The online Winter Seminars – Discussing Long-Term Analysis, organized by CEIS20, returns in 2024 with a session on "Street food: feeding the city", which will take place on March 21 at 4.00pm (GMT - Lisbon).

It will feature Alexandra Livarda (Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC), Spain), with a paper entitled "Feeding the Roman cities: an archaeobotanical approach to tastes and commerce in the Roman provinces", and João Pedro Gomes (Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal) with the title "Feeding the streets: food services in Early Modern Lisbon”.

Registration is free.

For more information, please contact us by e-mail winterseminarsceis20@gmail.com

Organization
Dulce Freire, Leonardo Aboim Pires & Mariana Rodrigues – CEIS20
Research Group 8 – Changing Landscapes Long-term lab

Biographical notes
Alexandra Livarda is a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC, Spain) studying human-plant interactions through time. Her current research focuses on the archaeology of food in the Roman and medieval world, as well as Late Bronze to Early Iron Age Aegean agriculture, and the development of new methodological tools for the identification of past agricultural practices combining experimental and computational archaeology. She has published widely on a range of topics from the emergence of agriculture to the development of tastes and food commerce in the historic past. She has also directed or (co)/directed archaeobotanical research in several projects, including some of the most emblematic sites in the Aegean, such as the Little Palace at Knossos, Crete and Lefkandi, Euboea.

João Pedro Gomes is a researcher at Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra associated with the research project "DIAITA: Lusophony Food Heritage", where he develops research in the areas of Portuguese sweets history, material culture associated with table and kitchen, culinary/ gastronomic literature, as well as social and cultural practices in food context, with special focus on the Portuguese Medieval and Modern Age. He has published articles in several journals as well as book chapters. Holds a PhD (2023) in "Food Heritage: Cultures and Identities" at University of Coimbra, with the thesis "The Portuguese Sweets. Origins of a food heritage (16th to 18th centuries).

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