| Fatness and the body 5/5: When the measure becomes the metric - making sense of the body mass index in research and practice |
How body size is used in research and discourse on health, bringing together theory from anthropology, sociology, public health and more. With llya Gutin, University of Texas at Austin |
llya Gutin |
24 June, 2024 |
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| Fatness and the body 4/5: Fifteen (plus!) ways estrogens influence adipose tissues |
Exploring the phenomenal range of roles estrogens play with respect to our metabolism – a range that is only just beginning to be understood. With Deborah Clegg, Texas Tech University |
Deborah Clegg |
24 June, 2024 |
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| Fatness and the body 3/5: Why is there a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity in rural areas? A qualitative study of rural children's perspectives of rural foodways |
Exploring children's views on their diets in relation to culture, identity and tradition in their everyday lives. With Ellen Margrete Iveland Ersfjord, University of Agder, Norway |
Ellen Margrete Iveland Ersfjord |
24 June, 2024 |
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| Fatness and the body 2/5: Being fat or having obesity - combining social constructivism and biomedical research on childhood obesity |
Where or what is the difference between childhood obesity and fatness, who has the right to decide that, and why is it important? With Zofia Boni, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan |
Zofia Boni |
24 June, 2024 |
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| Fatness and the body 1/5: Childhood adversity and adiposity - examining differences by sociocultural context |
Looking at the complex relationships between adversity in childhood and obesity in adulthood, with Shakira Suglia, Emory University |
Shakira Suglia |
24 June, 2024 |
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| Emotions in international food law |
Anne Saab, associate professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute looks at how feelings such as fear and anxiety might influence food safety regulations. |
Anne Saab |
30 April, 2024 |
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| Sugarcoated: Sugar tax and media discourses on the context of policymaking |
Dr Esther Gonzalez-Padilla asks what is sugar? Why should we study it? And how much sugar should we be eating? |
Esther Gonzalez-Padilla |
30 April, 2024 |
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| Sweetness as an aesthetic relationship |
Dr Maddalena Borsato, senior researcher at Ritsumeikan University examines the ambiguities and of the contradictions of sweetness. |
Maddalena Borsato |
30 April, 2024 |
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| Outwitting the temporalities of ‘control’ for Type 2 diabetes in urban India |
Pallavi Laxmikanth speaks about her PhD research examining understandings and practises of diabetes management in middle class communities in Hyderabad’s High-Tech City. |
Pallavi Laxmikanth |
30 April, 2024 |
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| From grassroots to platforms. The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in an online world |
Dr Francesca Forno, Associate professor at the University of Trento discusses how new, grassroots food movements are using online platforms and how their online platforms are being appropriated by bigger businesses. |
Francesca Forno, Stanley Ulijaszek, Tanja Schneider |
13 March, 2024 |
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| Curating good choice, digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating |
Dr Jeremy Brice explores how consumer choice is governed, protected, and cared for by firms which operate digital marketplace platforms from the likes of Deliveroo to Amazon Fresh. |
Jeremy Brice, Stanley Ulijaszek, Tanja Schneider |
13 March, 2024 |
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| Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience |
Dr Thao Dam explores how food is experienced digitally, through the Korean-originated practice of mukhbang, where people pay to watch others eat inline. |
Thao Dam, Stanley Ulijaszek, Tanja Schneider |
13 March, 2024 |
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| Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries |
Dr Anna Macready, associate professor in the School of Agriculture Policy and Development at the University of Reading, takes us through personalised nutrition and asks, ‘is there a right or wrong diet?’ |
Anna Macready, Stanley Ulijaszek, Tanja Schneider |
13 March, 2024 |
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| Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience |
Dr Thao Dam explores how food is experienced digitally, through the Korean-originated practice of mukhbang, where people pay to watch others eat inline. |
Thao Dam |
15 December, 2023 |
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| From grassroots to platforms. The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in an online world |
Dr Francesca Forno, Associate professor at the University of Trento discusses how new, grassroots food movements are using online platforms and how their online platforms are being appropriated by bigger businesses. |
Francesca Forno |
15 December, 2023 |
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| Curating good choice, digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating |
