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What is Rational About Obesity?

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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars
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This UBVO seminar was given by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek in May 2018
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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars
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Stanley Ulijaszek
Keywords
biocultural anthropology
diet
obesity
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 17/09/2018
Duration: 00:23:29

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Framing Obesity as a Problem

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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars
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This seminar was given by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the Center for Research on Human Nutrition in Paris in 2018
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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars
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Stanley Ulijaszek
Keywords
biocultural anthropology
diet
obesity
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 17/09/2018
Duration: 01:02:29

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Studying the origins of human material culture in young chilldren

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Anthropology
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This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Dr Eva Reindl (University of Oxford) on 2 February 2018
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Anthropology
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Eva Reindl
Keywords
anthropology
society
material culture
children
chimpanzees
primates
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 14/09/2018
Duration: 00:41:46

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The grey area: fascism between the general and the particular

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Anthropology
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This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Dr Paolo Heywood (University of Cambridge) on 25 May 2018
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Anthropology
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Paolo Heywood
Keywords
anthropology
society
fascism
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 14/09/2018
Duration: 00:50:20

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Why Are There Always Candomblés? Situated Knowledges of Miscegenation and Syncretism in Brazil

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Anthropology
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This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Professor Marcio Goldman (National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) on 11 May 2018
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Anthropology
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Marcio Goldman
Keywords
anthropology
society
brazil
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 14/09/2018
Duration: 00:53:31

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Computational Literary Studies and Mental Health

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Textual Therapies
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A project combining English literature, experimental psychology, and computational linguistics, with a focus on entropy, abstraction, and mental health.
James Carney's current research investigates how mental illness interacts with textual structures – specifically, using machine learning to investigate the potential therapeutic qualities of literature with different levels of entropy (unpredictability) and abstraction, for anxiety disorders versus depression. We also touch on wider questions of motivation in the health humanities and literary studies, the appeal of belief in the transformative power of literature, and the expansion of textual/computational inquiry out into structural anthropology.
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Textual Therapies
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James Carney
Emily Troscianko
Keywords
abstraction
anthropology
anxiety disorders
artificial intelligence
computational linguistics
depression
entropy
experimental psychology
literary studies
machine learning
medical humanities
mental health
psychiatry
religion
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 12/09/2018
Duration: 00:29:32

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What Does Disney do to Mental Health?

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Exploring the dangers of Disney’s take on poverty, mental health, and relationships.
With backgrounds in medical humanities and school therapy and social work, Jenifer Fisher and Nikki York describe a recent project analysing Disney films in terms of how they depict poverty and mental illness and what solutions they present to these problems (almost always: get yourself rescued by one perfect relationship). Their analysis found a strong, and realistic, correlation between characters' adverse childhood experiences (ACE) score (a measure of neglect and abuse) and the incidence of poverty and mental illness in their portrayals. Our conversation explores concepts of the 'self-made man' and the 'virtuous poor', the reduction in emphasis on poverty in films since 1937, and the dangerous consequences of presenting singular relationships as solutions to mental health problems.
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Textual Therapies
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Jenifer Fisher
Nikki York
Emily Troscianko
Keywords
ace score
disney
health humanities
mental health
poverty
relationships
social work
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 12/09/2018
Duration: 00:32:41

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Combating Fat Stigma Through Narrative

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A series of narrative workshops helping make life better for fat people.
Drawing on training in social science and medicine respectively, Rachel Fox and Kelly Park describe a series of workshops for medical students and fat participants designed to combat weight stigma. They outline their quantitative and qualitative findings, including the importance of physical presence in tackling the physiological and phenomenological aspects of fat phobia, the importance of narrative cues in permitting obliquely creative transformations of difficult experiences, and the importance of getting beyond one-sided correction of prejudice towards a more equal and reciprocal learning process.
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Textual Therapies
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Rachel Fox
Kelly Park
Emily Troscianko
Keywords
fat phobia
fat stigma
health humanities
Mixed Methods
medical humanities
narrative medicine
stigma reduction
trauma
weight stigma
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 12/09/2018
Duration: 00:28:29

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Why Public Health Needs Narrative

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An introduction to an often overlooked context for using narrative in healthcare: public health.
A creative writer and public health practitioner and researcher, Lise Saffran explains the practice and rationale for using narrative in public health as opposed to clinical or medical contexts. We explore in particular the difficulties of constructing and assessing truth versus salience or persuasiveness in public health narratives, and how working with narrative changes the nature of research practice and communication.
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Textual Therapies
People
Lise Saffran
Emily Troscianko
Keywords
authenticity
cliché
health humanities
narrative
public health
truth
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 12/09/2018
Duration: 00:29:21

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Textual Therapies

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Textual Therapies
This series, presented by Emily Troscianko, aims to crystallise, communicate, and expand our understanding of how texts and health interact. Health includes everything we tend to split into 'physical' and 'mental'. Texts include everything built (at least partly) of words: novels, stories, memoirs, poems, blogs, magazine articles, self-help books, private diary jottings – even drama, TV, and film… Through conversations with experts drawing on a wide range of professional and personal experience, the episodes offer introductions to some of the many perspectives from which texts and health are investigated, experienced, and understood. We ask questions, review findings, and consider next steps for this realm of health-humanities inquiry.

You can find accompanying notes for each episode, and get in touch (including to suggest subjects or people for future episodes) at www.troscianko.com/textual-therapies.

The intro/outro music is Between Worlds (Instrumental) by Aussens@iter (c) copyright 2017, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/tobias_weber/56664 Ft: (Smiling Cynic)

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