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The European Union Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
is pleased to sponsor an
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
"Genetically Modified Crops/Foods:
The Future of The World Agricultural Economy?"
Friday, 15 April 2005
The Fluno Center
601 University Ave., Madison, WI The conference is free and open to the public, but
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
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Participants, Papers and Presentations:
Brad Barham
(Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW-Madison)
Michael Rodemeyer
(Pew Initiative Trust)/ Presentation
Lawrence Busch
(Sociology, Michigan State University)
Rachel Schurman
(Sociology, University of Minnesota) / Presentation / Paper
Gregory Shaffer
(Law, UW-Madison)
Ford Runge
(Applied Economics, University of Minnesota)
/ Presentation / Paper
Lydia Zepeda
(Consumer Science, UW-Madison)
Jeremy Foltz
(Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW-Madison)
Damian Chalmers
(London School of Economics and Political Science) /
Paper
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Program (Subject to change)
Morning: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Introductory welcome. Gregory Shaffer and
Brad Barham
Panel 1 9:35-11:00
- Introduction to the issues: Patterns of agricultural plantings of GMOs; types of GMOs and their uses
Brad Barham (Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW-Madison)
- GMOs and the US business and regulatory context
Michael Rodemeyer (Pew Initiative Trust)
- Risk, Anxiety and the European Mediation
of the Politics of Life: The European Food
Safety Authority and the Governance of
Biotechnology.
Damian Chalmers (London School of Economics,
law)
11:00 Coffee Break
- Explaining
the differences in US-EU approaches
to GMOs
David Vogel (UC-Berkeley, political science)
- The US-EU Dispute in a Global
Perspective: The WTO and Biosafety Protocol
Gregory Shaffer (UW-Madison,
law)
Afternoon Session: 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Panel 3 1:30 - 3:00
- Social Movements and GMOs
Rachel Schurman (Sociology,
University of Minnesota)
- Consumers and GMOs: Labeling
Lydia Zepeda (Consumer Science, UW-Madison) and
Jeremy Foltz (Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW-Madison)
3:00 Coffee break
Panel 4 3:30-4:30
- Developing Countries, GMOs and
R&D: The Implications of the US-EU Dispute
Ford Runge (Minnesota, applied economics)
- Where
do we go from here? The World Trade
Organization, the Private Sector,
and Genetically Modified Crops
Lawrence Busch (Michigan State, sociology)
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Conference sponsors:
- The European Union Center seeks to improve understanding of the EU as a complex, evolving governance system and international actor; enhance awareness of the growing importance and widening scope of EU-US relations, and promote intensified "people-to-people" links among EU and US citizens.
- The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) meets the increasing needs of Wisconsin’s public and private sectors for expertise related to the global economy, drawing upon the diverse specialties of the UW-Madison faculty and the expertise of Wisconsin business and other groups interested in international trade and the Wisconsin economy to inform the public of new challenges posed by world events.
Conference cosponsors:
The Center for European Studies
The Center for International Business Education & Research (CIBER)
The Program on Agricultural Technology Studies (PATS)
Conference organizer:
Greg Shaffer,
Director of the European Union Center,
Co-Director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy,
and Professor of Law (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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