Conference Schedule

To view abstracts of each talk and biographies of the presenters, please click on the presenter’s name. To watch the recording for a session, please click on the session’s title.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

4:30–6:15 p.m.

The Role of the State and International Institutions

Moderator: Nadia Horning, Political Science

Chair: Timothy Fraser ’16

• GMO Trade Negotiations as Proxy for Cultural Differences
  
  Patricia Stapleton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• “Erst Kommt Das Fressen”: Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty in Greece
  
  Harry Konstantinidis, Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston
• Scientification and Social Control: Radiation Contamination in Food and Farms in Japan
  
  Tomiko Yamaguchi, International Christian University, Japan

7:00–8:30 p.m.

Cultural Adaptation to Scarcity

Moderator: Mez Baker Medard, Environmental Studies

Chair: Anna Chamby ’16

• The Politics of Adequacy: Food Provisioning, Entitlements, and Everyday Life in Post-Soviet Cuba
  
  Hanna 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

Friday, March 11, 2016

12:30–2:00 p.m.

Socially Constructed Vulnerability and Food Insecurity

Moderator: Julia Berazneva, Economics

Chair: Emma Gee ’16

• 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
  
  Ashanté M. Reese, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Spelman College

2:30–3:45 p.m.

Migration and Changing Foodscapes

Moderator: Joseph Holler, Geography

Chair: Zane Anthony ’16.5

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

4:15–5:30 p.m.

War and Memory of Hunger

Moderator: Sandra Carletti, Italian

Chair: Lee Schlenker ’16

• “Groveling for Lentils”: Hunger and Memory in Occupied France
  
  Paula Schwartz, French, Middlebury College
• Bitter Greens and Sweet Potatoes: Food as Embodied Memory in Rural China 
  
  Ellen Oxfeld, Sociology and Anthropology, Middlebury College

Saturday, March 12, 2016

9:00–10:15 a.m.

Agroecology Access to Land and Seeds

Moderator: William Amidon, Geology

Chair: Aoife Duna ’16.5

• The Maya Land Rights Struggle: A Framework for Operationalizing “Foodways 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
• Subsistence Under the Canopy: Agroecology’s Contributions to Food and Nutrition Security amongst Coffee Communities of Mesoamerica
  
  Margarita Fernandez, Vermont Caribbean Institute and University of Vermont

10:30–12:00 p.m.

The Politics of Food Security

Moderator: Diego Thompson Bello, Sociology/Anthropology

Chair: Joshua Berlowitz ’16

• 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

12:30–2:00 p.m.

Summary

Student Summarizers: Francesca Conde ’17 and Angelica Segura ’16