CFP: IACLALS Annual Conference on Food and Food Cultures in the Global South: Aesthetics, Intersections and Mediations 12–14 February (Offline) 2026, co-hosted by Bangalore University

Food and Food Cultures in the Global South: Aesthetics, Intersections and Mediations

12–14 February 2026

co-hosted by

The Department of English, Bangalore University, Jnanabharathi Campus, Bengaluru-560056

Food and food cultures serve as crucial sites for performance, story-telling, memorialization, identitarian politics, ritualistic practice and assertions of power and cultural capital. They also facilitate a fertile field of critical inquiry in terms of intergenerational trauma, ecological ethics, colonial and postcolonial structures and resistance, migration and connectivity. The multiple ways of thinking, preparing and consuming food enable one to understand it as a site mediating complex social relationships and self-representation in diverse cultural and literary texts and contexts.

Food and foodways symbolize types of cultural capital which in turn influences larger concerns of identity and identity formation. Food is part of rituals and ceremonies that span almost all occasions of human existence – whether as offering or for consumption. Processes of resistance and resilience also find reflection in multiple food representations. Within an expanding food literacy, both public and domestic spaces highlight the historical politics of food and eating. The realpolitik of food production narrates tales of exploitation, appropriation and marginalization.

Understanding gastro semantics, culinary cosmopolitanism and gastro-tourism enables both informed understanding and a rethinking of one’s relationship with food at local and global levels. Theorizing food requires an interdisciplinary approach involving ethnographic, historical, geographical, political, literary, aesthetic, gender, ethnic, agricultural, economic, nutrition and cultural studies. Food activism focuses on seed sovereignty, farmers’ markets, and eating disorders. An epistemology of embodiment and hierarchy can be constructed in the politics of who cooks, who serves and who eats.

Sub-ThemesDigital gastronomy and food aesthetics

Food practices: rituals, ceremonies and offerings

Food, faith and taboo: religious laws and transgressions

Gastronomic and taste philosophies

Gastro-feminism and masculinities: gender, food and culture

Disability and Food practices

Food and food culture in cinema, literature and art

Culinary colonialism and the decolonial palate

Food as semiotic system

Kitchen as archive

Kitchen as domestic, commercial, trans or queer performative space

Carnivalesque food and food practices

Food sovereignty: hunger, memory, famine, starvation

Indigenous foodways

Food writing: culinary histories, recipes, menus

Food and human rights

Food distribution and public health

Food activism and advocacy

Urban food practices, diet and nutrition

Food porn and food exotica

Submission GuidelinesAbstracts of 250–300 words with a bio-note of no more than 50 words may be submitted using the submission link by 18th September 2025.

Acceptances will be conveyed by 18th October 2025.

Abstract submission link: https://forms.gle/nJ3eNEMGZyCdnK8i7

CDN Prize 2026

If you wish to participate in the “C.D. Narasimhaiah Prize” for the Best Paper Presented at an Annual Conference, kindly type “Submission for CDN Prize” in the subject line of the email when you send the full paper to iaclalsbuconference2026@gmail.com.

Last date for submission of complete papers: 24th November 2025

For details: https://iaclals.in/cdn-prize/

MMM Prize 2026

IACLALS also announces the next edition of the “Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize” for the Best Academic Paper published by a member during the previous two years (2024 & 2025).

Submission link: https://forms.gle/bHbF7ZWyM1yWnHoV8

Last date for submission: 18th September 2025

For guidelines: https://iaclals.in/mmm-prize/

Membership

The conference is open only to members of IACLALS. Participants are encouraged to become members before sending abstracts.3-Year Membership: Rs. 1500

Life Membership: Rs. 5000

Annual Membership for Students/Research Scholars: Rs. 1000 (Postgraduate level and above)

For details, contact the Treasurer at: treasurer.iaclals@gmail.com

Registration FeeFaculty: Rs. 3500/-

Research Scholars: Rs. 2500/-

Includes: Lunch, refreshments on conference days, and conference kit.

Mode of payment: To be announced.

Registration dates: 15th November – 15th December 2025

Contact

For all conference-related queries: iaclalsbuconference2026@gmail.com

Accommodation

Participants will make their own arrangements. A list of nearby hotels, guest houses, and homestays will be provided later.

About the Department of English, Bangalore University

Established in 1964, Bangalore University is one of the most prestigious public state universities in Karnataka, with NAAC accreditation of grade A++ (2023) and NIRF ranking of #81 under the ‘University’ category. The Department of English, with an illustrious history, continues to strive for academic excellence, interdisciplinarity, and social responsibility.

