Royal Holloway's Associate Professor Erica Rowan, a leading scholar on ancient foodways, will present her research on the role of the kitchen, both ancient and modern, in the formation and maintenance of community in Western Türkiye. Using the Lydian kitchens at Sardis as a case study, she will explore the way kitchens have traditionally been used, especially by women, to form important social bonds and the way modern urban architecture has disrupted these vital processes.
