Bridging the Past, Cultivating the Future: Exploring Sustainable Foodscapes
Posted by Association for the Study of Food and Society on January 19, 2015
Bridging the Past, Cultivating the Future: Exploring Sustainable Foodscapes
AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting and Conference
June 24 – 28, 2015
Chatham University is pleased to host the Joint 2015 Annual Meetings and Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society. Emphasizing a holistic intellectual and material landscape, this year’s theme emphasizes the need to plan forward by looking backwards, by imagining and creating spaces where agricultural and culinary practices mesh with opportunities for environmental, social, cultural, and material sustenance. Taking our cue from Pittsburgh’s history and character, symbolized by its many bridges, the conference theme encourages a focus on the processes that help us explore across divisions, whether they shaped by disciplines, theories, methods, or activist priorities, material needs, cultural and agricultural histories, historical or modernist narratives. We invite participants to explore the ways in which people have or have not created social and ecological landscapes, and what can be learned historically, globally, and locally about our capacity to create and maintain viable social, economic, and cultural food landscapes.
Submissions
AFHVS and ASFS support scholarship and public presentation on a wide variety of topics at their conferences. For this year’s conference, in keeping with the theme, we are encouraging papers, panel sessions, roundtables, and workshops that speak to the theme. These sessions can be from practitioners, activists, and others working in food systems and culture.
Submissions areas include but are not limited to:
- Food Systems: local and global, past and present
- Culture and cultural studies
- Discipline-specific and interdisciplinary research
- Art, design, and technology
- Ethics and philosophy
- Food access, security, and sovereignty
- Community studies
- Cultural, agricultural, and culinary preservation and innovation
- Governance and rights
- Pedagogy and/or experiential education
- Labor in the food system
- Energy and agriculture
- Health: problems, paradigms, and professions
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