Program - Friday, June 4

This is a preliminary schedule. Please direct any questions and concerns to Beth Forrest at asfs2010@gmail.com

Session 5: June 4 9:00am-10:30am
Friday June 4 9-10:30am; Student Building, Room 138: “Searching for the Oasis: Food Deserts & Access”
Moderator:Travis Nygard
Gianakos, Vasiliki  “Food Culture Past and Present: A West Side Identity Crisis”
Manning, T.  “Evaluating Food Desert Regions in Pittsburgh, PA by use of GIS Technology”
Ross, Nancy J.  “Studying Hunger at Home: How a College Class Investigated Food Insecurity in the Local Community and Did Something About It”
Schlosburg, Avi “Hunger in America”
Student Building, Room 231: “Aisle 7: The World Market”
Moderator:Beth Forrest
de St. Maurice, Greg  “Not Simple Resistance:  Kyoto’s Food Culture in the Context of Globalization”
Grosglik, Rafi  “"The Global Ingredient": 'Organic Hummus' and Cultural Glocalization in Israel”
Matejowsky, Ty “Like a “Whopper Virgin:” Anthropological Reflections on Burger King’s Controversial Ad Campaign “
Persimmon Room: “Food Fight: Interaction and Legacies of Food Perceptions”
Moderator: Janet Gilmore
Bennett, Elizabeth “Peranakan Food and its Role in a Malaysia vs. Singapore Food Fight”
Dirks, Robert “Mexican-American Foods and Diets in the Rio Grande Valley: First Accounts, Lasting Impressions”
Fraser, Joy  “Sawney’s Kitchen Nightmares: Culinary Expressions of Scottophobia in Late-Eighteenth-Century English Culture”
Nagar, Deeksha  “Caste, Class, and Community: Transformations in Indian Food-Ways”
Sassafrass Room: “Do You Have Anything to Declare? International Food Security”
Moderator: Angela Greco
Ehrhart, Ryan  “Food Security, Scale, and the Incongruities of Agricultural Policies in (and on) the Philippines”
Holben, Symantha A.  “Strengthening links in agricultural value chains - a look at the Global Cold Chain Alliance's participation in International Development”
Krueger, Sean “Feast or Famine: Effects of Food Aid on Local Production and Food Security Africa”
Dogwood Room: “Theory & Lessons in Sustainability”
Moderator: Self-moderated
Conner, David S. “Lessons from Farm-to-Institution studies: competition, cooperation and compromise”
Scott, Dane  “Global Citizenship, Deliberation and Agricultural Sustainability: Possibilities for On-line Deliberations”
Shannon, Jerry “Tinkering with the black box: Building better measures for the complexity of regional food systems”

Steele, Janis, Brooks McCutchen “Variance Harvesting/Processing/Marketing & Ecosystem Services:  How Cultural Narratives Drive Facts and Sustainable Ecosystems Hang in the Balance”
Maple Room: “The Victory Garden: Local Foods as Personal and Community Agency”
Moderator:Neva Hassanein
Caruso, Christine  “Community Supported Agriculture and the Sunnyside CSA: A Case Study of Meaning, Values and Practice in Food”
Farmer, James  “Assessing local food systems: Part 1”
Hinrichs, Clare “When Local is Linchpin: Strategic Possibilities and Limits in Efforts to Change the Food System”
Porreca, Lori  “The Influence of Collective Action and Policy in the Development of Local Food Systems”
Redbud Room: “Interactive Workshop: Catalysts for Conversations”
Moderator:Wolbert, Sarah
“Catalysts for Conversation - Designer UNDIs ”
Oak Room: “SAFN PANEL: Food and meaning: Taste, ethnicity, memory”
Moderator: Christina Knight
Pérez, Ramona Lee  “Seeing with Sabor: Flavor in/of Latino New York”
Valora, Amanda  “Plates in Hand and Mind– Food and Memory in Copacabana, Bolivia”
Yamin-Pasternak, Sveta  “The Rotten Renaissance: Aged Foods and the Importance of Their (Re)Acquired Taste in post-Soviet Chukotka”
State Room East: “The Edible Text: Exersizes for Food and Writing”
Moderator: Robert Valgenti
Itkonen, Matti “Worldy and Unworldly Flavors: Towards the essence of writing”
