Symposia of Australian Gastronomy Archive
The remarkable record of past symposia are gathering here as Programs, Proceedings, Reports and photographs become available.
# | THEME | PLACE | DATE |
1 | The Upstart Cuisine | Adelaide | 12-13 March 1984 |
2 | Foodism: Philosophy or Fad | Adelaide | 21 September-1 October 1985 |
3 | A Multiculinary Society | Melbourne | 8-10 March 1987 |
4 | Food in Festivity | Sydney | 16-18 October 1988 |
5 | The Pleasures of the Table | Adelaide | 10-13 March 1990 |
6 | Much Depends on Dinner | Geelong | 15-18 September 1991 |
7 | Nature and Culture | Canberra | 1993 |
8 | Sustaining Gastronomy | Adelaide | 28-30 September 1994 |
9 | Food & Power | Sydney | 10-14 April 1996 |
10 | Beyond the tuckerbox – securing the future | Grampians | 29 March – 1 April 1998 |
11 | The pursuit of happiness from colony to republic | Hobart | 26-29 September 1999 |
11a | In Holiday Mood | Wellington | 16-18 March 2001 |
12 | The Edible City: ideas for urban gastronomy | Adelaide | 10-13 March 2002 |
13 | Food, Fears, Fads and Fancy | Orange | 13-17 February 2004 |
14 | Preservation or Change? | Beechworth | 26 – 29 June 2005 |
15 | Beyond the supermarket: learning to overcome gastronomic poverty | Dover Tasmania | 29 April – 2 May 2007 |
16 | Hunter: ‘Cry the Beloved River’ | Newcastle | 26 October – 2008 |
17 | Economy | Adelaide | 13-16 November 2009 |
18 | The Federation of Taste | Canberra | 13-15 May 2011 |
19 | The Generous Table | Newcastle | 5-8 April 2013 |
20 | Ferment | Wellington NZ | 29 November – 1 December 2014 |
21 | Utopian Appetites | Melbourne | 2-5 December 2016 |
The Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink at the University of Adelaide has a useful list of Symposia, since the first in 1984 ‘actively involved in the promotion of Australian gastronomy; that is, one relevant to the culture, climate, and history of the Australian continent’.