Symposium “Pure Food. Biological Constants and Cultural Manifestations of a Human Preoccupation”
October 6 - 9, 2017
Venue:
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst/Germany
Organizers:
- Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhövel
Max-Planck-Institut for Ornithology, Human Ethology Group
Starnberg-Seewiesen, Germany - Dr. Helen Macbeth
Department of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, England
Symposium “Pure Food. Biological Constants and Cultural Manifestations of a Human Preoccupation”
October 6 - 9, 2017
Venue:
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst/Germany
Organizers:
- Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhövel
Max-Planck-Institut for Ornithology, Human Ethology Group
Starnberg-Seewiesen, Germany - Dr. Helen Macbeth
Department of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, England
Program
October 6, 2017
14:00 – 16.00 Optional Visit to Zentrum Prinzhöfte (a permaculture garden);
departure from City Hotel
15:45 – 16:30 Tea/Coffee available and registration at HWK
16:30 – 17:00 Wulf Schiefenhövel
Welcome Address
Chair of Session: Wulf Schiefenhövel
17:00 – 17:45 Amalia Lejavitza
Pure Food and Healthy Diet in Greco-Roman Antiquity
17:45 – 18:30 Rodolfo Fernandez
The Idea of Purity Among Sixteenth Century Tarascans of
Western Mesoamerica
18:30 – 19:30 Video sequences on activists against the global food industry
19:30 Welcome Dinner at HWK
October 7, 277
Optional visit to Delmenhorst Farmers’ Market (near hotel);
talls start at 7.30 a.m.
09:45 Taxi shuttle from City Hotel to HWK
10:00 – 10:30 Tea/Coffee break at HWK
Chair of Session: Daria Deraga
10:30 – 11:15 Gerolf Hanke
Pure Food: Networks of Small Scale, Local Production and
Distribution of Food
11:15 – 12:00 Lucy Antal
‘Pure Food’ in Catering for Public Institutions:
Policies and Aspirations in the City of Liverpool, England
12:00 – 12:45 Paul Collinson
Appealing to Tradition: The Use of Food in Irish Tourist Marketing
12:45 – 13:00 General discussion
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch at HWK
Chair of Session: Gabriel Saucedo Arteaga
14:30 – 15:15 Aristea Baschali and Antonia Matalas
The Evolutionary Aspects of Fermented Non- and Low-Alcoholic
Beverages in European Cultures
15:15– 16:00 Martina Vlkova
Changes in the Eating Habits in the Balkans: Cultural Perceptions
of the Czech Diaspora Living in Romanian Banat
16:00 – 16:45 Lorenzo Mariano Juárez, Julián López García and F. Xavier Medina
Hunger, Biology and Culture: Pure and ‘Real’ Food in Development
Eastern Guatemala
16:45 – 17:00 General discussion
17:00 – 18:00 Tea/Coffee break
arrival of HWK Fellows optional walk in nearby forest
Chair of Session: Dorothe Poggel
18:00 – 19:15 Fellow’s Lecture / Conference Keynote Lecture
Wulf Schiefenhövel
Keeping the Body Safe and Sacred: The Universal Urge for Pure Food
19:15 Dinner at HWK
(Conference participants and HWK Fellows)
October 8, 277
08: 40 Taxi shuttle from City Hotel to HWK
Chair of Session: Paul Collinson
09:00 – 09:45 Bruno Beljak
A Biological Constant and an Alimentary Relationship – Sharing Food
with Animals
09:45 – 10:30 Daria Deraga
Bioethics and Pure Food: The Consumer’s Dilemma in West Mexico
10:30 – 11:15 Helen Macbeth
The Label ‘Organic’ as a Representation of Purity:
A study of an Organic Beef Farm in Oxfordshire, England
11:15 – 11:45 Tea/Coffee break at HWK
Chair of Session: Martina Vlkova
11:45 – 12:30 Gabriel Saucedo Arteaga
Blood Used in Food: When, Where and Why Not
12:30 – 13:15 Ruth Kutalek
Consumption of Meat and Notions of Impurity in the Ebola Outbreak
in Liberia
13:15 – 13:30 General discussion
13:30 – 14:45 Lunch at HWK
Chair of Session: Helen Macbeth
14:45 – 15:30 Carmen Cipriano Crespo, Lorenzo Mariano Juárez,
David Conde Caballero, Beatriz Rodriguez Martín,
Alberto Castillo Sarmiento and F. Xavier Medina
Eating Clean, Eating Pure: An Approach to Eating Practices
Among Fitness Addicts
15:30 – 16:15 Isabel Gonazález Turmo (presented by Helen Macbeth)
Evolution of Contemporary Concepts of the Purity of Foods
16:15 – 16:45 Tea/Coffee break at HWK
16:45 – 17:00 General Discussion
17:00 – 18:30 ICAF annual business meeting
Taxi shuttle return to City Hotel
19:00 Dinner in Delmenhorst town at participants’ expense
October 9, 277
09:30 Leave hotel
Conference Excursion – relevant visit to Bremen
Program
October 6, 2017
14:00 – 16.00 Optional Visit to Zentrum Prinzhöfte (a permaculture garden);
departure from City Hotel
15:45 – 16:30 Tea/Coffee available and registration at HWK
16:30 – 17:00 Wulf Schiefenhövel
Welcome Address
Chair of Session: Wulf Schiefenhövel
17:00 – 17:45 Amalia Lejavitza
Pure Food and Healthy Diet in Greco-Roman Antiquity
17:45 – 18:30 Rodolfo Fernandez
The Idea of Purity Among Sixteenth Century Tarascans of
Western Mesoamerica
18:30 – 19:30 Video sequences on activists against the global food industry
19:30 Welcome Dinner at HWK
October 7, 277
Optional visit to Delmenhorst Farmers’ Market (near hotel);
talls start at 7.30 a.m.
