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