Dr Jeremy Brice explores how consumer choice is governed, protected, and cared for by firms which operate digital marketplace platforms from the likes of Deliveroo to Amazon Fresh. |
Jeremy Brice |
15 December, 2023 |
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| Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries |
Dr Anna Macready, associate professor in the School of Agriculture Policy and Development at the University of Reading, takes us through personalised nutrition and asks, ‘is there a right or wrong diet?’ |
Anna Macready |
15 December, 2023 |
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| Lazy, crazy and disgusting: stigma and the undoing of global health |
This UBVO seminar was given by Alexandra Brewis (Arizona State University) on 3 December 2020 |
Alexandra Brewis |
22 October, 2021 |
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| Connection and conflict: hHw neoliberal healthism and inequity shape bariatric surgery support forum dynamics |
This UBVO seminar was presented by Zoe Meleo-Erwin (William Paterson University of New Jersey) on 19 November 2020 |
Zoe Meleo-Erwin |
22 October, 2021 |
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| Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya: Anthropology and ethics in the pursuit of public health |
This UBVO seminar was presented by Adam Gilbertson (University of North Carolina) on 12 November 2020 |
Adam Gilbertson |
22 October, 2021 |
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| Cultured meat as a case study in the future of food |
This UBVO seminar was presented by Ben Wurgaft (MIT) on 5 November 2020 |
Ben Wurgaft |
22 October, 2021 |
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| Feeling the ‘weight’ of expectation: The necessity of understanding ‘obesity’ as a biopsychosocial phenomenon |
A UBVO seminar presented by Oli Williams (King's College London) on 29 October 2020 |
Oli Williams |
22 October, 2021 |
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| The damaging impact of weight stigma: Psychosocial stress and harmful health consequences |
This UBVO seminar was given by Rebecca Puhl (University of Connecticut) on 22 October 2020 |
Rebecca Puhl |
22 October, 2021 |
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| The syndemic of COVID-19, obesity and food insecurity in the United States |
This UBVO seminar was given by William Dietz (George Washington University) on 15 October 2020 |
William Dietz |
22 October, 2021 |
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| Making Cultures Count: Following the Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing |
A UBVO seminar presented by Sarah Bourke (National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University) on 24 January 2019 |
Sarah Bourke |
31 March, 2021 |
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| Framing obesity as a problem |
Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, University of Oxford) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar series on 27 February 2020 |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
25 February, 2021 |
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| Protein and meat as powerful symbols |
Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, University of Oxford) gave this presentation at the UBVO seminar on 21 February 2020 |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
25 February, 2021 |
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| Sustainability on stage: FoodTech and the spectacle of innovation |
Tanja Schneider (University of St Gallen, Switzerland) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar series on 12 March 2020 |
Tanja Schneider |
25 February, 2021 |
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| Is obesity a choice? |
Giles Yeo from the University of Cambridge gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar series on 30 January 2020 |
Giles Yeo |
25 February, 2021 |
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| Height, weight and prostate cancer |
Aurora Perez-Cornago (University of Oxford) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar series on 23 January 2020 |
Aurora Perez-Cornago |
25 February, 2021 |
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| Coffee, pure and simple: Rejection of milk and sugar by Brazilian specialty coffee consumers |
Sabine Parrish (from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar on 6 February 2020 |
Sabine Parrish |
25 February, 2021 |
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| An eco-bio-socio-political approach to anaemia in Peru |
Doreen Montag (Queen Mary College London) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar on 13 February 2020 |
Doreen Montag |
25 February, 2021 |
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| Nutrient timing and human health |
A UBVO Seminar given by James Betts (Professor of Metabolic Physiology, Department for Health, University of Bath) on 24 October 2019 |
James Betts |
22 January, 2020 |
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| Can wearable sensors and machine learning enhance our understanding of lifestyle health behaviours? |
A UBVO Seminar given by Aidan Doherty (Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford) on 17 October 2019 |
Aiden Doherty |
22 January, 2020 |
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| How mapping frames obesity and chronic disease risk factors |
Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, Oxford) interviews Professor Danny Dorling (School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford) for the UBVO Instruments and Institutions Interviews series, November 2019 |
