Dynamics in Food and Agriculture based Supply Chains

2013 Berlin Mini-conference “Dynamics in Food and Agriculture based Supply Chains”

International Geography Union (IGU) - Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces

Thursday 11, July – Saturday 13, July, 2013

Call for Papers

The IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces aims to extend international research and scholarship in geography, to promote international collaboration in research activity and the dissemination of research findings, and to facilitate the transfer of knowledge, experience and expertise between countries and institutions (http://uac.utoledo.edu/igu_commission/).

The 2013 Berlin Mini-conference: During recent decades fundamental changes in the way food is produced (e.g. industrialization of agriculture), distributed (e.g. globalization of food trade), marketed (e.g. supermarketisation globalization and structural change of the retail sector) and consumed (e.g. growing market share of processed food, globalization of culinary culture, new rise of ecological food) have occurred in many countries of the world. The changes include fundamental shifts in the structure, organization and governance in food production and supply chains. These developments influence their regional and international settings and vice versa. The conference invites geographers and experts from related fields to contribute on these topics. Presentations may include theoretical works (e.g. on Global Production Networks, Global Commodity Chains, regional food clusters, new institutional economics) case studies (e.g. regional examples, commodities, supply chains, retail and trade developments, institutional changes ) and further scientific and applied works.

We invite contributions to the conference including the following topics:

Global Production Networks

Globalization and rural change discourses

Global commodity chains, value chains, supply chains and rural development

Informal production

Conventions in international value chains

Rural livelihoods and households

Innovative agri_food clusters

Renewable resources

Rural innovation systems

Resilient rural regions

Dynamics in food retail

Ecosystem services

Alternative food geographies

Globalization and sustainable rural development

In addition we are also organising an open session on all topics related to Dynamics of Economic Spaces.

While this conference is sponsored by the International Geographical Union Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces we are particularly interested in participants from

a variety of disciplines (e.g., sociology, agricultural economics, gender studies, planning, international business, and economics).

Local Organizers:

Peter Dannenberg and Elmar Kulke

Economic Geography, Department of Geography, Humboldt-University at Berlin

Important Dates:

300_word abstract or full paper by 31 January 2013

Deadline for registration is 1 April 2013

Conference publications:

Papers presented for this meeting will be considered for the Commission’s publication

initiatives. It is aimed to launch a special issue in a peer reviewed journal soon after the conference. Presenters who are interested to participate in such an issue are invited to submit a full paper by 31 January. 2013

Registration:

Conference Package:

Includes all meals, and conference materials, excludes accommodation: 90 EUR

Conference field trip (optional):

"Organic Farming and Regional Marketing in Berlin Brandenburg" (13.07.2011): 65 EUR

"The technology park Adlershof - An innovative milieu?" (13.07.2011) FREE

Here's the list of links to the series "Street Food" suggested by a food studies colleague, Chelsie,  a while ago...

Street Food Zanzibar (Tanzania), part 1: 

Street Food Zanzibar, part 2: 

Street Food Cairo (Egypt), part 1:

Street Food Cairo, part 2: 

Street Food Nairobi (Kenya) part 1: 

Street Food Nairobi, part 2: 

Street Food Mumbai (India), part 1: 

Street Food Mumbai, part 2: 

Street Food Jerusalem, part 1: 

Street Food Jerusalem, part 2:

Street Food Fez (Morocco), part 1: 

Street  Food Fez, part 2: 

Street Food Palermo (Sicily), part 1: 

Street Food Palermo, part 2: 

Street Food San Sebastian (Basque Spain), part 1:

Street Food San Sebastian, part 2: 

Street Food, London’s Multicultural Brick Lane, part 1

Street Food, London’s Brick Lane, part 2: 

Street Food Beijing part 1: 

Street Food Beijing part 2: 

Street Food Osaka (Japan), part 1:

Street Food Osaka, part 2: 

Street Food Penang (Malaysia), part 1: 

Street Food Penang, part 2: 

Street Food Lima (Peru), part 1: 

Street Food Lima, part 2: 

Street Food Kingston (Jamaica) part  1: 

Street Food Kingston, part 2: 

Street Food New York City, part 1: 

Street Food New York City, part 2:

Street Food Montreal (‘French’ Canada), part 1:

Street Food Montreal, part 2:

And from a different source, street food in Tehran (Iran):

"guerrilla cartography" project: Food: An Atlas on Kickstarter

 An Atlas is a collection of over 60 maps (and growing!) co-created by  the guerilla cartographer community, a loose band of people who are  passionate about food and geography. 
The Atlas endeavours to map food in its myriad contexts and conditions at all scales of research and geography. It fuses traditional cartography, poster art, info graphic, and map as narrative in its exploration of the  geography of food. 

