CALL FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS—CONFERENCES, COLLOQUIA, WORKSHOPS

 

Title: Culinary Mind/Gastronomica Lecture in Philosophy of Food

Word limit: 3000

Deadline: December 1, 2025 

Date of the event: Mid-March 2026 

Venue: Online
Convenor email: andrea.borghini@unimi.it 
Link: https://www.culinarymind.org/culinarymind-gastronomica-lecture

Description: Culinary Mind and Gastronomica invite early-career scholars to submit proposals (due December 1, 2025) for their inaugural Lecture in the Philosophy of Food, to be delivered online in mid-March 2026. Selected lectures will be developed into essays for publication in Gastronomica, with peer review and invited responses.

​(via Culinary Mind/Gastronomica)

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Title: Food, Waste, Sustainability: Synergizing Ontology Efforts 2025

Deadline: October 20, 2025 

Date of the event: November 14, 2025, 4-7pm (CET)

Venue: Online

Convenor email: giorgio.ubbiali@pthsta.it 
Links: https://www.pthsta.it/it/ricerca/climate-plastics-and-sustainability

https://sites.google.com/view/fws2025workshop/home-page

Description: Part of the 16th International Conference on Biological and Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2025), this online workshop explores how ontologies can better interconnect health and sustainability, with a focus on food and plastic waste as a critical use case. Topics include ontology design for sustainability, plastic pollution, and applications to food systems. 

​(via Giorgio Ubbiali)

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Title: Umbra Institute’s Biennial Food Conference

Deadline: December 31, 2025

Date of the event: June 11-14, 2026

Venue: Perugia, Italy

Convenor email: foodconference@umbra.org
Link: https://www.umbra.org/food-conference-home/

Description: The upcoming conference will host a wide-ranging discussion on the past, present, and future ecologies of food, focusing on how issues like climate change and artificial intelligence are reshaping this web. The conference also welcomes papers on pedagogy, focusing on best practices for teaching food studies, experiential learning, and community-engaged projects.

​(via Culinary Mind)

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CALL FOR PAPERS—JOURNALS

 

Name of the Journal: PPC (PETITS PROPOS CULINAIRES) 

Editor email: editor.petitspropos@prospectbooks.co.uk

Link: https://journal.equinoxpub.com/index.php/PPC/index

Description: PPC (PETITS PROPOS CULINAIRES) is an international journal on food, food history, cookery and cookery books. It was launched in 1979 by Alan and Jane Davidson, together with Elizabeth David, Jill Norman and Richard Olney. PPC welcomes original submissions on all aspects of culinary history, cookery/cookbooks and food cultures and is international in scope. The readership (and authorship) includes scholars, professionals in the food industry as well as serious general readers with a keen interest in food. Regular are approximately 7000-8000 words (although longer and shorter articles will also be considered) and will be peer-reviewed where appropriate. PPC also includes material such as photo-essays, field reports, food memoirs, and bibliographic, lexiographic or other documentary notes which will be published on an invited basis after discussion with the editor, Sam Bilton. We will also consider guest-edited issues with a coherent theme.
 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS—BOOKS

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Name of the Book: The Bear and Philosophy

Editor email: profmdwhite@hotmail.com

Link: https://andphilosophy.com/2025/10/01/the-bear-and-philosophy-call-for-abstracts/

Description: Both fans and critics praise The Bear for its intense and unflinching portrayal of the chaos of restaurant workplace culture as well as the private and family lives of the people who work there. The show raises numerous philosophical issues regarding the aesthetics and meaning of food and eating; the ethics of work and management; personal issues of obsession, devotion, and purpose; and interpersonal matters dealing with family, friendship, and romantic connections.