AFHVS / ASFS 2018: THE AGROECOLOGICAL PROSPECT: THE POLITICS OF INTEGRATING VALUES, FOOD, AND FARMING
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, June 13th Thursday, June 14th Friday, June 15th Saturday, June 16th

Wednesday, June 13th

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17:00-19:00 Welcome Reception
Location: Memorial Union, Tripp Commons
Thursday, June 14th

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08:30-10:10 Session 01A: The politics of farm labor and food system justice

The politics of integrating values, food, and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 121
08:30
Alternative Agrifood, Organizations, and the Problem of Identity within On-farm Apprenticeship ( abstract )
08:45
The Valley View Farmworker Ministry: An ethnographic case on farm labor and participatory leadership ( abstract )
09:00
Exploring the Ontological Politics of Farm(er) Labor and Learning ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 02A: Practical agroecology: Cultivating livelihoods

Agroecology: On the ground practices

Location: Pyle Center, Room 111
08:30
Promoting Women’s Livelihood Strategies through Improved Poultry Production in Rural Guatemala ( abstract )
08:45
Fostering Wholesale Farmers in Vermont: Management, Finance and Training ( abstract )
09:00
Goat browsing as an economically viable food-production approach to invasive brush management ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 03A: Critical perspectives on local foods strategies

Alternative agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 232
08:30
Situating Local Food within the Social Economy: A Relational Approach to Localization ( abstract )
08:45
The (un)making of CSA people: the paradox of member retention in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in California ( abstract )
09:00
Local, local on the wall… Are CSAs the "greenest" of them all? ( abstract )
09:15
Embracing the Neoliberal in the Local? A Practice-Based Theory for Building Equitable Agrifood Systems ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 04A: Governing local consumption, past and present

Food governance and justice

Location: Pyle Center, Room 235
08:30
The Ketchup Trail in Northwest New York in the Early 20th Century ( abstract )
08:45
The Agricultural, Food, and Human Values Implications of Cannabis at the End of Prohibition. ( abstract )
09:00
Cottage Foods: A challenge for the governance of ‘local’ foods ( abstract )
09:15
Caught between public health and proliferating science: Food consumption policy ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 05A: Carework and the gendered work of feeding

Challenging boundaries through food

Location: Pyle Center, Room 327
08:30
Domestic Feeding Work by Immigrant Women in U.S. Households ( abstract )
08:45
Serving up Care: Household Contributions of Caregiving and Food Practices ( abstract )
09:00
Foodwork as Environmental Justice ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 06A: Brewing histories: Landscapes of beer from the local to the global

Foods in place and time

Chair:
Location: Pyle Center, Room 332
08:30
On Wisconsin: Civil War Sisters, Altered Ecologies, and the Rise and Fall of the 19th Century Hop Industry ( abstract )
08:45
The Global Invention of Modern Beer ( abstract )
09:00
Beer Terroir: Crafting American Beer with a Sense of Place ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 07A: Indigeneity, cultural practice, story

Identities of food and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 335
08:30
Seed Sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand and Peru: ‘He kai kei aku ringa’—‘the food is in my hand' ( abstract )
08:45
Food as our signature: 
Participatory plant breeding, values, and cuisine with story ( abstract )
09:00
Acts of Mediation: Growing vegetables without chemicals in Guatemala’s aid market ( abstract )
09:15
"What You Give Away Comes Back to You. When You Give Away Food, It Comes Back to You." ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 08A: Chains of nutrition: Feeding plants, animals, and humans

Food systems research

Location: Memorial Union, Beefeaters room
08:30
The Pill, The TV Dinner, and the Promise of Liberation: Changing Technologies and Women's Roles in the Post-War Era ( abstract )
08:45
Marietta's Lamb: The Agricultural Origins of Food Education ( abstract )
09:00
“To Spread the Gospel of the Extension Service”: The Role of Feed Businesses in Feeding Food Animals, 1910 – 1930 ( abstract )
09:15
“We Tried to Do Everything Scientifically”: Victory Gardens and School Lunch Programs ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 09A: Politics of science, knowledge, and technological change

Conflict and change: Knowledge and activism

Location: Memorial Union, Langdon room
08:30
Wilderness Transformed: From Wasteland to Cornucopia to Eco-Desire ( abstract )
08:45
Fusarium is a Grace from God: Scientific, Divine, and Microbial Approaches to the “Bananapocalypse” ( abstract )
09:00
Public distrust of science: Facts may be facts, but for many, perception is reality. ( abstract )
09:15
“The robots are coming, the row-bots are coming!” Can we depend on an automated agriculture to yield all that we need? ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 10A: Food on campus: From Agroecology, Food and Food Systems Education to the Campus Dining Service

Food and the university

Location: Memorial Union, Council room
08:30
Food on Campus: From Agroecology, Food and Food Systems Education to the Campus Dining Service Brainstorming Strategies to Go from Success to Greater Success ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 12A: Oral history, regional food systems, and place-based marketing
Location: Lowell - Isthmus Room
08:30
Oral history, regional food systems, and place-based marketing ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 13A: Design and food studies: Teaching, thinking, doing

Roundtable

Location: Memorial Library, Room 126
08:30
Design and Food Studies: Teaching, Thinking, Doing ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 14A: Eating, preserving, and narrating foods in the 19th and early 20th century

Legacies

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
08:30
As American as Apple Pie: An Apple Pie without Apples and Familiarity in Nineteenth Century America ( abstract )
08:45
On Morality and Digestion: Progressive Era American Obsession with Dyspepsia as Moral Syndrome in "Good Housekeeping," 1885-1920 ( abstract )
09:00
Favorite Recipes: Lessons in Sustainable Eating in the Pages of an Early-Twentieth Century Community Cookbook ( abstract )
09:15
Female Fermenters of New York ( abstract )
10:10-10:30Morning Break

Pyle Center, ATT Lounge

10:30-12:10 ASFS Business Meeting
Location: Memorial Library, Room 126
10:30-12:10 AFHVS Business Meeting
Location: Pyle Center, Room 121
10:30-12:10 Session 02B: Practical agroecology: Intersections of technical knowledge and identity discourses

Agroecology: On the ground practices

Location: Pyle Center, Room 111
10:30
Using participatory photography to investigate indigenous technical knowledge of wild biodiversity and pest management among smallholder farmers in Northern Malawi ( abstract )
10:45
Actions Towards the Preservation and Restoration of Biodiversity in Conventional Agriculture: Agrícola Santa Amalia, Guanajuato, México. ( abstract )
11:00
Social Exchange Theory and Agroecology in Mantiqueira Mountains: An Education Experience ( abstract )
11:15
Impact of Commercial Agriculture Development Project Technology Use on the Socio-economic Life of Cocoa Farmers in Cross River State, Nigeria ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 03B: Climate change: Producers perspectives

