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2022 International Conference on Food Futures

June 23, 2022 Updated

We are excited to announce that the 2022 International Conference on Food Futures will be held on 3rd to 4th September, 2022 in a hybrid format in Taiwan. The venue of the conference will be in National Taiwan Science Education Center, Taipei. Please stay tuned, and we will announce the virtual link soon!

The conference features pre-conference workshops, keynote and plenary speeches, roundtables, and panels.

Keynotes:

Time: September 3 (Sat.), 9:10-10:10 (GMT+8)
Speaker: Joni Adamson (Arizona State University)
Title: Confronting Syndemic: Indigenous Scientific Literacies, Food Sovereignty, and the Literature of Intergenerational Justice

Time: September 4, 9:00-10:00 (GMT+8)
Speaker: Kimberly Blaeser (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Title: Indigenous Food Culture as Survivance: I(e)nsuring the Future through Songs, Sovereignty, and Embedded Relations

Time: September 4, 13:20-14:20 (GMT+8)
Speaker: Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin)
Title: FoodSmart Cities–A Framework for Sustainable Seafood

Plenary:

Time: September 3, 14:50-15:50 (GMT+8)
Speaker: Steven Hartman (University of Iceland)
Title: Future Challenges of Food and Humanities: Mobilizing New Communities of Purpose

Roundtables:

Building Caring “Solidarity Economies” around Food: HfE Leadership
Discussant:
Poul Holm (Europe/ Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Joni Adamson (North America and Asia Pacific/ Arizona State University, USA)
Sally Kitch (North America/ Arizona State University, USA)
Steven Hartman (Circumpolar/ University of Iceland, Iceland)
Kirill Thompson (East Asia/ National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Hsinya Huang (Asia Pacific/ National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
David Manuel-Navarrete (Latin America/ Arizona State University, USA)
James Ogude (Africa/ University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Thom van Dooren (Australia Pacific/ University of Sydney, Australia)

Food Futures: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
Discussants:
Craig Santos Perez University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
Syaman Rapongan (Tao Writer)
Huei-Min Tsai (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

New Book Talk in Honor of Deborah Bird Rose
Discussant:
Thom van Dooren (University of Sydney, Australia)
Yih-ren Lin (Taipei Medical University, Taiwan)

Please mark your calendar and join us in person or virtually for the intellectual feast!
For more information and updates, please visit our website:
http://2022foodfutures.nsysu.edu.tw/