Coffee's far-reaching impact - from personal to global - explored at conference

Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Politics, Economics and Social Issues - Podcasts - Coffee's far-reaching impact - from personal to global - explored at conference." Coffee aficionados heard varying perspectives and sampled different roasts of their favorite wake-up beverage at this conference organized by the Vanderbilt Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies and held at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. Speakers were introduced by Edward F. Fischer, director of the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies. The speakers included Vanderbilt Professor of Sociology James Lang; Peter R. Martin, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology and director of the Vanderbilt Institute of Coffee Studies; Diego Pizano, director of Cafe de Colombia; Sarah Lyon, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Kentucky; Daniel Reichman, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Rochester; and, Bob Bernstein, owner of Bongo Java Roasting Company and other coffeehouses in Nashville, Tennessee.