Were you planning to participate in the Yale Food Systems Symposium this year? Depending on your plans, you may be happy to learn that they have changed the date (due to a conflict with a religious holiday) and extended the deadline for submitting proposals.
The new dates are February 23-24, 2018. The website with everything you would want to know is here.
From the request for proposals:
Invitation
Challenges facing food systems have long been referred to as “wicked,” because they resist simple, linear solutions. Stakeholders are diverse, with complex environmental, political, and social interconnections; solutions therefore necessitate information-sharing and community-building between actors working across disciplines. The Fifth Annual Yale Food Systems Symposium will bring together a mix of scholars and practitioners in panels, workshops, roundtables, and breakout sessions over two days to explore the complex dynamics of agri-food systems. This year’s theme “Resilience Across Scales” focuses on our capacity to absorb stress while maintaining integrity, which is crucial to the continued functioning of our food systems. We seek to engage questions of food production, consumption, urbanization, and climate change, and ability to adapt, reorganize, and evolve in the face of today’s challenges.
The symposium seeks to:
- Create a platform for sharing cutting-edge research and applied learning from food systems scholarship and practice
- Serve as a venue for the creation of fruitful working relationships across disciplines
- Create a welcoming space for all who are engaged in the work of supporting sustainable food systems
Types of Programming
The symposium will consist of a diversity of proposed formats: speakers and panelists, presenting original research, as well as workshops, demonstrations, and roundtable discussion groups.
Submissions topic areas include, but are not limited to:
- Nutrition, diet shifts, and sustainable diets
- Food, ethics, and religion
- Market-based solutions and private governance
- Supply chain management, certification, and multi-stakeholder engagement
- Food justice and activist movements
- Plant biotechnology and cellular agriculture
- Urbanization, land use change, and food systems planning
- Sustainable agriculture and land use
- Plant biotechnology and cellular agriculture
- Global geo-political structure and food security
- Systems science, industrial ecology, and circular economy
- Food waste
- Food policy, farm bill, and government
- Indigenous food sovereignty
We also welcome ideas that span across categories or do not correspond directly to those outlined. The symposium draws over 250 students, educators, researchers, farmers, chefs, activists, and business professionals each year.
Submission Instructions
Deadline for submission is Monday, December 18, 2017. Abstracts & workshop proposals should be 300 words and include a title and keywords. Please submit online using our submission form. Accepted proposals will be notified on a rolling basis. Please refer to the conference website, yalefoodsymposium.org, for more information. Questions about proposals, workshops, submission, or registration may also be directed to yfss@yale.edu.
* The symposium was originally scheduled for September 29-30, 2017. It has since been rescheduled. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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