Alternative Agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 232
10:30
Digging in: entrenched responses to the role of livestock in climate change ( abstract )
10:45
Climate change risk assessment, adaptation, and mitigation influences for Wisconsin dairy producers ( abstract )
11:00
Political economy, hegemonic masculinity, and climate skepticism among organic dairy farmers ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 04B: Building resilience, fairness, and change through Fair Trade

Food governance and justice

Location: Pyle Center, Room 235
10:30
Percolating gender transformative change through fair trade coffee cooperatives in the western highlands of Guatemala ( abstract )
10:45
Domestic Fair Trade: A Unique Framework for Increasing Fairness, Sustainability, and Collaboration in Agricultural Supply Chains ( abstract )
11:00
Who Connects the Links? Roles and Impacts of Value Chain Coordination in Place Based Development ( abstract )
11:15
Building resilience in the Coffee Supply Chain: Going Beyond Certification Systems to Improve Environmental and Social Outcomes ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 05B: Gender in the foodway

Challenging boundaries through food

Location: Pyle Center, Room 327
10:30
Gender and Genderization in Japanese Foodways ( abstract )
10:45
Bringing the Back of the House Forward: Gendered Labor Dynamics in the Professional Kitchen ( abstract )
11:00
Mind Over Mother: Gendered Logics of Cultural Production in American Fine Dining ( abstract )
11:15
Reorganizing the Labor of Home Cooking through a Community of Practice Approach ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 06B: Inside (Upper) Midwestern Family Food Systems

Foods in place and time

Location: Pyle Center, Room 332
10:30
Family Foodways as an Analytical Lens: Using the Personal to Reinforce the Social ( abstract )
10:50
“Hometown Cooking”: Layering Values, Mass-Produced and Garden Raised Foods in Tater Tot Hot Dish in Southwest, Minnesota ( abstract )
11:10
Recollections, Reminders, and Grandma’s Early 20th Century Wisconsin Cookbooks ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 07B: Telling stories about the past and future

Identities of food and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 335
10:30
"Sometimes everyone got destroyed in the end": Fat Temporalities and the Problem of the Future in Jami Attenberg's The Middlesteins ( abstract )
10:50
Community, Continuity, Survival: How Food Voice and Memoir Can Make Post-9/11 Memoir More Accessible ( abstract )
11:10
Food, System and Lifeworld in the Big Apple: the dynamics of food activism in Giuliani’s, Bloomberg’s and Di Blasio’s New York City ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 08B: People and their crops, crops and their people

Food systems research

Location: Memorial Union, Beefeaters room
10:30
Three Men and a Potato ( abstract )
10:45
Heirloom Seeds, Hybrid Spaces: Social Media as a New Pathway for Exchange ( abstract )
11:00
Tomatoes and their Humans: Foregrounding Human-Crop Relations in Local Food Systems ( abstract )
11:15
From Farm to Table: A Tale of Two Rices and the ANTs in the Food ( abstract )
11:30
Forgetting in Disentangled Ricescapes ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 09B: Performative roles of science in food, agriculture, and farmland

Conflict and change: Knowledge and activism

Location: Memorial Union, Langdon room
10:30
The unraveling of GM for food security: the case of Bt brinjal in India ( abstract )
10:45
“Depoliticizing” debates over biotech? The rise of the global science communication institute ( abstract )
11:00
Financializing urban foodland ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 10B: Food Policy Councils and Academia: Reciprocal Relationships in Action

Roundtables: Food and the university

Chair:
Location: Memorial Union, Council room
10:30
Food Policy Councils and Academia: Reciprocal Relationships in Action ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 12B: Agroecology in action: Uses of wild plants and weeds in fruit and vegetable production in Michocán, Mexico

Workshop

Location: Lowell - Isthmus Room
10:30
Agroecology in action: Uses of wild plants and weeds in fruit and vegetable production in Michocán, Mexico ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 14B: Redefining "good food" in the 20th and 21st centuries

Legacies

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
10:30
What we talk about when we talk about meat ( abstract )
10:45
Fruit on The Bottom: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of LGBT People and The U.S. Food System ( abstract )
11:00
More than the sum of its parts: Macronutrient focused diets and consumer preferences ( abstract )
12:10-13:30Lunch Break

Lunch Break – “On your own lunch” at Library Mall food carts. Please enjoy your lunch outside the Pyle Center (no "carry – in’s” allowed).

12:10-13:10 Joint AFHVS/ASFS board meeting
Location: Pyle Center, Alumni Lounge
13:30-15:10 Session 01C: Immigrant dairy labor: Power, citizenship and the workplace

The Politics of integrating values, food, and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 121
13:30
Counting on Latino Labor in a small dairy-dependent state: Vermont dairy farmers perspective on working with a more diverse labor force ( abstract )
13:45
Dairy farm sustainability: the role of farm labour relations in shaping antibiotic use ( abstract )
14:00
Health and Migration Decisions: Immigrant Dairy Workers in the Upper Midwest, U.S. ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 02C: Practical agroecology: Sustainable livestock

Agroecology: On the ground practices

Location: Pyle Center, Room 111
13:30
Conceiving exchanges between crop farmers and livestock keepers as an option for agroecology ( abstract )
13:45
The Sustainability of Goat Farming: Interrogating the gaps between vision and practice ( abstract )
14:00
Integrating Crop and Livestock Systems: Key to Improving Long-term Production ( abstract )
14:15
Expanding Adoption of Adaptive Grazing through a Public-Private Partnership in Wisconsin ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 03C: Alternative Agriculture, connecting theory and practice

Alternative agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 232
13:30
Toward an agroecology of safety: Limitations of and possibilities for ‘deepening’ the co-management of environmental and human health in produce agriculture ( abstract )
13:45
The Alternative Food Movement: Nonprofit Perspectives on Privilege and Progress ( abstract )
14:00
Food Webs: Positions and Perspectives ( abstract )
14:15
Farmers and Foodies ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 04C: Labeling, recognition, and creation of the food citizen

Food governance and justice

Location: Pyle Center, Room 235
13:30
Do experiences with the local food system change purchasing and eating behavior? Evidence from Western North Carolina ( abstract )
13:45
Farmer Perceptions of Local Food Branding and Its Value to Their Enterprise: The Case of the Appalachian GrownTM Marketing Program ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 05C: Eating as connection, community, and place

Challenging boundaries through food

Location: Pyle Center, Room 327
13:30
Community Building in the Cafeteria: Institutional Dining in the Tech Industry ( abstract )
13:50
Say Cheese! Unfolding the Slow Food’s discourse on biodiversity. The case of two dairy Presidia. ( abstract )
14:10
Dining Through Difference: Overcoming Political Polarization Through Food ( abstract )
14:30
“We are stars, We are billion year old carbon”: Maple Syrup and a Cosmology of Pleasure in the Back-To-The-Land Movement ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 06C: Historicizing the virtues of a vegetarian cuisine