LaCharite, Kerri  “Fisher Price to Factual Farms: Educating Environmental Views”
Session 6: Friday, June 4 11:00am-12:30pm
Student Building, Room 138: “Distilling the Influence of Alcohol: Guatemala and Aguardiente”
Moderator: Frederick Douglass Opie
Dunn, Alvis  “Urban Alcohol Sales and Consumption, mid-1700s, Antigua, Guatemala”
Opie, Frederick Douglass  “Alcohol and Lowdown Culture in Caribbean Guatemala and Honduras, 1898–1920”
Student Building, Room 231: “The Land of Milk and Honey: Food, Morality & Early US History”
Moderator: Kelly O’Leary
Lee, Heidi Oberholtzer “Vocabularies of the Environment:  Conserving and Preserving in Early American Literature”
O’Leary, Kelly “Wheat and the Glutinous nature of Colonial New England”
Shprintzen, Adam  “Thrifty, Industrious Settlers Wanted: The Vegetarian Settlement Company and the Question of Kansas”
Persimmon Room: “Thinking Outside the Cereal Box: Food and Post-Modern Frameworks”
Moderator:Travis Nygard
 Anthony, Raymond  “Taming the Unruly Side of Ethics: Overcoming Challenges of a Bottom-Up Approach to Ethics in the Areas of Climate Change and Food Security”
Myers, Kelly R.  “Si(gh)ting Place / Re-visioning Space of the Midwestern US Corn Belt: Toward a Cross-Disciplinary, Collaborative Mixed-Methods Understanding of Contemporary Commodity Corn Production”
Sassafrass Room: “The Perfect Meal: Alternative Idealistic Food Models”
Moderator:Christine Knight
 Hutchinson, BriAnne “Idealism in the Alternative Food Movement: An Analysis of PASA and the Coalition for Food Abundance in Pittsburgh, PA”
Davis, Netta “The Way to Eat: How utopian foodways, democratic chaos and competing perfections came to the party and ruined my appetite.”
Vaughn, Rachel “Talking Trash: On Twinkies, Chickpeas, and the ‘Real Food’ Paradigm”
Redbud Room: “The Personal is Biopolitical”
Moderator: Angela Greco
Glenna, Leland  “Agricultural Biotechnology, Biopolitics, and the Re-disciplining University Science ”
Niels Heine Kristensen “Facilitating development of New Nordic Food – case on the roles of activism and business concept on domesticated organic grains ”
Valgenti, Robert T.  “Biopolitics and the False Debate Over Genetically Modified Organisms”
Maple Room: “Pollution, Pesticides & Toxins: Its whats for Dinner”
Moderator: Self-moderated
Ducey, Sara Bachman “Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in Foods: Potential Risks to Human Health?”
Goldberger, Jessica & Nadine Lehrer “The Shifting Regulatory Context of Pesticide Use on Apples: Implications for Growers and Pest Management Consultants in Washington State”
Latif, Khadija; Charles Feldman, Dibyendu Sarkar, Shahla Wunderlich “Soil Composition and Transfer of Metals on Nutritional Quality of Vegetables Grown in Urban Community Gardens”
Dogwood Room: “Roundtable: Folklore Theories and Methodologies for the Study of Food”
Moderator: Lucy Long
Long, Lucy, Pravina Shukla, Maria Kennedy, Selina Morales, Zilia C. Estrada, Rachelle (Riki) Saltzman “Folklore Theories and Methodologies for the Study of Food”
Oak Room: “SAFN PANEL 7: Eating on the Edges while Farming in the Center: Alternative Agriculture in Postsocialist Societies”
Moderator: Melissa Caldwell
Caldwell, Melissa L.  “Growing the Nation: Fresh Food, Organic Capitalism, and Community Organizing in Russian Gardens”
Jung, Yuson  “Ambivalent Consumers and Niche Producers: Organic Food Movement in Postsocialist Bulgaria”
Klein, Jakob “Reconnecting with the Countryside? ‘Alternative’ Food Networks with Chinese Characteristics”
Watson, James L.  “Discussant”
State Room West: “Good taste = Good Taste: Food and Aesthetics”
Moderator:  Beth Forrest
Massari, Sonia  “Food Design and Modernity Changes”
Ross, Erin K. “How New is the New Domesticity?”