Important DatesSubmission of Abstracts: 18th September 2025

Confirmation of Acceptance: 18th October 2025

MMM Prize Submission: 18th September 2025

CDN Prize Submission: 24th November 2025

Receipt of Complete Papers: 31st December 2025

CFP: 14th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference 2025 (May 22-24, 2025) -The University of Hong Kong

Call for Papers: What is Asian Cinema?

We invite paper and panel proposals to present at the 14th Asian Cinema Studies Society conference to be held at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) during May 22-24, 2025. As a non-profit scholarly organization, the Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS) actively fosters international research in Asian film and media and publishes the flagship peer-reviewed journal Asian Cinema (Intellect). With the support of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC), the Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies Programme (MALCS), and the Department of Comparative Literature of HKU, ACSS brings its first face-to-face meeting since the global pandemic back to Hong Kong, a major Asian metropolis, transport hub, filmmaking capital, and connective node of regional, inter-Asian, and transpacific cultural globalization.

ACSS 2025 invites participants to present papers on any aspect of Asian film and media, though we encourage proposals that address the question: “What is Asian cinema?” Although often understood as cinematic practices, institutions, cultural formations, and critical discourses in or from Asia, the term “Asian cinema” belies its contradictions and complexities as an idea. Historically, scholars challenged such simplistic and binaristic understandings by investigating: how “Asia,” “Asian,” and “cinema” were defined under colonialism and postcolonialism; the way transnational productions trespass national and regional boundaries; the complex relations between home/ancestry/ethnicity/linguistic sharedness and diaspora; as well as how cinema itself often redefines and rewrites the meanings of “Asia” and “Asian.” Recently, theorists posit that the term “Asian cinema” implicitly constructs “cinema” and “media” as universal concepts modified by a particular concept: “Asian,” a construction that perpetuates the orientalist knowledge formation of Asia as an exception to the norm.

In light of these provocations, we ask: Does studying cinema in, from, about, or by Asia/Asians always suggest a power relation between an observer and an observed or an irreconcilable difference between Asia and somewhere else? Do strategically essential concerns justify the particularity of Asian film and media studies? How do evolving meanings and technologies of “cinema,” “film,” and “media” in our era of digital globalization reshape ideas of “Asia” or “Asian?” And, what was Asian cinema?

We welcome discussions and interventions addressing these questions both directly and indirectly, and from different disciplinary perspectives, methods, and approaches. Possible topics in relation to Asian film and media may include, but are not limited to:

● Colonialism, postcolonialism, decolonization, nationalism, empire, globalization

● Digital and online media, cultures, communities, and fandoms, streaming and platforms, video games, new media, seriality, intermediality, transmediality, post-cinema, big data, AI, CGI, deepfakes, surveillance

● Environmentalism, ecocriticism, animal studies and/or plant studies, anthropocene

● Film and media theory, philosophy, and discourse

● Historiography, memory, media archaeology and ecology, industry, exhibition, distribution, censorship/regulation, museology and curation, film festivals, stars

● LGBTQIA+, disability, race, ethnicity, class, feminism, and gender

● Pedagogy, production, performance, criticism, sound, music, effects, choreography

● Poetics, narrative, aesthetics, genre, documentary, experimental, animation, authorship, studios, independent, reception, audience, waves, movements

● Regional, national, transnational, indigenous, diaspora, language communities, refugee, exilic, inter-Asian, transpacific, Asian/American, Asian Australian, Asian Canadian

● Urban, rural, archipelagic, oceanic, and other spatial and environmental imaginaries

Please send proposals or enquiries to acssconference2025@gmail.com. For individual paper proposals, send a 200-300 word abstract and include the title, author name(s), institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email contacts, as well as a brief (50-100 word) biography of the contributor. For pre-constituted panel proposals (of 3-4 papers), provide a brief description (100 words) of the overall panel along with the individual abstracts and contributor information. Sessions will be 90 minutes in duration, and time limits will be strictly enforced. The deadline for submission of proposals is 10 November 2024. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the end of January 2025.

There will be no conference registration fee per se, but all presenters must be members of the Asian Cinema Studies Society, which requires an annual fee of $550 HKD / $70 USD. Full-time students (with ID) and underemployed scholars may pay a discounted fee of $450 HKD / $57 USD. The fee covers one year membership, one volume (two issues) of Asian Cinema, and gives access to the society’s executive meeting at the conference.

