Submissions for EurSafe 2006
 		  
  The Scientific Committee of EURSAFE 2006 invites you to contribute to our congress by submitting a paper or a poster. EURSAFE 2006 is open to participants with a variety of academic and professional background.Multi-disciplinary perspectives and contributions from PhD students are welcome. We would encourage you to submit a paper that ties in with one of the mentioned congress themes, though papers on other aspects of agricultural or food ethics are also welcome. The conference language is English.

Submission of abstracts by 1st of February 2006
Submission of papers / posters by 24th of April 2006
Proposals for workshops by 1st of February 2006

See Author's guide for further instructions

 

  

                                              Call for papers on the following themes:

 
                                             Sustainability in food production
  Sustainability is both an overarching aim, a standardizing too, and a classificatory term grouping a wide range of agricultural practices. The session invites papers addressing this topic from various angles.
 
-                                            Politics of consumption
  Consumption is not only an economic activity and a matter of everyday routines, it is also in many instances an active political statement and subject to politicization by interest groups or public institutions. Consumption furthermore represents an important arena for political regulation.
 
                                             Emerging technologies in food production
  Biotechnology and GMOs have been subject of much debate, but recent developments in food technology may give rise to new issues of ethical concern. Papers addressing recent technological innovations and future scenarios are particularly welcome.
 
                                             Animal welfare and production
  The use of animals in food production raises a number of ethical issues. This session focuses on those related to farm animal welfare. Papers on both terrestrial and aquatic animals are welcome.
 
                                             Critical issues in aquatic production systems
  Eursafe 2006 seeks to draw the attention to marine farming. Many ethical and political issues relevant to terrestrial farming may also apply to marine farming, - or perhaps not? What are the critical issues in relation to aquatic food production?
 
                                            The toolbox for assessing ethical issues
  There is growing demand to assess ethical issues in relation to specific innovations, e.g. gm crops. Often advice is sought of ethical committees or other bodies deemed competent in ethics. Yet the methods used to perform such assessments are seldom explicitly discussed, though they are important for quality assurance. Newer developments in practical ethics, such as the ethical matrix, are intended to remedy this.
 
                                             Foundational issues in philosophy/ethics
  Approaches to practical ethics have assumptions of a more theoretical and meta-ethical character. In the area of food ethics important issues concern moral standing, the relation between practical ethical assessments and ethical theory, moral justification and knowledge, pluralism and value theory, etc. Papers are invited that discuss issues of a more philosophical nature, related to food ethics.
 
                                             Social conflicts over resource management
  Food production is an intervention in nature and utilizes natural resources that often are scarce. Conflict arises between alternative users of these resources and different sectors having different interests in the same resource. Papers are invited that add to the understanding of the nature of these social conflicts and / or discuss possible solutions.
 
                                             Politics and power in the globalised food chain
  The delocalisation of food implies that both producers and consumers are vulnerable to chains of events taking place far away, and over which they have limited control. How is power manifest in transnational food chains, and what are the implications of global networks in food production (in relation to ethics, food security and food safety)?
 
                                             Politics, nutrition and food safety
  Obesity and diabetes have become major threats to health and well-being in many parts of the world and diet is a major contributing factor. How can we conceptualise these and other nutrition-related phenomena in relation to the ethics, economics and politics of food?
 
                                             Ethics and safety in food discourses
  Food and risk is a topic of much public and scientific debate. This session focuses on food discourse as a vantage point from which to consider both the focus on and construction of food, ethics, risk and safety.
 
                                             Who’s responsible?
                                             Corporate responsibility and political governance in relation to food ethical issues
  This session invites an institutional perspective on governance and the distribution of responsibility in relation to food and ethical issues. Papers are invited that address both the roles of public authorities, private business corporations, and/or the relative responsibility allocated to individuals as consumers or citizens.
 
                                             Politics and ethics of transparency
  In the case of food, the ethical and socio-political relations of production are always more significant than what is revealed through the food product is itself. The gap between what we know about the food we eat and what we might have acted upon, if we knew, makes transparency a key issue.
 
                                             Trust in food
  This session focuses on social and institutional conditions for trust and distrust in food. Is trust in food mainly a matter of food safety and new technologies? What are the impacts of variations in institutional structure, power and accountability across different regions or states? Papers allowing a comparative perspective are particularly welcome.
 
                                             Cultural values in food production
  What people eat and how people think food should be produced is tightly embedded in diverse culture frameworks and history. Conceptions of nature play a role as do conceptions of a healthy and good life. Debates over ecological food products versus e.g. industrial agriculture or functional foods reflect but different orientations and values that have deep cultural roots. Empirical, historical or philosophical studies of these issues are welcome.
 
                                             Food, health and social inequality
  With social and economic inequality on the rise in many European countries, consumers’ access to healthy food cannot be taken for granted. This session explores the interrelations between food, health and social inequality.
 

                                          

 
  For more information contact:
Forskningsetiske komiteer
Att.: EurSafe
P.O Box 522 Sentrum
N – 0105 Oslo
Norway
 		  
  Eursafe2006@etikkom.no  
     
  The National Committees for Research Ethics in Science and Technology