Conference Program


The International Conference on Food Futures:
Humanities and Social Science Approaches
National Taiwan Science Education Center, 5F, A Warm Little Pond and Future Kitchen
國立台灣科學教育館,五樓溫暖小池塘及未來廚房
August 31 - September 7, 2022

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August 30 (TUESDAY), 2022

ARRIVAL

August 31 (WEDNESDAY), 2022

14:00
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15:00

Pre-conference Online Workshop I

Taiwan Indigenous Cultures and Foodways

SPEAKER: Yih-ren Lin (Taipei Medical University, Taiwan)

September 1 (THURSDAY), 2022

10:00
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11:00

Pre-conference Online Workshop II

Developing the Role of the Humanities in International Sustainability Science

SPEAKER: Steven Hartman(University of Iceland, Iceland)

13:00
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14:00

Pre-conference New Book Talk in Honor of Deborah Bird Rose

CHAIR: TEE Kim Tong (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan) PANELISTS:

  1. Thom van Dooren(University of Sydney, Australia)
    Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose
  2. Yih-ren Lin(Taipei Medical University, Taiwan)
    Wild Dog Dreaming Chinese Translation

September 2 (FRIDAY), 2022

10:00
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11:30

Online Roundtable

Gendered and Racial Food Injustices in the United States

CHAIR AND COMMENT: Joni Adamson(Arizona State University, USA)
PANELISTS:

  1. Sally Kitch(Arizona State University, USA)
    Women and Womanliness: Gendered Food Injustice
  2. Joan McGregor(Arizona State University, USA)
    Structural Injustices and the Harms of the Food System
  3. Mauricio Mejía(Arizona State University, USA)
    Designing Just and Sustainable Food Products and Systems
  4. Sara Aly El Sayed(Arizona State University, USA) and
    Christy Spackman (Arizona State University, USA)
    Reconsidering Food Safety Standards: Regulation's role in Fostering or Reducing Food Injustice
  5. Juliann Vitullo (Arizona State University, USA)
    The “Ideal” of a Mediterranean Diet?: The Risks of Promoting De-Territorialized Foodways without Cultural Context

14:00
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15:30

Online Panel

Food, Politics, and Activism

MODERATOR: Hsinya Huang(National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
PANELISTS:

  1. Bryan Kauma(Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
    Hunger and Power: Politics, Food (In)security and the Development of Small Grain in Zimbabwe, 2000-2010
  2. Ji Yun Park(City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
    Human as a Species in Agricultural Ecosystem: A Case Study of Vegelaboratory, Organic Farming for Vegetal Sustainability
  3. Anna Erzsebet Szucs (Independent Scholar)
    “Food Is Rarely Only Food”: Food as Literary Activism in Pacific Island Literature

September 3 (SATURDAY), 2022

09:00
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09:10

Opening Ceremony

OPENING REMARKS:
President Ying-yao Cheng(National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
and Director Huoo-chin Liu(National Taiwan Science Education Center)

In-person venue : 5F 溫暖小池塘 A Warm Little Pond

09:10
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10:10

Keynote Address I

Confronting Syndemic: Indigenous Scientific Literacies, Food Sovereignty, and the Literature of Intergenerational Justice

SPEAKER: Joni Adamson(Arizona State University, USA)
CHAIR: Joan Chiung-huei Chang(National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

In-person venue : 5F 溫暖小池塘 A Warm Little Pond

10:10
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10:30

Tea Break

10:30
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12:00

A

Paper Presentations I

Food Cultures in Asia

CHAIR: Jen-Hao Walter Hsu (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
PANELISTS:

  1. Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak(National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)
    Climate Change and Resilience Capacities of Farmers in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: A Case Study on The Transition to Rice-Shrimp Farming in Kien Giang Province
  2. Li-Ru Lu(National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
    Food Resources and Imperialism:
    Delineations of Formosa in Nineteenth-Century Western Travelers’ Texts
  3. Yalan Chang(National Taitung University, Taiwan)
    “Reframing Care” in the Age of a Novel Corona Virus: Food as Medicine on Xu-ying Li and Hui-wen Chen’s Tamsui Happiness Farm
  4. Keitaro Morita(Rikkyo University, Tokyo)
    Japanese Ecological Identities and Food Consumption as a Responsible Environmental Behavior

In-person venue : 5F 溫暖小池塘 A Warm Little Pond

B

Food Systems and Practice

CHAIR: Shu-ching Chen(National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
PANELISTS:

  1. Chia-li Kao(National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
    No Panic: Leezen’s Food System to Practice Loving-Kindness
  2. Chin-ju Lin(Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan)
    Food Sovereignty: The Women’s Field of the Kanakanavu
  3. Timothy Seekings(National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan)
    Edible Insects: a Collaborative Inquiry into Possible Food Futures Involving Crickets.

