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2018 Symposium Program (PDF, 2.4MB)
Presenter Biographies & Abstracts A-G
Presenter Biographies & Abstracts H-M
Presenter Biographies & Abstracts N-Z
DAY 1: Friday 16 November
Elizabeth Farm
70 Alice Street, Rosehill. View map.
Street parking available, but please drive responsibly.
| 6pm | Welcome reception and registration at historic Elizabeth Farm. Sponsored by Sydney Living Museums. |
DAY 2: Saturday 17 November
Female Orphan School, Western Sydney University
Building EZ
Cnr James Ruse Drive & Victoria Road, Rydalmere. View map.
Paid parking available.
| 8am | Registration, coffee and getting into place | |
| 9am | Program commences Keynote address by Vince Heffernan | |
| 10.30am | Morning Tea | |
| 11am | Room 1: Session 1 Session 1: Cultivating the Future Alana Mann Opportunity out of crisis: The agro-ecology movement in Cuba Amalia Berestegui Hungry City Hilary Heslop The yam daisy: Recovering its place Jenni Gough Cooking with what you have, not what you want. Room 2: Session 1 Changing Realities: Media, Design and Faking It Lauren Samuelson Experiment, adapt, innovate: Fifty years of faux foods in The Australian Women’s Weekly Saman Hassibi Representations of cuisine and food culture in New Zealand print media 1955-2016 Xuan-Bach (Alex) Tran Gender, food and kitchen space in Yoshinaga Fumi’s manga Tim Lynch & Tony Heptinstall Being deliberately out of place: Using narrative transportation in food product design. | |
| 12.30pm | Lunch | |
| 1.30pm | Room 1: Session 2 Localising forces Jacqueline Dutton Pourquoi terroir? When provenance might make more sense in this place Jenny Smith The sandwich as offering or how to localise out-of-place ingredients and people Heather Hunwick Sydney’s Markets: Their critical role in transition to “place” André Taber Walking through food history. Room 2: Session 2 Adventurous Eaters Neil Gow Creating “out of place” from “out of place” Graham Ellender Dérangé? What is taste and what is ordinary? Jillian Garvey The role of animals in Australian archaeology: How it can inform on the past, present and future of native bush tucker Colette Geier From pavement to plate: Harvesting weeds for nutrients and nutraceuticals. | |
| 3pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3.30pm | Room 1: Session 3 Refuges of the Blighted Wilds Virginia Nazarea Conservation out of place Yasuaki Sato The nature of folk knowledge about the diversity of bananas in Central Uganda Constanza Monterrubio Solís Rural women’s choices in transitioning food landscapes of Southern Mexico Therese Gagnon The changing tastes of memory: Karen human-plant movement across borders Mike Anastario Memories of maiz in transnational US-Salvadoran space Jocelyn Bosse Appropriation and reclamation of the Kakadu plum. Room 2: Session 3 Creative place Miin Chan White Rice Max Dingle Fetish and Food Aime Brûlée Musical performance Ritchard Mitchell & Adrian Woodhouse An Uncomfortable Place (performance). | |
| 5.45pm | Bus departs for Banquet venue |
Symposium Banquet
Parramatta Female Factory Precinct
1 Fleet Street, Parramatta. View map.
Street parking available, but please drive responsibly.
| 6pm | Arrive at Banquet site. Keynote address by Gay Bilson. | |
| 9.30pm | Banquet concludes | |
| 9.45pm | Bus departs for Parramatta city nightlife, Novotel and railway station |
DAY 3: Sunday 18 November
| 9am | Optional Parramatta walking tours, please return to campus by 10.30am |
Female Orphan School, Western Sydney University
Building EZ
Cnr James Ruse Drive & Victoria Road, Rydalmere. View map.
Paid parking available.
| 10.30am | Morning Tea | |
| 11am | Room 1: Session 4 Making Migrants into New Australians Karen Agutter & Rachel Ankeny Migrant food needs in context: Reconsidering ideas of good nutrition Karen Agutter Producing food, producing new Australians: Catering for the Olympic Games Tania Cammarano From suspect migrant to model Australian: Natale Italiano and the transformation of Perfect Cheese. Room 2: Session 4 Ferment to be: Microbial mates from soil to plate Panel discussion with Miin Chan, Kate Howell and Giulia Smith. | |
| 12 noon | Lunch Food journeys on the way Down Under Panel discussion moderated by John Newton | |
| 1.30pm | Room 1: Session 5 Past Repasts: Place and Australian History Ross Karavis Sydney restaurants before the Great War: Transnational phenomena, local response Leonard Janiszewski The food of fantasy: Greek cafes and milk bars Jacqui Newling ‘Then, and only then, could we move onto something sweet.’ Finding your place, knowing your place, keeping your place. John Newton in conversation with Charmaine O’Brien The getting of garlic: Australian food from bland to brilliant Room 2: Session 5 Translocating tastes Jean Duruz Haunted by the taste of laksa: Dislocations and relocations in Australia and Canada Frieda Moran Curry in Australian history: In and out of place Jennifer Bailey Barbecue: Transferred identity Diana Noyce Meat, maté and the rise of the Gaucho. | |
| 3pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3.30pm | Room 1: Session 6 Place in the long eighteenth century Garritt (Chip) Van Dyk Forced fruit: Transplanting the tropics in early modern Europe Barbara Santich Out of Place: Foreigners in Provence in the eighteenth-century Sarah Benjamin The author, her publisher and the court case: Maria Rundell reclaims her place. Room 2: Session 6 Beyond the Lunch Box Bev Laing Primary Places: Creative food education. Engaging primary schools Adele Wessel Schooling youth and shaping diet : What’s out of place on the menu? Chloe Humphries & David Gillespie Guiding culinary students to find their place. | |
| 5pm | Concludes |
DAY 4: Monday 19 November ‘Out of the Kitchen’
Female Orphan School, Western Sydney University
Building EZ
Cnr James Ruse Drive & Victoria Road, Rydalmere. View map.
Paid parking available.
| 10am | Live demonstration | |
| 11.30am | Morning Tea | |
| 12 noon | Food is Good. A panel discussion moderated by Ben Law, with: Angie Prendergast-Sceats, Two Good Laura Dalrymple, Feather & Bone Sharon Salloum, Almond Bar | |
| 1.30pm | Lunch | |
| 3pm | Share plates: in conversation with our hospitality industry. Moderated by Joanna Savill, with Kylie Javier Ashton, Momofuku Seiōbo Gavin Wright, Wyno Palisa Anderson, Chat Thai/Boon Luck Farm Lillia McCabe, Merivale/Kingdom of Rice pop-up Nick Jordan, Broadsheet. | |
| 4pm | Concludes |
