NAFS - Nordic Association for Food Studies
The NAFS network started in 2009 as a collaboration between the Nordic countries. The common interest of the members is to meet other researchers that study the human relationship to food and meal over time.
Members
As of today NAFS consists of 113 members. The network is a collaboration between the Nordic countries and the members are researchers active in a wide range of areas such as: advertising and public relations, archeology, business, culinary arts, economic history, ethnology, history, journalism, landscape research, medicine, political science, religion and sociology.
Membership in NAFS can be applied for by PhD:s and PhD students within the many areas of food studies. If you have questions about NAFS membership, please contact: nafs@oru.se
NAFS workshops and conferences
The overall purpose of these conferences and workshops is to provide an opportunity to meet likeminded people and to share and discuss theoretical and methodological issues related to the study of food. The hope is that this should result in new interesting research projects.
The steering committee
The school of Hospitality, Culinary Arts and Meal Science, Örebro University, has the steering committee task for NAFS since mars 2020. The steering committee circulates between the universities a few years at the time.
Foundation of NAFS
The predecessor of NAFS - the Swedish sub-organisation of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food (ICAF)- was founded at Stockholm University on December 16th in 2009 by the 12 following persons (in alphabetic order): Bachelor of Arts Kristina Berg, PhD Torbjörn Bildtgård, PhD Maria Frostling-Henningsson, PhD Sven Isaksson, PhD Jenny Lee, PhD Inger M Jonsson, associate professor Birgitta Ney, associate professor Marianne Pipping Ekström, PhD student Anna-Mari Simunaniemi, PhD Ulrica Söderlind, PhD Richard Tellström and PhD Ulrika Torell. In 2013 the network left its association with ICAF and became an independent network. As a result the network took a new name - “Nordic Association for Food Studies” (NAFS).