The atlas has chapters on food production, food distribution, food security and cuisine. And there are smaller chapters of conceptual food maps and even a kids’ chapter for the youngest kick starters to begin their  exploration and relationship with the world of food. The calibre of scholarship and artistry invested in these maps is impressive – they are informative and thought provoking, they are beautiful and they give 
shape to the world of food. 

Contributors to this project include more than 100 volunteer researchers and cartographers collaborating in teams across 10 US states and several countries spanning North and South America and Europe, a volunteer  editorial panel, a volunteer kick starter team, and you. 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1276177353/food-an-atlas-0?ref=home_location

CONFERENCE: Molecular Cuisine: The Politics of Taste (New York, 19-21 Oct 12)

New York, October 19 - 21, 2012 School of Visual Arts, 335 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 USA 

 "Molecular Cuisine: The Politics of Taste" is an interdisciplinary 
conference focusing on desire´s palette. Investigating the importance 

of taste from the perspectives of the culinary arts, sociology, art 
history and theory, anthropology, as well as the cognitive, material 
and biological sciences, the symposium targets intersections between 
taste and value.

 While taste is the key concept in new cooking 
technologies, it also connects to our passions, predilections and 
taboos. 
Researchers from the scientific and cultural spheres ask the 
questions, 
why we enjoy certain foods and not others, why we prefer certain 
styles 
and not others. 

Involving multiple discourses which emphasize the 
senses, emotions and sensory assets, the concept of taste, which is 
traditionally one pertaining to the fine arts or humanities, develops 
a 
renewed relevance in current cultural debates.

 PROGRAM 

Friday October 19, 2012 

4:00-6:00 pm Registration

6:15 - 6:30 pm Introduction
Suzanne Anker 

6:30 - 7:30 pm Keynote Address
Ciaran Bennett : "Humpty Dumpty and the Metamorphosis of Scrambled 
Eggs"
Sabine Flach, Moderator

7:30 - 8:30 pm Keynote Address
Lisa Ma: "Farmification & Speculative Design"
Suzanne Anker, Moderator 

8:30 - 9:00 pm Refreshments

Saturday October 20, 2012
9:00-10:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast 

10:00-12:30 pm Panel I - Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice
Suzanne Anker: "Sugar and The Crystalline Body"
June de Schino: "The Significance & Symbolism of Sugar Sculpture in 
Italian Banquets (1570 - 1670)"
Heather Hess: "Fickle and Deceitful Desires: Visual Pleasure and the 
Inedible on the Early Modern Banquet Table"
Mathias Viegener: "The Sweetness of Meaning"
Suzanne Joelson, Moderator 

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch 

1:30-3:00 pm Panel 2 - Flavour Foragers
Flavour SenseNation. Kianna Bahrami & Lulie Biggs: "Flavour Sense 
Nation, a symphony of the senses: Our sensory experience of food and 
flavour."
Beth B, Moderator 

3:00-4:00 pm Demonstrations and Coffee Break 

4:00-6:30 pm Panel 3 - Taste Makers
Tom Huhn: "The Taste of Eighteenth Century"
Christian Sauer: "Culinary Aesthetics: Facets and Problems"
Sabine Flach: "There's No Accounting for Taste: Eating, Thinking and 
Arguing in Contemporary Art"
Viktoria von Hofmann: "Art of Taste and Aesthetics of Cooking: A 
History Frank Gillette, Moderator" 

6:30-7:15 pm Cocktails and Conversation
7:30- 9:00pm Open Dinner; pay on your own

Sunday, October 21, 2012 

9:00-10:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast 

10:00-12:30 pm Panel 4 - Food Chain
Anne McBride & César de Vega: "What is Culinary Innovation? 
Perspectives at the Crossroad of the Kitchen and the Laboratory"
Catherine Chalmers: "Art with an Appetite"
Mark Clintberg: "Gaystronomy [sic]"
Moderator TBD 

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch 

1:30-3:30 pm Panel 5 - Skeleton Feast
Sharon Hecker: "Bitter Sweets by Luciano Fabro for Nadezda 
Mandel´stam"
Fabio Parasecoli: "Savoring Semiotics: Food in Intercultural 
Communication"
Ana Maria Ulloa: "Naming the Ephemeral: Sensory Science and the 
Language of Taste"
Luca Buvoli, Moderator 

