<p class="bodytext">India's first ever conference on food as culture will be held in Mumbai next month.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Titled "ArchaeoBroma", the two-day conference would look at food vis-a-vis history, archaeology and sociology.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The India Study Centre (INSTUCEN) Trust and the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies (CEMS) of the University of Mumbai is hosting the conference on May 5-6.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This is the first nationwide conference on the archaeology, anthropology and sociology of food," said Mugdha D Karnik, director, CEMS and managing trustee, INSTUCEN Trust.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Where art, architecture and literature are easily seen as the expression of a culture and its values, food is rarely seen as such, although it is central to the mundane as well as celebratory lives of people. </p>.<p class="bodytext">"Food carries with it multiple associations of culture including social privilege and deprivation, wealth and poverty, conservatism and liberality," according to a concept note prepared by Dr Kurush Dalal, assistant professor, CEMS and Raamesh Gowri Raghavan, an associate with the INSTUCEN Trust.</p>
<p class="bodytext">India's first ever conference on food as culture will be held in Mumbai next month.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Titled "ArchaeoBroma", the two-day conference would look at food vis-a-vis history, archaeology and sociology.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The India Study Centre (INSTUCEN) Trust and the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies (CEMS) of the University of Mumbai is hosting the conference on May 5-6.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This is the first nationwide conference on the archaeology, anthropology and sociology of food," said Mugdha D Karnik, director, CEMS and managing trustee, INSTUCEN Trust.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Where art, architecture and literature are easily seen as the expression of a culture and its values, food is rarely seen as such, although it is central to the mundane as well as celebratory lives of people. </p>.<p class="bodytext">"Food carries with it multiple associations of culture including social privilege and deprivation, wealth and poverty, conservatism and liberality," according to a concept note prepared by Dr Kurush Dalal, assistant professor, CEMS and Raamesh Gowri Raghavan, an associate with the INSTUCEN Trust.</p>
