Upcoming: Early Registration for CAFS’ Annual General Meeting
Posted: March 7, 2012
Categories: Events / Ontario Food Policy / Research / Schools
The Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) will host its seventh Annual General Meeting at Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo from May 26 – 28, 2012. The conference is running in conjunction with the 2012 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, with the CAFS theme being Crossroads for Food Studies: A Fork in the Road?
The conference will explore the relationships between food production and consumption, regional and local foodscapes, relationships between urban practices and rural environments, as well as crossings of food that occur on a larger, global scale.
To register for this innovative event, visit the Congress 2012 website. Program highlights are listed below, but a full schedule for the conference can be found here.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
About Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)
The Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) promotes critical, interdisciplinary scholarship in the broad area of food systems: food policy, production, distribution and consumption. CAFS recognizes the need for coordinated interdisciplinary research efforts in response to societal needs for informing policy makers, assessing the outcomes of community-based work, and demonstrating the environmental and social impacts of changes affecting food systems and food policies.