3:30-4:00 pm Coffee Break 

4:00-6:30 pm Panel 6 - Don´t play with your food
Elaine Tin Nyo: "On Meat and Mortality"
Ann-Sargent Wooster: "Futurism and Food"
Grahame Weinbren: "Still-life with Banquet"
Caroline Hobkinson: "Dial 1 for Bitter, 2 for Sweet"
Robin Winters, Moderator 

6:30-6:45 pm Conference closure

Agrarian Change Seminars

  Term 1 2012-13

Journal of Agrarian Change and

Department of Development Studies, SOAS

Room 4418 (fourth floor, main building), SOAS

11 October, 5.15 pm

Documentary Film: 'Best Before: the London Food Revolution is a short documentary about the food system in the UK and the growing food movement in London'. Followed by discussion

Ben Mann, Director and SOAS alumni

18 October, 5.15 pm

Film: ‘Seeds of Freedom’, followed by discussion

African Biodiversity Network and the Gaia Foundation

25 October, 5.15 pm

Migration and rural differentiation in two selected villages in Bangladesh

Mausumi Mahapatro (SOAS)

9 -11 November: Agrarian Change panel at Historical Materialism Conference (SOAS, room and time to be announced):

Crises of labour in South Africa: what is the contribution of the agrarian question?

·      Land, Labour And The Production Of Affliction In Rural Southern Africa – Bridget O’Laughlin (ISS, the Hague)

·      Smallholder irrigation, agrarian reform and ‘accumulation from below’ in post-apartheid South Africa – Ben Cousins (PLAAS, Western Cape)

·      Commercial agriculture in South Africa since 1994: ‘natural, simply capitalism’ – Henry Bernstein (SOAS)

29 November, 5.15 pm

The agrarian question and 150 years of class conflicts over property rights in rural Brazil and Mexico

Leandro Vergara-Camus (SOAS)

6 December, 5.15 pm

Monthly income... What is that? Comparing notes on implementing household surveys in rural Mozambique

Helena Perez-Nino and Sara Stevano (SOAS)

London Experimental Oenology Seminar

Our friends at the Center for the Study of the Senses are holding their second London Experimental Oenology Seminar (LEOS) ( http://experimentaloenology.wordpress.com)

 

The Seminar series aim at bringing together oenologists, wine-professionals and academics to focus on specific aspects of wine-tasting and flavour experience. The monthly seminar will be organised around a tutored wine-tasting. In recent years, many innovative ways of measuring and understanding the perception of wine have been developed and the seminar and tasting will draw on them to address specific puzzles or controversies in oenology - like the role of expertise, language, olfaction, analytic tasting, preferences, texture-perception, temperature, grape maturity, oak, etc. in determining our complex flavour experience of wine.

The next seminar will take place on October 8th, in Senate House (University of London, Malet Street, room to be confirmed) from 6.30pm to 8pm and be led by psychologist Charles Spence (Oxford) who is famous for his work on flavour perception, as well as for winning the Ig-nobel prize for his experiment on the sonic crisps and doing some experiments with Heston Blumenthal at the Fat Duck. He recently contributed a series of papers to the World of Fine Wine, and will be talking : What is wine expertise?

Please register in advance by emailing us at contact@thecenses.org ; registration costs 20 pounds (cash on the day or bank transfer in advance) and there is limited availability. 

Jewish Food Through Song and Film

Register now for the five-week online course: Jewish Food Through Song and Film! Details about the course and how to register are below: 

Jewish Food Through Song and Film (NFDS2952)Five-week ONLINE course, beginning on Saturday Nov 10th
Instructor: Laura Silver

Description: This course offers a taste of eastern European and American Jewish culture through songs, films, and personal narratives about food. We explore the Jewish experience and cultural and religious identities through foods that came to the United States by way of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Poland, and Romania. Traditional foods and their modern-day incarnations guide our exploration of Ashkenazi Jewish identity, culture, and peoplehood. We use Yiddish and Hebrew expressions to decode words and phrases we encounter in our explorations from the Old World to the New, from the Pale of Settlement to the sidewalks of the Lower East Side and the suburbs of middle America.

Click here to register!*

*This link will direct you to the online continuing education registration website. Select "New School for Public Engagement" and "Fall 2012" and click "view courses". Click on "Food Studies" and you will be directed to a list of food studies courses. Select "NFDS2952 Jewish Food Through Song and Film" and then select the "non-credit" payment option. You will then be directed to online payment instructions. 


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