| The ASFS
began to hold annual meetings in 1987. Since 1992, they have been held
together with the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS).
In 1996, the International Food Choice Conference joined them for their
meeting in the United States and the Consortium for Sustainable Agriculture
Research and Education co-sponsored the 1997 meeting. These annual meetings
hold workshops, are opportunities to listen to and present papers and
panels, chances to participate in roundtable discussions, and times to
meet formally and informally with colleagues who hold similar or tangential
interests.
Informing Possibilities
for the Future of Food and Agriculture
2009 Joint Annual Meeting of the
Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS)
and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)
May 28-31, 2009
Penn Stater Conference Center, Penn State University, State College, PA
Program chair: Clare Hinrichs
Local arrangements chair: Carolyn Sachs
Deadline for submission of abstracts: February
2, 2009
Our food and agriculture system now seems to manifest two opposing tendencies:
one tendency is toward high technology, global sourcing, and disconnecting
from “nature,” with profit being a key motivation. The other
tendency is toward emphasizing natural processes and local sourcing, with
building “community” and serving human needs being key motivations.
The social constructions of the proponents of these respective tendencies
inform social action to create social and biophysical infrastructures
consistent with their preferred tendencies. Each tendency involves social,
ethical, ecological and other issues that need to be closely examined
from many different perspectives and discussed publicly. Understanding
the divergences and convergences between these tendencies can inform the
individual and collective choices that will shape our future food and
agriculture system. Together AFHVS and ASFS are well-suited to examine
the wide range of analytic and practice issues involved and to imagine
the possibilities that can inform and invigorate public discussion.
We welcome abstracts for papers, posters, and panels on all aspects
of food, nutrition, and agriculture, including those related to:
Art, media, and literary analyses
Change & development
Culture & cultural geography
Ethics & philosophy
Food safety & risk
Gender and ethnicity
Globalization of agri-food
History
Inequality, access, security, & social justice
Knowledge
Local food systems
Pedagogy
Politics, policies, & governance in national & global contexts
Research methods, practices & issues
Social action & social movements
Sustainability
Science & technologies
Please contact colleagues now to organize thought provoking
panels and events
How to Submit an Abstract
Deadline for submission of abstracts: February
2, 2009
All proposals must include, in this order:
type of submission (e.g., a paper, an organized paper
session with separate abstracts for included papers, an organized panel
of multiple presentations, a poster, or an event);
title of paper, panel, or event;
submitter’s name, organizational affiliation, and full postal
mailing address;
submitter’s e-mail address;
submitter’s telephone number,
names and organizational affiliations of co-authors or co-organizers;
abstract of 250 or fewer words that describes the proposed paper, panel,
or event;
(for panels and events only) the name and affiliation of the presider
(moderator) and a tentative roster of the panel members or other participants;
and
a list of up to six descriptive keywords/phrases for the program committee
to use in organizing sessions and events, e.g., agriculture of the middle,
globalization, teaching, food culture, or mass media.
Submission Procedure
Submit proposals by e-mail to Clare
Hinrichs. Submission as an attachment in MSWord format is preferred;
however, submissions can also be sent in the body of an e-mail message.
Please place “AFHVS/ASFS Abstract” in the subject line of
the email. Please name the Word document files with the lead author’s
last name, followed by a period, followed by the first significant word
in the title (example: Warner.Agroecology).
The conference organizers regret that we are unable to provide travel
support for meeting participation.
We reserve the right to limit acceptance of multiple submissions by an
author.
Send program correspondence to:
Clare Hinrichs
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
112F Armsby Bldg.
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802 .
Student Paper Awards
To encourage participation by undergraduate and graduate
students and to recognize scholarly excellence, both ASFS
and AFHVS
invite submissions to their student paper competitions. The details for
these paper competitions are available on the respective organizations'
websites.
An eligible paper must be sole-authored by a student (or co-authored by
two students), be on a topic related to food or agriculture that is relevant
to the conference, and have had an abstract submitted in response to this
call for papers. A paper may be submitted to only one of the paper competitions,
not both. Final versions of the papers must be submitted to the respective
organizations student paper award committee by March 15, 2009. To receive
their awards, winners must present their papers at the conference. Awards
include paid meeting registration fees, tickets to the conference banquet,
and small stipends.
For information about our past meeting,
visit this page.
For information about AFHVS and past
meetings and future announcements, visit their website.
For Richard Ryan's account of the 2004 conference
(Agriculture to Culture: The Social Transformation of Food ),
click here.
For Dorothy Blair's
photos of the 2005 conference (Visualizing Food and Farm), click
here.
To read abstracts
of papers presented at the 2006 conference (Place, Taste, and Sustenance:
The Social Spaces of Food and
Agriculture, published in the journal Appetite), click here.
Full texts of many articles are available to Appetite subscribers,
or by purchase.
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