Note: All sessions will be held in 211 Dickinson Hall and all coffee breaks in 210 Dickinson Hall.
Friday, March 10
1:30 Introduction
Angela Creager & Jean-Paul Gaudillière, co-organizers
1:45–4:00 Session 1 – Modeling, experimenting, classifying food risks
Soraya de Chadarevian, “Radioactive Diet: Food, Metabolism and the Environment, c. 1960”
Victoria Lee, “Wild Toxicity, Cultivated Safety: Aflatoxin and Kōji Classification”
Hannah Landecker, “The Food of our Food: Medicated Feed and the Industrialization of Metabolism”
4:00–4:15 Coffee break
4:15-5:45 Session 2 – Inventing and reinventing food risks
Matthew Smith, “Canaries in a Coal Mine? Food Allergy as a Disease of Civilisation”
Heather Paxson, “Food Risk at the Border: Adulteration or Customary Practice”
Saturday, March 11
9:00–10:30 Session 3 – Mobilization and expertise around contaminants
Sarah Vogel and Maricel Maffini, “We are What We Eat: The US Regulatory System for Chemicals in Food”
Aurelien Feron, “PCBs in Food: Knowledge, Mobilizations and Public Action in France (1975–2015)”
10:30–10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 Session 4 – Industrial agriculture, antibiotics and food risks
Delphine Berdah, “Bacterial Resistances to Antibiotics in Farm Animals, a ‘False Problem’ for Humans? Expert Debates and Disinhibitions in France in the Second Half of the 20th Century”
Claas Kirchhalle, “Between Bacteriology and Toxicology: ¬Agricultural Antibiotics and the Changing World of FDA Risk Regulation (1949–1985)”
12:15–2:00 Lunch
2:00–4:15 Session 5 – Impossible regulation
Nathalie Jas, “New Tools for New Problems. Shaping Specifications for Food Additives and Contaminants in the FAO/WHO and the EEC in the 1960s and 1970s”
Heiko Stoff, “Chemopolitics of Cancer-Causing Substances in the 1950s”
Xaq Frohlich, “‘Economic Adulteration’ or Even Better Than the Real Thing?: Labeling Novel Foods ‘Imitation’ in 1950s and 1960s America”
4:15–4:30 Coffee break
4:30–6:00 Final panel – Industry, expertise and historiography: Is there anything special about food risk?
Soraya Boudia, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Giovanni Ceccarelli
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