Wine, place and space - Global geographies of wine cultivation, production and consumption
Deadlines and Submissions
Wine cultivation, production, and consumption is a social phenomenon that intersects various scientific disciplines. Besides the natural science and technological dimension of cultivation and production, wine is an economic common and as such part of the global economy. As a consumer product, wine is entangled with (regional) identities and imaginaries, and is mobilized as a token of distinction and social class.
Various trends have shaped and are about to influence the production and consumption of wine considerably: shifts of wine cultivation areas due to climatic changes (e.g., Nordic countries), re-organization of wine production in global production networks, negotiation of work conditions in wine cultivation and production, digitalization of cultivation and production practices, and changing consumer dynamics.
This workshop aims to discuss these developments based on current theoretical approaches in human geography, sociology, philosophy, history, anthropology, cultural studies, and others and is particularly interested in the spatial configurations of these dynamics, for example with regard to scales, networks, territories or places.
Submission of abstracts (approx. 250 words): 01.10.2023 to wine-place-space(at)ku.de
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Registration information
Registration will be opend after acceptance notifications of submitted papers have been distributed.
Schedule and Program
Get-together: February 21st
18:00 h Get-together with a wine tasting of regional wines from Franconia
Time table
Conference day 1: February 22nd
09:00 h Session 1: natural wine - new practices?
- Nils Julian Meiß (University of Cologne)
Future in a bottle? On the making of ‚progressive wine’ and much more - Marlene Spanger, Magnus Andersen (Aalborg University Copenhagen)
Labour migration behind the sale of natural wine - Viivi Lepistö (Aalborg University Copenhagen)
Natural wine, culture, and labour: a multi-sited ethnographic study of translations across sites - Maximilian Krüger, Michael Völker, Debora de Castro Leal (University of Siegen)
The art of viticulture on a damaged plent: biodynamics and alternative philosophical foundations for the adaption of viticulture to the anthropocene
10:40 h Coffee break
11:10 h Session 2: new spaces and places
- Jue Peng, Robert Hassink (Kiel University)
Change agency, habitus and path development - Xiangchun Zheng (University of Helsinki)
Perceiving Terroir: Producing Wine in the Baltic and Eastern Himalayas under Global Climate Change - Kim Schumacher, Thomas Neisse, Andrzej Tucki (Osnabrück University)
Polish wine: Networks, markets and knowledge transfer - Mareike Pampus (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU))
'Resilient Vines: Crafting Renewal in a Scarred Landscape
12:50 h Lunch
13:50 h Session 3: territorial changes
- Yiğit Evren, Ezgi Akdoğan Odabaş (Yıldız Technical University, Istanbu)
Making Wine in Turkey: Challenges and Survival Strategies - Robin Larsimont, Cándida Gago García (Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM))
Marks of distinction and experiential wine tourism in the uco valley (argentina) and rioja alavesa (spain). Towards a multi-dimensional and trans-scalar theoretical framework for comparing different winescapes - Nicholas Groat (University of Sheffield)
Persistent Practices: Spatial and Sociotechnical Dynamics of Winemaking in Early Historic South-Central Asia - Daniel Monterescu (Central European University)
The Uses and Abuses of Terroir: Wine Across Imperial Borders and Colonial Frontiers
15:30 h Coffee break
16:00 h Session 4: valuation and qualification in the wine industry
- Stefano Ponte (Copenhagen Business School)
Exploring the geography and political economy of value: What we can learn from South African and Italian ‘winescapes’ - Gerhard Rainer (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Geographies of wine rankings - Leo Grassi, Robert C. Kloosterman & Niels Beerepoot (University of Amsterdam)
Wine making and Economic Development in the Abruzzo Region. A Global Production Network Approach - Steffen Wippel (German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA))
Wine-growing in North Africa: Branding and Qualifying a Controversial Product in Difficult Political and Economic Circumstances
Conference day 2: February 23rd
09:00 h Session 5: changing wine networks
- Sebastian Will (University of Education Freiburg ), Antonia Appel (University of Freiburg)
Between cooperation, competition, and climate change: Social networks in the wine region of Palatine - Hart Feuer (Kyoto University), Daniel Monterescu (Central European University)
Recalibrating Terroir for Asia: Heritage Sake and Wine in Japan - Pujo Semedi (Universitas Gadjah Mada - Indones)
Vineyard inheritance and Weinschmierere in Kaiserstuhl. Agrarian aspects of Baden-Wurttemberg wine making, 1850s - 2010s. - Olivia Lindsay (University of Cambridge)
Winemakers in Languedoc-Roussillon: Resilience, ‘Good Taste’ and ‘Bad Reputations’
10:40 h Coffee break
11:10 h Session 6: sustainable wine growing
- Tatiana López (University of Würzburg)
Digitalization as a driver of sustainability transition in the South African wine industry? - Anika Zorn, Susann Schäfer (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)
Extra-regional transfers of environmental innovations and green industry creation without institutional support - the case of the Danish wine industry - Joseph Scala (University of New Mexico)
Sustainability and Heritage: The Past and Future of Wine Production in Valle de Guadalupe, MX - Ana Esquinas Rychen (Universität St. Gallen)
Sustainability transitions in Spanish Denominations of Origin: the case of Ribera del Duero and Rueda
12.50 h Lunch
13:50 h Session 7: wine and changing traditions
- Stella Moss (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘Wine Without Worry’: Supermarkets, Consumers and the (Re)Negotiation of Good Taste in Britain, 1960s-1990s - Christof Schöch, Claudine Moulin, Joëlle Weis (Trier University)
Historical wine labels as pointers to places and spaces of wine cultivation, production and distribution: A case study from the German Mosel region - Takumi Fukaya (Kyoto University)
Interplay between Wine and Food Culture: A Case Study of Wine Making and Game Meat in Tuscany - L. Sasha Gora (University of Augsburg)
Message on a Bottle: Wine, Territory, and Indigenous Land in Canada and Australia
15:30 h Closing of the conference
Plan your trip
The conference will take place on 22.2. and 23.2. in the rooms of the University of Eichstätt, Kapuzinergasse 2, 85072 Eichstätt (room KAP 018).
To book accommodation, please find an overview here: Accommodation Directory Eichstätt
By car
When you are heading towards Eichstätt from northwest or Ingolstadt, use the B 13. When traveling to Eichstätt on the motorway A 9 from Nuremberg, please use the exit “Altmühltal” and follow the “Jurahochstraße” (E 21) to Eichstätt for approx. 20 minutes. When coming from Munich on the A 9, please use the exit “Lenting” and follow the road signs.
By train
Eichstätt is located halfway between Nuremberg and Munich on the railway line between Treuchtlingen and Ingolstadt. The station “Eichstätt Bahnhof” is connected to the city station “Eichstätt Stadt” by a local train (distance 5 km). Please make sure to purchase a ticket to “Eichstätt Stadt”. From there, it’s a 10 minute walk to the University (in the direction of the city center).
By plane
Munich Airport is located in the northeast of Munich. From the airport, you can reach Eichstätt by train in 1.5 to 2 hours.
Nuremberg Airport is located north of the city. From the airport, you can take the subway line 2 that will take you to Nuremberg main station in twelve minutes; from there, you can take the regional train to Eichstätt.
Organising Team
Contact: wine-place-space(at)ku.de
Daniela Ana (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies)
Marc Daferner (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Tatiana López (Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg)
Gerhard Rainer (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Susann Schäfer (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Christian Steiner (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Anika Zorn (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
