Food justice is a growing movement that has inspired both on-the-ground community projects and theoretical articulations across multiple disciplines. This workshop aims to help scholars and practitioners identify and address the challenges and opportunities in food justice. The 2016 workshop will be held May 13th and 14^th at MSU and will include scholarly talks and visits to local environmental justice projects.

We invite proposals on the justice of practices such as:

·     Food security and food sovereignty

·     Local food, slow food, or other food-based social movements

·     International trade and regulation

·     Agricultural ecology and sustainability

·     Labor at all points in the food system

·     Non-human animals in agriculture

·     Food, diet, or cooking

·     Intersectional perspectives on food systems

·     Agricultural policy and food standards

·     Seeds and genetically modified foods

The workshop is intended as a transdisciplinary space to forge connections between theories and between theory and practice, and papers should be accessible to a public audience. Previous papers have been informed by disciplines such as anthropology, critical race studies, disability studies, indigenous studies, economics, gender and sexuality studies, geography, history, literary criticism, philosophy, religious studies, sociology, and the human dimensions of agricultural and environmental sciences.

250-word abstracts for individual papers or posters, and 500-word panel proposals, are due by March 4th, 2016. Please submit proposals through the workshop webpage at workshoponfoodjustice.com/call-for-proposals/ and direct any questions to [log in to unmask].