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

Print version of this announcment (PDF)

 
 

Conference 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

Registration
 

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

  1. Introduction to the issues: Patterns of agricultural plantings of GMOs; types of GMOs and their uses
    Brad Barham (Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW-Madison)
  2. GMOs and the US business and regulatory context
    Michael Rodemeyer (Pew Initiative Trust)
  3. 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

  1. Explaining the differences in US-EU approaches to GMOs
    David Vogel (UC-Berkeley, political science)

  2. 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

  1. Social Movements and GMOs
    Rachel Schurman (Sociology, University of Minnesota)
  2. 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

  1. Developing Countries, GMOs and R&D: The Implications of the US-EU Dispute
    Ford Runge (Minnesota, applied economics)
  2. Where do we go from here? The World Trade Organization, the Private Sector, and Genetically Modified Crops
    Lawrence Busch (Michigan State, sociology)
 
     
 

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)

For more information, please contact the European Union Center: eucenter@intl-institute.wisc.edu

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