Foods in place and time

Location: Pyle Center, Room 332
13:30
Reimagining Restaurants For Women, Without Meat or Drink ( abstract )
13:45
Writing, Reading and Publishing Cookbooks: A Social History of the American Vegetarian Movement ( abstract )
14:00
Fake Meat, Real Change: Ella Eaton Kellogg and the Invention of Modern American Vegetarian Cuisine ( abstract )
14:15
Finding Rhetorical Common Ground: Hunting and Fishing’s Rhetorical Blending of Feminist, Vegan, and Vegetarian Messaging within Popular Culture ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 07C: Farmer values and identities in transition

Identities of food and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 335
13:30
Integrating Food, Farming and Values: Farmer Perceptions on their Role in Sustaining Agriculture in Bucks County, Pennsylvania ( abstract )
13:45
Farmers' compromises to develop autonomy through agroecological practices: revealing the lock-ins of the agrifood systems ( abstract )
14:00
"We Feed the World": Industrial Discourses and Iowa's Agroecological Farms ( abstract )
14:15
Awareness and identity construction of conventional farmers - applying Luhmann's systems theory ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 08C: Re-envisioning the current emergency food infrastructure model

Food systems research

Location: Memorial Union, Beefeaters room
13:30
Creating the “Perfect Pantry”: The use of creative workshops and toolkits as platforms of empowerment for individuals experiencing food oppression in food assistance programs ( abstract )
13:45
The Stabilizing Lives Project: Refiguring the Pantry Client ( abstract )
14:00
Arts-Based Research in Food Security: A Dialogical Tool for Creating Open Communication in Social Change ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 09C: Activism and mobilization

Conflict and change: Knowledge and activism

Location: Memorial Union, Langdon room
13:30
Growing Food Sovereignty: Grassroots Mobilizing for Puerto Rico's #JustRecovery post Hurricane Maria ( abstract )
13:50
From fancy ladies with herb gardens to protest dinners on the street: Food activism in Istanbul ( abstract )
14:10
#FreeFireCider: Folk Herbalists, Feminist Hashtags, and the Instagram Modernity ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 10C: Agroecological Prospects in Higher Ed (SAFN sponsored)

Food and the university

Location: Memorial Union, Council room
13:30
Agroecology and Interculturality ( abstract )
13:45
Campus Farm, Inc.: Financing Agricultural Experiences in Higher Education ( abstract )
14:00
Invisible Hungry Students: Culturally sensitive approaches to encourage participation in identifying food insecure college students ( abstract )
14:15
Communiversity Gardens offer Fresh Perspective ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 11C: Building Resiliency in Agroecology
Location: Lowell - Dining room
13:30
Building resiliency in Agroecology ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 13C: Meet the Grantmakers: A Panel Discussion

Roundtables (SAFN sponsored)

Location: Memorial Library, Room 126
13:30
Meet the Grantmakers: Opportunities for funding in Food and Agriculture for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences ( abstract )
15:10-15:30Afternoon Break

Pyle Center, ATT Lounge

15:30-17:10 Session 01D: Domestic fair trade and policy efforts to enhance earnings of agricultural laborers

The Politics of integrating values, food, and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 121
15:30
Domestic Fair Trade and Policy Efforts to Enhance Earnings of Agricultural Laborers: Lessons from a Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems Multi-Disciplinary Research Initiative ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 02D: Diversification: Theory and practice

Agroecology: On the ground practices

Location: Pyle Center, Room 111
15:30
Cultivating vulnerability: oil palm expansion and the socio-ecological food system in the Lachuá Ecoregion, Guatemala. ( abstract )
15:45
Just Pathways to Diversified Perennial Farming ( abstract )
16:00
Multifunctional Mavericks in the Monocultural Margins ( abstract )
16:15
Financial independence from non-agroecological agrifood systems for more social equity? ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 03D: Farm to table: Promises and limitations

Alternative Agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 232
15:30
How do value systems around food ultimately shape landscapes?: 50 years of the Chez Panisse network ( abstract )
15:45
“Poverty wages are not fresh, local, or sustainable”: Exposing the contradictions of sustainability-branded capitalism and building worker power in the farm-to-table foodservice and retail industries ( abstract )
16:00
Field Notes from the Dining Beat: How Restaurants and Food Critics Sold American Diners on Farm-to-Table Orthodoxy ( abstract )
16:15
Pressing from the Top Down or Emerging from the Grassroots: Who and What is the Farm to Institution System Transforming? ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 04D: Food Sovereignty: Domestic and international perspectives

Food governance and justice

Location: Pyle Center, Room 235
15:30
Universal Free School Meals Programs in Vermont Show Multi-domain Benefits ( abstract )
15:45
A Participant Action Research project toward rural food justice in the Adirondack North Country, NY ( abstract )
16:00
Diverging Food Sovereignty Frames in Maine: Understandings for collective mobilization across global contexts ( abstract )
16:15
Critical Disability Studies Lessons for Food Policy Councils: A Prince Georges County, MD “Food Equity” Case Study ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 05D: Creating citizenship and identity through food

Challenging boundaries through food

Location: Pyle Center, Room 327
15:30
Cereal Citizens: Making Bread and Shaping the Moroccan Food System ( abstract )
15:45
Farm to Chopsticks: Culinary Infrastructure of Duck in the Toronto Chinese Community ( abstract )
16:00
The agri-culinary ecology of spice growing and kitchen craft: Macau and it’s Goan cooks ( abstract )
16:15
Tasting Balut: Culinary Nationalism and the Consumption of Fertilized Duck Eggs in the United States ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 06D: Finding food: Sovereignty and self-provisioning

Foods in place and time

Location: Pyle Center, Room 332
15:30
Indigenising health education curriculum through ‘bushfoods’: Necessity, challenges and possibilities ( abstract )
15:45
Chinese Market Gardeners in Australia – Making a Living by Feeding the Living ( abstract )
16:00
Breadfruit and rice: sovereignty and subsistence in Pohnpei, Micronesia ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 07D: Standing on our forbearers shoulders we come together to discuss race and food

Identities of food and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 335
15:30
Standing on Our Forbearers Shoulders We Come Together to Discuss Race and Food ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 08D: (Roundtable) Rural food systems: Research trajectories that evaluate social, ecological and economic impacts

Food systems research

Chair:
Location: Memorial Union, Beefeaters room
15:30
Rural Food Systems: Research Trajectories that Evaluate Social, Ecological and Economic Impacts ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 09D: Minimum wage, migration, #Metoo, and media: Restaurants at the center of social change

Conflict and change: Knowledge and activism (SAFN sponsored)

Location: Memorial Union, Langdon room
15:30
Tipping Ideology: Comparative Rhetorical Critique of the National Restaurant Association and Restaurant Opportunites Center United ( abstract )
15:45
When Southern Means African and Her Tips Mean $15/Hour: The Wages of Restaurant Equity ( abstract )
16:00
Ethics, Justice, Taste: Restaurant Critics and Social Movements ( abstract )
16:15
Deregulating Yet Policing: Latinx Labor and Resistance in New Orleans Restaurant Jobs ( abstract )
16:30
#BalanceTonPorc: Gender inequality in the French kitchen ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 10D: Food and Civic Engagement in the Classroom: Community - Student Relationships in Pursuit of Food Systems Activism

