Free Food! A Success!
The conference was a success! We had good attendance (15-30 people varying throughout the day), and all of the presentations went off well. The intention of the conference was to bring together different rigorous work on the relationship between ethics and food for the sake of moving the discourse forward, and I think, in our own little way, we accomplished this.
Some of the conference will be available on youtube after the video is extracted. Unfortunately, the good camera had to leave halfway through, and my digi cam did not have powerful enough batteries to film an entire talk.
We learned a lot about running conferences – for one, people need more than 20 minutes to present. Another thing – when dealing seriously with issues surrounding ethics that obligate us to act, dealing with the work is itself an emotionally demanding practice. Also, cooking while a talk is going on can be distracting and potentially rude.
I think we will attempt to have another conference, perhaps in the summer or fall, and on a different topic.
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