CFP: International Graduate Conference: #Protecting Our #Education, #Protecting Our #Futures- University of #Cincinnati -March 1, 2024

 

According to CRT Forward, a tracking project initiative created by the UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies Program that “provides a comprehensive examination of anti-CRT measures limiting teaching, curricula, trainings, access to certain texts and books, and policy alterations,” there are at least 750 anti-critical race theory (anti-CRT) measures in play across the country. Similarly, The Chronicle of Higher Education’s DEI Legislation Tracker is following 40 bills that prohibit a variety of pro-DEI activities and initiatives.These varying legislative measures have been devised at every level of governance, from local school boards to city and state governments. However, despite the wide geographical and legislative range, these measures all share a common aim: to restrict educational institutions’ control over what will be taught and who will teach it.

Such political and legislative pressures make up just one facet of what is a more widespread concern among administrators, educators, and students: liberal arts educational values are under threat. While such a truth is by no means new, today’s task of protecting educational access, freedom, and control is uniquely contextualized by, among other considerations, unprecedented political realities, evolving AI technologies, and persistent social and cultural upheaval. It is this unique moment that inspires the theme for this year’s University of Cincinnati Graduate Student Conference: Protecting Our Education, Protecting Our Futures.

We aim for this conference to be truly interdisciplinary. Thus, we envision presenters from a variety of backgrounds and representing a range of approaches speaking to this theme by sharing research that highlights issues—from a global to a local scale—which pose a threat to the values of education. In highlighting these issues, we hope that presenters will also offer their ideas for ways to manage these threats, or even turn them into opportunities for learning. While we encourage a wide application of this theme, some possible topics include:

• DEI initiatives in educational spaces
• Labor conditions in educational spaces
• Un/Ethical AI use in educational spaces
• Non-/Violence in/around educational spaces
• The value of a liberal arts education
• Social justice pedagogy and educational practices
• Activist literacies, rhetorics, or pedagogies related to disability, antiracism, economic justice, linguistic justice, gender, and/or sexuality
• Public protest ideologies, histories, or materialities
• Political rhetorics

Does this spark an idea? Share it with us! Please submit individual proposals of up to 250 words or panel proposals of no more than 500 words to UCGradConf2024@gmail.com by January 12, 2024. With your proposal, please also include your name, your university affiliation, your department affiliation, and the title of your presentation. For panel presentations, please designate different speakers by number and include the title of the presentation for each speaker. Each session will be an hour and 15 minutes long, with an average presentation time of 15 minutes. Alternative (multimodal, interactive, etc.) presentations are welcome.

Some good-to-know info: There is no registration fee for this conference. Not only that, lunch and other light refreshments will be provided. We know these are important considerations for graduate students! 

Conference Date: Friday, March 1, 2024

Conference Location: University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, Ohio

Conference Website: https://ucgradconference2024.weebly.com/

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 Education and Development Conference 2017

March 5th - 7th 2017, Bangkok, Thailand 

Welcome to 12th Annual Education and Development Conference

We are proud to invite you to join us at 12th Annual Education and Development Conference, that will take place from March 5th - 7th 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand.

This education conference is organized by Tomorrow People Organization- internationally recognized non for profit organization with head quarters in Belgrade, Serbia.

The official language of the conference in English. Attendance of delegates from more than 40 countries is expected.

This highly exciting and challenging international Conference on education 2017  is intended to be a forum, discussion and networking place for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers, industry representatives, advanced students, and others.

More specifically, it targets:

• Government officials and policy makers: Learn about the best practices, educational development strategies and educational systems around the world; network with other policy makers and NGOs working in the field of supporting the educational development.
• NGOs: Network with other international NGOs, possible donors and colleagues from around the world and share your achievements and strategies with others.
• Graduate students: Meet your colleagues from around the world, make new friends, and improve your knowledge and communication skills.
• Company representatives: Chance to improve your leadership skills, learn more about the importance of permanent education in achieving the high performances of your organization, meet your colleagues, exchange ideas and establish new connections and partnerships.
• Scholars: Learn some new approaches, hear about others’ experiences and pass on your knowledge and experience on to the others.
• Others: Interested in making some positive changes around them and gaining new knowledge, skills and friends and becoming more useful to their own communities.

Tomorrow People Organization is proud to invite you to 12th Annual Education and Development Conference, hosted by Tomorrow People Organization, taking place from 5-7 March 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. This highly exciting and challenging international Conference is intended to be a forum, discussion and networking place for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers, industry representatives, advanced students, and others interested in Education.

