Sociology
Dates
25 – 29 September 2017
Application deadline
20 March 2017
Venue
Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
Convenors
The international experts who will contribute include:
Nir Avieli (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
Anne Murcott (SOAS, London)
Katarzyna Cwiertka (Leiden University)
Anne Gerritsen (Warwick University / Leiden University).
The Summer School
The University of Leiden enjoys a world-wide reputation for its expertise on Asia and for its Asian Library collections. To coincide with the opening of the new Asian Library, the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), LeidenAsiaCentre (LAC), and the Shared Taste Project at Leiden University are hosting a Summer School devoted to the academic study of Asian Food for MA/PhD students and early career scholars.
The aim is to highlight the wide range of resources for the academic study of Asian Food available in Leiden, present advanced methodological approaches and research techniques together with hands-on experience necessary for the analysis of historical documents and artefacts.
Via a combination of expert lectures, student-led discussions, individual supervision, and local field trips, this Summer School will provide participants with an insight into the growing interdisciplinary field of Asian Food Studies, which will include sessions in history, anthropology, sociology, and material culture studies.
The four senior academic leaders will provide guidance to help students navigate the burgeoning literature on food, establishing in dialogue with the students a good sense of the necessary anthropological, sociological and historical tools for the analysis of all aspects of food: from preparation to consumption, from shared dining and banqueting to individual eating practices, from visual representations of food practices to the material culture that is inextricably connected to food practices, today as in the past.
The lectures, discussion groups and individual research supervision will be combined with: hands-on research training; undertaking exercises in participant observation; handling objects in museums and private collections. All this will be supported by visits to Special Collections of Leiden University.
Application
We welcome applications from MA/PhD students and early career scholars (up to 3 years after the completion of the PhD). All applicants must be committed to or actively working on original research projects that engage with the Summer School theme. For additional details on eligibility criteria and how to apply, see our online application form.
Information and contact
Please visit our website for more information on the Summer School. For questions, please contact Ms Martina van den Haak at m.c.van.den.haak@iias.nl.