Universita degli Studi Bari Aldo Moro

June 19, 2019 – June 20, 2019

The Taste of City Food and Place Marketing Summer Conference (TOCS19) invites multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions ranging from marketing and management to urban studies, anthropology and geography to cover themes including immigration, diaspora and spread of taste and food cultures, principles of food marketing, intersections of place and food in marketing, branding and rebranding of places through food, food insecurity and international relations, food, place and identity.

The 4th Taste of City Food and Place Marketing Summer Conference will be held in Bari, Puglia, Italy on 19-20 June 2019. This conference follows the series launched in Belgrade (2016) and followed by conferences in Athens (2017) and Antalya (2018).

Conference Committee

  1. Prof Ibrahim Sirkeci, University of Salford, Salford Business School, United Kingdom
  2. Asst. Prof. Dr. Evinc Dogan, Akdeniz University, Turkey
  3. Dr Maktoba Omar, Coventry University, United Kingdom
  4. Mr Omar Al Serhan, London School of Commerce & Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
  5. Dr Nevin Karabiyik Yerden, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

Call for Papers

The Taste of City Food and Place Marketing Summer Conference (TOCS19) invites academics, professionals, students and wider interested public to join the discussion about food and place marketing and all relevant subjects.

You are kindly invited to submit short abstracts.

The Conference has a broad scope appealing to multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions ranging from economics, marketing and management to urban studies, anthropology and geography to cover themes including immigration, diaspora and spread of taste and food cultures, principles of food marketing, intersections of place and food in marketing, branding and rebranding of places through food, food insecurity and international relations, food, place and identity.

There will be panels of three to five papers, exhibitions, roundtables, workshops and plenaries depending on the submissions.

Panel proposals are also welcome.

Successful papers will be recommended to Transnational Marketing Journal, a specialist peer-reviewed journal indexed in Scopus and various other international lists.

Author Guidelines

Abstracts should be submitted to be considered for participation in the conference.

Abstracts are required to be between 150 and 350 words.

Submissions should typically indicate a title, main argument(s), methods, data, and key findings and recommendations.

No references should be included in abstracts.

When submitting make sure your name and affiliations are clearly entered.

Start here to submit a paper to this conference.