Schedule of Conference Sessions

All will be held in the Heritage Room of the Shriver Center, located at the corner of Spring and Patterson (US 27) streets. Instructions about parking will be posted soon.

Friday, October 31, 2008

  1. 9 AM: Research on the coffee plant and its ecology

    Robert Rice, Smithsonian Bird Project: How Coffee Farms Help or Hurt Wildlife
    Kennedy T. K. Gitonga, Research Officer - Economist, Ruiru, Kenya: Production of Exemplary Coffees: Perspectives from Kenya
    Stuart McCook, Guelph University: The ecology of taste: “ordinary” coffee and the limits of the specialty revolution
    Comment Charlie Kwit, Wittenberg U.
  2. 1 PM: Sustainability

    Geoff Watts, Intelligentsia Coffee: Getting More Money to the Farmers
    Ernest Carman, Café Cristina: Good Earth: Issues in Running a Sustainable Farm
    Bethany Koch, Client Relations Manager, Rainforest Alliance
  3. 3:30 PM: Structure of the coffee business

    Quentin Wodon, World Bank: Coffee and African Development
    Price Peterson, La Esmeralda, Panama: Strategies for Improving Coffee Quality
    George Howell, Terroir Coffee: Producing and Selling Fine Coffees
  4. Dinner: Please register separately for the dinner on the registration page if you wish to attend.

    Keynote address by Sidney Mintz, Johns Hopkins University, 7:30 PM, also in the Heritage Room: Why do Human Beings Like Psychoactive Substances? The Social Side of Addiction.

     

    Saturday, November 1

  5. 8:30 AM: Selling coffee

    Kim Moore, Dir. of Business Development–Coffee and Hot Beverages, TransFair USA: What Fair Trade Does
    Manoel Correa do Lago, Rio de Janeiro, coffee exporter: The Brazilian Coffee sector in the perspective of Fair Trade
    Daniele Giovannucci, independent consultant to the industry: Trends in coffee markets and the effects of sustainability efforts
  6. 10:30 AM: The situation of small farmers

    Abdoul Murekezi, PEARL Project, Michigan State U.: The PEARL Coffee Project: Harnessing Partnerships for Sustainable Growth in Rwanda
    Carlos Roberto Sáenz, Café las Brisas, Guatemala: Coffee and Recovery from a Civil War
    Comment Olga Lucia Cuellar, University of Arizona and ACDI/VOCA, Colombia
  7. 1 PM: Taste and images

    Kenneth Davids The Coffee Review: The Competing Languages of Coffee: Trends in The Signs and Symbols of American Specialty Coffee
    Robert Thurston, Miami U.: The Changing Image of Coffee 1660-Present: Sociability and Social Justice
    Comment Bruce Robbins, English, Columbia University
  8. 3:30 PM: The popularity and spread of coffee

    Steven Topik, UC Irvine: Boston Tea Party or Slavery? Why Americans Came to Drink Coffee
    Jonathan Morris, U. of Hertfordshire: The Globalization of Italian Coffee
    Comment William Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, U. Of London