This one day conference will bring together academics and researchers working on issues related to alcohol, embodiment and social difference from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. We welcome papers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including but not limited to sociology, history, geography and addiction studies, and from PhD students and early career researchers.

Topics of interest include:

• The embodied experience, management and regulation of drinking across diverse forms of social difference (e.g. ethnicity, age, gender, class).
• The representation of intoxication and drunken or addicted bodies in the news media and in popular culture.
• Methodological challenges involved in researching the embodied, sensory nature of drinking.
• The embodied nature of addiction, treatment and recovery.