Conference Presentations

Food Stories: Consumption in an Age of Anxiety, Peter Jackson. The Cultural Geographies Lecture, Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas. March 2009
Consumer Anxieties about Food: A Moral Economy Perspective, Peter Jackson. Agri-Food XVI, Auckland. November 2009
On Display: The Moralities of Shopping and Everyday Ethics, Peter Jackson. The Site Gallery, Sheffield. February 2010
Socio-cultural Meaning of Food: New Mothers’ Perceptions on the Safety of Infant Formula, Qian Gong. International Workshop on Food Security, Beijing. March 2010
Good Soy, Bad Soy: Global Commodity Chains and the Politics of Consumption, Benjamin Coles. Association of American Geographers, Washington DC. April 2010
Social Anxiety and the Geographies of Fear, Benjamin Coles and Jonathan Everts. Association of American Geographers, Washington DC. April 2010
Mediated Anxiety – Media Coverage of 2007/08 Food Price Spike and 2009 Dairy Farmer Protest in Europe, Qian Gong. 2010 Association of American Geographers, Washington DC. April 2010
Consumer Perceptions of Food Safety in China, Qian Gong. British Sociological Association Food Study Group Conference, London. July 2010
Anxiety in the Kitchen?, Angela Meah and Matt Watson. British Sociological Association Food Study Group Conference, London. July 2010
See Through Foods? Transparency and Consumer Trust, Richard Milne. British Sociological Association Food Study Group Conference. London, July 2010
Mobilising Knowledge Claims in the Governance of Agri-Food Innovation, Richard Lee. XVII World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Gothenburg. July 2010
A Scare at Lunchtime? A Study of the Swedish ´Pig Farm Scandal´and its Workings, Maria Brodin. Poster presented at the BSA Food Studies Group Conference, London. July 2010
HACCP Space: Food Governance, Regulation and Ideology in the Thai Chicken and Shrimp Commodity Chains, Benjamin Coles. BSA Food Study Group Conference, London. July 2010
Anxiety in the Kitchen? Managing Conflicting Concerns about Food Safety and Waste, Angela Meah and Matt Watson. Putting Waste on the Food Studies Agenda, SOAS Food Studies Centre, London. July 2010
Social Anxiety: A Prescription for the Future, Benjamin Coles and Jonathan Everts. Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual conference, London. September 2010
Food Risk Management: Understanding, Expiration and Affect, Richard Milne. European Association for Studies of Science and Technology Conference. September 2010, Knowledge Claims, Governance and Food Science and Technology, Richard Lee. Annual Conference of Public Analysts, Leeds. October 2010
Locating Food Waste in Kitchen Practices and Anxieties, Matt Watson and Angela Meah. Waste and Resources Action Programme Ethnographic Workshop, Banbury. October 2010
Consuming Anxiety? Parental Practices after the 2008 Infant Formula Scandal in China, Qian Gong and Peter Jackson. White Rose East Asian Centre seminar, University of Sheffield. November 2010
Consumer Culture and Gendered Anxieties about Food, Peter Jackson. Graduate seminar on gender theory and spatial representations, Uppsala University. November 2010
Anxiety as Social Practice, Peter Jackson. International workshop on geographical knowledge and theories of practice, University of Sheffield. November 2010
Researching practices, Angela Meah. International workshop on geographical knowledge and theories of practice, University of Sheffield. November 2010
Practice and Affect, Jakob Wenzer and Richard Milne. International workshop on geographical knowledge and theories of practice, University of Sheffield. November 2010
Consumer Culture in an 'Age of Anxiety', Peter Jackson. National University of Ireland, Maynooth. December 2010
Reconstituting 'Masculinity' through Everyday Kitchen Practices, Angela Meah. Joint Anthropology of Britain/ICoSS workshop, University of Sheffield. January 2011
Infant Formula Scandal in China – Responses from the Industry and the Regulatory Bodies, Qian Gong. Department of Geography, University of Coventry. February 2011
Good and Bad Cultures: Dairy and the Negotiation of Anxiety, Why We Eat How We Eat: Food Choices, Nutrition and the Politics of Eating, Benjamin Coles, Richard Milne and Angela Meah. Goldsmiths College, London. February 2011
Consumer Culture and Gendered Anxieties about Food, Peter Jackson. Exeter University. March 2011
What does Provenance bring to the Table? Why it sometimes Matters where Foods come from in Domestic Provisioning, Angela Meah and Matt Watson. Association of American Geographers Annual Conference. Seattle, USA. April 2011
Chicken Matters in Camberwell (but not always): Provenance and Consuming the Right Kind of Rural, Benjamin Coles. Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Seattle, USA. April 2011
The Anxiety that Never was? The Roles of the News Wires in Constructing Food Crises, Qian Gong. Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Seattle, USA. April 2011
Consumer Anxieties about Provenance and Food Safety in China, Peter Jackson and Qian Gong. Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Seattle, USA. April 2011
Sustainability and the dynamics of food practices, Matt Watson. invited seminar for the People, Space and Place Research Group, University of Liverpool. May 2011
Consumer Anxieties about Food, Peter Jackson. Food Anxieties conference, Reading University. June 2011
Global Food Security, Peter Jackson, Richard Lee, Richard Milne and Matt Watson. Sheffield Food Festival, Sheffield Hallam University. July 2011
Global Food Security, Peter Jackson. States of insecurity workshop, ICoSS, Sheffield. July 2011
Food Waste Practices, Matt Watson. Public Debate: Our Food Supply: A scientific view into the future, part of the Sheffield Food Festival, Sheffield. July 2011
The Circulation of Anxieties and Product Innovation Practices, Richard Lee. Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference, London. August-September 2011
Myths and Realities: consumer anxieties about food, Peter Jackson. British Library/Academy of Social Sciences/ESRC, London. September 2011
From Farm to Fork: A Public Debate on Global Food Security (with Warren Belasco), Peter Jackson. ESRC Festival of Social Science, University of Sheffield. November 2011
Placing Chickens in Camberwell: Beyond Production and Consumption, Benjamin Coles. Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, New York. February 2012.
