Bayreuth Food and Language Talks
The Bayreuth Food and Language lecture series (BaFoLa) showcases linguistic research on food, regardless of subject languages. Season 7 of BaFoLa begins in October and takes place every last Friday of the month (see schedule below), 12:30-13:30 (CEST/CET).
BaFoLa's inaugural round of presentations was conducted in winter 2021/2022 and you can find all previous presenters in the list below. Please send an email to sofia.ruediger@uni-bayreuth.de to request the Zoom link for current talks and/or to join the mailing list.
Program (Winter 2024/2025) - Season 7
October 25, 12:30-13:30 (CEST): Anna Islentyeva (Heidelberg University)
A Comparative Analysis of Femininity and Masculinity in Food and Beverage Advertising
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November 29, 12:30-13:30 (CET): Ariana Gunderson (Indiana University Bloomington)
Veganizing Language: Strategies for Plant-based Legibility in Germany
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December 20, 12:30-13:30 (CET): Marlén Izquierdo (Universidad del País Vasco)
Cooking and Language in English and Spanish: Exploring the Communicative Function(s) of Online Food Descriptions with the CLANES Corpus
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January 31, 12:30-13:30 (CET): Loukia Lindholm (Åbo Akademi University)
Constructing the Authentic in User-generated Online Reviews of Ethnic Restaurants
Previous Talks
Season 6 (Summer 2024)
Michael Chesnut (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) - A Survey of English on Flavored Milk Cartons in South Korea: From ‘Bling Bling’ and ‘Cheongdo Persimmon Milk’ to ‘My Style, My Life, My Milk’ (April 26, 2024)
Marco Bagli (University for Foreigners of Perugia) - The Linguistic Representation of Gustatory Perception in English (may 31, 2024)
Sylvia Jaworska & Iwona Gibas (University of Reading) - What Does She Need: Magic Velvet Beans or Nettle? Intersections of Food, Science and Gender in Magazine Ads (June 28, 2024)
Season 5 (Winter 2023/2024)
Ursula Kania (University of Liverpool) - “So Be Good to Yourself, and Enjoy that Lobster”: Exploring Discourses of Femininity and Self-Care in American Cookbooks for One (October 27, 2023)
Sofia Rüdiger (University of Bayreuth) - The Discursive Construction of Eating as Entertainment: Carnivalesque Consumption in the Digital Sphere (November 24, 2023)
Martha Sif Karrebæk (University of Copenhagen) - Danish Food from a Linguistic Ethnographic Perspective: A Retrospective Look at Food and Language Work (January 26, 2024)
Season 4 (Summer 2023)
Marcelyn Oostendorp (Stellenbosch University) - Politics of the Belly: Food, Memory and Discursive Identity Construction in South African Food-and-Memory Cookbooks (April 26, 2023)
Jillian R. Cavanaugh (City University of New York) - Food Chronotopes: Heritage Food, Safe Food, and the Value of Family (May 24, 2023)
Cynthia Gordon (Georgetown University) - Discursively Constructing Fusion Food as "Authentic" in Food Infotainment Videos (June 28, 2023)
Season 3 (Winter 2022/2023)
Göran Eriksson (Örebro University) - Selling "Good" and Healthy Food with Science: A Multimodal Approach to Marketing of Food and Beverages (October 28, 2022)
Marie-Louise Brunner & Stefan Diemer (Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld | Hochschule Trier) - "{closes eyes and chews} It's not ... a cool taste“ - Humor and Interactive Stance in Food Talk (November 25, 2022)
Polly Szatrowski (University of Minnesota) - Negotiating Inclusion and Exclusion in Japanese Food Assessments with Language and the Body (January 27, 2023)
Season 2 (Summer 2022)
Alla Tovares (Howard University) - Food and Poetics: Creating Multimodal Involvement and Social Meanings on TikTok (April 29, 2022)
Ana Tominc (QMU Edinburgh) - Bananas – Bendy and Otherwise: Interrogating the Relationship Between Britain and the EU Through “Banana” Corpus Analysis (May 27, 2022)
Keri Matwick (NTU Singapore) & Kelsi Matwick (University of Florida) - “Trailblazers”: Singapore’s Discourse Around Lab-Grown Meats (June 24, 2022)
Tina Bartelmeß (University of Bayreuth) - Parental Conversations About Sugar in Online Forums: More Than Food Talks (July 29, 2022)
Season 1 (Winter 2021/2022)
Sally Wiggins Young (Linköping University) - Eating Sounds: At the Edges of Language, Food, and Bodies (October 29, 2021)
Hanwool Choe (University of Hong Kong) - Livestreaming and Vlogging as Digital Modalities to Eat Together and Eat Well (November 26, 2021)
Eva Lavric (University of Innsbruck) & Brigitte Seidler-Lunzer (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) - Wine Tastings as a Genre in Expert/Non-Expert Communication and the Impact of Stance on Its Content and Structure: An Empirical Analysis (January 28, 2022)