From Field to Tablet: A symposium on food, culture, and the law

Symposium is free and open to the public

Sponsored by The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and the Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts, University of Iowa

Program:


Chefs, Rights, and Justice
10:00am--12:00pm

Copyrighting Canapés: What Cooking and Chefs Can Tell Us about Creativity, Authenticity, and Incentives

Christopher Buccafusco, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law

beating back the past: Edna Lewis, (Re)constructing the Black Family, and Culinary Jurisprudence

Penelope Pether, Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law


Food, Place, and Identity
1:30pm--3:30pm

Geographical Indications: Food, Politics, and the Law

Fabio Parasecoli, Academic Director at Gustolab; Visiting Professor, University of Gastronomic Sciences; Adjunct Professor, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, New York University

Canada's Great Butter Caper: On Law, Fakes, and the Biography of Margarine

Charlene Elliott, Associate Professor, Communications Studies, University of Calgary


Eaters, Anonymity, and Risk
4:00pm--5:00pm

On Faceless Transactions: How Tort Law Evolved to Manage the Sale of Food Between Strangers

Denis Stearns, Founding Partner at Marler Clark LLP PS, Seattle, Washington

For a full program, please visit:  www.uiowa.edu/~cesa