Conference Participation

Busch, Lawrence

 “The Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Retail Food Industry,” Invited paper presented at a Conference on The New Sustainability: Corporate or Consumer Social Responsiblity, Wageningen, Netherlands, March 10, 2004, with Carmen Bain.

“Market Driven Implications,” Invited paper presented at a conference on Agricultural Environmental Management Systems, Washington, March 3-4, 2004.

“Trade, Food Security, and Standards.”  Invited paper presented at a conference on Sovereignty and Security: New Conceptualizations for Post-9/11 North American Relations in the XXI Century, East Lansing, April 2004.

“A Sociology of Fear.”  Invited paper presented at the University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece, May, 2004.

“The Changing Food System: From Markets to Networks,” Plenary Paper presented at the XI World Congress of Rural Sociology, Trondheim, Norway, July, 2004.

“From Markets to Networks: Supermarkets and the Emerging Global Agrifood System,”Invited paper presented at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 19, 2004.

“The Technics of Governance: Thinking About the New (Socio)economics of Agrifood Standards,” Invited paper presented at the University of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, November 1, 2004.

“Gee!  The Gnome in Genome,”  Keynote Address to the Genome Canada GE3LS conference, Toronto, March, 2005.

“Circus Maximus?  The World Trade Organization, the Private Sector, and Genetically Modified Crops,” Invited paper presented at Workshop and Conference on Genetically Modified Organisms, the World Trade Organization, and the Future of the World Agricultural Economy, Madison, Wisconsin, April 15, 2005.

“Contes Rendus: Pourquoi les contes comptent dans l’histoire des OGM,” Invited paper presented to the Ethics Committee of CIRAD, Paris, June 7, 2005.

“The Emerging Agrifood System: Challenges and Opportunities for Smallholders,”  Invited paper presented at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, June 20, 2005.  http://www.ifpri.org/themes/Gov/govevents.asp

“Can Plant Biotechnology Become a Truly Social Science?”  Invited paper presented at the US-EC Taskforce on Biotechnology Research, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, June 22, 2005.

“Biotechnology Standards: Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Development,” Invited paper presented at a conference on Ag Biotech and Midwest Rural Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL, September 8, 2005.

“Mainstream v. Alternative Marketing Chains,” Invited paper presented at PhD course on organic food and farming, Skanderborg, Denmark, October 3-7, 2005.

“Performing the Economy, Performing Science: How Third Party Certification is Transforming the Food Sector,” Invited paper presented  to the departments of Science and Technology Studies and Development Sociology, Cornell University, November, 2005.

“Emerging Agrifood Standards: Challenges and Opportunities,”  Invited paper presented at Symposium on Risk Analysis of Agro-Product Safety, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China; and International Advanced Symposium on Agro-Product Safety Risk Assessment and Testing Techniques, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China.

“Risk Analysis: Issues, Limits, and Complexities,” Invited paper presented at Symposium on Risk Analysis of Agro-Product Safety, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China; Jiajiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China; International Advanced Symposium on Agro-Product Safety Risk Assessment and Testing Techniques, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China; and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, April, 2006.

“Standards: How Anonymous Power Shapes Our World,”  Invited paper presented at the Buffet Pensant, Wageningen University, Netherlands, October 18, 2006.

“Are Sustainability and Social Justice Compatible?”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Sacramento, CA, August, 2004.

“Standards and the Governance of Science and Technology in the Agrifood Sector,” paper presented at the meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Paris, September, 2004.

“Can Third Party Certification of Food and Agricultural Products Enhance Social Justice?” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Tampa, FL, August, 2005.

"Producing Non-Genetically Modified Corn and Soli: It's All about Supply Chain Management," paper presented at the annual meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Louisville, KY, August, 2006 (with Jason Konefal).  

Harris, Craig

"What is Food Safety?" (M.R. Worosz, A.J. Knight, and E.C.D. Todd). Paper presented at the joint meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society, Boston, MA, 07 - 11Jun 2006.

"Risk Analysis of Raw Milk Soft Cheese." (A.J. Knight, M.R. Worosz, E.C.D. Todd, and L.D. Bourquin). Paper presented at Gate to Plate: Current Issues and Future Strategies, North Dakota State University and the Great Plains Institute of Food Safety, Fargo, ND, 04 - 05 May 2006.

"Michigan Consumer Food Safety Survey Data Briefing."(M.R. Worosz). Presented to the Food and Dairy Division and County Health Administrators, Michigan Department of Agriculture, Lansing, MI, 30 Jun 2006.

"National Consumer Food Safety Survey." (A.J. Knight, and M.R. Worosz). Data briefing for Congressional Legislative Aides, The Capitol, Washington DC, 24 – 25 Apr 2006.

Perlstadt, Harry

“A Framework for Assessing Risk in Behavioral and Social Science Research”American Association for Behavioral and Social Sciences Las Vegas Feb 17,2006

"How has the concept of disease changed, and to what consequence?"The Ninth Annual National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, Notre Dame University March 11, 2006

"Network Support for Dealing with IRBs in Multi-Site Clinical Trials: A
Research Proposal" North Central Sociological Association Indianapolis Mar 25, 2006

Workshop: Assessment of the Sociology Major
with Carla B. Howery, American Sociological Association