Jamie Oliver, Culinary Values and Social Practices: Normality and Novelty in the Kitchen, Nick Piper. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York. February 2012
Consumer Anxieties about Food, Peter Jackson. Department of Geography, Glasgow University. February 2012
"Of course I know that; you told me that years ago”: The Acquisition of Culinary Knowledge in British families, Angela Meah. Fourth Annual Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network Conference ‘What’s cooking? Food and eating at home’, School of Oriental and African Studies. March 2012.
Anxious Appetites: Researching Families and Food, Peter Jackson. Histories of Home (plenary), SOAS, London. March 2012
Food Stories: Consumption in an ‘Age of Anxiety’, Peter Jackson. Centre for Food Security, Reading University. March 2012
Rethinking Frontiers: Beyond the Neo-liberal Chicken, Benjamin Coles. Invited speaker for Trinity College, Centre for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College, USA. April 2012.
Food Geographies in an ‘Age of Anixety’, Peter Jackson. Societat Catalana de Geografia, Barcelona. April 2012
Betwixt and between (and other places too): Respatializing Brazilian agricultural frontiers. Benjamin Coles. Latin American Studies Association International Congress (LASA), San Francisco. May 2012.
Fishheads? No one eats Fish Heads: Geographic Materialities of Waste, Benjamin Coles. Department of Geography, University of Western Michigan, USA. May 2012.
Replacing the Frontier: Epistemological Dilemmas, Benjamin Coles. Department of Geography and Latin American Studies, University of Kansas, USA. May 2012.
Crowded Kitchens: The ‘Democratization’ of Domesticity, Angela Meah and Peter Jackson. Nordic Conference of Consumer Research, Gothenburg. May-June 2012
Risk, Rinsing and Reheating: Shifting Geographies of Responsibility in Domestic Food Safety Practices, Angela Meah. 2nd Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, Gothenburg, Sweden, May- June 2012.
Ambiguous Substances: Framing Risk and Pregnancy at the Facebook site of the Swedish National Food Agency, Helene Brembeck. Making Sense of Consumption, 2nd Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, Gothenburg, Sweden. May – June 2012
Anxiety Stimulants: Novel Social Practices, Psychotropes and Biomedicine, Jakob Wenzer. Making Sense of Consumption, 2nd Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, Gothenburg, Sweden. May – June 2012
Jamie’s Ministry of Food as a Resource for the Reflexive Performance of the Self in Everyday Life, Nick Piper. Making Sense of Consumption, 2nd Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, Gothenburg, Sweden. May – June 2012
Governing Change in Food Practices: beyond ‘Behaviour Change, Matt Watson. 2nd Nordic Conference for Consumer Research, Gothenburg, Sweden. May – June 2012
Decentring Consumption, Peter Jackson, Vincent Song and Matt Watson. Decentring geographical knowledge, University of Sheffield/National University of Singapore workshop, Sheffield. September 2012
‘Sold with a Story’: Food Narratives from Farm to Fork, Peter Jackson. Tales from the Archive, British Library, London. November 2012
Supermarkets: Discourse, Representation and Language, Peter Jackson and Polly Russell. King’s College London. January 2013
Food/Words, Peter Jackson. Public talk in Lisbon bookshop. March 2013
Consumer Anxieties about Food, Peter Jackson, Department of Sociology, graduate seminar, Lisbon University. March 2013
Mediating science and nature: representing and consuming infant formula advertising in China, Qian Gong and Peter Jackson. International Communication Association 2013 Annual Conference, London. June 2013.