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(updated as of 22nd January 2024)
Jan 29-31, 2024
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jan 29-30, in-person presentations, Jan 31, online presentations
Jan 29-30, in-person presentations will be on campus at NTU. The location is the School of Humanities, HSS Conference Room, Level 5, Room 57. From the foyer, take the elevator up to level 5, turn right, and go through the hallway to the end.
Jan 29, 3 pm- Keynote speaker presentation
A charter bus will be provided from NTU to Networking and Social Events on the 29th and 30th of January.
Items with ** are at your own expense.
See details below.
Day 0 – Sunday, Jan 28
Pre-Conference Gathering at the Tempo Bar and Grill, Robertson Quay (6-8pm) **
https://www.millenniumhotels.com/en/singapore/grand-copthorne-waterfront/tempo/
Day 1- Monday, Jan 29
Day 1 begins at 10:15 AM
Welcome Address
Venue: HSS CONFERENCE ROOM (HSS-05-57)
Session 1 - Cultural Identity and Heritage
Venue: HSS CONFERENCE ROOM (HSS-05-57)
Presentation 1: 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
· Title: Communication through Culinary Terms: Emotions and Personality
· Presenter: Sanjukta Ghosh (and Namrata Paul)
· Affiliation: Department of Humanistic Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) (India)
Presentation 2: 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
· Title: Spicing Up Conversations: Exploring the Cultural and Linguistic Significance of Chilies in Thai Culinary Practices
· Presenter: Jinawat Kaenmuang
· Affiliation: Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
Presentation 3: 11:10 AM – 11:30 AM
· Title: Tourism on a plate: tourism communication in Emilia Romagna, Italy
· Presenter: Eleonora Federici
· Affiliation: Department of Humanities, University of Ferrara (Italy)
Presentation 4: 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
· Title: Crowd of Cardamoms: The Etymological Origins of Cardamom in Chinese
· Presenter: Gábor Parti and Ian Joo
· Affiliation: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University & Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (Japan) respectively
Lunch (12pm -1pm)
Session 2 - Etymology and Linguistic Landscape
Venue: HSS CONFERENCE ROOM (HSS-05-57)
Presentation 5: 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
· Title: Language of food and politics of identity in the linguistic landscape of Penang
· Presenter: Ding Seong Lin
· Affiliation: Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya (Malaysia)
Presentation 6: 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
· Title: Socio-cultural and commercial contextualization of the eateries in the linguistic landscape
· Presenter: Anil Thakur, Pursotam Kumar, and Jyoti Kumar
· Affiliation: All are from Department of Humanistic Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi (India)
Presentation 7: 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
· Title: A bellyful experience: Language and food signs in Jamaica
· Presenter: Mühleisen, Susanne
· Affiliation: University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Break (2:30pm- 3pm)
Keynote Address
Venue: HSS CONFERENCE ROOM (HSS-05-57)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 3:00 – 4:00 pm
· Title: Pure and Made with Sunshine Vitamins: The Language of Safe and Healthy Food in Singapore
· Presenter: Dr. Nicole Tarulevicz
· Affiliation: University of Tasmania (Australia)
Break (4pm- 4.30pm)
Charter Bus to Chinatown and Chinatown Tour (4.30-6.00pm)
Dinner at a Hawker Centre ** (6.00pm, Maxwell Hawker Centre)
Day 2 – Tues, Jan 30
Session 3A - Culinary Marketing and Influence
Venue: HSS CONFERENCE ROOM (HSS-05-57)
Presentation 8: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
· Title: Restaurant reviews: A rhetorical and cultural analysis
· Presenter: Sujata Surinder Kathpalia
· Affiliation: Language and Communication Centre, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Presentation 9: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
· Title: Subjectivity and stancetaking in focus groups on food
· Presenter: Jonathon D. Coltz
· Affiliation: Saarland University (Germany)
Presentation 10: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
· Title: Food in Digital Visual Language: Effects of Emoji Use in Social Media Marketing Posts
· Presenter: Lieke Verheijen and Ilja Croijmans
· Affiliation: Both from the Department of Language and Communication, Radboud University (The Netherlands)
Session 3B - Communicating Japanese Food
Venue: HSS MEETING ROOM 6 (HSS-04-95)
Presentation 11: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
· Title: Culinary Discourse and Cultural Capital: Unveiling Japan's Gastronomic “Cool Japan” Strategy
· Presenter: Takako Kawabata
· Affiliation: International Professional University of Technology in Nagoya (Japan)
Presentation 12: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
· Title: The Impact of Onomatopoeia in Naming New Food Products in Japanese
· Presenter: Yurie Okami
· Affiliation: Chukyo University (Japan)
Presentation 13: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
· Title: When action speaks louder than words even in food commercials: A comparison of Japanese and Filipino advertisements
