Calls for Papers
Conference: Feast as a Mirror of Social and Cultural Changes
Kraków (Poland)
28-30 September 2017
Papers are welcomed that deal with any of the following themes:
- integrating (socialisation of an individual) and/or disintegrating aspect of the feast;
- feast as a platform for cultural self-identification;
- feast as a mechanism for the transmission of cultural traditions;
- public display, (re)validation and renewal of values essential for people feasting;
- secularisation of feasts;
- fragmentation and re-semantisation of feasts;
- replacing old feasts with new ones;
- economic aspect of the feast – feasts as commercially exploited festivities;
- role of the feast in the dynamics of social and cultural life;
- place, space and practice, and their interconnection with life and governance;
- artistic aspect of the feast;
- feast as an instrument used in local, regional or national policy;
- feast as leisure time associated with recreation, games and fun;
- feast as a temporary suspension of social order;
- feast as an occasion for manifesting the roles played in a society on a daily basis;
- feast as an event evoking emotional tensions of various kinds;
- feast as an occasion for a group reconciliation, expiation and compensation;
- relationship between the feast and tourism;
- the role of mass media in feasting;
- any other topic related to the main theme of the conference.