10th conference: Being together - food as a social link

5 February 2021

The Unesco Alimentations du monde Chair is organizing the tenth annual virtual conference on Friday 5 February 2021 on food as a social link.

The program will run like this:

10:00 am Opening
Damien Conaré, Unesco World Foods Chair, The Agro Institute | Montpellier SupAgro

10:15 a.m. Inaugural lecture
John Coveney, Professor of Global Food, Culture and Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Break 11: 00-11: 15 a.m.
11:15 am Mix / Mezze of short videos, photos, interviews ...
11.45 a.m.-12.30 p.m. Food sociability spaces
Adolin Paul Egnankou, Institute of ethno-sociology, Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Côte-d'Ivoire: "Le Garbadrôme: eating together in Abidjan"
Anindita Dasgupta, Taylor's University, Malaysia: "Food courts in Malaysia"
Break 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
2:00 p.m. Remix / (re) Mezze
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Round table
The effects of confinement: commensality, precariousness, importance of digital technology, etc.
With:
Olivier Lepiller, sociologist, Cirad
Nani Moré Ramon, cook, director in Menjadors Ecològics, Barcelona, ​​Spain
Eleonora Ceccaldi, cognitive science researcher, University of Genoa, Italy

3:30 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. At the museum!
"Virtual guided tour" of the CookBook exhibition by its curator, Nicolas Bourriaud, Managing Director of Mo.Co. - Contemporary Montpellier

3:50 p.m. Conclusion