In-person session
Venue : 5F 未來廚房 Kitchen of Science

12:00
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13:30

Lunch Break

13:30
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14:50

Roundtable Discussion I

Building Caring "Solidarity Economies" around Food: HfE Leadership

CHAIR: Guy Beauregard (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
PANELISTS:

  1. Joni Adamson(North America and Asia Pacific/ Arizona State University, USA)
  2. Steven Hartman (Circumpolar/ University of Iceland, Iceland)
  3. Poul Holm (Europe/ Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
  4. Hsinya Huang (Asia Pacific/ National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
  5. Sally Kitch (North America/ Arizona State University, USA)
  6. David Manuel-Navarrete (Latin America/ Arizona State University, USA)
  7. James Ogude(Africa/ University of Pretoria, South Africa)
  8. Kirill Thompson(East Asia/ National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
  9. Thom van Dooren (Australia Pacific/ University of Sydney, Australia)

In-person venue : 5F 溫暖小池塘 A Warm Little Pond

14:50
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15:50

Plenary Speech

Future Challenges of Food and the Humanities: Mobilizing New Communities of Purpose

SPEAKER: Steven Hartman (University of Iceland, Iceland)
CHAIR: Serena Chou(Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

In-person venue : 5F 溫暖小池塘 A Warm Little Pond

15:50
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16:10

Tea Break

16:10
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17:10

Guided Tour at National Taiwan Science Education Center

Yi-Hsuan Lin(National Taiwan Science Education Center)

In-person event

18:00
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20:00

Rooftop Dinner / Poetry Reading

September 4 (SUNDAY), 2022

09:00
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10:00

Keynote Address II

Indigenous Food Culture as Survivance: I(e)nsuring the Future through Songs, Sovereignty, and Embedded Relations

SPEAKER: Kimberly Blaeser (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
CHAIR: Pin-chia Feng (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
COMMENT: Dana E. Powell (Appalachian State University, USA)

In-person venue : 5F 溫暖小池塘 A Warm Little Pond

10:00
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10:20

Tea Break

10:20
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11:50

The Future of Rice: Multispecies Ethnographic Documentary
稻米的未來: 多物種民族誌紀錄片 (Chinese/Bilingual Session)

MODERATOR: Yen-lin Tsai(蔡晏霖) (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

DISCUSSANTS:

  1. Shu-Ching Chen(National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
  2. Chia-ju Chang (The City University of New York, USA)
  3. Theodoor Richard(National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
  4. You-Ting Chen(National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)

In-person venue : 5F 溫暖小池塘 A Warm Little Pond

11:50
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13:20

Lunch Break

13:20
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14:20

Keynote Address III

FoodSmart Cities - A Framework for Sustainable Seafood

SPEAKER: Poul Holm(Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
CHAIR: Iping Liang(National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

In-person venue : 5F 溫暖小池塘 A Warm Little Pond

14:20
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14:40

Tea Break

14:40
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15:40

Roundtable Discussion III

Food and Sacred Ocean Space

CHAIR: Joan Chiung-huei Chang(National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

PANELISTS:

  1. Craig Santos Perez (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
  2. Syaman Rapongan(Tao Writer) / trans. Chiahua Lin (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
  3. Huei-Min Tsai(National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

In-person venue : 5F 溫暖小池塘 A Warm Little Pond

15:40
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16:00

Tea Break

16:00
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17:00

Workshop: Tayal Traditional Knowledges and Foodways

CHAIR:Yih-Ren Lin(Taipei Medical University, Taiwan)

Pagung Tomi (Tayal cultural NGO leader, Taiwan)
Tayal Millet Home Garden and Neighbours: Where Language, Nature and Culture Meet

Syat Tali (Tayal Practitioner and Educator, Taiwan)
Indigenous Natural Farming and Sustainable Food