Education

Location: Memorial Union, Council room
15:30
“What do we want?!”: Incentives that Promote Food Justice and Community Engagement Among Students ( abstract )
16:00
Mapping food waste in local food systems: From production to consumption to activism ( abstract )
16:15
Transformative Food Systems Education through Community/University Partnerships ( abstract )
16:30
Service Learning as a Foundation for Civic Engagement ( abstract )
16:45
Identifying Power, Examining Strategies for Activism on Food Issues ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 12D: #FoodStudies Workshop: Social Media for Scholarship, Networking, and the Community

Roundtables

Location: Lowell - Isthmus Room
15:30
#FoodStudies Workshop: Social Media for Scholarship, Networking, and the Community ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 13D: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and in Food Systems: A Roundtable

Roundtable

Location: Memorial Library, Room 126
15:30
Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and in Food Systems: A Roundtable ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 14D: Communicating Navajo Nation Food Sovereignty

Legacies

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
15:30
Communicating Navajo Nation Food Sovereignty ( abstract )
Friday, June 15th

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08:30-10:10 Session 01E: Working for seed sovereignty: Indigenous and global perspectives

The politics of integrating values, food, and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 121
08:30
Planting Sacred Seeds in a Modern World; Reclaiming Indigenous Seed Sovereignty ( abstract )
Discussant: Daniel Jaffee
08:45
Building Indigenous Seed Sovereignty: The Guardians of Mother Earth and Seeds Project in Chiapas, Mexico ( abstract )
Discussant: Daniel Jaffee
09:00
OSSI Internationale: Growing Global Access to a Liberated Pool of Open Source Seed ( abstract )
Discussant: Daniel Jaffee
08:30-10:10 Session 02E: Entrepreneurship transforming local food networks

Agroecology: Challenges in contemporary agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 111
08:30
Consumer Response to Farm Fresh Food Boxes, an Entrepreneurial Partnership between Farmers and Retailers ( abstract )
08:45
Agricultural entrepreneurship strategies, networks of support, and sustainable rural development: The case of Latino farmers in Missouri ( abstract )
09:00
Tradition goes high tech: South and Southeast Asia's emerging urban farm entrepreneurs ( abstract )
09:15
Organization Level Ingenuity and the Entrepreneurial Formation and Evolution of Local Food Systems ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 03E: Urban gardens for food production and security

Alternative agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 232
08:30
The Promise of Urban Agriculture ( abstract )
08:45
Treehugger Organic Farm: Sustainability Challenges Growing Food in the City ( abstract )
09:00
Urban food supply chain resilience for crises threatening food security ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 04E: Conceptualizing Food Access: Key theoretical perspectives

Food governance and justice

Location: Pyle Center, Room 235
08:30
Food Access, Geographic Information Systems, and the Power of Maps ( abstract )
08:45
Making Meaning at the Table: Religious Motivations in the Food Justice Movement ( abstract )
09:00
"Occupying the Field": Food Sovereignty and The Regulatory State of Exception ( abstract )
09:15
Race, Food Justice, and Self-Determination: A Narrative Inquiry of African American Food System Leaders in North Carolina through Critical Race Theory ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 05E: Mobilized Food

Challenging boundaries through eating

Location: Pyle Center, Room 327
08:30
Marketing Immersive Dining: Cruise Passengers Respond to the ‘Authenticity Project’ ( abstract )
08:45
Freegans, Food Recovery and the Economics of Food/waste Mobility ( abstract )
09:00
Native and Indigenous Cuisines of South America (Colombia, Ecuador and Peru): Making a Case for Culinary Travel ( abstract )
09:15
When Food Travels ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 06E: Migrants, authenticity and infrastructure: Toronto’s changing foodshed, 1803 to 2018

Identities of food and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 332
08:30
Famous Chefs from the Homeland: Innovation and Authenticity in Toronto’s Chinese Restaurants, 1960s-1980s ( abstract )
Discussant: Jeffrey M. Pilcher
08:45
From Cancun to Caracas: Ingesting Authenticity in Toronto’s Restaurants ( abstract )
Discussant: Jeffrey M. Pilcher
09:00
From Farm to Fork: Measuring the Chain at Toronto’s Food Terminal ( abstract )
Discussant: Jeffrey M. Pilcher
09:15
“If You Wanted Garlic, You Had to Go to Kensington”: The Long Decline of the St. Lawrence Market ( abstract )
Discussant: Jeffrey M. Pilcher
08:30-10:10 Session 07E: Critical Approaches to Superfoods

Identities of food and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 335
08:30
"Well if Gwynnie does it…": The Enduring Appeal of the Magic Pill ( abstract )
08:45
Creating the Culinary Frontier: A Critical Examination of Peruvian Chefs’ Narratives of Lost/Discovered Foods (ASFS Alex McIntosh Prize) ( abstract )
09:00
ReValue through Reconstitution: Marketing Hawaiian Taroena as a Superfood in the Early 20th Century ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 08E: From Smart Farming to the food stores: Understanding complex relationships and dynamics of change

Food systems research

Location: Pyle Center, Room 209
08:30
Grocery Stores and Marketing: Improving Access to Local Foods in Rural Communities ( abstract )
08:45
Food Insecurity and Assistance on Campus: A Survey of the Student Body ( abstract )
09:00
Cybersecurity: Assessing Smart Farming Vulnerability and Its Effect on Food Safety and Food Security. What Do Nutrition Educators Know? ( abstract )
09:15
“If you Build it with them, they will come”: Is Community Governance a Factor in Supermarket Intervention Success for Food Deserts? ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 09E: Farmland of the middle: Questions of ownership and access

Conflict and change: Rural and Urban land

Location: Memorial Union, Beefeaters room
08:30
Exploring shifts in farmland access in three Northern California counties following recreational cannabis legalization ( abstract )
08:45
Landowners as an Influence on Sustainable Agriculture ( abstract )
09:00
Farmland Ownership in Oregon ( abstract )
09:15
New Inquiries into the Agriculture of the Middle: Contemporary Land Questions ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 10E: Panel discussion: University-business research collaborations, lessons learned

Food and the university

Location: Memorial Union, Council room
08:30
Panel Discussion: University-Business Research Collaborations, Lessons Learned ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 12E: A roundtable on fermentation: Practice, preservation and pedagogy
Location: Lowell - Isthmus Room
08:30
A Roundtable on Fermentation: Practice, Preservation and Pedagogy ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 13E: Food for People, Not for Profit: The regional food movement in the Upper Midwest

Organic Farming: Past and Present

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
08:30
Food for People, Not for Profit : the regional food movement in the Upper Midwest ( abstract )
10:10-10:30Morning Break

