Program - Thursday, June 3

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

Session 1: Thursday, June 3 9:00am-10:30am
Student Building, Room 138: “Applied Terroiristics: Canadian cheese, Cinta Senese hogs and Acai fruit”
Moderator: Joy Fraser
Boulianne, Manon  “An invented tradition, a moral perspective: fine cheeses and terroir in Quebec”
Brackett, Rachel Horner  “Eat it to save it:  Producing and consuming the Cinta Senese hog”
Siqueira, Andrea D.  “Local Food Preference and Global Markets: Perspectives on Açai fruit as terroir and a Geographic Indicator product”

Student Building, Room 231: “Thank God: Food Virtue, Values and Mindfulness”
Moderator: Angela Greco
Bailey, Emily  “Recipes for Religion: Church Cookbooks and Female Spirituality”
Villa, Laura Arcila “Eating Mindfully”
Diane Tye, “Culinary Homeplaces: Meanings in Everyday Baking” will be presented during the session,

Persimmon Room: “It's Not Easy Being Green”
Moderator: Dorothy Blair
Blair, Dorothy  “Sustainability in the kitchen:  Reconsidering the way we cook and store food”
Jolly, Stephanie “Contested Locality:  Analyzing ‘Local Food’ as a Mobilization Framework”
King, Jessica Jane  “Theories of Ecologically Conscious Food Buying”

Sassafrass Room:“Through The Looking Glass:  Food and Propaganda
Moderator: Beth Forrest
Forrest, Beth “Tierra Sin Pan: Spain and the Legacy of Poverty”
Gorby, Christine  “Cows in the Barn and Marshmallows on a Stick: Conserving + Consuming New Rural Landscapes in the 1964 USDA Film Rural Holidays”
Ogawa, Tomoko “Looking at Community Gardens through Neoliberal lenses”

Redbud Room:“Big Food Goes Bigger by Going Local
Moderator: Travis Nygard
Bloom, J. Dara “Wal-Mart Goes Local: Defining Sustainability for US Agriculture”
Constance, Douglas H.; Francisco Martinez, Gilberto Aboites, Alessandro Bonanno, Sujey Vega “Neoliberal Restructuring and the Poultry Industry in Mexico: The North Moves South and The South Moves North”
Konefal, Jason  “The Marriage of Big Green and Big Food: A Case Study of Sustainable Seafood”

Maple Room: “MoveOn.Food: Coalitions and Activism"
Moderator: Self Moderated
Cadieux, (Kirsten) Valentine  ““Good food” in context: Reviewing the goals and motives of regional food discourses in SE Minnesota ”
Dahmus, Maria “Coalition Formation and Collective Action Among Disparate Interests:  A Case Study of the Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) Coalition”
Mundel, Erika “Theorizing Community Food Security as a Multi-Institutional Social Movement”

Dogwood Room: “ROUNDTABLE: Ideological Trend Report 2010:  A Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Amy Bentley
Bentley, Amy; Warren Belasco, Charlotte Biltekoff, Christy Spackman, Abby Wilkerson “Ideological Trend Report 2010:  A Roundtable Discussion”

Hoosier Room: “SAFN PANEL: (Re)defining Food in an Era of Dietary Change”
Moderator: Jacob Klein
Bianco, Elisa and Cinzia Scaffidi “Public health as a common good: which food policies to protect it?”
Black, Rachel  “Amaro: a boozy, bitter history of digestivi from the pharmacy to the bar”
Johnston, Susan L  “What is a vegetable?”
Yates-Doerr, Emily  “The complexity of reduction: perspectives on nourishment in the Guatemalan Highlands”
Zycherman, Ariela  “Indirect effects of regional development on diet: redefining food among the Tsimané”

State Room East: “SAFN PANEL: Agriculture as education & lessons from the Co-ops
Moderator: Manon Boulianne
McCollum, Timothy J.  “Dirt in the Classroom, Thought in the Field: Civic Agriculture as Pedagogy in a Liberal Arts Context”
Niewolny, Kim L. , Susan F. Clark  “Restoring Community Foodsheds in Unlikely Places: Challenges and Possibilities of Civic Agriculture As a Concept For Higher Education Curriculum”
Beach, Sarah, Brian Butler, and Jacqueline Pike “Actualizing Values? Lessons from a Bankrupt Food Cooperative SMO”
Ridings, Catherine  “Information Technology and Identity/Legitimacy in Local Food Systems”

