Titel: EurSafe2006: Ethics and the Politics of Food

Termin: 22.6.2006 bis 24.6.2006

Veranstaltungsort:
University of Oslo
Blindern Campus

Referenten: Keynote lectures by among others: Michelle Micheletti, Vittorio Hösle

Weitere Informationen:
http://eursafe2006.etikkom.no/

Kurzbeschreibung: It is a paradox of the Western World that amidst of technological innovation, economic welfare and social change many people have developed a serious concern about our primary goods: food and food production. This topic mobilizes people from different backgrounds and cultures. It is the focal point of both high and low politics.

On the one hand, there are lively disputes and conflicts about globalization of trade as witnessed for instance in the conflicts about the WTO-rounds or debates about food biotechnology. On the other hand, there is a very concrete level of consumer choice at the shelf in the supermarket where value conflicts cannot easily be resolved. Yet, choice itself is often limited, through monopolising tendencies of corporate power.

At the same time we witness the traditional sectors of food production in a rapid phase of change in nearly every society. In times of globalization questions of micro- and macro-politics become intertwined, and only collective action seems to stand a chance of influencing the development.

However, the disputes and political conflicts resist containment and assumed boundaries of the systems are moved only to be replaced by even wider considerations. What starts out as concerns about food risk and safety soon moves to ethics and cultural values. Ethics and cultural values are indeed a common denominator for peoples' concern about food and food production. Slogans like "from farm to fork", "vote with your fork", or "slow food" express a mingling of political, ethical and cultural values.

The challenge to ethics is to relate to these new societal contexts and provide useful concepts for analysis and understanding. The programme of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics is designed to capture these complexities in their variety through different thematic sub-sections and multi-disciplinary approaches.

Kontakt: Forskningsetiske komiteer
Att.: EurSafe
P.O. Box 522 Sentrum
0105 Oslo
Norway
Tel.: +47 - 23 - 31 83 00
Fax: +47 - 23 - 31 83 01
Eursafe2006@etikkom.no
http://www.etikkom.no/Engelsk

Veranstalter: European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, The National Committees for Research Ethics in Science and Technology

Schlagworte: Grüne Gentechnik