36.1424, Calls: Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices (Germany)

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Subject: 36.1424, Calls: Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices (Germany)

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Date: 30-Apr-2025
From: Sofia Rüdiger [sofia.ruediger at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices


Full Title: Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices
Short Title: Digital P(a)lates

Date: 26-Mar-2026 - 28-Mar-2026
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact Person: Sofia Rüdiger
Meeting Email: sofia.ruediger at fu-berlin.de
Web Site:
https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/we06/digitalpalates/index.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2025

The performance of food has become ubiquitous in the digital realm,
where we find content saturated with all things culinary, gustatory,
and gastronomic. From food porn images to restaurant reviews, from
what-I-eat-in-a-day-videos to cooking shows, from mukbang to forum
posts with food advice – people negotiate and display their food
practices online, to be consumed and regurgitated by others via their
digital devices. This is often based on co-occurring linguistic
performances, interweaving food, language, and digital practices into
consolidated acts of meaning. “Digital P(a)lates: The Language of
Online Food Practices” is an international conference bringing
together scholars working on linguistic and discursive aspects related
to digital food practices. The aim of the conference is to encourage
dialogue between the manifold approaches to digital food performances
and to provide a platform for the investigation of the public
fascination with food online – and how this is constituted via
linguistic resources.
We invite abstract submissions on the entanglements between food,
language, and digital practices. Potential foci involve but are not
limited to:
- the discursive construction of eating as entertainment in digital
content
- discourses of overconsumption and excess (e.g., relating to mukbang,
eating shows, competitive eating, etc.)
- subversions of established food practices in the digital realm
(e.g., spoof cooking shows, glickle recipe performances, etc.)
- discourses of food fads and food trends as found in digital spaces
(e.g., superfoods, biohacking, ‘clean’ eating, snackification, girl
dinner, ‘raw’ food diets, etc.)
- online discussions of food futures/future foods (e.g., alternative
proteins, AI diets, etc.)
- the interweaving nature of digital and non-digital food practices
- resistance against digital food practices and food technologies (and
how this resistance is discursively negotiated)
- food ideologies in digital spaces (e.g., in tradwife or cottagecore
content)
...any other issue related to the general topic of the conference (the
language of digital food practices).
The conference will be followed up by a publication of selected talks
in the form of a special issue.
Abstract Submission Guidelines
Please submit abstracts of 300-400 words (excluding references),
indicating whether you want to be considered for a full paper (20
minutes talk + 10 minutes Q&A) or a poster, in pdf-format to
languageandfood at anglistik.fu-berlin.de The submission due date is 1
October 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by
November.
A limited number of travel bursaries (up to 450€) are available to
support early career scholars (PhD students or post-docs within four
years after their doctorate) who identify as women. If you would like
to be considered, please indicate this in your submission.
Please feel free to reach out to us in advance if you need childcare
during the conference days.



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