[Scpg] CONFERENCE: Food Sustainability & Food Security February 5-7, 2009 Santa Barbara

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

CONFERENCE: Food Sustainability & Food Security
February 5-7, 2009
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Conference Theme:

In conjunction with the UCSB Humanities Center's yearlong "Food 
Matters" program, the Department of English is organizing an 
interdisciplinary conference that will address the closely related 
topics of food sustainability and food security. The conference aims 
to provide a forum for sharing recent research findings in this area 
and to investigate the future of food studies as an interdisciplinary 
field of inquiry. In response to current international conflicts over 
hunger, food prices, and genetically modified seeds, the matter of 
food has become central to both environmental and economic 
policymaking. In this context, the interdisciplinary field of food 
studies has a new purchase. This conference will gather some of the 
country's leading food scholars--many of whom are affiliated with the 
UC system--to examine the meaning of food sustainability in 
particular regional contexts from Africa to the Middle East to the 
Americas. The conference will provide a timely occasion for scholars 
from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences as well as 
activists and farmers to dialogue about the global food system in 
both contemporary and historical contexts. For further information, 
contact Allison Carruth: allisoncarruth at english.ucsb.edu.
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/foodsustainability.html

Tentative Schedule:
Thursday, February 5
12:00-1:00 Conference introduction/reception
1:00-2:30 Sessions A & B (TBD)
5:00-6:30 Keynote address: "Can Food Be a Force for Social Change?"
Darra Goldstein, Editor of Gastronomica & Professor of Russian at 
Williams College
6:30-8:00 Possible screening of The Garden
All day Photography exhibition, Barron Bixler, "New Pastoral"

Friday, February 6
9:00-12:15 Sessions C &D (TBD)
1:30-4:45 Sessions E & F (TBD)
5:00-6:30 Roundtable: "Food Sovereignty and Some Futures for 
California Agriculture"
Moderator: Professor David Cleveland, Dept. of Environmental Studies, UCSB
Participants: Eric Cardenas (Environmental Defense Center), Melissa 
Cohen (Isla Vista Co-Op),
Teresa Figueroa (Fund for Santa Barbara)

Saturday, February 7
10:00-11:30 Session G (TBD)
12:00-1:00 Closing discussion / wrap-up: "Some Futures for Food Studies"
For more information, visit 
http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/conference/foodstudiesconference2.html.
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Food Sustainability & Food Security
Invitational Conference
Keynote Speaker Darra Goldstein  http://www.darragoldstein.com/
February 5-7, 2009
UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, McCune Room
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