Session 2: Thursday, June 3 11:00am-12:30pm

Student Building, Room 138: Like Water for Cous Cous: Food, Texts and National Identity”

Moderator: Ilona Baughman

Baughman, Ilona “Pelligrino Arturo and the Invention of Italy”
Cohen, Kim  ““Give me some more of that chicken pipián to console myself with”:  Nationalism, Class, and Culinary Traditions in The Squatter and the Don”
Kalentzidou, Olga  “Not my Grandmother’s Cooking: (Re-)inventing National Cuisine in Modern Greece”
Luz, Nimrod  “Metamorphosis of Food Taste and Desertification of Foodscape in Nazareth: The Construction of "Authentic" Palestinian Fast Food”

Persimmon Room: “Weighty Matters: Obesity and Policy
Moderator: Travis Nygard
Hartwick, Carol Anne  “Food culture and nutrition education in France: the implications of a national health campaign against obesity”
Herrera, Hank  “The nexus of food systems, anti-hunger work and obesity prevention:  Values, praxis, policies and politics in action ”
Poppendieck, Janet “Universal Free School Meals: An Idea Whose Time Has Come”

Sassafrass Room: “From the Raw to the Cooked: Transitions in Food Choice and Habits
Moderator: Self-moderated
Hanavan, Louise and Chloe Kennedy “Changing Paradigms: A Community Study of Socio-Agricultural Transition in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia”
Mazzeo, John  “Food Security Implications of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake for Rural Haitian Households”
Andrew Huse “Crossing Boundaries with Florida’s Columbia Restaurant: Immigration, culinary adaptation, and changing business models”

Redbud Room: “When Eating the Apple is Good: The Tree of Knowledge and Education
Moderator: Self-moderated
Arrom, Jose O.  “Literacy and Nutrition-Health Challenges of Complex Food Environments”
Ducey, Sara “Helping Students Think Critically About Nutrient intake Recommendations:  Electronic assignment for nutrition and food policy courses.”
Lingle, Whitney  “*People **of the Rice*”
Mulry, Kate “John Josselyn’s Two Voyages: A Case Study in Changing Methods of Seventeenth-Century Natural Observation”

Dogwood Room: “PANEL: What's next for Grad Students in Agricultural Studies?”
Moderator: Matthew Hoffman, Kristina Nies
Thibumery, Arion, Judy Hausman, Neva Hassanein, Trent Preszler “What’s next for graduate students in interdisciplinary agriculture studies? Finding a job that allows us to do our work.”

Hoosier Room: “SAFN PANEL: Food, Identity, and Place: Local production and cross-pollination”
Moderator: Jacob Kein
Fajans, Jane  “Açaí: from the Amazon to the world”
Hall, Olivia  “Preserving Plums, Preserving Place: Traditional Food Products in Poland and the Europe of Regions”
Haupt, Timothy  “Chinese food in Berlin – from both sides of the kitchen door”

State Room East: “Tea, Gardens and Missed Meals: Women & Food Security”
Moderator: Beth Forrest
Köhler-Busch, Madelon  “Bavarian Farm Women and Their Gardens”
Smith, Matthew Lee, Marcia Ory, SangNam Abn, Wesley Dean & Joseph Sharkey “Influences of Food Insecurity on Eating Behaviors among Impoverished Older Women”
Woodbury, Alicia “Community Gardens: Feminist Urban Agriculture?”