Pyle Center, ATT Lounge

10:30-12:10 Session 01F: Cultivating communities for seed and plant sovereignty

The politics of integrating values, food, and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 121
10:30
Kernels of Resilience: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis of Seeds in Agriculture ( abstract )
10:45
“Our living relatives:” Seed Sovereignty in a Native American Context ( abstract )
11:00
Reinvigorating a Seed Commons in the Public Sphere? cultivating seed sovereignty at the UBC Farm ( abstract )
11:15
Open Source Public Plant Breeding in a Privatizing World ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 02F: Young and beginning farmers: Challenges and promises

Agroecology: Challeges in contemporary agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 111
10:30
'Regenerating' Agriculture: Becoming a young farmer in Manitoba, Canada ( abstract )
10:45
Nipped in the bud: How the curriculum creation process reproduces inequalities in sustainable agricultural education ( abstract )
11:00
Cost of health insurance: An understudied yet big hurdle for young farmers ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 03F: Social transformation through urban gardening

Alternative agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 232
10:30
Fostering Inclusion in the Local & Sustainable Food Movement: Insights from a Postindustrial Urban Farm ( abstract )
10:45
Attitudes and Agriculture: Barriers to blending values and practices in the design of novel urban foodscapes ( abstract )
11:00
Hippies and Fuddy-duddies: The Role of Gardening in Environmental Gentrification ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 04F: Novel frameworks of food system governance

Food governance and justice

Location: Pyle Center, Room 235
10:30
The Great Mississippi River Foodshed Initiative: A Proposal ( abstract )
10:45
Governmentality in Big Agriculture: How Capillary Systems of Power Diminish Possibilities of Sustainable and Equitable Futures ( abstract )
11:00
The Relational Landscape of Food System Policy Development ( abstract )
11:15
The Place of Place: Fostering Resilient Terroir-Based Agri-Food Clusters in U.S. Agriculture ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 05F: Gastronationalism in global context

Challenging boundaries through eating

Location: Pyle Center, Room 327
10:30
Mediating Cultural Encounters at Sea: Dining in the American Cruise Industry ( abstract )
Discussant: Minh Trang Nguyen
10:45
Wild Rice: Tradition and Commodity ( abstract )
Discussant: Minh Trang Nguyen
11:00
Authenticity in Online Ethnic Restaurant Reviews: Revealing Nationalism in Multicultural Consumption ( abstract )
Discussant: Minh Trang Nguyen
11:15
Creating a Menu for Success: Interaction between Cooks, Owners and Community Members in Family-run Filipino Restaurants ( abstract )
Discussant: Minh Trang Nguyen
10:30-12:10 Session 06F: Culinary tourism and the disrupting of power

Foods in place and time

Location: Pyle Center, Room 332
10:30
Did Eating Kebabs Make me Less Islamophobic? ( abstract )
Discussant: Fabio Parasecoli
10:45
Culinary Relativism, Exoticness, and the Mundane in a Culinary Tourism Trail ( abstract )
Discussant: Fabio Parasecoli
11:00
Bringing Local Voices into Culinary Tourism ( abstract )
Discussant: Fabio Parasecoli
10:30-12:10 Session 07F: Finding a common table: Researching at the intersection of food studies & histories of medicine and nutrition

Food systems research

Location: Pyle Center, Room 335
10:30
Meat and Milk at the Intersection of Science and National Identity ( abstract )
10:45
“Sins, Gross Exaggerations, and Misconceptions”: The Many Faces of Nutrition ( abstract )
11:00
The Art of Re-Branding: Academy-Industry Relations in Nutrition and the Politics of Health Fraud, 1900-1980 ( abstract )
11:15
Powering the Macronutrient Imaginary: The Past & Present of Protein Popularity in the U.S. ( abstract )
11:30
Japan’s “1975” Diet in Historical and Critical Perspective ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 08F: Food systems in the Northeast: Perceptions, projections and purchasing

Food systems research

Location: Pyle Center, Room 209
10:30
Viewing Northeast Food Systems through a Market Basket ( abstract )
10:45
Perceptions of food access in the Northeastern U.S. ( abstract )
11:00
Between Global and Local: Exploring Regional Food Systems from the Perspectives of Four Communities in the U.S. Northeast ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 09F: Land access and beyond

Conflict and change: Rural and Urban land

Location: Memorial Union, Beefeaters room
10:30
Housing as if People Mattered: Deliberately Integrating Greenspace and Housing Ownership Options ( abstract )
10:45
Privileged "Foodie" Community or Resilient Solution to Food, Housing and Community? ( abstract )
11:00
Worker-owned Neighbourhood Food Processing Hub to serve Returning Citizens: A Case study in Community-University partnership for Social Justice, Local Food and Community Economic Development ( abstract )
11:15
Contemporary Processes of Accessing Agricultural Land ( abstract )
11:30
Food Mapping with Latino Immigrants in South Eastern Minnesota ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 10F: Educating the next generation in food and agriculture: Higher education

Food and the university

Location: Memorial Union, Council room
10:30
Cooking to Learn: The John Dewey Kitchen Institute ( abstract )
10:45
Experiential Agricultural Education: Sustainable Agriculture in California ( abstract )
11:00
Learning-by-doing: Experiential learning and food studies ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 11F: Sustainable Meal Hackathon Workshop Highlights
Location: Lowell - Dining room
10:30
Sustainable Meal Hackathon Workshop Highlights ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 12F: Responses to 2018 US Farm Bill proposals: An Open Discussion of University research, teaching, and outreach perspectives

Roundtable

Location: Lowell - Isthmus Room
10:30
Responses to 2018 US Farm Bill proposals: An Open Discussion of University research, teaching, and outreach perspectives ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 13F: History of Organic: Narratives of Colonialism, Food Activism and Biotechnology

Organic Farming: Past and Present

Session Chair: Roger Blobaum; This session highlights recent research on the history of organic agriculture using the Wisconsin Historical Society Archive’s newly curated Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Collection. Christian Øverland, the Ruth and Hartley Barker Director of the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), will introduce the organic agriculture history project and Roger Blobaum, long-time organic activist, will provide commentary about the three presentations which utilize these WHS organic collections.

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
10:30
Organic Community Discourse around Biotechnology ( abstract )
10:45
Safety for Our Souls: Food Activism and the Environmental and Women’s Movements ( abstract )
11:00
“Fair Indian Baskets Filled with Corn”: Settler Colonialism, Sustainable Agriculture, and the Twentieth-Century Turn to Asia ( abstract )
11:15
Organic Agriculture History Project ( abstract )
12:10-13:30Lunch Break

On your own lunch; Working Class Lunch, pre-purchase required; no “carry-in” lunches allowed.

