Organizing the Events for the Coming ASA National Conference

[John]

This is an open call to see if anyone is interested in assisting in
planning the Food Studies Caucus Events for the upcoming ASA
Conference.

Two events need to be organized:

1. A First annual Food Studies Caucus business/planning meeting, which
will be held each year at the ASA Conference. At this meeting we will
need to plan all of the events/goals for the caucus for the coming
year.

2. Food Studies Caucus Annual Reception/networking event. At such an
event scholars of food will be able to meet other scholars doing
similar work. I envision this being a more low key event, with perhaps
some light food and an open/cash bar. (If we need to raise funding for
such an event we could possibly require preregistration and charge a
small fee per person, say $10 to cover the cost of food).

These two events could possibly be combined and have a planning
meeting and networking event at the same time. I was thinking the
first or second day of the conference. Also, the ASA informed me that
they have the ability to set space aside for such events at the Caribe
Hilton and may even have some limited funding for such events
(depending on several factors).

If anyone is willing to aid in the organization of these two events
please contact me via email (burd...@buffalo.edu), post your ideas on
this blog or on the ASA Food Studies Caucus Google Discussion Page.
Even if you cannot attend the conference you could still help, and any
assistance anyone willing to offer would be greatly appreciated.

I think the next step would be to brainstorm ideas via email for these
events (or others) and begin to delineate tasks to anyone who is
interested in helping.

Let me know.

Thanks and all the best.