PhD Courses in Denmark

Course description

When and how does the sensory experience of food matter? As we face various crises, economic, ecological, social and cultural, what role do the senses play in various efforts at sustainability, defining sustainability broadly and taking into account the many critiques of the concept? This course explores recent anthropological  approaches to the sensory experience of food to explore the view of food developed over the past 30 years in anthropology—that it brings together themes and topics central to the anthropological project: from classical topics of  kinship, exchange and ritual to recent rethinkings of embodiment, power, political economy, the human and the non-human. Food plays a significant and even central role in joining these themes and topics in conversation. In examining how this cultural embeddedness influences individuals' sense of agency it is crucial to incorporate a focus on the senses that goes beyond the usual taste and smell or even the synesthetic blend of the "five senses,” and is based on a broader understanding of sensory experience, such as memory and precognition. This course will explore these themes as they play out in everyday practices of gathering, cooking and eating, as well as professional contexts that are attempting to incorporate sustainable and regenerative approaches to the future of food.

Aim

The aim of the course is to give the PhD students the possibility of

• Training skills incritical analyses
• Presenting own academic workand performing academic commnunication
• Developing analytical approaches and tools within food anthropology and related fields
• Building up an international network within humanistic food studies
• Participtating in the continuous theory development within the anthropological field of food, senses, cooking,and sustainability

Language 

• English

ECTS-credits

• 2

Lecturers

• Professor David Sutton, Southern Illinois University, US
• Associate Professor Susanne Højlund,  Aarhus University, DK

Venue

• Conference Room 301-302, Moesgaard Museum, 8270 Højbjerg