12:10-13:20 Session Poster Session: Poster Session
Location: Pyle Center, Alumni Lounge
12:10
Pedagogies for peace: using food to address socio-cultural issues ( abstract )
12:10
Integrating values and economic evaluation: A case study of community gardens ( abstract )
12:10
Challenges and options for ensuring the performance of private land conservation ( abstract )
12:10
Ohio State University Food Purchasing as an Economic Lever to Improve the Lives of Vulnerable Children ( abstract )
12:10
Changes in a degraded oak savanna in southern Wisconsin from 3 years of rotational goat browsing ( abstract )
12:10
Exploring Low-Income Residents’ Participation at Double Dollars Farmers’ Markets: A Case Study of Atlanta’s Three Neighborhoods ( abstract )
12:10
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Education Program (SNAP-Ed) Interventions in North Carolina’s SNAP Eligible Individuals and Families ( abstract )
12:10
Understanding specialty crop growers’ climate change risk perceptions ( abstract )
12:10
Coal Camp War Gardening in West Virginia During WWI ( abstract )
12:10
Public Action for Public Science: Re-imagining the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture ( abstract )
12:10
Industry-wide interest in increasing conservation practices as a marketing tool: falcons and fruit in the United States ( abstract )
12:10
How are consumers' normative perceptions about local food shaped by different communication channels? ( abstract )
12:10
Visual Representation of Local Food in Conventional and Unconventional Marketplaces ( abstract )
12:10
Finding Flavor and Diversity with Culinary Corn ( abstract )
12:10
Tackling Food Insecurity via a Campus Garden and Food Pantry ( abstract )
12:10
FarmLink: A regional food hub aimed at improving access to fresh local food for individuals facing hunger ( abstract )
12:10
Food Purchasing Behaviour and Food Security Status of Agricultural Students. What are the Implications for the Food Policy in Selected Tertiary Institutions in Enugu State, Nigeria? ( abstract )
12:10
What Factors Drive the Adoption and Constrain the Non-Adoption of Biofortified Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes? Insights from Sweet Potato Farmers in Abia State, Nigeria ( abstract )
12:10
Follow that pig: Charting enhanced learning in a culinary school butchery class ( abstract )
12:10
Radical field guides: An interactive poster on urban food systems signs, instructions, evaluation research, and garden tour guidance ( abstract )
12:10
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 01G: Freeing the seed: The open source seed initiative

The politics of integrating values, food, and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 121
13:30
New initiatives to support organic and open source plant breeding for a more agro-ecological approach to agriculture ( abstract )
13:45
The Open Source Seed Initiative: Liberating Seeds From (all-but one!) Use-Restrictions ( abstract )
14:00
Agroecosystem impact of the Open Source Seed Initiative ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 02G: Water: Negotiating pollution, scarcity, and quality

Agroecology: Challeges in contemporary agriculture

Chair:
Location: Pyle Center, Room 111
13:30
Growth in Animal Feeding Operations and Water Scarcity in Northwest Iowa: Is Collaborative Governance for Drought Resilience Possible? ( abstract )
13:45
Scarcity Discourses in Contention Over Bottled Water Extraction ( abstract )
14:00
Factors associated with Iowa farmers’ attitudes toward the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy ( abstract )
14:15
River Stories: Participatory Approaches to Agricultural Water Pollution ( abstract )
14:30
The Land-Water Connection: Perceptions of Water Quality by Montana Farmers ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 03G: The potentials of urban agriculture and food forests

Alternative Agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 232
13:30
Theorizing Urban Agriculture in the Global North and Global South ( abstract )
13:45
Urban Food Forests in Philadelphia: Inequality in the Edible City ( abstract )
14:00
Community Orchards and Food Security: Which neighborhoods are planting orchards, why, and how? ( abstract )
14:15
Evaluating the contributions of community gardens to local food security ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 04G: Conceptualizing and Measuring Multifunctional Local Foods Activities

Food governance and access: Methodologies

Location: Pyle Center, Room 235
13:30
Behavioral Nudges and Demand for Healthy Food within UW-Health Storefronts ( abstract )
13:45
Metrics + Indicators for Impact: Data applications in farmers markets ( abstract )
14:00
Dynamic Modeling of Farmer Market Sales Data: Williamsburg, VA Case Study ( abstract )
14:15
Farmers markets as citizen scientists: A theory for doing citizen science research ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 05G: Innovative Strategies for Addressing Food Access Disparities

Food systems

Chair:
Location: Pyle Center, Room 327
13:30
Exploring Capabilities of Food Access Through Donation Gardening ( abstract )
13:45
The Promise and Pitfalls of Mobile Markets: An Exploratory Survey of Mobile Food Retailers in the United States ( abstract )
14:00
Promoting the General Welfare: Creating Urban Food Oases in the US ( abstract )
14:15
“Lotta Food, No Money”: Precarity Beyond Food Access ( abstract )
14:30
The Good Food Purchasing Policy in Chicago and Cook County, Illinois ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 06G: Place and Time in Food Memory: Migration and Nostalgia

Foods in place and time

Location: Pyle Center, Room 332
13:30
Dinner Parties: A Research Site for Food Memory ( abstract )
13:45
The Simple Life: Food, Nostalgia, and Living History Museums ( abstract )
14:00
Foodways and the Geographical Imagination of "Home": African Restaurants and Cookbooks in Contemporary Portugal ( abstract )
14:15
The Effects of Interpersonal Relationships on Men’s Sensorial Experiences While Consuming Sweets ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 07G: Legacies Project: Workshop on Transmedia Educational Package on Food Sovereignty

Rountables

Location: Pyle Center, Room 335
13:30
Legacies Project: Workshop on Transmedia Educational Package on Food Sovereignty ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 08G: Food access in the USA

Food systems

Location: Pyle Center, Room 209
13:30
Valuing Agroecology in the Calculation of Basic Food Needs ( abstract )
13:45
Exploring Food Access in Southern Indiana: Preliminary Findings from a Computational Approach ( abstract )
14:00
Alignment of Pay-Want-You-Want Messaging and Pay-What-You-Want Consumer Motivations ( abstract )
14:15
Reassessing Seattle’s Supermarket Food Prices: Do Two Years of Higher Wages and an Increase to $15/hour Have an Impact on City-Level Food Prices? A Case Study of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 09G: Toward a Multifunctional Model of Food Distribution

Alternative Agriculture, Roundtable

Location: Memorial Union, Beefeaters room
13:30
Toward a Multifunctional Model of Food Distribution ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 10G: Getting Real: How Food Studies Programs Can Work with Local Communities for Mutual Benefit (SAFN sponsored)

Food and the university

Location: Memorial Union, Council room
13:30
Getting Real: How Food Studies Programs Can Work with Local Communities for Mutual Benefit ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 11G: Facilitating change in food and farming through higher education

Roundtables

Location: Lowell - Dining room
13:30
Facilitating change in food and farming through higher education: A space to share ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 12G: Transitioning to Sustainable Agriculture
Location: Lowell - Isthmus Room
13:30
Transitioning to Sustainable Agriculture ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 13G: Institutionalizing organics towards sustainable development

Organic Farming: Past and Present

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
13:30
Adoption of industrial hemp by organic farmers in seven Midwest states ( abstract )
13:45
Institutional shifts towards climate resilience through organic transition in the Philippines ( abstract )
15:10-15:30Afternoon Break