Danny Dorling |
22 January, 2020 |
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| Changing ecologies of disease |
A lecture given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, Oxford) on 16 October 2019 |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
22 January, 2020 |
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| Biocultural approaches to human physical activity in (increasingly smart) urban environments |
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, Oxford) at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, at Ravenna |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
20 January, 2020 |
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| The social life of childhood obesity |
A UBVO seminar presented by Zofia Boni (University of Poznan, Poland) on 2 March 2019 |
Zofia Boni |
20 January, 2020 |
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| Obesity: human developmental perspectives |
The Keynote Lecture at the UBVO Green Templeton College Obesity Conference, 16 September 2019, given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, Oxford) |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
20 January, 2020 |
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| The UK government's childhood obesity plan |
A presentation given by Mike Rayner (Professor of Population Health and Director of the Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Oxford) at the UBVO Green Templeton College Obesity Conference, 16 September 2019 |
Mike Rayner |
20 January, 2020 |
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| The evolution of adipose tissues and how natural obesity in wild mammals elucidates human obesity |
A presentation given by Caroline Pond (Emeritus Professor, Open University) at the UBVO Green Templeton College Obesity Conference, 16 September 2019 |
Caroline Pond |
20 January, 2020 |
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| The metabolic consequences of obesity |
A presentation given by Leanne Hodson (Professor of Metabolic Physiology, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford) at the UBVO Green Templeton College Obesity Conference, 16 September 2019 |
Leanne Hodson |
20 January, 2020 |
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| Using low-energy diets to treat obesity: from research to practice |
A presentation given by Nerys Astbury (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford) at the UBVO Green Templeton College Obesity Conference, 16 September 2019 |
Nerys Astbury |
20 January, 2020 |
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| What's in the fridge? The everyday materiality of health and well-being |
A UBVO seminar presented by Tess Bird (Wesleyan University) on 15 May 2019 |
Tess Bird |
20 January, 2020 |
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| The Danish Health Interview Surveys |
An interview with Ola Ekholm (Senior Adviser, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark) for the UBVO Instruments and Institutions Interviews series (20 December 2010) |
Ola Ekholm |
20 January, 2020 |
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| Materialities of eating disorders |
A UBVO seminar presented by Dr Karin Eli (Research Affiliate, University of Oxford) on 30 April 2019 |
Karin Eli |
20 January, 2020 |
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| Boys, bulk and body ideals: epidemiology of muscle-enhancing and disordered eating behaviours in US adolescents |
A UBVO seminar presented by Jason M. Nagata (Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco) on 18 September 2019 |
Jason M. Nagata |
20 January, 2020 |
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| Nutrition and aging well: evidence from centenarians |
Claudio Franceschi (Professor of Immunology, University of Bologna) is interviewed by Stanley Ulijaszek (Oxford) for the UBVO Instruments and Institutions Interviews series (May 2019) |
Claudio Franceschi |
20 January, 2020 |
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| Materialities of food education: practice, research and policy |
A UBVO seminar presented by Barney Haughton (Chef and Director of Square Food Foundation, Bristol) on 9 May 2019 |
Barny Haughton |
20 January, 2020 |
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| Rights-based approaches to the regulation of food marketing |
A UBVO seminar presented by Amandine Garde (Professor of Law, University of Liverpool) on 16 May 2019 |
Amandine Garde |
20 January, 2020 |
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| Addressing childhood obesity using a family and community-based approach: The MEND programmes |
This UBVO seminar was presented by Paul Sacher, the Chief R&D Officer for MEND, on 3 November 2009 |
Paul Sacher |
1 July, 2019 |
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| 'Instruments and Institutions'. An interview on 'Evolving Human Nutrition' |
An interview with Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (5 November 2018) |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
1 July, 2019 |
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| Energy balance behaviours: the role of emotions and emotion regulation |
This UBVO seminar was presented by Cristiana Duarte (University of Leeds) on 31 January 2019 |
Cristiana Duarte |
1 July, 2019 |
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| Making Cultures Count: Following the Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing |
Sarah Bourke (a DPhil student in Anthropology, Oxford) presented this UBVO seminar on 1 February 2019 |
