Quality versus Quantity:
Competing Visions of Food, Farming and Rural Life

The Agricultural History Society Annual Conference
Springfield, Illinois, June 15-18, 2011

Deadline for Submissions, October 1, 2010

Contemporary debates about food, agriculture, and rural life are often framed in opposition with little attention to historical context. Proponents of the local, slow, and organic often emphasize quality while advocates of the global, fast, and industrial stress quantity to satisfy world demand for food. The Agricultural History Society invites proposals for papers that engage or transcend these debates by examining questions about quality and quantity as they relate to food, farming, and/or rural life from a historical perspective. We especially welcome submissions that counter or reframe the accepted narratives of the field. Topics from any time period and location are welcome.

The AHS encourages proposals of all types and formats, including traditional sessions with successive papers and commentary, thematic panel discussions or debates, roundtables on recent books/films, and poster presentations. The program committee prefers complete session proposals, but individual paper proposals are welcome. The AHS extends a special welcome to graduate students and provides up to $250 in travel reimbursement to each graduate student whose paper is accepted for the conference.

Paper proposals should consist of a 200-word abstract and one-page CV. Session proposals should include a 200-word session summary accompanied by a 200-word paper abstract and one-page CV for each participant.

Download complete Call For Papers flyer

Submit all proposals to:  Joe Anderson, Mount Royal University - jlanderson@mtroyal.ca

The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce our 71st Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA, March 29-April 2, 2011.
For meeting information visit http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2011.html

The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (sessions, papers and posters) for the Program of the 71st Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA, March 29-April 2, 2011.  The theme of the Program is “Expanding the Influence of Applied Social Science.”

The Society is a multi-disciplinary association that focuses on problem definition and resolution.  We welcome papers from all disciplines.  The deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2010.  For additional information on the theme, abstract size/format, and the meeting, please visit our web page (www.sfaa.net, click on “Annual Meeting”).
 
 
Please contact me if you have any questions.
 
Melissa Cope
Society for Applied Anthropology
PO Box 2436