Pyle Center, ATT Lounge

15:30-17:10 Session 01H: Democratizing Agriculture: Radical visions for the future of food

The politics of integrating values, food, and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 121
15:30
Non-Anthropocentric Food Justice ( abstract )
15:45
Greenhorn Visions and Agrarian Alternatives: Towards Agroecological Prospects and Post-Capitalist Possibilities ( abstract )
16:00
Justice and the Rural Question ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 02H: Soil health: Values and politics

Agroecology: Challenges in contemporary agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 111
15:30
Claiming the ground: How soil health makes conservation personal ( abstract )
15:45
Bridging the Gaps and Forging Future Collaboration on Soil Health: Farmer Experience and Scientific Ways of Knowing ( abstract )
16:00
Agroecology and Community Collaboration: an example of teaching soil health and urban agriculture through authentic decision making cases ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 03H: Farmers Markets

Alternative agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 232
15:30
Factors Influencing Consumers’ Purchases at a Mature Farmers’ Market ( abstract )
15:45
Milwaukee Farmers Market Connection: A coalition’s efforts to improve inclusivity at Milwaukee area farmers markets ( abstract )
16:00
What Makes a Farmers Market: Customer Evaluations and Perceptions of the Fresh MARTA Market in Atlanta, GA ( abstract )
16:15
Staying in Your Lane: The Construction of Collaboration in the Fresh MARTA Market ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 04H: Methodologies for assessing food access and justice

Food governance and justice

Location: Pyle Center, Room 235
15:30
A Preview of "Ultimately about Dignity:” Social movement frames used by collaborators in the Food Dignity action-research project ( abstract )
15:45
Household Food Security in Mountainous Agropastoral Kyrgyzstan ( abstract )
16:00
To Sow and To Sew: Siddi Women Farmers (and Quilters) in Uttara Kannada, Karnataka, India ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 05H: Evolving Tastes, Distinguishing Identities: Wine in the 21st Century

Challenging boundaries through eating

Chair:
Location: Pyle Center, Room 327
15:30
It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere: Redefining Female Drinking Behaviors in the 21st Century ( abstract )
15:45
Txakolina: A Taste of Basque Identity from Past to Present ( abstract )
16:00
Can It: A Commodity Chain Analysis of Underwood Wine ( abstract )
16:15
It’s not Crist-owl, It’s Crist-all: Wine in Rap Music ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 06H: Ethics and Aesthetics of Food Waste

Foods in place and time

Chair:
Location: Pyle Center, Room 332
15:30
Where do we draw the (bottom) line? Discourses of difference between food and waste ( abstract )
16:00
Exploring Representations of Beauty, Ugliness and “Ugly” Produce in Food Photography ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 07H: Rooted: Farmers, Gardens, Land as Sites of Memory and Cultural Identity

Identities of food and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 335
15:30
Immigration, Identity, and Agricultural Practice: Recreating Home Through the Family Farm ( abstract )
15:45
New American Identities and the Power of Place in the Practice of Collecting Wild Edibles ( abstract )
16:00
Blood, Soil, and Roots: German Nostalgia for the Lost Foods of Lost Lands ( abstract )
16:15
Lizzie’s Emancipation Garden: The Storied Land, Memory, and Belonging, Lynden Sculpture Gardens, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 09H: Rural development: Linking the economic and the social

Conflict and change: Rural and Urban land

Location: Memorial Union, Beefeaters room
15:30
Digesting agricultural development: investigating 'nutrition sensitive' agriculture in central India ( abstract )
15:45
"Unequal indigeneity" at the Ethiopian frontier: land deals, commercial agriculture, and violence in the Gambella region ( abstract )
16:00
Re-thinking Rural Development: Exploring the Experiences of Wild Harvesters to Strengthen Rural Food Systems as an Economic Development Strategy in the Missouri Ozarks ( abstract )
16:15
Rural Development Grounded in Cultural Capital: Building Social Capital for Participation in Alternative Food Networks in Sicily, Italy ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 10H: Educating the next generation in food and agriculture: College-community connections

Education

Location: Memorial Union, Council room
15:30
Growing North: Fostering Food and Social Equity through Youth Leadership and Community Collaborations ( abstract )
15:45
Planting Community & Institutional Seeds: Best Practices for Starting New Food Security Academic Programs ( abstract )
16:00
Unpacking Food Sovereignty Abroad as Critical Food Systems Education: The Intersection of Food Politics and Intercultural Development in Cuba ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 11H: Careers for food systems and food studies scholars beyond the research/teaching job

Education, Roundtable

Location: Lowell - Dining room
15:30
Careers for food systems and food studies scholars beyond the research/teaching job ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 12H: Time Travel 101: From the Food (In)Secure Present to the Food Sovereign Future
Location: Lowell - Isthmus Room
15:30
Time Travel 101: From the Food (In)Secure Present to the Food Sovereign Future ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 13H: Organic farming of the middle

Organic Farming: Past and Present

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
15:30
Spatial Pattern Analysis of Iowa Organic Grain Farms ( abstract )
15:45
A hopeful failure: Farmers’ efforts to resist market concentration in organic dairy ( abstract )
16:00
Shepherding the Land: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Producers’ Experiences with Growing Organic Produce in North Georgia ( abstract )
16:15
Get big or get out? - How organic farmers find their ways – Case studies from Austria and Germany ( abstract )
15:30-17:10 Session 14H: Nostalgia Picnic

Interactive Session

Location: Memorial Library, Room 126
15:30
Nostalgia Picnic: Eating Food and Talking Memory, Talking Food and Eating Memory ( abstract )
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08:30-10:10 Session 01I: Boots on the Ground: A Roundtable about Community Engagement and Impact

The politics of integrating values, food, and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 121
08:30
Boots on the Ground: A Roundtable about Community Engagement and Impact ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 02I: How are Food Hubs and Values-based Supply Chains Working for Farmers?