09:45 Taxi shuttle from City Hotel to HWK
10:00 – 10:30 Tea/Coffee break at HWK
Chair of Session: Daria Deraga
10:30 – 11:15 Gerolf Hanke
Pure Food: Networks of Small Scale, Local Production and
Distribution of Food
11:15 – 12:00 Lucy Antal
‘Pure Food’ in Catering for Public Institutions:
Policies and Aspirations in the City of Liverpool, England
12:00 – 12:45 Paul Collinson
Appealing to Tradition: The Use of Food in Irish Tourist Marketing
12:45 – 13:00 General discussion
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch at HWK
Chair of Session: Gabriel Saucedo Arteaga
14:30 – 15:15 Aristea Baschali and Antonia Matalas
The Evolutionary Aspects of Fermented Non- and Low-Alcoholic
Beverages in European Cultures
15:15– 16:00 Martina Vlkova
Changes in the Eating Habits in the Balkans: Cultural Perceptions
of the Czech Diaspora Living in Romanian Banat
16:00 – 16:45 Lorenzo Mariano Juárez, Julián López García and F. Xavier Medina
Hunger, Biology and Culture: Pure and ‘Real’ Food in Development
Eastern Guatemala
16:45 – 17:00 General discussion
17:00 – 18:00 Tea/Coffee break
arrival of HWK Fellows optional walk in nearby forest
Chair of Session: Dorothe Poggel
18:00 – 19:15 Fellow’s Lecture / Conference Keynote Lecture
Wulf Schiefenhövel
Keeping the Body Safe and Sacred: The Universal Urge for Pure Food
19:15 Dinner at HWK
(Conference participants and HWK Fellows)
October 8, 277
08: 40 Taxi shuttle from City Hotel to HWK
Chair of Session: Paul Collinson
09:00 – 09:45 Bruno Beljak
A Biological Constant and an Alimentary Relationship – Sharing Food
with Animals
09:45 – 10:30 Daria Deraga
Bioethics and Pure Food: The Consumer’s Dilemma in West Mexico
10:30 – 11:15 Helen Macbeth
The Label ‘Organic’ as a Representation of Purity:
A study of an Organic Beef Farm in Oxfordshire, England
11:15 – 11:45 Tea/Coffee break at HWK
Chair of Session: Martina Vlkova
11:45 – 12:30 Gabriel Saucedo Arteaga
Blood Used in Food: When, Where and Why Not
12:30 – 13:15 Ruth Kutalek
Consumption of Meat and Notions of Impurity in the Ebola Outbreak
in Liberia
13:15 – 13:30 General discussion
13:30 – 14:45 Lunch at HWK
Chair of Session: Helen Macbeth
14:45 – 15:30 Carmen Cipriano Crespo, Lorenzo Mariano Juárez,
David Conde Caballero, Beatriz Rodriguez Martín,
Alberto Castillo Sarmiento and F. Xavier Medina
Eating Clean, Eating Pure: An Approach to Eating Practices
Among Fitness Addicts
15:30 – 16:15 Isabel Gonazález Turmo (presented by Helen Macbeth)
Evolution of Contemporary Concepts of the Purity of Foods
16:15 – 16:45 Tea/Coffee break at HWK
16:45 – 17:00 General Discussion
17:00 – 18:30 ICAF annual business meeting
Taxi shuttle return to City Hotel
19:00 Dinner in Delmenhorst town at participants’ expense
October 9, 277
09:30 Leave hotel
Conference Excursion – relevant visit to Bremen