ESF Research Conferences

Short talks - 15 minutes each

Josee Johnston - University of Toronto, CA
Good Food, Good People: Understanding the Culture of Ethical Eating
(Short talk)

Arthur Lizie - Bridgewater State University, US
Food as Cultural Capital: EcoChic Public Discourse and Food, Inc.
(Short talk)

Sarah Goler - University of Warwick, UK
Food Quality and the Spread of Terroirism: Modern Myths and European Geographical Indication Politics
(Short talk)

Short talks - 15 minutes each

Adam Fish - UCLA, US
Participatory Television, Burning Man, and the Contradictions of Neoliberalism
(Short talk)

Dorien Zandbergen - Leiden University, NL
Speeding up to Live in the Now: Connecting the Paradoxes of the 1960s Counterculture to the Slow Movement Today
(Short talk)

Federica Davolio - University of Milan, IT
The politics of authenticity: elitism and universalism in Slow Food
(Short talk)

Short talks - 15 minutes each

Matthew Gregory - University of Massachusetts, US
Shopping For Change: Buycotts and Buycotts and the Potential of Political Consumerism As A Social Movement
(Short talk)

Sabine Luning - Leiden University, NL
Good gold and the beauty of the artisans
(Short talk)

Pushpa Arabindoo - UCL, UK
Consuming nature in Chennai: The politics of Adyar Eco-Park
(Short talk)

Christian Melo - Universidad San Francisco de Quito, EC
Lessons from the field: The Ups and Downs of alternative trade venture in Southwestern Ecuador
(Short talk)

Short talks - 15 minutes each

Medani Bhandari - Syracuse University, US
Creative Economy (CE) and Green Economy (GE): A fuzzy assumption in attaining the global sustainability
(Short talk)

Shyon Baumann - University of Toronto, CA
Implicit and Explicit Political Dimensions of Foodie Discourse
(Short talk)

Mariela Rumiche - Universitat Politècnica de València, ES
Exploring Leadership Sustainability in the Maldives Islands: A Study of Deluxe Resorts
(Short talk)

Guided tour of Linköping followed by free time

Martin Mowforth - Plymouth  University, UK
Eco-Labels and Gangster Capitalism

Short talks - 15 minutes each

Meredith Welch-Devine and Seth Murray - University of Georgia/North Carolina State University, US
Marketing the mountain: applications and consequences of ‘eco-chic’ in the Basque region
(Short talk)

Manisha Anantharaman - University of California, Berkeley, US
"Sustainable" Consumption and the New Middle Classes of India
(Short talk)

Short talk - 15 minutes each

Elizabeth Stanfield - University College London, UK
Beyond Eco-Chic: Sustaining Suburbia in the United States
(Short talk)

Coffee break

Short talk - 15 minutes each

Julie Botticello - UCL, UK
Eco-nomic or eco-logic: Second hand clothes and sustainable consumption in London
(Short talk)

Elia Vardaki - University of Crete, GR
A Tasteful Revolution: a cultural exploration on Berkeley's food practices
(Short talk)

Renata Blumberg - University of Minnesota, US
Eco-chic in a time of crisis: ecological consumption in Vilnius, Lithuania
(Short talk)