Food and Farming in American Life and Letters:  A Symposium 			
June 15 - 17, 2000
Preliminary Schedule 

Wednesday, June 14
4 - 8 pm Dormitory Check-in at Cianchette Hall, Unity College

Thursday, June 15

7:30 - 8:30am		Breakfast, Unity College Cafeteria*

8 - 9			Symposium Check-in at MOFGA** Fairgrounds

9:00			Welcome - Allison Wallace

9:15			Session I - Sydney Landon Plum, Moderator

Andrew J. Angyal	"Homesteading and the Illusion of Self-Reliance: An Ecological Perspective"	
English Dept.
Elon College, NC

Tamara Fritze		"Gardens of Sustenance and Health"
English Dept.
Utah Valley State Coll.
Orem, UT

Walter Pokines		"Bacterial Requiem"
Union Institute
Tipp City, OH

10:30			Break

10:45			Session II - Shepherd Ogden, Moderator

Ruth Blair,		"What Melville Saw: Observations of an Agriculture in Transition in the South Seas in 
English Dept.		the Early Days of Settlement"
Univ. Queensland
Australia

Jeff Walker		"Phases of Farm Life: The Agricultural Writings of John Burroughs"
Geology/Geography
Vassar College

William Conlogue	"Unearthing the Georgic in American Literature"
English Dept.
Marywood Univ.
Scranton, PA

Noon			Lunch

1 pm			Tour of Fairgrounds and Demonstration Plots (MOFGA Executive Director Russ Libby)

**Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association 

2:00			Session III - Len Engel, Moderator

Tom Cheetham		"Biting into an Orange"
Environmental Programs
Unity College

John Gourlie,		"Creating Sacred Space"
Ed McMahon Center
Quinnipiac College
Hamden, CT

Michael J. Caduto, 	"Native American Gardening:  Stories, Projects, and Recipes for the Family "
P.E.A.C.E.
Norwich, VT

3:45			Break

4 pm			Reading by Jane Brox

5 pm			Reception and Book-signing


Friday, June 16

7:30 - 8:15am		Breakfast, Unity College Cafeteria*

8:30			Session IV - Linda Tatelbaum, Moderator

Sydney Landon Plum,	"GMOs 4 U: Biotech Foods Where You Least Want Them - At the Co-op"
Storrs, CT

Shepherd Ogden		"The Language of Biotechnology"
The Cook's Garden
Londonderry, VT
		
Eric Ball,		From the Food Chain to a Chain of Empty Signifiers: The Contest for Meaning(fulness)"
Greek & Latin,
Ohio State Univ.

Linda Tatelbaum		"Body Yiddish"
English Dept.
Colby College
Waterville, ME 

10 am			Break

10:15			Session V - Sydney Landon Plum, Moderator

Bennett Huffman		"Advocating Sentience: Ken Kesey's Fictional Farm"
English Dept.
Univ. of Liverpool
England

Suellyn Jones Shupe	untitled essay on Rita Engelken
Franklin, OH

Janine DeBaise &	poetry reading
Patrick Lawler
Environmental Studies
SUNY-Syracuse

Noon			Lunch

1 pm			Session VI - Len Engel, Moderator

David Robinson		"A Good Way to Spend a Saturday"
Casper, WY

Dave Bean		"Zoe's in the Barn:  Getting Past Personified Picture Book Animals to the Real Thing"
Gould Academy
Bethel, ME

Mark S. Cladis		"On the Importance of Owning Chickens"
Religion Dept.
Vassar College

3 pm			Visual presentation on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

4 pm			Reading by Carolyn Chute

5 pm			Reception and Book-signing


Saturday, June 17

7:30 - 8:30am		Breakfast, Unity College Cafeteria*

8:30 - 10:00		Dorm check-out for early departures

8:30			Field Trips Depart from Cianchette Hall

2:30 pm			Return to campus

3-5 pm			Dorm check-out