From a list of discussion groups and papers featured at a May conference at Yale University entitled "The Chicken: Its Biological, Social, Cultural, and Industial History from Neolithic Middens to McNuggets":

• Chicken Consumption: History, Culture, Choice, and Taste
• Chicken Eaters and Choice in Hartford
• Chicken Flavor—the Quintessential Ingredient of Good Taste!
• Chickens as Social Mediators and Currency in Borneo
• Corn People on a Poultry Lane
• Images of the Medieval Pheasant: The Chicken and Other Fowl in Medieval Cuisine and Ceremony
• KFC, Chicken Flu, Free-Range Chickens, and Other Poultry Politics in Post-Socialist China
• Making the Chicken of Tomorrow
• The Chicken and Globalization
• The Chicken Business: Southern Women and Poultry Production
• The Chicken in America: The Past ... the Internet, the Future?
• The Chicken in Folklore and Symbolism
• The Fighting Cock and the Brooding Hen: Chickens as Symbols of Gender in Folklore and Literature
• The Historical Creation of the Chicken
• Thinking Like a Chicken
• We're All Mexican Here
• When Chickens Come to Town

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