Attendance of distinguished delegates from over 40 countries is expected from academic, governmental and NGO sectors.

Education and Development Conference 2017 will provide resources and opportunities to interact with prominent leaders in the field of education and greatly expand on your global network of scholars and professionals.

We welcome: ORAL, POSTER and VIRTUAL presentations. Early submissions are strongly encouraged due to limited space in the venue, as applications are reviewed and accepted on a rolling admission basis - as long as space is available.

The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Adult Education, Arts Education, Anthropology and Education, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Educational Systems and Policy, Educational Psychology, Environmental Education, Gender and Education, Guidance and Counseling, Health Education, Higher Education, History of Education, IT and Education, Language Education and Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Mathematics Education, Mentoring and Coaching, Multicultural Issues in Education, Philosophy of Education, Physical Education, Primary Education, Quality in Education, Race, Ethnicity and Education, Research and Development, Rural Education, Science Education, Secondary Education, Sociology of Education, Special and Inclusive Education, Teacher Education, Values and Education, Vocational Education and Training, Other areas of Education.

Papers presented at the conference will be published in a dedicated ISBN publication of EDC 2017 Conference Proceedings.

Applications are accepted online at: http://www.ed-conference.org/apply.html

EDC 2017 is proud to partner with star alliance, as the official airline alliance of the conference, offering up to 20% discount on airfares to the EDC 2017 participants and accompanying persons.

The participating airlines for 12th Annual Education and Development Conference are: ANA, Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air China, Air India, Air New Zealand, Asiana Airlines, Avianca, Croatia Airlines, EVA Airways, EgyptAir, Ethiopian Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, TAP Portugal, THAI, Turkish Airlines, United.

Bookings can be made, clicking on the link bellow, or if booked through the travel agent, please make sure you provide the event booking code for tickets reservation TG03S17:

http://conventionsplusbookings.staralliance.com/trips/StarHome.aspx?meetingcode=TG03S17

You may also be interested in Tomorrow People Organization's:

8th Annual Women's Leadership and Empowerment Conference, 1-3 March 2017, Bangkok, Thailand
Website: www.wleconference.org

10th Annual Poverty and Social Protection Conference, 9-11 March 2017, Bangkok, Thailand
Website: www.pspconference.org

We look forward to seeing you in Bangkok in March 2017!

Sincerely,

EDC 2017 Organizing Committee
Email: contact@tomorrowpeople.org
Website: www.ed-conference.org


Education and Development Conference 2017 will provide unlimited resources and opportunities to interact with prominent leaders in the field and greatly expand on your global network of scholars and professionals.

We look forward to seeing you in Bangkok in March 2017!

Women's Leadership and Empowerment Conference 2017

1-3 March 2017, Bangkok, Thailand

Welcome to 8th Annual Women's Leadership and Empowerment Conference

We are proud to invite you to join us at 8th Annual Women's Leadership and Empowerment Conference, that will take place from March 1st - 3rd 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Conference is organized by Tomorrow People Organization - internationally recognized non for profit organization with head quarters in Belgrade, Serbia.

The official language of the conference in English. Attendance of delegates from more than 40 countries is expected.

Women’s Leadership and Empowerment Conference 2017 is a three-day program, which consists of three components: study session “women’s leadership and empowerment of disadvantaged groups”, presentations of submitted papers and open discussions. It is open to those interested in gaining leadership skills and new knowledge as well as those who want to share their own achievements

This highly exciting and challenging international Conference is intended to be a forum, discussion and networking place for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers, industry representatives, advanced students, and others.

More specifically, it targets:

Government officials and policy makers: Learn about the best practices, learn more about the new approaches related women's issues and social equality, network with other policy makers and NGOs working in the related fields.

NGOs: Network with other international NGOs, possible donors and colleagues from around the world and share your achievements and strategies with others.

Graduate students: Meet your colleagues from around the world, make new friends, and improve your knowledge and communication skills.

Company representatives: Chance to improve your leadership skills, learn more about the new approaches related to the topics, meet your colleagues, exchange ideas and establish new connections and partnerships.

Scholars: Learn some new approaches, hear about others’ experiences and pass on your knowledge and experience on to the others.

Others: Interested in making some positive changes around them and gaining new knowledge, skills and friends and becoming more useful to their own communities.

Women's Leadership and Empowerment Conference 2017 will provide unlimited resources and opportunities to interact with prominent leaders in the field and greatly expand on your global network of scholars and professionals.

We look forward to seeing you in Bangkok in March 2017!

For More Information Visit..http://www.wleconference.org/