Welcome to the ReThink Eating 2022 Conference
This is not a traditional conference. We want to invite researchers from different backgrounds and disciplines to come together and brainstorm the future of eating in new, unorthodox ways. The COVID pandemic has highlighted the importance of the chemical senses, and the drive towards green transition has underlined the need to change people’s dietary habits. In these times of increasing digitalisation of the audiovisual senses, there is a risk that smell and taste will be left behind.
It is clearer than ever before that we need to rethink the future of chemical senses research. What and where are the new research areas and methods?
You are invited to join us in coming up with daring and creative solutions, and we want to hear your questions around pressing issues. In these increasingly serious times, we welcome the weird, wacky, and wonderful. Maybe even a sprinkling of magic.
We aim to address far-reaching questions like:
Akito van Troyer, Assistant Professor, Berkelee College of Music, USA
Alexander Fjældstad, Associate Professor, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Anne-Lise Saive, Research Scientist, Institut Paul Bocuse, France
Charlotte Sinding, Researcher, Center for Taste & Feeding Behavior, France
Dan Novy, Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Ilja Croijmans, Assistant Professor, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Janina Seubert, Principal researcher, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Jeffrey Kerby, Postdoc, AIAS, Denmark
Patricia Alves da Mota, Postdoc, Aarhus University, Denmark
Rebecca Kleinberger, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, USA
Morning:
8:30-9:00 Coffee + croissant
9:00-10:30 Theme: Chemical senses
Talks on: Smell, taste, and appetite
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:15 Theme: Extended reality
Talks on: Music, VR and magic
12:15-13:00 Lunch
Afternoon:
13:00-13:20 Sensory walk
13:30-14:30 Theme: Cognition
Talks on: Memory, language, and expertise
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:00 Theme: Future applications and reflections
Talks on: Creativity, AR and non-human studies
Group reflection and wrap-up
16:15-18:00 Guided wine tasting
To attend the event there is a registration fee of 100 DKK and for students a fee of 50 DKK. There is an additional fee of 20 DKK for participating in the wine tasting. Register here.
The conference has received funding from AIAS, Aarhus University Faculty of Science and Technology Research Committee (International Collaboration and Networking funding) and the Carlsberg Foundation (Young Researcher Fellowship CF19-0587).
