Welcome to the 2020 Dublin Gastronomy Symposium. This year’s theme is Food and Disruption: What shall we eat tomorrow? and we certainly could not have picked a more apt topic. We are delighted to be going ahead virtually, with a full programme of fifty papers from presenters from seventeen countries over five days from 25th to 29th May 2020. We are delighted to have Professor Tim Lang, author of Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them, as our keynote speaker. You will be able to watch his keynote address on the DGS programme page from the first day of the Symposium.

We are continuing with our tradition of awarding DGS Fellowships this year also and we are happy to announce that the recipients of this year’s award are Professor Patricia Lysaght, Emerita Professor of European Ethnology in University College Dublin and Professor Martin Caraher, Emeritus Professor of Food and Health Policy, City University London. Full profiles of the 2020 DGS Fellows are available here. Professor Caraher has kindly agreed to share reflections on his work and these will be made available during the Symposium.

Presentations of the 2020 DGS will be held over five days with three live thematic sessions per day. Please find the DGS programme and papers here and to attend the live sessions please register here. Registration is free, however you need to be registered before 10 am Dublin time on the day of the event to receive the link to that day’s live sessions. You will only need to register once for the whole event. Live links to the daily sessions will be sent to all registered parties by email every morning.

Please see the schedule here.