State Room West: “ROUNDTABLE: Non-perishable Food: Archiving Food Studies ”
Moderator: Pilcher, Jeffery
Pilcher, Jeffrey, Krishnendu Ray, Warren Belasco, Marvin Taylor, Riki Saltzman, Rayna Green, Paula Johnson, Ellen Sieber “Non-Perishable Food: Archiving Food Studies”


Session 3: Thursday, June 3 2:00pm-3:30pm
Student Building, Room 231: “Tweeting Twinkies: New Media, Social Relations & Food”
Moderator: Rachel Black
Caldwell, Alison  “Will Tweet for Food: The Impact of Twitter and New York City Food Trucks, Online, Offline, and Inline”
Dee, Elizabeth Laurel  “Sweet Tweets: A Thematic Review of Consumer Culture Theory”
Kral, Linni “Eating Alone: How Modern Technology Affects the Communal Meal”
McGaughey, Kerstin  “Digital Food: Food Blogs and Identity Formation”

Sassafrass Room: “The Personal IS Political: Food, Empowerment & Change”
Moderator: Phil Mount
Colasanti, Kathryn “Early Reflections on the Michigan Good Food Summit: Collaborative Processes and Agrifood Policy Agendas”
Edward, Joshua “"Il Faut Reculer Pour Mieux Auter." (You Have to Step Back to Jump Further): Agriculture, Sustainability and Community Empowerment & Resiliency in Urban Environments”
Fabos, Anita , Alison Canino, Rachel Gerber, Hodan Gulaid, Colin Peacock, Stephanie Henderson, 1 additional student, “Linking Local Action and Global Change: Exploring Food Activism in Worcester, MA Through Experiential Learning”
McNamara, Maureen “Can Local Food Transform?: An Analysis of the Production Barriers and Movement-Related Tensions in the Ft. Collins Local Food Movement”

Redbud Room: “Rural Renaissance, Urban Revival: Gardens and Connections”
Moderator: Laura DeLind
Angotti, Tom  “Food Systems and the Urban-Rural Divide:  Towards a Holistic Revolution in the 21st Century ”
DeLind, Laura B. “What do Meskhetian Turks, a Montessori school and a community police officer have in common?”
Himmelheber, Sarah “Community Gardening and Cultural Creativity: A Social Work Opportunity”
Spackman, Christy  “Dirt clods and dot (blog)(org)(edu)(net): the convergence of young farmers, small sustainable farms, and extension services”

Maple Room: “From Public Markets to Farmers' Markets”
Moderator: Olga Kalentzidou
Aleci, Linda S. “The Eastern Market in Lancaster, PA: A case study for emerging trends in farmers markets and sustainable food systems”
Dean, Wesley R. , Joseph R. Sharkey “Alternative Components of the Retail Food Environment:  Healthy Food Availability in South Texas ‘Pulgas’”
Robinson, Jennifer Meta  “Cultivating New Farmers:  Case Studies from the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market”

Dogwood Room: “PANEL: What’s next for food studies graduate students?  ”
Moderator: Kristina Nies, Matthew Hoffman
Audant, Babette , Charlotte Biltekoff, Carol G. Durst-Wertheim, Rebecca Ingram, Alice Julier, Lucy Long, Sandra Messick, Deanna Pucciarelli, Colleen Taylor Sen, Paige Haringa “What’s next for food studies graduate students? ”


Hoosier Room: “SAFN PANEL: From Global to Local and Back Again: Pan-American Perspectives on Rice and Beans”
Moderator: Analiese Richard
Beriss, David  “Red Beans and Rebuilding:  An Iconic Dish, Memory and Culture in New Orleans”
Berleant, Riva  “Rice and Beans in the Eastern Caribbean”
Montero, Carla Guerron  “All in One Pot: The Place of Rice and Beans in Panama’s Regional and National Cuisine”
Preston-Werner, Theresa  “Defending National Foodways: Laying Claim to Tradition in Costa Rica”
Wilk, Richard  “Discussant”

State Room East: “I have a "Distinct" Feeling I Shouldn't have Eaten this: Food Choice and Health”
Moderator: Travis Nygard
Diener, Jessica  “The Complicated Experience of Childhood and Adolescent Illness”
Knight, Christine “The food nature intended you to eat: Nutritional primitivism and low-carbohydrate dieting”
Rosing, Howard  “Ataca el ácido úrico (Uric Acid Attack): Nutritional Beliefs, Imported Pinto Bean Sales and the Political Economy of Domestic Bean Avoidance in the Dominican Republic”