Sarah Bourke |
1 July, 2019 |
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| How do we fix the food waste problem? |
Claire Kneller (Head of Food, Wrap Global) delivered this UBVO seminar on 21 February 2019. |
Claire Kneller |
1 July, 2019 |
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| Functions of fat. What are the determinants and what does it matter? |
Marijana Todercevic (Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolis), delivered this UBVO seminar on 28 February 2019 |
Marijana Todercevic |
1 July, 2019 |
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| Obesity, insecurity, inequality and social welfare |
A talk by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
1 July, 2019 |
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| Obesity and socioeconomic status |
A talk by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (march 2019) |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
1 July, 2019 |
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| From village chickens to maternal and child health |
A UBVO seminar presented by Robyn Alders (Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney) in July 2018. |
Robyn Alders |
12 February, 2019 |
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| Marion Nestle and Claude Fischler in conversation about commensality and the soda tax, Tokyo |
A conversation for UBVO between Professor Marion Nestle (NYU Steinhardt) and Professor Claude Fischler (CNRS, Paris), December 2018. |
Marion Nestle, Claude Fischler |
12 February, 2019 |
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| Sociality and aging |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (Oxford) gave this presentation at the Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Dublin, in 2018 |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
12 February, 2019 |
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| How could it be otherwise? The body as a resource for exploring the past |
A UBVO seminar given by Dr Caroline Potter of the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, on 10 May 2018. |
Caroline Potter |
12 February, 2019 |
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| Ultra-processed Foods, Big Food and the Corporate Capture of Nutrition |
A UBVO seminar given by Gyprgy Scrinis of the University of Melbourne on 31 October 2018. |
Gyorgy Scrinis |
12 February, 2019 |
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| An interview with Professor Meg Warin on 'the Australian Senate Inquiry into Obesity' |
An interview for UBVO with Professor Meg Warin, University of Adelaide, 8 October 2018 |
Meg Warin |
12 February, 2019 |
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| A cognitive profile of obesity and its translation into new cognitive-behavioural health care interventions |
A UBVO seminar by Anita Jansen, Professor of Experimental Clinical Psychology at Maastricht University, given 13 June 2018 |
Anita Jansen |
12 February, 2019 |
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| An interview with Andrew Ross on 'The future of bread' |
An interview with Professor Andrew Ross (Food Science and Technology Department, Oregon State University) for the UBVO 'Instruments and Institutions' series. July 2018. |
Andrew Ross |
12 February, 2019 |
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| How literary studies can help us understand eating disorders |
This UBVO seminar was given by Emily Troscianko (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) in May 2018 |
Emily Troscianko |
17 September, 2018 |
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| The matter of being: knowing bodies and 'mental' health |
This UBVO seminar was given by Grace Lucas (Centre for Maternal and Child Health, London University) in May 2018 |
Grace Lucas |
17 September, 2018 |
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| What remains? Dancing archaeology |
This UBVO seminar was given by Marie-Louise Crawley (Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University) in May 2018 |
Marie-Louise Crawley |
17 September, 2018 |
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| My fat body: an axis for research |
This UBVO seminar was given by independent artist Rebecca D. Harris on 17 May 2018 |
Rebecca D. Harris |
17 September, 2018 |
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| What is Rational About Obesity? |
This UBVO seminar was given by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek in May 2018 |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
17 September, 2018 |
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| Framing Obesity as a Problem |
This seminar was given by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the Center for Research on Human Nutrition in Paris in 2018 |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
17 September, 2018 |
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| Resisting moralisation in health promotion |
A seminar by Rebecca Brown (University of Oxford) |
Rebecca Brown |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Not your good fatty: how fat activists disrupt using Web 2.0 |
A seminar by Cat Pausé (Massey University, New Zealand) |
Cat Pausé |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Anorexia, care and comfort |
A presentation by Anna Lavis (Goldsmiths, London) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 |
Anna Lavis |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Bitter-sweet adaptation |
A seminar by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Macaques at the margins |
