Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

The Politics of Food Security What’s on Your Plate? Is global diet change the key to food and climate justice? David Cleveland, Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Governance and Power in Food (in)Security Molly Anderson, Food Studies, Middlebury College

War and Memory of Famine Food Security in Times of War Paula Schwartz, French, Middlebury College Bitter Greens and Sweet Potatoes: Food as embodied memory in rural China Ellen Oxfeld, Sociology and Anthropology, Middlebury College

Migration and Changing Foodscapes Seeds Sent from Home: Migrant farm worker gardens and food security in Vermont Jessie Mazar, University of Vermont, with Teresa Mares Insecure Urban Footprints Colleen Hammelman, Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University

Cultural Adaptation to Scarcity The Politics of Adequacy: Food provisioning, entitlements, and everyday life in post-Soviet Cuba Hannah Garth, Anthropology, University of California, Irvine No Roi (already full): Dealing with food insecurity in contemporary Vietnamese rituals Nir Avieli, Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Agroecology Access to Land and Seeds Food Security and Maya Land Rights: Crafting paths of “development with identity” Mark Chatarpal, Anthropology Department and Food Studies Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington Food Security, Agro-biodiversity, and the State: The struggle to defend native corn systems in southern Mexico Laurel Bellante, Geography and Development, University of Arizona Agroecology and Food Sovereignty Margarita Fernandez, Vermont Caribbean Institute

Socially Constructed Vulnerability and Food Insecurity Hunger and Land in Neoliberal Nicaragua: The collision of past and present Birgit Schmook, Senior Researcher, Department of Conservation and Biodiversity, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal, Mexico, with Lindsey Carte and Claudia Radel The Causes and Consequences of Njaa (hunger) in the Household: Food insecurity and intimate partner violence within a Kenyan informal settlement Adam Gilbertson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Embodied Inequalities: Race, class, and food access in Washington, DC

The Role of the State and International Institutions GMO Trade Negotiations as Proxy for Cultural Differences Patricia Stapleton, Director, Society, Technology, and Policy Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute “Erst Kommt Das Fressen”: Food insecurity and food sovereignty in Greece Harry Konstantinidis, Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston Changing Contours of Discourses Surrounding “Food Security” Tomiko Yamaguchi, International Christian University, Japan

International and Global Studies Colloquium “Stateless Children? Surrogacy for Gay Couples in France” by William Poulin-Deltour, associate professor of French. While lesbian and gay couples in France obtained the right to wed legally in 2013, French bioethical laws prohibit these couples’ access to reproductive technologies. Medically assisted procreation is available only to “stable” infertile heterosexual couples of “childbearing age” and child surrogacy is banned in all circumstances.

David Austin is the author of Fear of A Black Nation: Race ,Sex and Security in Sixties Montreal winner of the 2014 Casas De Las America and winner of the silver medal at the 2014 Independent Mr. Austin has produced documentaries on Frantz Fanon and CLR James for CBC Radio’s Ideas .