On January 3-5, 2013, the Anthropology Department, CUHK, co-organized the “International Conference on Foodways and Heritage: A Perspective of Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage” with the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and the University of Tours, France. Scholars from different regions and various disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, history, and gender studies, discussed the politics of foodways and heritage, in particular, how different kinds of food are produced, sustained and inherited and at the same time how they are preserved as intangible heritage.
Eugene N. Anderson, Professor Emeritus at University of California, Riverside, U.S.A, gave the keynote speech at the Conference. A roundtable conference was also held particularly devoted to French cuisine, as a response to the UNESCO's decision of adding the "gastronomic meal of the French" to the "intangible cultural heritage of humanity." On the last day of the Conference, the scholars took part in field trips that showed two distinct scenes of foodways in Hong Kong, namely the Nam Pak Hong in Sheung Wan and the Freshwater Fish Farm in Tai San Wai, Yuen Long.
For more information on the conference, please visit the blog
https://anthrocuhk.blogspot.hk/2013/01/conference-foodways-and-heritage.html
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