Professor Sarah Elton (Durham) discusses 'what we can learn about the evolution of human dietary diversity from studying other primates outside the tropics', a UBVO seminar 16 November 2017 |
Sarah Elton |
13 March, 2018 |
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| The discursive regulation of 'too fat' and 'too thin' bodies |
A presentation by Helen Malson (University of the West of England) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 |
Helen Malson |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Obesity in the US media, 1999-2010 |
A presentation by Natalie Boero (College of Social Sciences, San Jose, California) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 |
Natalie Boero |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Completing contemporary discourses of obesity |
A presentation by Helene Shugart (University of Utah) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 |
Helene Shugart |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Analytic approaches to media representations |
A presentation by David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 |
David Zeitlyn |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Text mining techniques |
A presentation by John McNaught (Deputy Director of the National Centre for Text Mining) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 |
John McNaught |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Dangerous engagements? Exploring pro-anorexia websites and in the media |
A presentation by Anna Lavis (Goldsmiths, London) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 |
Anna Lavis |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Not social mobility but deprivation mobility: places change their characteristics and people change their places |
Paul Norman (University of Leeds) presented this UBVO seminar on 2 November 2017 |
Paul Norman |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Constructing the archetypal anorectic trends in media representations of eating disordered celebrities |
A presentation by Paula Saukko (Loughborough University) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 |
Paula Saukko |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Polyrational approaches to obesity |
In this talk, Professor Stanley Ulijaszek considers whether obesity is a polyrational problem |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
28 February, 2018 |
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| Physical activity and the built environment |
A presentation given by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the Fribourg Obesity Research Conference in Switzerland in 2017 |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
28 February, 2018 |
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| Models of Obesity - A Book Launch |
To mark its publication of Models of Obesity: From Ecology to Complexity in Science and Policy in September 2017, author Stanley Ulijaszek discusses the book's themes and purpose |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
28 February, 2018 |
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| Listening to the News Audience - What's Missing from Obesity News? |
A seminar by Catriona Bonfiglioli, a senior lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia |
Catriona Bonfiglioli |
28 February, 2018 |
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| Childhood Obesity in Portugal |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek interviews Professor Cristina Padez as part of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) 'Instruments and Institutions' interviews series |
Stanley Ulijaszek, Cristina Padez |
28 February, 2018 |
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| What is Nutritional Anthropology? |
A talk by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
28 February, 2018 |
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| Obesity and Consumption |
A lecture presented by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
28 February, 2018 |
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| Life between protocols: the pragmatics of care in a nutrition intervention in Khayelitisha, South Africa |
Michelle Pentecost (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford) gave this talk on 18 May 2017 as part of the Unity for Biocultural Variation and Obesity seminar series |
Michelle Pentecost |
5 September, 2017 |
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| Food and eating |
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
5 September, 2017 |
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| Energy balance models of obesity |
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
5 September, 2017 |
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| Global transformation of diet |
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
5 September, 2017 |
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| Obesity governance through measurement |
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
5 September, 2017 |
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| Genetics of obesity |
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
5 September, 2017 |
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| Limitations of obesity models |
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
5 September, 2017 |
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| Obesogenic environments |
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
5 September, 2017 |
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