Food System Temporalities Conference Program

Thursday, January 9th

10:00 - 10:30 Opening Remarks

  • Professor Uradyn E. Bulag, Elizabeth Fox, and Thomas White

10:30 - 11:30 Keynote Lecture

  • Professor Heather Paxson

11:30 - 12:30 Panel 1 - Chair: Thomas White

  • Laura Toffolo: ‘Seasonal Veg or Seasonal Workers? Towards a temporal understanding of the plantationocene’

  • Natalia Gutkowski: ‘Unsettling Times for Border Control: A Porous Political Ecology of Date Plantations in the Jordan Valley’

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Panel 2 - Chair: Elizabeth Fox

  • Anna Colquhoun: ‘Slow food? The hidden labour of “homemade” food in Istrian farm restaurants’

  • Nafsika Papacharalampous: ‘The changing taste of Greek yoghurt: Reflections on seasonality in upscale delis and fine-dining restaurants’

  • Paulina Kolata: ‘Curating Buddhist Foodscapes: Life Stories of Rot and Reuse in Deathcare Rituals in Contemporary Japan’

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00 Panel 3 - Chair: Uradyn E. Bulag

  • Mariko Yoshida: ‘Spawnless Temporality’

  • Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe: ‘Ill-Seasoned: Misfits, Margins and Resistance besides Drought’

17:00 - 18:30 Drinks Reception

19:00 Speaker’s Dinner

Friday, January 10th

9:00 - 10:30 Panel 4 - Chair: Uradyn E. Bulag

  • Tanya Matthan: ‘Storage Time: Vegetal and Other Temporalities in India’s Onion Economy’

  • Sasha Gora: ‘Fresh Fish and Old Salt’

  • Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme: ‘Lobster Time: What you bite into when you eat a Maine lobster’

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Panel 5 - Chair: Elizabeth Fox

  • Mylène Tanferri: ‘Growth Waves, Sliding Average and Technical Calculations of Plant Lives: A glimpse on time as organised by digital agriculture tools’

  • Adam Searle: ‘Technological Hinterlands: Feeding an ecomodernist future’

  • Björn Reichhardt: ‘When the Source is Suspended: Ferments, Development, and Delay’

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Panel 6 - Chair: Thomas White

  • Louis Pille-Schneider: ‘Futures of the Flesh: Temporal work in the making of Piscine commodities in Senegal’

  • Femke Vulto: ‘Fishy Futures: Luck, destiny and risk in the supply chain of brown shrimp’

14:30-15:00 Closing Remarks

Elizabeth Fox and Thomas White