*CALL FOR PAPERS*



*Moral Cultures of Food:*

*Access, Production, and Consumption from Past to Present*



UNT Initiative in Food Culture and Environment

University of North Texas

Denton, TX



April 2-4, 2015

*Contacts:*

Prof. Jennifer Jensen Wallach ([log in to unmask])

Prof. Michael Wise ([log in to unmask])



Feeding ourselves has long entangled human beings within complicated moral
puzzles of social injustice and environmental destruction. When we eat, we
consume not only food on the plate, but also the lives and labors of
innumerable plants, animals, and people. This process distributes its costs
unevenly across race, class, gender, and other social categories. The
production and distribution of food often obscures these material and
cultural connections, impeding honest assessments of our impacts on the
world around us. In our own day, it is tempting to envision local, fair
trade, organic, and humane food systems as less harmful options to the
ravages of corporate agribusiness and global food capitalism, but these
alternatives each carry their own significant social and ecological costs,
as no shortage of critics have pointed out. In past times and places, other
similar conversations structured the acceptable boundaries of food
practices that condemned living beings to the fate of digestion.



The *Moral Cultures of Food* conference asks what we might learn from the
critical study of these past efforts to understand and resolve the ethical
dilemmas of eating. We invite scholars of any rank, from graduate student
to full professor, to​ come to the University of North Texas for a
three-day program of panel presentations, workshops, and public discussions
designed to address the historical dimensions of food ethics and to provoke
new avenues of interdisciplinary research in the field of food studies. The
conference will be hosted by Jennifer Jensen Wallach and Michael Wise,
co-founders of UNT’s Initiative in Food Culture and Environment. Special
guests will include Carol J. Adams (author of *The Sexual Politics of Meat*)
and James McWilliams (author of *Just Food*). We will invite conference
participants to contribute to an edited volume to be published by the
University of Arkansas Press.



We welcome the submission of individual paper proposals by December 1, 2014.
Invitations will be sent to participants by January 1, 2015. We are happy
to consider proposals from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. The
proposal, of up to three pages, should indicate how the project approaches
and interprets the conference theme in addition to describing the research
to be presented.



Please email proposals and brief CVs directly to:

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