Zampollo, Francesca “Food Experiences: the Food Designs response to our society's changing needs”
Session 7: Friday, June 4 2:00pm-3:30pm
Student Building, Room 138: “ROUNDTABLE: Exploring Sites of Disjuncture: Global Agri-Food Governance and Local Actualities of Land and Markets”
Moderator: Kate Hughes
Duncan, Jessica, Dorothy Smith, Martha McMahon
Persimmon Room: “Taking The Measure of a Meal: Nutritional and Ethical Choices”
Moderator: Inez Adams
Feldman, Charles; Meena Mahadevan “ Menu Engineering for better nutrition: A strategy for promoting the selection of healthier meal options”
Konefal, Jason & Maki Hatanaka “Measuring Menus: Evaluating Market-based Social Movement Approaches and Consumer Agency in Food and Agriculture”
Sassafrass Room: “A Moveable Feast: Food & Space in Literature”
Moderator: Matti Itkonen
Minster, Mark “Commensalism and Communitas in ‘Babette’s Feast’ and ‘When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine”
Rich, Lauren G.  “A Table for One: The Café in Early Twentieth-Century British Literature”
Salazar, Rosalinda  “What’s Food got to do with it: Literature, Space, and Place in Oscar Casares’ Amigoland”
Redbud Room: “Class, Crass, and Get off Your Ass: Pop Culture and Food Choices”
Moderator: Joy Fraser
Dutch, Jennifer “Buffalo Wings and Brussel Sprouts: Food, Football and the Rhetoric of Healthy Super Bowl Snacks”
Finn, S. Margot “The Connoisseur and the Food Snob: How Mass Media Legitimates Culinary Capital”
Johnson, Adrienne “Eating Competitions”
Murray, Sarah Anne  “The Biggest Expert: Food Authority and The Biggest Loser”
Maple Room: “Perfection Salad: Foodways and the Quest for the Ideal”
Moderator: Netta Davis
Caldwell, Sashanna  “Organic Nutrition: American Nostalgia for an Imaginary Past”
Finn, John E.  “The Politics of Perfect Recipes:  Taste as Tyranny”
Lake, Elise S.  “Good Cooking as Moral Force:  Progressive Era Nutritional Advice and the Buttressing of the Middle Class ”
Dogwood Room: “Listening to the Grassroots: Methodological Challenges in Agri-food Studies”
Moderator: Jim Bigen
Atwood, Lesley “GM-Crops, Agro-Chemicals, and Soil Quality: Perspectives from Michigan's Large-Scale Commercial Farmers”
Falat, Stacia “Sysco's "Buy Local, Sell Fresh" Program in Michigan: Constraints and Opportunities for Michigan Fruit and Vegetable Farmers”
Martinez, Lourdes “Access to Socially Disadvantaged Farmers: The Case of Hispanic Farmers in Michigan”
White, Stephanie “Reflexivity, Power, and Trust: Building Relationships with Urban Farmers in Senegal”
Oak Room: “SAFN PANEL: Social Constructions of Prenatal Nutrition”
Moderator: Janet Chrzan
Chrzan, Janet  ““My baby doesn’t like pork, because her dad is Muslim”: Beliefs about food intake, digestion and infant outcomes among African American teen gravidas”
Moreno-Black, Geraldine and Melissa Cheyney “Food is More than Nutrition: Nutritional Counseling and the Language of Prenatal Diet in Midwifery and Obstetric Practice”
Vallianatos, Helen “Feeding Our Babies, Feeding Our Selves:  Food, Reproduction and Identity among Immigrant Women”
State Room East: “Food Systems, Identity and Choice: A Cross-Cultural Tour”
Moderator: Travis Nygard
Hattersley, Libby & Jane Dixon ““We’re in times we’ve never seen before”: An Australian perspective on food, farming and health”
Onzere, Sheila Navalia  “Emerging Food Retailers, Quality Standards and the Development of Hybrid Institutions in African Food Systems”
State Room West: “Biodiversity: The Good, The Bad and The Edible”
Moderator: Keith Warner
Casler, Eric  “More than DNA : The Political Ecology of Agrodiversity Conservation”
Montoya-Greenheck, Felipe “Indigenous and Peasant Guardians of Food Biocultural Diversity in Costa Rica”
Warner, Keith Douglass  “Letting the good pass while keeping the bad out: The invasive species paradigm transforms traditional quarantine and pest management”
Session 8: Friday, June 4 4:00pm-5:30pm
Student Building, Room 138: “The American Restaurant: Performance, Sociality, Culture”
Moderator: David Sutton
Nahigian, Jolie N.  “The Spectacular Table: The Performance of Taste in American Restaurants”
Pappas, Erin  “Matrimonial Metaphors and Avocado Pears: Tracking the Emergence of Fusion Cuisine”
Zhang, Qiaoyun  “I Want, I Need, I Have To Have You: Why Does the Return Of the Camellia Grill Matter in Post-Katrina New Orleans?”
