2013 Agenda
The Paradox of Appetite: Hungering for Change
October 21-22, 2013
Convene Conference Center, NYC
This agenda is confirmed as of July 9th, 2013 and is subject to change. Speaker, panelist, and presenter affiliations listed below.
Day 1
Monday, October 21
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
8:30 am REGISTRATION and RECEPTION
Welcome
Getting Hungry: Thinking About Appetite
Joseph McIntyre (facilitator)
Keynote: The Culture of Appetite
Claude Fischler
Presentation: What Is Hunger?
Jan Poppendieck
Video: A Place at the Table
Panel: Hunger in Our Backyard
Mariana Chilton
Nikki Johnson-Huston
Rep. Jim McGovern
Jonathan Halperin (moderator)
10:45 am BREAK
11:15 am Table Discussion
Panel: Global Appetites, Global Hunger
Gawain Kripke
Danielle Nierenberg
Fred Kaufman (moderator)
12:45 pm LUNCH
1:45 pm Presentation: The Hardscape of Appetite
Carolyn Steel
Panel: Building America’s Urban Appetite
Krishnendu Ray
Karen Washington
Lonni Tanner
Carolyn Steel (moderator)
Table Reflections
3:05 pm BREAK
Survey: Good Housekeeping Asks, What Feeds America’s Appetite?
Miriam Arond
Presentation: The Biology of Appetite
Stephen Goff
Conversation: Cultural Cravings
Adam Gopnik
Robert Valgenti
Mitchell Davis (moderator)
4:30 pm ADJOURN
Leadership Awards Ceremony and Dinner
Hearst Tower, Executive Conference Center
6:30 pm
Day 2
Tuesday, October 22
9 am to 5 pm
9:00 am RECEPTION
9:30 am Keynote: The Consequences of Appetite
Raj Patel
Conversation: Changing Courses: Satisfying our Appetites for
Quick, Convenient and Cheap(er)
Jeff Dunn
Panel: Nourishing a Healthy Appetite: Obstacles and Solutions to
Achieving Balance between Eating for Pleasure and Health
Michael Moss
Stephen Sidwell
Dr. Susan Roberts
Samantha Cassetty (moderator)
Table Reflection
11:10 am BREAK
11:40 am Recap: Leadership Awards Ceremony
Art Smith
Conversation: Rebuilding the American Table: Bridging the Good
Food, Fair Food, and Hunger Movements
Phil Jones
Jane Black (moderator)
Table Discussion
1:00 pm LUNCH
2:00 pm Video: FEEST
Panel: An Appetite for Leadership: Leadership Award Winners Share
Their Hopes for Change
Joseph McIntyre (moderator)
World Café: Appetite for Change (Part 1)
4:00 pm BREAK
4:30 pm World Café: Appetite for Change (Part 2)
5:00 pm ADJOURN
Speakers and Affiliations
Miriam Arond, Director, The Good Housekeeping Research Institute
Jane Black, Journalist
Samantha Cassetty, Nutrition Director, The Good Housekeeping Research Institute
Mariana Chilton, Director, The Center for Hunger-Free Communities
Mitchell Davis, Executive Vice President, The James Beard Foundation
Jeff Dunn, President and CEO, Bolthouse Farms
Claude Fischler, Sociologist and Author, "Food, Self and Identity"
Stephen Goff, Principal Investigator and Project Director, iPlant Collaborative
Adam Gopnik, Staff Writer, The New Yorker, and Author, The Table Comes First
Jonathan Halperin, Founder, Designing Sustainability
Nikki Johnson-Huston, Esq., Attorney and Activist
Phil Jones, Chef and Activist
Sam Kass, Executive Director of Let’s Move! and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy
Fred Kaufman, Contributing Editor, Harper’s, and Author, Bet the Farm
Gawain Kripke, Director of Policy and Research, Oxfam America
Rep. Jim McGovern, Congressman, Representing the 2nd District of Massachusetts
Joseph McIntyre, Founder and President, Ag Innovations Network
Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, The New York Times, and Author, Salt Sugar Fat
Danielle Nierenberg, Co-founder, Food Tank
Raj Patel, Activist and Author, Stuffed and Starved
Jan Poppendieck, Sociologist and Author, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America
Krishnendu Ray, Chair, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, NYU
Susan Roberts, Professor of Nutrition and Author, The Instinct Diet
Stephen Sidwell, Co-founder, LYFE Kitchen, President and CEO, LYFE Kitchen Grocery
Art Smith, Chef and Founder, Common Threads
Carolyn Steel, Architect and Author, Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives
Lonni Tanner, Chief Change Officer, New York Department of Design and Construction
Robert Valgenti, Professor of Philosophy
Karen Washington, Co-founder, Black Urban Growers (BUGS)
To view the 2012 Food Conference agenda, click here.
For queries, please contact foodconference@jamesbeard.org.