Social and Cultural Food Studies FOST - Brussels
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In April 2003, FOST (Social & Cultural Food Studies) was founded to institutionalize Food Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
FOST works in collaboration with
- Vlaams Centrum voor Volkscultuur
- Institut Européen de l'Histoire de l'Alimentation
- Institut National de Recherche Agronomique
FOST aims at consolidating the expertise by
- inviting (foreign) specialists to workshops and colloquia
- operating within networks
- publishing and contemplating about food studies
- performing new (multidisciplinary) food research
This multidisciplinary, internationally rooted base guarantees a diversity of approaches, methodologies and theories around a common research field.
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