Thursday 19 May
6 pm Keynote: Sidney Mintz (Baltimore), Food, Energy and Culture
Friday 20 May
9.15 – 10.30 am:
1. Opening Panel: Food and Globalisation
Chair: Frank Trentmann (London)
Penny van Esterik (North York), Conceptual Tools for the Study of Food and Globalization
Raymond Grew (Ann Arbor), Food for Global History
11 am – 1 pm:
2. Panel: Local Cultures and Transnational Spaces
Chair: Sidney Mintz (Baltimore)
Jack Goody (Cambridge/UK), Consumption, Globalisation and Power
Maren Möhring (Köln), Ethnic Cuisine. Food, Migration and Consumption in West Germany
Jonathan Morris (Hatfield), The Cappuccino Conquests – Writing a Beverage Biography
Discussant: Anneke van Otterloo (Amsterdam)
2 – 4 pm:
3. Panel: Food and Empire
Chair: Jack Goody (Cambridge/UK)
Richard Wilk (Indiana), A Taste of Home: The Cultural and Economic Significance of European Food Exports to the Colonies
Paul H. Kratoska (Singapore), The Southeast Asian Rice Trade and Its Ramifications, 1850–1950
Victoria de Grazia (New York), The American Market Empire: Reflections on its Alimentary Power
Katarzyna Cwiertka (Leiden), Imperialism and the Global Market: The Canning Industry of Imperial Japan
Discussant: Sidney Mintz (Baltimore)
4.30 – 6.00 pm:
4. Panel: Food Chains and Global Markets
Chair: Victoria De Grazia (New York)
Steven Topik (Irvine), Coffee’s Janus Faces
Marina Moskowitz (Glasgow), ‘Your seeds are capital’: The Development of Market Gardening in Nineteenth–Century America
Peter Jackson (Sheffield), The Transnational Spaces of Contemporary Commodity Culture
Discussant: Thera Wijsenbeek (Leiden)
Saturday 21 May
9 – 10.30 am:
5. Panel: Famines and Food Entitlements
Chair: Alexander Nützenadel
Eric Vanhaute (Ghent/Wassenaar), Famines and peasantries. An historical and contemporary evaluation of the 'last' European hunger crisis in 1845–1847
Cormac O’Grada (Dublin), Twentieth–century Famines in Historical Perspective
Dana Simmons (Riverside/Berlin), “The Diet of War”: Mass Hunger and Science in the Twentieth Century
Discussant: Hans Bass (Bremen)
11.30 – 11.45 Coffee break
11.45 – 12.15:
6. Panel: Food and Global Governance
Chair: Penny van Esterik (North York)
Alexander Nützenadel (Cologne/Wassenaar), A ‘Green International’? Food Markets and Transnational Politics 1880–1920
Frank Trentmann (London), The Problem of Food Security and Visions of Social and Global Order, Europe, c. 1918–1950
Christian Gerlach (Pittsburgh), Transnational agribusiness in the UN system: FAO’s Industry–Cooperative Programme and the World Food Crisis in the 1970s
Discussant: Sunil Amrith (Cambridge/UK)
12.15 am: 7. Concluding discussion
Chair: Richard Wilk (Indiana)
Sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Cultures of Consumption research programme (ESRC-AHRB)