The Dublin Gastronomy Symposium is a biennial international food conference held every two years at the TU Dublin School of Culinary Art and Food Technology. First held in 2012, it is an exciting, multidisciplinary gathering of academics, practitioners from food production and tourism, researchers, scientists, writers, hospitality professionals, and journalists – in fact, anyone with an interest and enthusiasm for gastronomy, including both food and beverages.  

The DGS provides a forum for those interested in gastronomy research to come together, network and engage in academic discourse regarding “all things food”. The Symposium places equal emphasis on providing opportunities for interested gastronomes to interact with each other outside of formal presentations through opportunities for convivial engagement at carefully planned conference lunches and a conference banquet dinner. A key motivator for participation is the opportunity to have submissions through the TU Dublin Arrow portal, which provides open access to conference materials and papers. 

The Dublin Gastronomy Symposium will be held 28th & 29th May 2024 under the theme Food and Memory: Traces, Trauma and Tradition! . 

More information about this as well as previous symposia can be found here: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/dgs/  

This article traces the development and impact of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium 2012-2020: Visionary, Convivial and Resilient: a History of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium and Review of the DGS 2020 Online 

Here you can find a visual taste of the 2016 Dublin Gastronomy Symposium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmDNWci24T4