Wednesday, April 19, 2006

 

Founding Food Studies

Founding Food Studies
An Interdisciplinary Symposium of UC Davis Faculty and Graduate Students


May 3, 2006
3201 Hart Hall
University of California, Davis

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Conference Program

Welcome
8:00-8:30

Kimberly Nettles, Women and Gender Studies
Clare Hasler Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science
coffee, pastries, fruit


Food Lessons
8:30-10:00

Jessica Morton (Nutrition)
“The Effect of Calcium Cooking Class Program on Calcium-Specific Knowledge and Behavior of Children and their Parents”

Melissa Salazar (Education),
“Counting Croutons: Children’s Food Culture in the Cafeteria”

Virginia Chaidez (Nutrition),
“Child-Feeding Practices among Low-Income Latinos: An Early Starting Point in Obesity Prevention”

Chair/Comment: Charlotte Biltekoff, American Studies/Food, Science, and Technology


Containing Food
10:00-11:30

Laura Hudson (Cultural Studies)
“’Dieve—but I’m Glad I’m not a Hog!’: The Modern Jungle of the Meat Industry”

Veronica Hernandez-Izquierdo (Food, Science and Technology)
“A New Whey to Make Food Packaging”

Leslie Madsen-Brooks (Cultural Studies),
“Scrambled Eggs: Consumption and Anxiety at the Market”

Chair/Comment: Carolyn Thomas de la Peña (American Studies)


Lunch and Keynote Address
11:45-1:15

Amy Bentley, Food Studies/Nutrition, NYU
Founding Food Studies: Pleasures and Pitfalls


Food Politics
1:15-3:00

Robert Weis, (History)
“City of Wheat: The Social History of Bread in the Land of Tortillas: 1875-1945”

Kerin Gould (Native American Studies)
“Food and Autonomy”

Jennifer Gregson (Sociology)
"Using the Built Food Environment to Assess Neighborhood Effects for Bodyweight"

Erin Derden-Little (Intl. Ag. Development)
“An Action-Oriented Approach to Sustainable Food Systems”

Chair/Comment: Cynthia Brantley (History)


Coffee Break (coffee and cookies)
3:00-3:15


Food Pleasures
3:15-4:45

David Michalski (Cultural Studies)
“On the Persistence of Dark Bottles: Modern Aesthetics and the Hesitant Receptivity of Wine”

Marco Garcia (Food, Science, and Technology),
“The Terroir of Beer”

Stacy Jameson (Cultural Studies),
“Toward a Visualization of Consumption: Advertising and the Female Food Orgasm”

Chair/Comment: Michael Ziser (English)


Closing Remarks
4:45-5:00
Carolyn de la Peña and Kimberly Nettles





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