AFHVS / ASFS 2018: The Agroecological Prospect: The Politics of Integrating Values, Food, and Farming University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, WI, United States, June 13-16, 2018 |
Conference website | https://afhv2018.wiscweb.wisc.edu/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=afhvasfs2018 |
Conference program | https://easychair.org/smart-program/AFHVSASFS2018/ |
Submission deadline | February 22, 2018 |
This is the joint annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society.
The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS) is a professional organization which provides an international forum to engage in the cross-disciplinary study of food, agriculture, and health, as well as an opportunity for examining the values that underlie various visions of food and agricultural systems. From a base of philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists, AFHVS has grown to include scientists, scholars, and practitioners in areas ranging from agricultural production and social science to nutrition policy and the humanities. AFHVS encourages participation by the growing community of researchers and professionals exploring alternative visions of the food system from numerous perspectives and approaches, including local and regional food systems; alternative food movements; agricultural and food policies, agricultural sustainability, food justice, issues of local and global food security, and food sovereignty.
The Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) was founded in 1985, with the goals of promoting the interdisciplinary study of food and society. It has continued that mission by holding annual meetings; the first was in 1987 and since 1992, the meetings have been held jointly with AFHVS.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems will host the 2018 meeting, with campus and community partners. Events include preconference tours and a reception on June 13th; a banquet on June 15th featuring Native American food and Mohawk Akwesasne Seed Keeper Rowen White, live music and dancing; keynote plenaries on Thursday and Saturday; awards banquet Saturday; and networking activities for graduate students and early career professionals.
Submission Guidelines
Please note: The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to February 22.
Agroecology links scientific inquiry, practical arts, and transformative social action to develop food systems that are fair and resilient. The conference program will highlight necessary changes to the design and management of our food systems so that we may adjust human systems to better function within the limits of natural systems, ensuring economic viability, food security, and the sovereignty of all people. The conference planning committee invites presentations and posters addressing this topic, as well as broader issues facing agriculture, food, values, human-environment interaction, and more.
Abstracts (400-word limit) may be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=afhvasfs2018
Abstracts for papers and posters are due February 15, 2018 Thursday, February 22. Authors will be notified by March 15, 2018 of acceptance, and a preliminary schedule of the sessions will be posted on the conference website by April 1. All presenters must be registered for the conference by May 1, 2018 to be included in the conference program.
- Abstracts will be considered for 15-minute presentations, organized into thematic, 100-minute, Panel Sessions. Unless submitted as a pre-organized full Panel Session, abstracts will be sorted into appropriate sessions containing 3-4 panels each.
- Scholars, students, and practioners are invited to submit abstracts for a Poster Session in lieu of the Panel Sessions.
- Not all abstracts will be accepted as Panel Sessions. Abstracts that are not accepted as Panel Sessions may be accepted as Poster Presentations. In the Abstract Submission Portal, you will have the option to determine if you want your paper considered as a Poster Presentation if it is not accepted for a Panel Session. Poster Session presenters will share their work on a large-scale, printed poster during a Poster Session event.
- Scholars are encouraged to pre-organize full Panel Sessions of three or four papers with their colleagues. Each session speaker must submit their abstracts individually. If your submitted abstract is part of a pre-arranged Panel Session, please enter your group's agreed-upon Session title at the bottom of the Abstract Submission form.
- Panel Sessions can be organized creatively, particularly as this year, the conference doesn't have a formal option for lightening/roundtable talks. If you would like to organize a Panel Session that utilizes alternative formats of lightening talks, workshops, or less formal discussions, you are welcome to do so. Contact the Program Manager, at uwciasinfo@gmail.com, for suggestions on how best to submit your alternative panel model utilizing the existing Abstract Submission form.