Agroecology: Challenges in contemporary agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 111
08:30
How are Food Hubs and Values-based Supply Chains Working for Farmers? ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 03I: Community Gardens: Extending food security

Alternative agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 232
08:30
Farmers’ perception on level of participation in agricultural projects: the case of a community garden project in Impendle Municipality of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa ( abstract )
08:45
Rural Community Gardens as Catalysts of Community Invigoration, New Socio-economic Pathways, and Reclamation of Tradition and Food Sovereignty ( abstract )
09:00
The Chicago Harvest Study: Exploring the Citywide Impact of Community Gardens on Fresh Food Access ( abstract )
09:15
Changing Food Systems: The Impact of Community Gardens on Senior Food Security ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 04I: Methodologies of food systems research

Food governance and access: Methodologies

Location: Pyle Center, Room 235
08:30
Commodifying Fairtrade: An Evaluative Framework ( abstract )
08:45
Urban gardens, agroecology, and resilience in Querétaro City, México ( abstract )
09:00
Metrics for agroecosystem and food system transformation in Ohio ( abstract )
09:15
Agrihoods and Metrics of Success- Using Resilience as Guiding Determinant ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 05I: Spice Up Your Life: Biodiversity and taste in the production of spices and hot sauce

Challenging boundaries through eating

Location: Pyle Center, Room 327
08:30
Is the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative a Sustainable Solution? ( abstract )
08:45
The Hot Sauce Resistance: How Capsicum Ensures Culture and Crop Diversity ( abstract )
09:00
Terroir of Turmeric ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 06I: Wasted Food: Research In and For Education

Food in education

Chair:
Location: Pyle Center, Room 332
08:30
An Evaluation of Current Lunchroom Food Waste and Food Rescue Programs in a Washington State School District ( abstract )
08:45
New state nutrition policy for early care and education: Effect on food waste ( abstract )
09:00
A GWP20/100 Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Wasted Food: Educating about Methane ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 07I: Reaping What You Sow: Aligning Food and Values in Literary Food Depictions

Identities of food and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 335
08:30
You Are What You Cook: Nation Building and Identity Formation in Carlos Balmaceda's novel Manual del canibal ( abstract )
08:45
Re-collecting Memories, Re-collecting Recipes: Recovering Cuban Culinary Culture in Exile and Scarcity ( abstract )
09:00
After the Cafecito’s Done: Julia Alvarez and the Failure of Altagracia Coffee ( abstract )
09:15
“Luxurious by Restraint”: Liberty, Ethics, and Fruitfulness in Leopold and Milton ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 08I: Food on the move

Challenging boundaries through eating

Location: Pyle Center, Room 313
08:30
The arrival or Refugee Cuisine or Culinary tourism? ( abstract )
08:45
Public Provisions: Race and the Public Culture of Street Food in Antebellum New Orleans ( abstract )
09:00
Recipes on the move: Competing for Canadian culinary identity ( abstract )
09:15
Flight Fuel: Pan Am and the Creation of In-flight Cuisines ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 09I: Food policy: Health and access in the US

Conflict and change: Reimagining policy

Location: Pyle Center, Room 309
08:30
The possibilities of engagement: Seeing hope in the private food assistance system ( abstract )
08:45
FDR's Vision realized: U.S. Food Policy comes full circle providing incentives to purchase fresh, healthy foods directly from local farmers ( abstract )
09:00
Innovation in US food policy implementation: A new model for a new agenda ( abstract )
09:15
The (Agri)Business of the Farm Regulatory Certainty Act: A case study of campaign contribution influence on agricultural and health policy ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 10I: Is There Such a Thing as a Free Lunch? School Meals in the Long 20th Century

School food programs

Location: Pyle Center, Room 209
08:30
Predicting the Extinction of the Lunchbox, or, When School Lunch Was Modern ( abstract )
08:45
The Logistics, Labor, and Lore of School Lunch in Postwar New York City ( abstract )
09:00
Ketchup As A Vegetable: Condiments, Culture, and the Politics of School Lunch in Reagan’s America ( abstract )
09:15
A Collective Investment? Toward a New Economics of Care in the US National School Lunch Program ( abstract )
08:30-10:10 Session 13I: The State of the Field

The politics of integrating values, food, and farming

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
08:30
Understanding Farm Politics through Political Ontology ( abstract )
08:45
Why Social Practice Theory Isn’t Social and How It Can Be Fixed: Making This Theory More Useful for the Study of Food ( abstract )
09:00
Time will sell. But whose time are we selling? Exploring the connection between Time and Food within Convention Theory.. ( abstract )
09:15
Politics of Consumption vs. Politics of Production: A Dialectic Analysis of Food Access Organizing ( abstract )
10:10-10:30Morning Break

Pyle Center, ATT Lounge

10:30-12:10 Session 03J: Community Gardens: Building Community

Alternative agriculture

Location: Pyle Center, Room 232
10:30
"Together we can grow community": Community Gardening in North Central Regina ( abstract )
10:45
Assessing the impacts of Project Breaking Ground (a sustainable jail garden and food justice service-learning project) ( abstract )
11:00
Sowing the Seeds: Intersections of Faith, Celebrity Philanthropy, and Neoliberalism in an Orlando Community Garden ( abstract )
11:15
Ending hunger and food insecurity through community based learning ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 05J: Forging the future, marketing the past: fermented foods in a new food economy

Challenging boundaries through eating

Chair:
Location: Pyle Center, Room 327
10:30
The Skyr's the Limit: Commodity Chain Analysis of Icelandic Skyr ( abstract )
Discussant: Sally Frey
10:45
Sake: How a New Global Commodity Can Preserve an Ancient Japanese Product ( abstract )
Discussant: Sally Frey
11:00
From Fermented Fruit Juice to Magical Cure-All: Bragg's in the Apple Cider Vinegar Market ( abstract )
Discussant: Sally Frey
10:30-12:10 Session 06J: Studying, teaching and doing research on food studies abroad: A Roundtable

Food in education

Location: Pyle Center, Room 332
10:30
Studying, Teaching and Doing Research on Food Studies Abroad: A Roundtable ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 07J: Design, from technological innovation to consumption

Identities of food and farming

Location: Pyle Center, Room 335
10:30
Exploring the Global Brooklyn: Design, Senses, and the Experience Economy in the Cosmopolitan Foodscape ( abstract )
10:45
Emerging Farmscapes: Designing Agroecologies ( abstract )
11:00
Technology Transfer as Agricultural Transfer: Wisconsin Farmers and the History of Academic Patenting ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 09J: Food policy: Regulating sustainable

Conflict and change: Reimagining policy

Location: Pyle Center, Room 309
10:30
The Progressive Agriculture Index: Assessing and Advancing Agri-food Systems ( abstract )
10:45
Understanding Public Perceptions of Food System Issues: Polling on the Farm Bill and Sustainable Agriculture ( abstract )
11:00
Understanding the increasing private ordering of sustainability in US agriculture through a study of multi-stakeholder initiatives ( abstract )
11:15
Contested Agrifood Futures: Agroecology and Sustainable Intensification within the CGIAR ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 10J: Seeing Invisible Labor: Centering Work and Workers in K-12 School Food Programs, Policies, and Advocacy Efforts

School food programs

Location: Pyle Center, Room 209
10:30
No Rest for the Weary: Integrating Healthy and Local Foods into K-12 Food Service ( abstract )
10:45
The View From Behind the Lunch Line: K-12 Kitchen and Cafeteria Workers’ Experiences of and Engagement with the Real Food Movement ( abstract )
11:00
Gendered, Neoliberal Narratives of School Food Service Labor: What’s the Story? ( abstract )
11:15
Making “Farm to School” Work: An Examination of the Labor Behind Local Lunch ( abstract )
10:30-12:10 Session 13J: Poke and Provoke: Special Invited Session

The politics of integrating values, food, and farming

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
12:30-14:00Lunch/Presidential Addresses and Awards Presentation

Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center