2018 Conference Schedule

Schedule at a Glance, as of October 6, 2018. Schedule subject to change.

Day 1: Thursday, October 4, 2018

3:30 – 4:30 PM | Registration

Location: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
See Conference Logistics for address and map

4:30 – 5:45 PM | Opening Reception

Location: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
Catering by The Pig

5:45 – 6:00 PM | Convocation remarks with Dr. Elizabeth Engelhardt

Location: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

6:00 – 7:00 PM | Keynote: Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson

Location: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

Day 2: Friday, October 5th, 2018

8:00 – 9:00 AM | Registration

Location: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

8:00 – 9:00 AM | Carolina Breakfast

Location: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

8:30 AM | Opening Remarks: Anastasia Day

Location: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

9:00 – 10:00 AM | Plenary Speaker: Dr. Julie Guthman

Location: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

10:00 – 10:30 AM | Coffee Break, Toy Lounge

10:30 AM – 11:30 PM | Concurrent Sessions I

Toy Lounge – It’s Alive! Bacterial Food

Maya Hey, “Ferments and the Delicious-Disgusting Divide in Microbial Food Narratives”
Dylan Hallingstad O’Brien, “Making Bad Choices: Macrobiotic Ontologies and Wellness”
Dylan Cahn, “To Pasteurize or not to Pasteurize: Debates over Pasteurization, Organic Food, and Children’s Health in Britain and America”

Pleasants Family Room – Children and Food Politics

Carlos Caro, “Dynamics of Local Childhood Obesity Clusters in Chile”
Maegan Krajewski, “Lunch Money: Understanding Community-Led School Food Programs in Regina, Saskatchewan”

11:30 – 1:00 PM | Off-Campus, Lunch on your own (see Franklin St. recs)

1:00 – 2:00 PM | Concurrent Sessions II

Toy Lounge – Religion and Food

Kendall Vanderslice, “A Christian Theology of Culinary Diversity”
Daniel Moorin, “Thoreau’s Fictions of Flesh at Walden”
Adante Hart, “Sanctified Soil: Black Churches and Food Justice”

Pleasants Family Room – Local Food: Producers

Kelly McFarland, “Developing a Historic Account of Local Farming in North Texas”
Cheyenne Schoen, “Opportunities and Challenges of an Organized Farming Project for New Americans in Syracuse, NY”
Julia Bingham, “Down East Aquaculture Narratives: Growth and Opportunity, But for Whom?”

2:00 – 2:30 PM | Coffee Break, Toy Lounge

2:30 – 3:30 PM | Concurrent Sessions III

Toy Lounge – Layers of Meaning and Identity

Kacee Baker, “Nostalgia and Fear in Bread Making Narratives from Eighteenth-Century England”
Pablo Mino Navarrete, “A Product’s Brand is in Its Nation’s Brand: A Study of the Country-of-Origin Effect on the Reputation of Foreign Wines”
Anna Graham, “A Taste of a Past Place: The Use of ‘Terroir’ In Archaeological Investigations of Place”
Reema Islam, “The Cultural Heritage of Carob in Crete, Greece”

Pleasants Family Room – Food and Health

Alanna Higgins, “The Carrot and the Needle: The Intertwining of Food, Health, and Medicine”
Christina Chauvenet, “The Evolution of Dietary Guidelines and Implications for Interdisciplinary Food Studies”
Allison Lacko and Khristopher Nicholas, “Geographic Variations in Food Access, Diets, and Nutritional Health: A Spatial Analysis Approach”

3:30 – 4:30 PM | Concurrent Sessions IV

Toy Lounge – Southern Foodways

Tyler Bunzey, “Sounding Soul: Blackness, Food, and Place in Southern Hip-Hop”
Juliana de Groot, “A Community Circles Approach to Facilitate Dialogue on Race, Poverty, and Food Insecurity in North Carolina Communities”

Pleasants Family Room – Archival Crumbs: Southern Foodways in North Carolina Institutions

A special panel featuring staff from local North Carolina institutions including:

Sarah Carrier, NC Research and Instructional Librarian, Special Collections, UNC Chapel Hill Libraries
Kate Collins, Research Services Librarian, Rubenstein Library, Duke University
Virginia Ferris, Outreach and Engagement Program Librarian, North Carolina State University Libraries

5:00 – 6:30 PM | Professional Development Roundtable

Toy Lounge – Moderated by Dr. Marcie Cohen Ferris

Dr. Ashley Rose Young, Smithsonian Food History
Kim Severson, New York Times
Dr. Steven Alvarez, St. John’s University

7:30 PM | Networking Social

Center for the Study of the American South, Networking Social with special art exhibit, Unique As We Are Alike, a multidimensional exploration of contemporary Lumbee identity by two Lumbee artists from North Carolina.

Day 3: Saturday, October 6, 2018

OPTIONAL AND SELF-GUIDED FIELD TRIPS:

OPTION 1 | Carrboro Farmers’ Market, opens at 7:00 AM, Carrboro Town Hall Plaza

OPTION 2 | Campus Foodways and Food History Digital Tour

(Find additional details on these optional and self-guided field trips here.)

9:00 – 9:30 AM | Coffee Break, Toy Lounge

9:30 – 10:30 AM | Concurrent Sessions V

Toy Lounge – Reimagining the Kitchen

Maja Jeranko, “A View from the Kitchen Window: Gender and Food in the Post-Earthquake Coastal Ecuador”
Esther Martin-Ullrich, “Clutter and Quaintness: Collecting Kitchenalia in the Internet Age”
Melissa Dollman, “Kitchen in Your Car: Shell Oil Company’s Carol Lane and the Interrelationship Between Road-Tripping and Eating Out(side)”
Rhiannon Scharnhorst, “Composing at the Kitchen Table”

Pleasants Family Room – Difference and Power

Gabrielle C. Purcell, “Recentering Colonization through Food Studies”
Faron Levesque, “Seize the Kitchen: Re-Claiming the Radical History of Food”
Frederico de Oliveira Toscano, “The Brazilian Abundance and the U.S. Hunger: Thematic Subsidies for Research in the Field of Food History”

10:30 – 11:00 AM | Coffee Break, Toy Lounge

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Concurrent Sessions VI

Toy Lounge – Equity and Justice

Daniela Garcia Grandon, “Moral Boundaries of Food Provisioning in Chile”
Erica Zurawski, “From Gold Rush to Reefer Madness: Linking Colonialism, Commodity Flows, and Gentrification Within Denver’s Food Justice Organizing”
Laura Grier, “The Political Ecology of the Local Food Movement in Ann Arbor, MI”

Pleasants Family Room – Feeding Community

Bonnie Wolf, “Facilitating Improved Collaboration between Food-Related organizations in Southern Arizona”
Molly Mann, “Recipes for Sharing: Why Women’s Food Blogs Matter”
Elizabeth Makarewicz, “‘Respect Our Mother’: Centering Dakota Notions of Food Sovereignty”