(Theme: Food as Influencer and Disruptor)

1. “Can Friendship Improve Local and Sustainable Food Initiatives?: Insights from an Urban Farm,” Jared Strohl, University at Buffalo
2. “Ethnic Identity Conceptualizations and Food Habits Among Roma and Calons in Brazil,” Diana Budur, Independent Scholar
3. “This Anti-Plantation Banana Goes to Market: The Eccentric Commodity Chains of Wild Cavendish between the Philippines and Japan,” Alyssa Paredes, Yale University
4. "All The Year Round": Punch Bowl Conviviality and Nonlinear Time in the Work of Charles Dickens,” Deirdre Murphy, CIA.