The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Conference
Right to Food—Food as Commons
2024 Call for Proposals
Conference Dates
June 3, 2024: Virtual Conference (synchronous lightning talks and asynchronous posters only)
June 5-8, 2024: On-site Conference in Syracuse, NY (see submission options below)
Deadlines
Early Bird Deadline: November 15, 2023
Standard Review Deadline: January 5, 2024
Conference Website: https://bit.ly/AFHVS2024
The Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) invite scholars and practitioners to engage with the ideas of Right to Food—Food as Commons, June 3 (virtually) and June 5-8 (on-site).
The human right to food and nutrition frames a global effort that integrates peoples’ right to self-determination and cooperation – locally and across borders – with civil society’s struggles for food justice, food sovereignty, political agency, and economic democracy. By introducing the conference theme as “right to food,” we invoke the rights of nature, the reciprocal human and more-than-human relationships foundational to our health and survival, and the work of food as commons. While we seek presentations that specifically speak to this year’s theme, any submission across the broader transdisciplinary study of food, agriculture, culture, nutrition, society, and sustainability will be considered, including proposals from and with scholars, practitioners, community partners, activists, policymakers, and others.
Timeline:
For early bird review submissions, authors will be notified of acceptance by mid-December 2023. For standard review submissions, authors will be notified of acceptance by early March 2024. All presenters must be registered for the conference by April 15, 2024 to be included in the program.
Submission Options
Each presenter will be limited to no more than two sessions, to include no more than one paper presentation. For example, you may appear on a roundtable and a panel or a panel and a creative workshop. In addition to papers, panels, posters, and roundtables, we welcome experiential kitchen-based and creative sessions in which the material and the intellectual, theoretical, and practical intersect. Options include:
- Paper Presentation: Can be already affiliated with a session or organizers will place in a session; 15-minute presentation
- Paper Session: Organize a group of papers, four 15-minute papers total with 30 minutes for discussion; 90-minute session
- Roundtable: Host a conversation on a topic with a group of stakeholders and/or experts as panelists; 90-minute session
- Lightning Talk: Presentation will be placed in a session by organizers; 5-minute presentation
- Poster: Share a poster that describes a research project or program
- Kitchen Session: Use a commercial teaching kitchen or a demonstration kitchen to host a tasting, demonstration, or hands-on workshop. Organizers are responsible for covering the costs of food and supplies. Indicate which kind of kitchen you will need; 90-minute session
- Creative Workshop: Organized session where participants engage in an activity together to further their understanding of foodways and/or food systems; 90-minute session
Additional information on Kitchen Sessions: We have two available options: 1) Teaching kitchen with a capacity for 32; eight groups of four 2) Demonstration kitchen with capacity for 44. Hosts can assist with equipment and smallwares, so presenters do not have to travel with equipment. Syracuse has an abundance of markets where you can source products upon arrival. Hosts can provide a list of options for local food sourcing closer to the conference. Please contact Mary Kiernan mpkierna@syr.edu with kitchen-related questions.
Questions: 2024conference@afhvs.org
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