· Presenter: Florinda Amparo and Ria P. Rafael
· Affiliation: World Language and Society Education Centre, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) (Japan), AND Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines Diliman (Philippines) respectively
Lunch (12-1pm)
Session 4A - Contemporary trends (A)
Venue: HSS CONFERENCE ROOM (HSS-05-57)
Presentation 14: 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
· Title: Child and parent perceptions of alternative proteins in Singapore: A qualitative study
· Presenter: Aimee E. Pink
· Affiliation: Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) & Singapore Institute of Clinical Science (SICS), A*STAR (Singapore)
Presentation 15: 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
· Title: Exgredients – “vegan, gluten-free, no artificial flavours"
· Presenter: Nele Gerhardt (Cornelia Gerhardt)
· Affiliation: Saarland University (Germany)
Presentation 16: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
· Title: From Table to Tech: Exploring National Identities in Singapore and the USA through Media Narratives on Cultivated Meat
· Presenter: Keri Matwick and Kelsi Matwick
· Affiliation: Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (USA)
Session 4B - Contemporary trends (B)
Venue: HSS MEETING ROOM 6 (HSS-04-95)
Presentation 17: 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
· Title: “It’s not easy talking to the camera by yourself”: The discursive construction of eating show performer identities on YouTube
· Presenter: Sofia Rüdiger
· Affiliation: University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Presentation 18: 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
· Title: “People exploring the forests and the sea with coffee”: Gangneung city and the Koreanization of coffee in South Korea
· Presenter: Nate Ming Curran
· Affiliation: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
Presentation 19: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
· Title: Food as a cultural identity, cultural capital and community bonding: A case study of Bangladeshi migrants in Australia
· Presenter: Farzana Yesmen Chowdhury
· Affiliation: Institute of Modern Languages, University of Chittagong (Bangladesh)
Break (2.30pm-3.30pm)
Charter Bus from NTU to Dempsey Hill (3.30pm)
Dinner at the Open Farm Community** (RSVP with Conference Team by December 16th)
Day 3, ONLINE sessions, Wed, Jan 31
Presentation 1: 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
· Title: Nurturing the Dream: Bonding, Bridging, and Linking Urban Farm Networks in Northern Thailand
· Presenter: Chanatporn Limprapoowiwattana (Chana Lim)
· Affiliation: Thammasat University (Thailand)
Presentation 2: 4:25 PM - 4:45 PM:
· Title: “Mogwa is just like donggwa more or less”: Language transmission and negotiation in Cantonese Chinese American intergenerational kitchen talk
· Presenter: Genevieve Leung
· Affiliation: University of San Francisco, United States of America
Presentation 3: 4:50 PM - 5:10 PM
· Title: Cooking the Past: Food Practices as Markers of Memory in Sri Lanka's Conflict History
· Presenter: Dheebika P
· Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India)
Presentation 4: 5:15 PM - 5:35 PM
· Title: Constructing Class in Children's Food Packaging
· Presenter: Gwynne Mapes and Ana Tominc
· Affiliation: University of Bern (Switzerland) and Media and Communications, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, Scotland (UK) respectively
Presentation 5: 5:40 PM - 6:00 PM
· Title: Semantic dimensions of food textures and their mimetics in Japanese
· Presenter: Raevskiy Alexander
· Affiliation: Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Department of Psychology, Tohoku University (Japan)
Break (6-7pm)
Presentation 6: 7:00 PM - 7:20 PM
· Title: A Special Language and Cultural Transfer: German Bread Goods and Names in Kosovo
· Presenter: Vjosa Hamiti and Lumnije Jusufi
· Affiliation: Faculty of Philology, Department of German Language and Literature, University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina" (Republic of Kosovo) and Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) respectively
Presentation 7: 7:25 PM - 7:45 PM
· Title: Investigation into the phenomena of neophobia and regiocentrism of the Greek consumer of food, as expressed on social media, using natural language processing and sentiment analysis programming tools
· Presenter: Malamatenia Panagiotou, Efstathios Kaloudis, Konstantinos Gkatzionis
· Affiliation: Laboratory of Consumer and Sensory Perception of Foods & Beverages, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of the Aegean (Greece)
Presentation 8: 7:50 PM - 8:10 PM
· Title: “When your Italian friend approves, the place is definitely good”: Constructing the authentic in user-generated online restaurant reviews
· Presenter: Loukia Lindholm
· Affiliation: Åbo Akademi University (Finland)
Presentation 9: 8:15 PM - 8:35 PM
· Title: Educating the population to a healthy diet: verbal and visual representations of food in government digital material
· Presenter: Daniela Cesiri
· Affiliation: "Ca' Foscari" University of Venice (Italy)
8.40 PM- wrap up
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