Student Building, Room 231: “Love That Dirty Water: Food Safety and Pollution”
Moderator:Travis Nygard
Hufnagl-Eichiner, Stefanie  “What shapes social response to pollution? A comparative case study on the importance of geography and culture in the farming sector in the Mississippi River Basin”
Tarr, Michaela  “Food Safety: Regulating High Risk, Inelastic Demand Foods”
Persimmon Room: “The School Lunch Bunch: Case Studies and Solutions”
Moderator: Self-moderated
Bereza, Matt “The National School Lunch Program: Sustainability and Local Solutions”
Castellano, Rebecca Som “Examining the Immigrant Experience in the School Food Environment”
Sassafrass Room: “Sugar and Spice: Mediating Food and Empire”
Moderator:Ken Albala
Pilcher, Jeffrey  “The Columbian Exchange Revisited: Historiography and Some New Data”
Schwegler, Lawrence “Cultural Cross Pollination: Spice Networks and the Image of Early Modern England”
Wardi, Anissa J.  “Bone-White and Blood-Red Peppermint Sticks: Sugarcane and the Atlantic World in Toni Morrison’s *Song of Solomon*”
Redbud Room: “OMG! GMO: B iotechnology and its Discontents”
Moderator: Self-moderated
Cheeke, Tanya “Non-target effects of transgenic *Bt* corn cultivation on symbiotic fungi in the soil environment”
Lacy, William B.; Leland Glenna, Dina Biscotti, Rick Welsh “Agricultural Biotechnology, Socioeconomic Effects, and the Fourth Criterion”
Roy, Devparna  “Farmers Speak Up: Bikaneri Narma Bt Cotton In India, 2009-2010”
Maple Room: “Local Food, Local Labor”
Moderator: Angela Greco
Johnson, Melissa H.  “Putting Food on the Table: Culture, Nutrition, and Food Insecurity among Florida’s Migrant Farmworkers”
Mount, Phil “Growing Local Food: Scale and Local Food Systems Governance”
Schwartzberg, Audrey  “Help Wanted: Small-Scale Growers’ Perspectives and Practices in Farm Labor Management”
Dogwood Room: “ROUNDTABLE: Collaborative Engaged Research for Cross Pollination and Cultivation of Family and Community Food Decision-making Systems”
Moderator: Ardyth H. Gillespie
Oak Room: “SAFN ROUNDTABLE: Just Food? How Louisville Kentucky organized for food justice for all.”
Moderator:
Moskowitz, Karyn; Lisa Markowitz, Yvonne Jones, Jenrose Fitzgerald, Joshua Jennings
State Room East: “ROUNDTABLE: We can lead them to the water...”: Bringing Sensible Food Theory to Communities”
Moderator: Rafia Zafar
Zafar, Rafia , Damian Moseley, Meredith Abarca, Psyche Williams-Forson “We can lead them to the water...”: Bringing Sensible Food Theory to Communities”
State Room West: “Who Wears The Apron in Your House?: Gender & Cooking”
Moderator: Beth Forrest
Clark, Gracia  ““Don’t Mind Your Wife Chop Bar” and the Gender of Cooking and Selling Food in Akan Ghana”
De Backer, Charlotte & Johan Braeckman “Grandma’s kitchen: an evolutionary perspective on gender differences in  meal preparations”
McPhail, Deborah  ““I Don’t Want to be Sexist with my Food”: The Continued Salience of Gender in Food Choice”
Pascual, Nieves “Home Cooking and Men: What is Bringing Chicanos into the Kitchen?”