Three Food Ethics Conferences (Italy & US-Minnesota)

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Taken from EURSAFE (European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics

Newsletter)

 

(1) The Third Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food

Ethics (EurSafe)

 

Food Safety, Food Quality, and Food Ethics

 

3 - 5 October 2001, Palazzo degli Affari, Florence, Italy

 

 

The Organising Committee invites scientists and professionals to attend the

Third Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics

(EurSafe), in Florence, 3 - 5 October 2001. The aim of the congress is to

improve communication among experts in ethics, scientists and professionals

of the agricultural and food sector, and to foster inter-disciplinary

research and education in agriculture and food ethics. The central theme of

the congress is the ethics of food production and trade with reference to

consumer safety, needs and preferences.

 

 

MAIN TOPICS

 

The Florence congress will focus attention on:

 

? Ethics of Food Production: animal welfare, genetic engineering and

environmental impacts

? Food Safety: risk assessment, management and communication

? Labelling and consumer information

? Food cultures and traditions in a globalised economy

? Ethics of (international) food trade

? Food chain management, control and traceability

? The problem of famine and starvation

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

November 2000 Call for papers / Second announcement

 

19 May 2001 Deadline for submission of abstracts

 

30 June 2001 Authors notified of accepted papers

 

15 August 2001 Final draft of papers due

 

3 - 5 October 2001 EurSafe congress

 

 

For information concerning the scientific programme please contact:

 

Professor Claudio Peri

Department of Food Science and Technology

Faculty of Agriculture

University of Milan, Italy

Tel: + 39 2 70602063

Fax + 39 2 70638625

e-mail: claudio.peri

 

Congress web site: www.studioscaramuzzi.com/eursafeflorence2001

 

 

 

(2) SECOND MEETING OF THE DUTCH PLATFORM FOR

AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD ETHICS: ETHICS AND TRADE IN FOOD

 

Friday 13 October 2000, Utrecht University, Centrumgebouw Zuid, Room F125

 

The topics of the meeting will be: Opportunities for European research

(11.30 - 12.30) and food ethics and trade (13.00 - 17.00). More information

and registration details from:

 

Centre for Bioethics and Health Law

Utrecht University

Heidelberglaan 2

3584 CS Utrecht

The Netherlands

CBG or Frans Stafleu e-mail: f.r.stafleu

 

Participation is free (see Conferences page 8 for further information)

 

 

 

(3) Announcing the Joint 2001 Annual Meetings of the

 

AGRICULTURE, FOOD, AND HUMAN VALUES SOCIETY (AFHVS)

and the

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF FOOD AND SOCIETY (ASFS)

 

Thursday, June 7 - Sunday, June 10, 2001, Humphrey Institute for

Public Affairs Conference Center, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

 

Local Organizing Committee

Helene Murray (MISA, University of Minnesota), Chair; Carla Carlson

(Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota); Jan O'Donnell (Executive, Minnesota Food Association); David Nelson (Minnesota Food

Association Board Member); Carmen Fernholz (Chair, Sustainable Farming

Association of Minnesota), DeEtta Bilek (Coordinator, Sustainable Farming

Association of Minnesota), Dana Jackson (Land Stewardship Project); and Jan

Joannides (Independent Consultant)

 

Program Coordinators

Frederick Buttel (University of Wisconsin) and Helene Murray (University of

Minnesota)

 

Contributed Paper Abstracts or Proposals for Sessions/Panels are due

February 16, 2001.

 

For additional information on local arrangement matters, contact:

Helene Murray, Local Organizing Committee Chair

Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture

University of Minnesota, 411 Borlaug Hall

St. Paul, MN 55108-1013

Phone: (612) 625-8235; fax: (612) 625-1268

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Welcome to Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus!

Minneapolis is one of the most livable large cities in North America, a

delightful conference venue, an educational and food manufacturing center,

a hotbed of activity and activism relating to food and agriculture, and the

location of a diversity of interesting restaurants. Nearby St. Paul is the

seat of state government and the site of the University of Minnesota's

biological science departments and its College of Agriculture.

 

The 2001 joint meetings of AFHVS and ASFS will be held at the Humphrey

Institute for Public Affairs Conference Center on the " WestBank " of the

University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus. The Humphrey Institute is

two blocks away from the conference hotel (the Holiday Inn Metrodome), and

a half mile away from downtown Minneapolis. Inexpensive dormitory housing

will also be available.

 

In addition to the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA)

and the Humphrey Institute of the University of Minnesota, the conference

co-hosts include a number of prominent Twin Cities-area NGOs working in the

areas of food and agriculture: the Land Stewardship Project, the Minnesota

Food Association, the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota, and the

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS

JOINT ANNUAL MEETINGS OF AFHVS AND ASFS

 

The joint annual meetings of Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society

(AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) will

bring together two multidisciplinary professional and scholarly societies

for the purpose of broadly discussing contemporary issues relating to food,

eating, dietary, and nutritional behaviors; food and agricultural

practices; public policies toward food and agriculture; and the history,

philosophy, social institutions, and values which underlie them. Papers and

panels are sought on any topic related to agriculture, food, and society,

including but not limited to the following:

 

? ethical issues in agriculture and the food system

? foodways and food practices

? agricultural, food, fiber, and research practices and policies

? food access, food security, food safety, and food equity concerns

? agricultural sustainability and environmental quality; agricultural and

food ethics

? local food systems and foodshed analysis

? the social origins and social and ethnical implications of agricultural

technologies and practices

? socio-technical issues and controversies in agriculture and food (e.g.,

industrialization of livestock production, GMOs/biotechnology, organic food

standards, precision agriculture);

? food- and agriculture-related social movements;

? the roles of scientific and indigenous knowledges in the food system;

? the current status and future prospects of the land-grant and public

agricultural research system;

? regional/local food systems and urban/rural development;

? nutrition education and community nutrition;

? food and the media;

? the cultural context of food, eating behaviors, food production, and

rural life;

? the global context of food production, distribution, and food activism;

and food and agricultural dimensions of trade policy and the World Trade

Organization.

 

Procedures for Submitting Abstracts of Contributed Papers and Proposals for

Sessions

 

1. Abstracts of contributed papers and proposed sessions are due on

February 16, 2001. Abstracts of contributed papers should be 350 or fewer

words. Proposals for sessions should also include an abstract (<350 words)

describing the session's content.

 

2. It is preferred that abstracts be submitted on disk (Corel Word

Perfect, MS Word, or a text file) or as a file attachment by electronic

mail (to <nlcarlis, but clean typewritten submissions are

also welcome. Include your name, full address, email address, and

affiliation after the paper title and before the text of the abstract.

Proposals for proposed sessions, panels, and other events should include

the name, affiliation, and address of the organizer and presider, and a

tentative roster of participants. All material in the abstract should be

prepared in upper/lower case. Accepted abstracts will be reproduced for

distribution to conference participants.

 

3. Confirmation of acceptance of abstracts will be made by email by about

March 9, 2001.

 

4. Send program correspondence to: Fred Buttel or Marcy Ostrom, Program on

Agricultural Technology Studies, University of Wisconsin, Taylor Hall,

Madison, WI 53706; phone: (608) 265-2908; fax: (608) 265-6399; email:

fhbuttel or mrostrom