Committees
Program Committee
- Michael Bell, University of Wisconsin, Program Committee Co-chair
- Michelle Miller, University of Wisconsin, Program Committee Co-chair
- Amanda McMillan Lequieu, University of Wisconsin, Program Manager
- Marcia Caton Campbell, Center for Resilient Cities
- Rebecca Shenton, Administrator, AFHVS
- Caroline Brock, University of Missouri
- Monica White, University of Wisconsin
- Lilly Fink Shapiro, University of Michigan
- Jennifer Berg, New York University
- Beth Forrest, Culinary Institute of America
- Andrew Ruis, University of Wisconsin
- David Beriss, University of New Orleans, President, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN)
- Marcy Ostrom, Washington State University, Incoming President, AFHVS
- Jessica Goldberger, Washington State University, President, AFHVS
- Krishnendu Ray, New York University, President ASFS
Host committee
- Michael Bell, University of Wisconsin, Host Committee Co-chair
- Michelle Miller, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, Host Committee Co-chair
- Janet Gilmore, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Center for the Study of Upper Midwest Cultures
- Alfonso Morales, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture
- Sarah Lloyd, Wisconsin Farmers Union
- Steve Ventura, Department of Soil Science and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
- Monica White, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
- Jennifer Gaddis, Department of Civil Society and Community Studies
- Heidi Busse, Global Health Initiative
- Vincent Cryns, School of Medicine and Public Health
- Diane Mayerfeld, University of WI - Extension SARE
- Erin Peot, University of WI - Extension
- Alan Turnquist, Agroecology Program
- Dan Cornelius, Intertribal Agriculture Council
- Samson Srok, FH King Students for Sustainable Agriculture
- Bill Gartner, Department of Geography
Invited Speakers - More To Be Announced
Donna Neuwirth, Wormfarm Institute
“Ferment” Reception
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018, 5:30PM
Tripp Commons, Memorial Union
Donna Neuwirth is co-founder and Executive Director of Wormfarm Institute whose mission is to integrate culture and agriculture to build thriving communities across the rural/urban continuum. After many years in art and theater in Chicago, Neuwirth and co-founder Jay Salinas moved to a small farm in Wisconsin. Seduced by the life in the soil and struck by the parallels in process between farming and art making, they formed the Wormfarm in 2000 and began an Artist Residency program.
A self-described impresario with a BFA in theater from The School of Art Institute of Chicago, Donna has led numerous projects inspired by, and centered at the fertile intersection of culture and agriculture including Wormfarm’s annual Fermentation Fest – A Live Culture Convergence which received both NEA Our Town and ArtPlace grants in their initial year of funding. Former NEA Chair Rocco Landesman has called Wormfarm “the poster child for creative placemaking”.
Ricardo Salvador, Union of Concerned Scientists Public Lecture
Thursday, June 14th, 2018, 5:30PM
Wisconsin State Historical Society auditorium
As the senior scientist and director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo Salvador works with citizens, scientists, economists, and politicians to transition our current food system into one that grows healthy foods while employing sustainable and socially equitable practices. Before coming to UCS, he served as a program officer for food, health and well-being with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, associate professors of agronomy at Iowa State University, and as an Extension educator with Texas A&M University.
Rowen White, Sierra Seeds
Banquet Address
Friday, June 15th, 2018, 5:30PM
DeJope Hall
Rowen White is a Seed Keeper from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for seed sovereignty. She is the director and founder of Sierra Seeds, an innovative organic seed cooperative focusing on local seed production and education, based in Nevada City, California. She teaches creative seed training immersions around the country within tribal and small farming communities. She weaves stories of seeds, food, culture and sacred Earth stewardship on her blog, Seed Songs. Rowen also serves on the Seed Savers Exchange Board of Directors as Chair.
Venue
The conference will be held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, in Madison, Wisconsin. For conference information, go to https://afhv2018.wiscweb.wisc.edu/
Contact
All questions about the conference should be emailed to uwciasinfo@gmail.com
Sponsors
- Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
- Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
- Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
- Food Studies Network
- Wisconsin State Historical Society