State Room West: “PANEL: Only in Canada, eh?" The Pan-Canadian Family Food Practices Qualitative Research”
Moderator: Elaine Power
Chapman, Gwen “Setting the Table: Theoretical and methodological approaches to studying family food practices in relation to place and social location”
Johnston, Josee & Michelle Szabo “The Lived Experience of "Ethical Eating": The Significance of Class, Place, and Ethnocultural Communitites”
Power, Elaine, Breanda Beagan, Deborah McPhail, Nancy Salmon “The imagined and real impacts of changes in income on food and eating practices”
Vallianatos, Helen “Sensuous Creations and Recollections of Identity”

Session 4: Thursday, June 3 4:00pm-5:30pm
Student Building, Room 138: “PANEL: Inscriptions of Authority: Cookbooks as Texts of National Identity”
Moderator: Megan Elias
Barton, Scott Alves “Navigating Taste: Macanese Culinary Identity Subverts Portuguese Imperialism”
Elias, Megan  “Tasting the Fruits of American Empire”
McBride , Anne E. “Authoring New American Cuisine: What Cookbooks Tell Us About Questions of National Identity”
Rohel, Jaclyn  “Going Hog Wild: A Case Study in the Cultural Politics of Cuisine in Contemporary Quebec”

Persimmon Room: “Food & Tourism: Commodity & Regional Identity”
Moderator: Janet Glimore
Hoffman, Matthew “The Burgeoning Winemakers of Lodi, California: Interviewing the Un-interviewed”
Hunter, Gina Louise  ““First Crow” Chicken: Italian-Brazilian Identity and Cuisine in Caxias do Sul”
Stewart, Claire, Domenic Maffei “Drinking Rum and Eating Jigg’s Dinner- In What Ways will Tourism Affect the Food Traditions of Newfoundland? ”

Sassafrass Room: “Food Changes, Food Choices”
Moderator:Angela Greco
Spressola-Prado, Vânia Luisa “Socioeconomic changes, ecology and nutritional transition in quilombola communities in Southern Brazil”
Thianthai, Chulanee “Where did We Go Wrong? Understanding Dominant Factors Causing Bangkok Student's to Make Bad Food Choices on School Day”
Wilson, Marisa L. “The moral economy of food provisioning in Cuba”

Redbud Room: “Farming, Food & Art”
Moderator: Beth Forrest
Nygard, Travis  “Grant Wood’s *American Gothic* and the Paradigm of Agribusiness”
Schaible, Elizabeth “Down on the Farm: A Farm to Table Photo Essay of the Indiana Farmer”

Maple Room: “Food, Labor & Labor Relations”
Moderator: Self-Moderated
Clancy, Kate “Some Thoughts on Regional Food Systems”
Hatanaka, Maki “Contstructing Transnational Alternative Agrifood Networks: Third-Party Certification Versus Personal Relations in Alternative Shrimp Farming Networks”
Jaffe, JoAnn “Problemitizing Agrifood Knowledge”
Trivette, Shawn “Understanding the Role of Modes of Distribution in the Promise of Sustainable Agriculture”

Dogwood Room: “PANEL: Author Meets Critics: Paul Thompson, The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics?”
Moderator: Raymond Anthony
Mekenna, Erin, Lee McBride, Elisa Graffy, Paul Thompson “ Author Meets Critics: Paul Thompson, The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics?”

Hoosier Room: “SAFN PANEL: Family nutrition”
Moderator:Janet Chrzan
Benyshek, Daniel C.  “Human Placenta: From Biohazard to Food and Medicine for Mom”
Namie, Joylin  “Public Displays of Affection:  Mothers and Requests for Junk Food from Children”
Sellen, Daniel W.  “Complementary feeding, evolution and baby food marketing”

State Room West: “Sometimes a Banana is Just a Banana: The Role of Food in Sex and Gender Identity”
Moderator: Natalie DeWitt
Biars, Rachel  “Not For Your Mother’s Kitchen: A General Overview of Cookbooks Written for Men”
Bush, Leigh  “The Sexual Politics of Seeking Food Tourism:  A Binary Romance”
DeWitt, Natalie  “What is Romantic Food?: A Phenomenological Account of Food and Intimacy”
Hamada, Shingo  “When Food Acts: an Analysis of Gender Identity Construction in Japan through Anpanman”
Spang, Lyra  “Chasing the Mango: Food as Sexual Metaphor in Belizean Pop CultureChasing the Mango: Food as Sexual Metaphor in Belizean Pop Culture”