Phase 2 | Applications for the PhD in Food Heritage: Cultures and Identities 2025/2026

The main particularity of this course lies in the fact that it approaches Food Studies from a holistic perspective, centred on the Humanities. History, Cultures, Literature, and the Arts are the pillars of this humanistic knowledge, dialoguing with the disciplinary perspectives of Tourism, Anthropology, Sociology, Communication, and Medicine.

All of these areas are covered by a permanent teaching staff, as well as guest national and foreign specialists.

The main objective of the academic research carried out within the scope of this course is to understand how individuals and societies, over the long duration of the historical process (from prehistory to the present), relate to food from a socio-cultural, aesthetic, communicational, ethical, religious, and medical point of view, at all stages – production, distribution, transformation, consumption, and its socio-environmental and health-related consequences. These universes of problematisation seem indispensable for answering a number of key questions in contemporary discourses on Heritage, Gastronomy, Healthy & Sustainable Food, Health, and Leisure & Well-being.

COORDINATION: Carmen Soares [cilsoares@gmail.com] | Claudete Moreira [claudete@fl.uc.pt]

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