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• 30 avr 2018

  Écully

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Sharing meals. Social aspects of eating and cooking together

  Eating involves many other dimensions than just ingesting food. It is especially a social act, as it involves the social position and relationships of the individual in all of the included practices: supplying, cooking, dressing, ordering, ingesting, clearing, washing-up, managing left-overs, etc.  This symposium offers to explore, with a social science approach, the different dimensions associated with sharing meals (non exhaustive): Cultural differences in the manners of sharing meals; Specificity of the sharing of cooking times regarding the sharing of meal times; Use of commensality as a social action mean; Symbolic representation of the benefits of sharing meals (psychological, physiological, social); Comparison of meals regarding other eating times (snacking); Political/Diplomatic use of meals; Organization, perception and role of meals in institutions (school canteens, hospital, nursing homes, prisons…).

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• 30 avr 2017

  Écully

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Cooking as a Ritual

  Cuisine and culture in the globalized XXIst Century World

  The symposium “Cooking as ritual” is thought to be a collective reflection on the approaches of cooking by the social sciences. By broaching the subject through the concept of “ritual”, the aim is to underline the fact that cooking associate people, gestures and social representations within specific frameworks posed collectively.

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• 20 avr 2016

  Écully

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Social Factors and Cross-cultural Aspects of Culinary and Eating Behaviors and Practices

  9th International Research Symposium - Institut Paul Bocuse

  The ninth edition of the Institut Paul Bocuse International Research Symposium aims at sharing the ongoing fundamental and applied research on the Social Factors and Cross-cultural Aspects of Culinary and Eating Behaviors and Practices. A series of talks by international scientists from various disciplines will address the most recent scientific advances in the understanding of: i) the social factors of food behaviors and preferences in various populations, ii) the key factors involved in the evolution and spatial diffusion of cross-cultural aspects of food practices and behaviors. The applied perspectives will be considered as well: R&D experts will discuss how they take the social cross-cultural differences into consideration in the development of new food offers or new services to international clients. 

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• 01 mar 2015

  Écully

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Managing hunger and satiety

  Consumers and producers’ perspectives

  The Research Symposium welcomes, once a year, international researchers and professionals to present their work and discuss issues related to food and hospitality. Each year, a specific topic is addressed from the point of view of multiple scientific fields such as health sciences, nutrition, psychology, cognition, sociology, economics, etc., offering an enriching overview on different topics. The eight edition of the International Research Symposium aims to share up-to-date research on managing hunger and satiety both from the consumers and from the producer’s perspectives. More, this day will be devoted to address appetite and food intake mechanisms in relation to pleasure and health in a product context or a food service context.

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• 10 déc 2011

  Écully

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  European PhD Workshop : Intercultural comparisons of eating habits and food preferences

  With the PhD Workshop, the research center of the Institut Paul Bocuse intends to create a unique opportunity for scientific exchanges for PhD students of both the Institut Paul Bocuse and other universities, without any distinction of discipline. The workshop will combine interventions from experienced researchers (plenary lectures), practical application of research methodologies (tutorials), presentations and discussion of PhD works (PhD sessions) and scientific exchanges. For its second edition, this event will focus on the following topic: Intercultural comparisons of eating habits & food preferences.

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