We would like to invite you to the following SEEminar organized by the Sustainability, Economics, and Ethics (SEE) Research Group as part of our Horizon Europe Project “PoPMeD-SuSDeV”. The two speakers are visiting researchers from the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts.

October 16, 2023 at 15:00 in Sala Blava 2:

1. Mediterranean Diet: Health, Heritagization, and Sustainability (Dr. Špela Ledinek Lozej, ZRC SAZU)

The first presentation shows how the Mediterranean diet has evolved as an assemblage, linking nutrition and health with heritage and sustainable development. The concept of Mediterranean diet developed in the 1950s. Since then, it has undergone various changes from healthy nutrition to a food system that encompasses food production and consumption and was included in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010. Since then, it has been adopted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as a diet with an emphasis on sustainability and locality. How can these heritagization processes and transformation from a healthy diet to sustainability be observed ethnographically in the contemporary food landscapes of Barcelona?

2. Escaping to the Good Life: Lifestyle Migrants in the Mediterranean (Dr. Nataša Rogelja Caf, ZRC SAZU)

The second case study relates to ethnographic research on “liveaboards” in the Mediterranean; people who travel, work, and live on sailing boats. It starts from the premise that these individuals’ and groups’ “quest for a better life” should not be treated as an elite phenomenon that exists in the vacuum of wider social, political, and economic relations, but is part of the wider story of the 21st century. Through ethnographic portraits, we will explore the ideas of escaping to the good life as charted by aspirations, expectations, and experiences of maritime lifestyle migrants. The presentation will discuss the use of ethnographic anthropological methods in relation to lifestyle migration.