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Food Studies Sponsored Panels at the Upcoming ASA Conference
The Food Studies Caucus will be sponsoring the following panels at the upcoming ASA Conference. Congrats! For those of you that plan to attend the conference, please consider attending these panels.
“Archives of Domesticity and Dissent: Cookbooks, Cooking Culture and the Limits of Culinary Exchange”
Christopher Farrish, Kyla Tompkins, Janet Boyd, Christine Marks, Stephen Vider
“Culinary Occupations: Migratory Identities and the Geopolitics of Public Food Consumption”
Amy Bentley, Heather Ruth Lee, John Burdick, Audrey Russek
Anyone else presenting on food related issues, please forward the panel information to me so it can be shared with all members of the caucus and the larger food studies community.
Also, both a Food Studies Caucus Reception and business meeting are in the process of being organized by a preliminary Food Studies Caucus administrative group. More details to come soon.
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Organizing the Events for the upcoming ASA Conference
This is an open call for anyone interested in assisting in planning the Food Studies Caucus Events for the upcoming ASA Conference.
Two events need to be organized:
1. A First annual Food Studies Caucus business/planning meeting, which will be held each year at the ASA Conference. At this meeting we will need to plan all of the events/goals for the caucus for the coming year.
2. Food Studies Caucus Annual Reception/networking event. At such an event scholars of food will be able to meet other scholars doing similar work. I envision this being a more low key event, with perhaps some light food and an open/cash bar. (If we need to raise funding for such an event we could possibly require preregistration and charge a small fee per person, say $10 to cover the cost of food).
These two events could possibly be combined and have a planning meeting and networking event at the same time. I was thinking the first or second day of the conference. Also, the ASA informed me that they have the ability to set space aside for such events at the Caribe Hilton and may even have some limited funding for such events (depending on several factors).
If anyone is willing to aid in the organization of these two events please contact me via email (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)), post your ideas on this blog or on the ASA Food Studies Caucus Google Discussion Page. Even if you cannot attend the conference you could still help, and any assistance anyone willing to offer would be greatly appreciated.
I think the next step would be to brainstorm ideas via email for these events (or others) and begin to delineate tasks to anyone who is interested in helping.
Let me know.
Thanks and all the best.
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ASA Conference - Food Studies Caucus Panel Sponsorship
As many of you know, the ASA is beginning to send notifications in regards to paper/panel acceptance to this years conference. Hopefully many of you who have submitted panels are receiving good news and scholars of food will be well represented this year.
The Food Studies Caucus has the ability to sponsor up to two panels at the conference. Sponsorship has several benefits including being listed as sponsored in the official program, given special notation on the ASA and Food Studies Caucus Website among other highlighted notations. If anyone has a paper or panel that has been accepted to this years conference and would like to be considered for Food Studies Caucus sponsorship, please email me the panel description and paper abstracts. Once I have heard from anyone interested, in the coming weeks I will circulate the panel/paper information with everyone and we can collectively decide on which panels should be sponsored.
Also, I think it would be great if we organized a “meet and greet”/planning meeting/cocktail hour towards the beginning of the conference. That way everyone could relax, get to know each other and begin planning any future Food Studies Caucus activities. Anyone interested in helping to plan such an event please contact me.
all the best,
John
John M Burdick
American Studies
Department of Transnational Studies
State University of New York at Buffalo
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716-560-3340
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The Food Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association serves as a network for scholars working on projects that engage the production, consumption, and representation of food across the many disciplines that cohere in American Studies.
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