Food Intersections Symposium Detailed Schedule

 

9:00-10:15am    Welcome and Paper Session ONE

9:00am     Welcome

9:05am     Dr. Lindsay Naylor, Department of Geography, University of Delaware

                            “Food Sovereignty Exchanges and Participatory Knowledge Production”

9:25am     Dr. Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, School of International Service, American University and Dr. Glenda 

    Estrada Manzano, Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Cuba     

                            “Cultivating Alliance: A Geography & History of US-Cuban Agrarian Cooperatives’ Collaboration”

9:45am     Dr. Sarah Lyon, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky

                              "Rethinking Fair Trade: Coffee Farmers’ Counternarratives against the Marketization of Poverty"

10:05am   Question and Answer

 

10:30-11:30am    University of Delaware Graduate Student Presentations

·       Nathan Thayer, Department of Geography

“Reclaiming the Mountain: Coal mining, emerging food economies, and articulating geographies of hope in Appalachia”

·       Rachel Asbury, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture

“Tin Can Tell-All: A History of the Commercial Tomato Canning Industry in Virginia’s Bedford and Botetourt Counties”

·       Jaime Barrett, Department of Geography

“Production of Knowledge in Agricultural Best Management Practices”

·       Anastasia Day, History Department

“‘A Perfectly Blended Industrial-Agricultural Enterprise:’ The Ecusta Paper Mill in World War II”

·       Todd Sundberg, Department of Geography

“Cultivating Geopolitics (?): Relationships and Everyday Lives of Social Justice and Urban Agriculture in Wilmington, Delaware”

·       Kelsey Obringer, Department of Political Science and International Relations

“Nourishing the Resistance: Food as a Tool and Tactic for Political Action and Social Justice” 

·       Chelsea Leiper, Department of Geography

“Going Against the Grain: Grain-Free Dieting and the Promise and Limitations of Food as Medicine in an Orthorexic Society”

 

11:30am -12:50pm    Break for Lunch

 

1:00-2:15pm      Paper Session TWO

1:00pm     Dr. Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Food Studies, Syracuse University

“What Does an Alternative Farmer Look Like?: Growing Ecological and Social Diversity”

1:20pm     Dr. Kristin Reynolds, Lecturer in Environmental Studies and Food Studies, The New School

                      "Critical Food Geography through Participatory Evaluation Research: Preliminary Reflections on Two                          Ongoing Collaborations"

1:40pm     Dr. Alison Hope Alkon, Department of Sociology, University of the Pacific

“Subverting the New Narrative: Food, Gentrification and Resistance in Oakland, California”

2:00pm     Question and Answer

 

2:30pm     Women of Consequence Performance 

Immediately followed by: Community Voices Workshop 

                     Chanowk Yisrael, Yisrael Family Farms and Dr. Allison Karpyn, Associate Director of the Center for Research                       in Education and Social Policy, University of Delaware

5:30pm      Keynote Address: Frances Moore Lappé & Anna Lappé

                        "Power, Democracy and the Future of Food"

 Symposium Topics

 

Space | How can we better understand the roles of food and agriculture in constructing space and

place? How do they differ? Who has access to sites of cultivation and/or consumption? What

racial tensions, gendered identities, and/or class dynamics are written into food and agricultural

landscapes and how do these processes occur? How do rural and urban experiences differ and

how might we disrupt this binary? In what spaces do people access food and food products and

how is access (un)even? Do divisions exist in expertise? Activism? Social justice aims?

 

Bodies | Who can participate? What does it mean to study food and agriculture at the site of the body? How is the body sited in space and nature? How do we interact with our bodily non-

human others? How is food embodied? Which bodies have rights? How are bodies mobilized in different food and agriculture labor regimes? How is (un)healthiness written on to body size?

 

Nature | How do political, social, and economic constructions shape non-human nature? What

place for agriculture in a discussion of nature? How can we incorporate understandings of the

Anthropocene in food and agriculture work? In what ways do critical food geographies intersect

with climate change? In what ways can critical food geographies inform on wildness/wilderness?

What are the necessary conversations at the intersection of space/bodies/nature?