Activities

“Recipes and Gastronomy as Cultural Heritage: Meaning, Methodology and Media”

October 22–25, 2025. The University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo (Italy).  APPLY BY: April 31, 2025.

The University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG) invites proposals to participate in an academic workshop taking place October 22-25, 2025 in Pollenzo, Italy. This methodological workshop is organized within the framework of the EU-funded RELISH project and aims to engage historians and other scholars across disciplines in discussions on the nature of recipes – how they are created, interpreted, shared, and transformed over time and across contexts.

Each session will be dedicated to different approaches to studying recipes as cultural artifacts producing human heritage, or the strategies of their digital organization and
dissemination.

We invite two types of case studies, focusing on European examples and beyond:

1. Research case studies that critically utilize recipes as sources to understand historical and social processes.
2. Recipes in digital dissemination projects, addressing their use in digital humanities, public history, or indexing projects.

Submission Guidelines: We invite proposals for case studies focusing on historical or contemporary case studies that fit within the workshop’s thematic scope. Please submit proposals to Simone Cinotto at s.cinotto@unisg.it by April 30, 2025.