2022 / Drinks - Food like any other?

This year, beverages are on the menu of our symposium. We will be interested in physiological needs, notions of drunkenness and addiction, as well as major economic, cultural, environmental and political issues. With particular emphasis on water (drinking and bottled), wine, coffee (where does it come from, and how to taste it?) and camel milk (a miracle food?).

A day of wine and coffee tastings!

Drinks - Food like any other?

Friday 10 June 2022 (9am-5pm, CET Time)

Face-to-face in Montpellier
On-line, in English
Free, on registration

Programme

8h30 - Welcome Coffe

09h00 - Opening
– Carole Sinfort, Director of l’Institut Agro Montpellier
– Philippe Petithuguenin, Director for Research and Strategy, Cirad
– Damien Conaré, Secretary General of Unesco Chair in World Food Systems, l’Institut Agro Montpellier

09h30 - Inaugural conference
– Céline Chanas, chief curator, director of the Musée de Bretagne (Rennes) : “De la soif à l’ivresse”

10h30 - Coffee break

11h00 - Session 1 : From physiological needs to dependencies and addictions
– Gaukhar Konuspayeva, professor of biochemistry and immunology at Université nationale Kazakh Al-Farabi, Almaty, Kazakhstan : “Camel milk, a "miracle" food””
– Véronique Nahoum-Grappe, anthropologist, École des hautes études en sciences sociales : “The meaning of drunkenness”
– Patrick Pharo, research director, Centre national de la recherche scientifique: “Well-being and dependencies”

12h30 - Presentation of Doctoral Prize and Photographic Prize

14h00 - Conversation: Coffe time
– Éloi Ficquet, anthropologist and historian, lecturer at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales: “Origins and ceremony of coffee in Ethiopia”
– Gloria Monténégro, former Guatemalan ambassador to France, coffee sommelier and founder of the Caféothèque, Paris : “La caféologie”

15h00 - Session 2 : Water, at the crossroads of economic, political and environmental issues
– Nicolas Marty, historian, University of Perpignan : “A history of bottled water”
– Marie Tsanga Tabi, scientific management, INRAE: "The social question of water"

16h30 - Conclusion
– Joanna Wong, plastic artist, and Lauriane Gricourt, curator (Collectif Enoki)

Informations

Friday 10 June 2022 (9am-5pm, CET Time)

Face-to-face in Montpellier
On-line, in English
Free, on registration