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Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire is a senior lecturer at Technological University Dublin, culinary historian, broadcaster and ballad singer. Co-founder and chair of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, he also chairs the Masters in Gastronomy and Food Studies in TU Dublin. He co-edited ‘Tickling the Palate’: Gastronomy in Irish Literature and Culture (Peter Lang: 2014), ‘The Food Issue’ of The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (2018), and in 2021, guest edited a special issue of Folk Life on Irish food ways. Máirtín also co-edits the European Journal of Food Drink and Society. In 2021 and 2022 he was awarded a Research Ally Prize by the Irish Research Council.
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Dr Anke Klitzing (she/her) lectures on the history, sociology and culture of food and eating as well as food writing and media at the Technological University Dublin, Ireland, where she has completed her PhD research on the theory and methodology of reading food in literature. Besides academic publications, she has written on food, literature and society for Irish, German and Italian publications. She serves on the organising committee of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, as editor of the Journal of Franco-Irish Studies, production editor of the European Journal of Food, Drink, and Society, on the board of the National Centre of Franco-Irish Studies and as editor-in-chief of the literary journal Stirring Words. She is currently the chair of Softball Leinster.
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Dr John Mulcahy has an unusual and diverse skillset from four decades of experience in the tourism & hospitality industries, the public service, and academia. His most recent role was with Ireland’s National Tourism Development Authority where he led the Food Tourism, Hospitality Education, and Tourist Accommodation Standards division. Subsequently, John gained a PhD in 2020 based on his food tourism work in Ireland, received the World Food Travel Association Lifetime Achievement Award, and is now an independent post-doctoral researcher, activist and advisor advocating for a wider understanding of the role of food ‘in’ tourism. He is currently compiling a compendium focusing on the food and beverages of the island of Ireland, aiming to publish it as a book in 2026. More about John here: www.linkedin.com/in/gastronomy  ​
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Dr Elaine Mahon lectures on the history, pedagogy, anthropology and sociology of food at Technological University Dublin, Ireland, where she obtained a PhD for her analysis of diplomatic dining as a function of state entertainment within international relations. She is on the board of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies and co-editor of the Journal of Franco-Irish Studies. Elaine is a trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery where she also coordinates the Young Chefs programme, and is on the organising committees of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium and the ‘Food And Drink As...’ conference series. In 2024, she was invited to join Les Dames d'Escoffier, a philanthropic global group of female leaders in the food, beverage and hospitality sectors. She has spoken and published widely on diplomatic gastronomy and is currently working on a monograph for Peter Lang, Oxford entitled The President Requests the Pleasure: Irish Diplomatic Dining, 1922-1963.
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Dr Marzena Keating is an Assistant Professor at the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow, where she teaches courses in British and Irish culture. She also teaches courses entitled Social and Cultural Functions of Food and The Cookbook as a Cultural Text at the Food Studies postgraduate programme at SWPS University in Warsaw. Her primary interests lie in the fields of Irish History, Culinary History and Culture, Cultural Studies, and Food Studies. She is the author of several texts centred mainly on Irish culinary history and culture (e.g. “A blessing or a curse? Culinary discourses on convenience food in Ireland during the 1960s and 1970s” published in Food, Culture and Society, 2024; “Beef Tea, Wine Whey or Calf’s Foot Jelly? Invalid and Convalescent Cookery in Twentieth-Century Ireland” published in Estudios Irlandeses, 2023).
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Dr Natalia Giza is an Assistant Professor at the University of the National Education Commission in Kraków, where she teaches courses in American and British history. Her research focuses on the history of women in the English-speaking world, and her publications address a wide range of related topics. She is the author of several works, including a monograph on the lives of English women in the Renaissance. She is also a member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Royal Studies Network.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8035-5503
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Prof. Andrzej K. Kuropatnicki is a professor of History at the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow, where he serves as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Head of the Research Team on the History and Culture of Celtic Countries. His research focuses on food and culinary history in the British Isles, early English and Irish cookbooks, noble households, and the medical aspects of medieval and early modern dietetics. He is the author of Food and Drink in the Household of English Nobility in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and co-author of Historia Irlandii. Aspekty kulinarne. He has also published widely on food, medicine, and material culture, contributed to edited volumes such as Food and Drink in Contexts and The Power of Taste. Europe at the Royal Table, and presented his work at numerous international conferences.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9977-7431  
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