Conference schedule

Graduate student workshop: Critical issues facing the food system in the 21st century

Program Schedule: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

9 a.m. Keynote address: The Ecological Hoofprint by Tony Weis

10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m., Panel I: Alternative Food Networks and Food Citizenship(Discussant: Charles Levkoe)

• Rylea Johnson. University of Guelph, Geography, “Wholesale Produce Auctions: assessing the viability of produce auctions as an alternative food system”
• Zhenzhong Si. University of Waterloo, Geography and Environmental Management, “Converging Alternative Food Networks in the New Rural Reconstruction Movement in China”
• Theresa Schumilas. University of Waterloo, Geography and Environmental Management, “Beyond ‘voting with your chopsticks’ – Everyday food resistance in China”
• Kim Burnett. University of Waterloo, Balsillie School of International Affairs, “What Place for International Trade in Food Sovereignty”

Lunch 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Guest-speaker: Phil Mount. Project SOIL: working together to grow Shared Opportunities on Institutional Land

12:45 p.m. -2 p.m., Panel II: Who Shapes What We Eat (Discussant: Phil Mount)

• Chelsea Smith. University of Waterloo, Environment and Resource Studies, “The use of Crop wild Relatives in public International Breeding Centers and Implications for Conservation”
• Wesley Tourangeau. University of Waterloo, Environment and Resource Studies, “Engineered risks: An analysis of discourse in agricultural biotechnology”
• Margaret Bancerz. Ryerson University, Policy Studies,“The Centre for Food in Canada: a Civil Society Hybrid?”
• Caileigh McKnight, York University, Environmental Studies, “Including Farmers’ Voices in the Farm Labour Debate”

2 p.m. -3:15 p.m., Panel III: Global Political Economy (Discussant: Steffanie Scott)

• Sarah J. Martin, University of Waterloo, Balsillie School of International Affairs , “Expertise, Financialization and Global Markets: The Techno-Politics of Agricultural Commodity Exchanges”
• Matthew Gaudreau. University of Waterloo, Balsillie School of International Affairs, “Feeding China, Twenty Years On: Emerging Corporate Power in the Agri‐food Chain”
• Andrés García Trujillo. University of Waterloo, Balsillie School of International Affairs, “Revisiting the impacts of maize trade liberalization on Mexico’s peasants: Twenty years after NAFTA”
• Isaac Lawther. University of Waterloo, Environment and Resource Studies, “The global implications of China’s agricultural development: Exploring the myths and realities”

Coffee break, 3:15 p.m. -3:30 p.m.

3:30 p.m. -4:45 p.m., Panel IV: Nutrition: Glut and Scarcity (Discussant: Jennifer Clapp)

• Caitlin Scott. University of Waterloo, Environment and Resource Studies, “Corporate discourse and changing diets: Industry influence in the ‘sustainable diets’ debate”
• Isabel Urrutia. University of Waterloo, Environment and Resource Studies, “Perspectives on food wastage”
• Johanna Wilkes. Wilfrid Laurier University, Balsillie School of International Affairs, “Stunting Malnutrition: Investigating the Drivers of Childhood Nutrition Rates in Rural Ethiopia”.
• Elizabeth Fraser. University of Waterloo, Balsillie School of International Affairs, “Famine Prevention in the 21st century: Lessons from Ethiopia”

Social Hour at the Jane Bond (5 p.m.)

5 Princess Street West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2X7