Schedule of Conference Sessions

(the schedule is subject to change)

Friday, October 31, 2008

  1. Research on the coffee plant and its ecology

    Robert Rice, Smithsonian Bird Project
    Kennedy T. K. Gitonga, Research Officer - Economist, Ruiru, Kenya
    Stuart McCook, Guelph University, on coffee rust disease
    Comment Charlie Kwit, Wittenberg U.
  2. Sustainability

    Geoff Watts, Intelligentsia Coffee, on sustainability
    Ernest Carman, Café Cristina, Costa Rica, on running a sustainable farm
    George Howell, Terroir Coffee
  3. Structure of the coffee business

    Ilhem Baghdadli, World Bank
    Folgers rep to be named
    Price Peterson, La Esmeralda, Panama
  4. Keynote address following dinner by Sidney Mintz, Johns Hopkins University
  5. Saturday, November 1

  6. Selling coffee

    Kim Moore, Dir. of Business Development–Coffee and Hot Beverages, TransFair USA
    Manoel Correa do Lago, Rio de Janeiro, coffee exporter
    Daniele Giovannucci
  7. Situation of small farmers

    PEARL Project, Michigan State U. Dan Clay or another PEARL rep.
    Carlos Roberto Sáenz, Café las Brisas, Guatemala
    Comment Olga Lucia Cuellar, University of Arizona and ACDI/VOCA, Colombia
  8. Taste and images

    Kenneth Davids The Coffee Review, Consumption from a theoretical pt of view
    Robert Thurston, Miami U. The changing image of coffee 1660-present
    Comment Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
  9. The popularity and spread of coffee

    Steven Topik, UC Irvine Why Americans Came to Like Coffee
    Jonathan Morris, U. of Hertfordshire, Why the British Like Italian Coffee
    Comment William Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, U. Of London