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"Food, Foodscapes and Foodways: Diverse Perspectives"
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ABOUT THE COLLEGE
Carmel College (Autonomous) under the University of Calicut, stands nestled in an idyllic locale, Mala, the southern tip of Thrissur District, the cultural capital of Kerala. This college, which began in the year 1981, is run by the Sisters of the Congregation of Mother of Carmel (CMC) who, guided by their founders Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Rev. Fr. Leopold Boccaro, have taken up the apostolate of education. The Management adopts a proactive approach providing infrastructural facilities and learning resources that are periodically enhanced and up-graded in order to ensure the smooth execution of the academic and administrative process. Consistent support and ample platforms are extended to students who aspire to excel in academics, sports and arts. The college offers 17 UG Programmes including 6 B. Voc., 9 PG Programmes including 2 M. Voc., 1 Integrated PG Programme, 1 Ph. D Programme and 2 Diploma Courses.
ABOUT THE CONCEPT
Food is not just something we eat to fill our stomachs. It is consciousness and has been the cornerstone of any food culture around the world. Food culture can be defined as habits, rituals, practices, belief systems, values, lifestyle, traditions, and customs centered around growing, producing, procuring, cooking, eating, serving, and celebrating food. The food culture is influenced by individuals or small networks and institutions, such as families, or large ones, such as societies, companies, and countries. People’s lifestyles, religions, social status, family background, heritage and lineage along with race, ethnicities, class, caste, gender, geographic divides, climates, media, literature, social and political situations have immensely influenced the food culture. In difficult times, like poverty, war or pandemics, no matter how little, food has comforted people time and again. The fast-food phenomenon has changed the paradigm of eating everywhere. The emergence of food delivery apps like Swiggy, Zomato and the like, food b/vlogging, mukbangs, food art and photography and glocalised foodscapes have transcended the borders resulting in the hybridity of food cultures and to an extent, acculturation of society.
As globalization and neoliberalism have transformed food systems, some people have responded by seeking to return to their roots. Similar to the Indian Ayurveda, the traditional medicines of China, Korea and Japan with the integration of nutrition, medicine and foods have conquered the hearts of many. Some have embraced local ingredients and notions of cultural heritage too much that Fabio Parasecoli identifies the “gastronativism,” the ideological use of food to advance ideas about who belongs to a community and who does not. Food as a human right protects the right of all human beings to live in dignity, free from hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.
Food takes on significance that transcends the biological function and survival context, affecting even our perceptions of edibility and constitutes a meaning system imbued with subtle unconscious cultural connotations of all kinds. Food ways deals with the ways in which food shapes and is shaped by society and culture, and it includes food politics, social inclusion/exclusion. Literary traditions have often relied on the inclusion of food within narratives for realistic or metaphoric purposes. The forbidden fruit in the Book of Genesis to food metaphors in literary works like Fairy Tales, Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Italo Calvino’s Under the Jaguar Sun and Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman substantiate them. Fiction and food also affect each other by creating alternate creative, linguistic, and narrative possibilities. Literary expressions of food offer ways for exploring the multiple meanings that surround food. In The Physiology of Taste(1825), Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin states: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are” (xxxv). This seems to be true because food has always had something to tell us – which, fortunately, literature lets it to do effectively.
The Seminar on "Food, Foodscapes and Food ways: Diverse Perspectives" aims to deal with numerous food/power dynamics from varied perceptions. Let’s dream for sustainable food systems providing healthy food to everyone irrespective of social and economic disparities creating sustainable environment.
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For more details contact:Dr. Pretty John P. (9446583241), Ms. Keerthy Sophiya Ponnachan (8281361876), Ms. Linda P. Joseph (9633327566)
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