In-person Session
Venue : 4F 生物多樣性展廳 B區 Biodiversity Exhibition Hall section B

17:00
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17:10

Closing

Hsinya Huang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
Jen-Hao Walter Hsu (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
Yih-ren Lin (Taipei Medical University, Taiwan)

In-person venue : 5F溫暖小池塘 A Warm Little Pond

18:00
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20:00

Banquet

Post-Conference Field Trip:
Working within the Food Landscape, Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change
HfE Global Leadership Meeting

September 5-7, 2022
Venue: Smangus, Cinsbu and Tbahu Tayal Villages
A Walking Workshop Held in the “Millet Ark” Mountains

  Organized by Dr. Yih-ren Lin, the arrangement of the workshop is to share the encouraging experiences of Indigenous Tayal women’s testimony to respond to the crisis of climate change. The walking workshop is a way of engaging with the experiences of local people. Rather than sitting in the meeting room to hear the seminars, this attempt is made to guide you into the field and witness the practical work through your own eyes, ears and feet. It would also be a gathering for celebrating with local people and reflections on our race’s careless attitude towards the planet.
  The “Millet Ark” is an action initiated by indigenous Tayal women to preserve the language, culture and biological varieties of millet. Millet is the traditional staple food of indigenous peoples and has been cultivated over 100 varieties in Taiwan. In the millet garden, traditionally Tayal people also grow other crops like yam, beans and corn, etc.. In other words, millet becomes a flagship species to lead and include other crops in the realm of their home garden. However, this kind of traditional life has been changed drastically by the process of modernization and replaced by cash crops like tomato, tea and vegetables which then become so vulnerable under the impact of climate change. In the workshop, we will experience their changing livelihood and listen to the stories of how they regain their food sovereignty through re-growing traditional crops and mapping out their natural resources in their traditional territory. Tayal is the third largest people of the indigenous in Taiwan and mainly distributed in the middle and northern parts of Taiwan. The place we will visit is located in the Jienshi District of Hsinchu County.

HFE Global Leadership Meeting
  Beside the walking workshops, the annual meeting of Directors of HfE will take place in the middle of the pre-conference field trip as a panel session. Nine Directors from around the world from different continents will discuss what they may accomplish as humanists contributing at both local and global scales to intervene on behalf of people, place, and planet.


Goals
(1)  Providing an innovative workshop for reflections on women's vital position in food cultures
(2)  Responding to the crisis of global climate change from the daily life
(3)  Bridging indigenous vision and action for caring the earth

Optional Pre-Conference Field Trip: Working within the Food Landscape, Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change / Working Meeting of Directors HfE

September 5 (MONDAY), 2022
Post-Conference Field Trip Day 1

08:00

Coach transportation from Kaohsiung

12:00-14:00

Lunch and Socializing

14:00-18:30

Walking Workshop

Working within the Food Landscape, Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change

18:30-20:30

Dinner

September 6 (TUESDAY), 2022
Post-Conference Field Trip DAy 2

07:00-09:00

Breakfast

09:00-11:10

Walking Tour I

11:10-12:00

Overview of Asia Pacific Online & Looking Forward to Food Stories of Tayal Aboriginal Partners

12:00-14:00

Lunch
(Followed by Possible ad hoc Breakouts) Walks Around the Grounds and Talk

TOPIC: The latest IPCC report & how our community can respond

14:00-16:00

HfE Global Leadership Meeting

CHAIR: Poul Holm(Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Group 1: HfE Global Leadership Group
Touch on the following topics
—follow-up on the publications for HfE
—future collaborative projects
—discussion concerning membership
Group 2: HfE Asia Pacific Observatory Members on Indigenous Partnership
  (can possibly organize as one or two sub-groups groups depending on what is most productive and manageable—Looking ahead to collaborative projects, field schools, joint grant efforts etc)

16:00-16:30

Tea Break

16:30-17:30

Food stories Generation Session

Millet Granary —— Millet Ark Project

17:30-19:00

Dinner

19:00-21:00

Cross-cultural Conversations

September 7 (WEDNESDAY), 2022
Post-Conference Field Trip Day 3

07:00-09:00

Breakfast

09:30-11:30

Walking Tour II

Ancient Cypress Forest

11:30-13:00

Lunch

13:00-

Transportation to Taipei / Kaohsiung (Coach)