Celebrating SAFN’s Fiftieth Anniversary this Year!
AAA Annual Meeting 2024 Tampa, Florida
SAFN + C&A Joint Reception
Friday, November 22 | 7:30 – 9:30
Tampa Convention Center Room 105-106
SAFN + C&A Grad Student Mixer
Thursday, November 21 | 6pm GenX Tavern
Walk there with us! Departing at 5:45 and at 6:00 from the Tampa Convention Center Lobby – look for the SAFN sign.
Join our SAFN conference WhatsApp group to find walking buddies and join in on conference happenings! Message Ariana Gunderson at +1.978.790.2342 to join.
SAFN Panels
| Wednesday, November 20th | |||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Location |
| 12:45 – 2:15 PM | From Nutrition to Culture: 50 Years of the Anthropology of Food Virtual Roundtable | Amanda Green, David Beriss, Carole Counihan, Rachel Black, Amy Trubek, Carolyn Mason, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Susan Johnston | Virtual Roundtable – Check the Conference App |
| 12:45 – 2:15 PM | Food in Process: Taste, transduction and shifting terrains of culinary production | Ariana Gunderson, Sita Mamidipudi, Donghyoun We, Sucharita Kanjilal, Discussant: Akhil Gupta | TCC 114 120 |
| Thursday, November 21st | |||
| 8:30 – 10:00 AM | Anthropology of Diaspora Foodways: New Directions in Praxis | Amanda Kaminsky, Terese Gagnon, Ziyi Yan, Vanessa Moreno, Gabriela Olmos Rosas, Krishnendu Ray | Marriott WS Grand Salon C-D |
| 2:30 -4:00 PM | Transforming Food Systems: Praxis for Sustainable Agriculture and Social Justice | Mecca Howe, Burge Abiral, Jennifer Meta Robinson, Liliana Leon, Angelina Mark Jennifer Thompson, | Marriott WS Room 7 |
| Friday, November 22nd | |||
| 8:30 – 10:00 AM | A Qualitative Exploration of Colorado School Foodscapes | Ashlyn Lange Poster | TCC West Hall |
| 8:30 – 10:00 AM | Sunshine and Supper: A Qualitative Study Analyzing the Impact of Feeding Tampa Bay’s Food Prescription Program in Pinellas County, FL | Brennan Williams Poster | TCC West Hall |
| Saturday, November 23rd | |||
| 8:30 – 10:00 AM | From Nutrition to Culture: 50 Years of the Anthropology of Food – Part 1 | Jennifer Thompson, David Beriss, Noha Fikry, Ellen Messer, Miriam Chaiken, Janita Van Dyk, Andrea Wiley, Ryan Adams | TCC 118 |
| 10:15 – 11:45 AM | From Nutrition to Culture: 50 Years of the Anthropology of Food – Part 2 | Noha Fikry, Amanda Green, Jennifer Thompson, David Himmelgreen, Penny Van Esterik, Sucharita Kanjilal, Janet Chrzan | TCC 118 |
| 10:15 – 11:45 AM | Creating the meat of the future: notes from two alternative protein conferences | Stephen Merritt Flash Presentation | Marriott WS Room 7 |
| 12:45 – 2:15 PM | Alcohols that Shape our Worlds: Social and Economic History of Spirits | Brandon Lundy, Jennifer Nesbitt, John Arthur, Janet Chrzan | Marriott WS Florida Salon IV |
SAFN Co-Sponsored Offsite Event
Environmental Injustice and Place-Keeping Walking Tour
Friday, November 22nd | 9:00 -11:00 AM
An interactive walking tour in the Tampa Heights neighborhood focused on environmental and social injustices past and present, co-organized by Anthropology & Environment (A&E), Tampa Heights Junior Civic Association, Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN), American Ethnological Society (AES), with support from AAA Community Engaged grant and the NSF supported BlueGAP project (led by Univ. S. Florida). The purpose of the workshop is to provide space for AAA attendees and community members to dialogue around key issues of environmental injustice and the ways residents have responded to reclaim and recreate their own urban spaces, in order to exchange knowledge and expertise, as well as build a network of anthropologists and activists working on these topics in other locations. For optional donation to support our partner, Tampa Heights Junior Civic Association in future activities: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/thjca. For more information on THJCA see: https://www.thjca.org/get-involved.
Other Panels of Interest to SAFN Members
| Wednesday, November 20th | |||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Location |
| 10:15 AM- 11:45 AM | Eating Animals: Reflections on Consuming Others | Amanda Cortez , Emily deWet, Chang Liu, Muhammad Kavesh, Anabelle Suitor, Scott Alves Barton | Marriott WS Florida Salon IV |
| 12:45 – 2:15 PM | Invisible Labor, Visible Flavors: Latinx Experiences and Social Transformation in U.S. Food Systems | Andrew Mitchel, Ana Fochesatto, Jake Dean, Gerardo Hernandez, Ariana Avila, Teresa Mares | Marriott WS Room 7 |
| 12:45 – 2:15 PM | Re-examining Neoliberal Framings within Conversations on Agroecologies in the Climate Crisis | Kashif Rustamani, Yveline Saint Louis, Ana Isabel Afonso | Marriott WS Florida Salon IV |
| 12:45 – 2:15 PM | Praxis: Sensory Politics and Cultural Change | Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz, Ramona Perez, Maria Cruz- Torres, Lanlan Kuang, | TCC Ballroom B |
| 4:15 – 5:45 PM | Conditions for a vibrant peasant agriculture in the 21st century | Meredith Welch-Devine , Brian Burke, Tammi Jonas, Jennifer Thompson, Miryam Nacimento, Jennifer Coffman, Kimberly Sanchez | Marriott WS Room 6 |
| Thursday, November 21st | |||
| 10:15 – 11:45 AM | Food Sovereignty at Sea | Eliana Ritts, Jessica Vandenberg, Hekia Bodwitch, Shingo Hamada, Yoshitaka Ota | Marriott WS Florida Salon VI |
| 2:30 – 04:00 PM | Service, Servitude or Something Else? Negotiating Hierarchy and Egalitarian Ideologies in Customer Service Encounters | Omri Senderowicz, Krisztina Fehervary, Miranda Garcia, Mary Pena | Marriott WS Room 5 |
| Friday, November 22nd | |||
| 10:15 – 11:45 AM | Heirloom Foods: Biological and Cultural Diversity in “Marginal” Spaces | Rachel Corr, Jacqueline Fewkes, Michelle Johnson, Rebecca Haboucha, Virginia Nazarea | Marriott WS Florida Salon VI |
| Saturday, November 23rd | |||
| 10:15 – 11:45 AM | Global and Local Perspectives on Food Access and Associated Disparities | Achsah Dorsey Jesse Goliath, Miriam Kopels, Lesley Frank, | TCC 109 |
| 10:15 – 11:45 AM | Selling or Inheriting War History and Memories? Food as War Heritage and Tourism Resource | Takayoshi Yamamura, , Kyungjae Jang, Ryo Koarai, , Ting Wang, Sueun Kim , Yohkoh Aoki, Kobayashi Ayumu | TCC 122 |