Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

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The Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) is an interdisciplinary research unit based at the University of Oxford, dedicated to understanding the complex and interwoven causes of obesity in populations across the world. This seminar series is hosted by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Bariatric surgery's intersubjective embodiments	Heather Howard gave this talk on 11 May 2017 as part of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity seminar series	Heather Howard	5 September, 2017
The obesity epidemic and how bodies come to be through the pedagogies of digital health	Emma Rich gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 16th February 2017.	Emma Rich	28 February, 2017
Inequality, Obesity and Oxford: how to reduce car dependence	Danny Dorling gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 2nd February 2017.	Danny Dorling	28 February, 2017
Social Mobility: Can family policy make a difference?	Naomi Eisenstadt gives a talk for the UBVO seminar seires on 1st December 2016. Please note, there were technical difficulties during the recording of this episode so it will stop at 12:34. We apologise for this.	Naomi Eisenstadt	28 February, 2017
Epigenetics: Environment, embodiment and equality	Rebecca Richmond gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 13th October 2016.	Rebecca Richmond	28 February, 2017
Familial homeostasis and negotiations of children's eating and physical activity: An analysis of intergenerational conversations in low income US families	Paulina Nowicka gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on November 17th 2016,	Paulina Nowicka	18 January, 2017
The influence of school on eating disorders in girls - evidence from Sweden and the UK	Helen Bould gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 27th October 2016.	Helen Bould	18 January, 2017
The Great Gatsby curve in 3D: Inequality of outcomes, inequality of opportunities, and social mobility across countries	Gaston Yalonetzky gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 10th November 2016.	Gaston Yalonetzky	18 January, 2017
Advancing a model of inequalities, stress, and obesity	Emily Henderson, Durham University, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Emily Henderson	22 June, 2016
Brown adipose tissue, energy balance, and obesity - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews	Michael Symonds, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series.	Michael Symonds	14 June, 2016
Bariatric surgery in childhood and adolescence - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews	Claude Marcus, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews.	Claude Marcus	14 June, 2016
Familial interventions for childhood obesity - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews	Paulina Nowicka, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series.	Paulina Nowicka	14 June, 2016
UK Food Network Responsibility Deal - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews	Susan Jebb, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series.	Susan Jebb	14 June, 2016
The Body Mass Index in Obesity Reporting - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews	Philip James, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series.	Philip James	14 June, 2016
Sugar, Metabolisms, and Taxation - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews	Michael Goran, University of Southern California, gives an interview for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series.	Michael Goran	14 June, 2016
Obesity, responsibility and ethics	Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Julian Savuelscu	14 June, 2016
Governing Plastic Biology: Biopolitics in Epigenetic Times.	Maurizio Meloni, University of Sheffield, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Maurizio Meloni	2 June, 2016
The dynamics in the details: An ethnography of food aid, weights and measures in South Sudan.	Darryl Stellmach, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Darryl Stellmach	18 May, 2016
The fat(tened) American: Between consumption, disgust, and animality	Chris Forth gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar series on 26th October 2015.	Chris Forth	22 February, 2016
What's next? The National Obesity Observatory	Harry Rutter is interviewed about the National Obesity Observatory.	Harry Rutter	22 February, 2016
Hacking the Food System: Technologies of Justice and Inequality	Melissa Caldwell gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 3rd December 2015.	Melissa Caldwell	8 February, 2016
Food as Media	Eva Giraud gives a talk for the UBVO seminar seires on December 2nd 2015.	Eva Giraud	8 February, 2016
Celebrity Chefs as Political Activists: Audiences, Moments and Affect	Michael Goodman gives a talk for the UBVO seminar seires on 1st December 2015.	Michael Goodman	8 February, 2016
Keynote: When Food Goes Digital: From a Mundane Point of View	Steve Woolgar gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 30th November 2015.	Steve Woolgar	8 February, 2016
Digital Food Activism	Karin Eli and Tanja Schneider gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 29th November 2015.	Karin Eli, Tanja Schneider	8 February, 2016
The Who and What of Diabetes on Twitter	Mariano Berguerisse Diaz, Amy McLennan and Stanley Ulijaszek give a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 28th November 2015.	Mariano Berguerisse Díaz, Amy McLennan, Stanley Ulijaszek	8 February, 2016
Political Food Served Digitally All Day? An Online/Offline Perspective on Food- Related Political Consumerism	Katharina Witterhold gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 27th November 2015.	Katharina Witterhold	8 February, 2016
Marketing Conscious Consumption	Ryan Foley gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 26th November 2015.	Ryan Foley	8 February, 2016
Keynote: Evolutionary Ecology of Present-Day Obesity Production	Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Australasian Society for Human Biology Annual Meeting, Adelaide.	Stanley Ulijaszek	16 February, 2015
Famine, Starvation, and Narratives of Hunger	Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Stanley Ulijaszek	16 February, 2015
UNU Lecture- Nutrition and Health Transition	Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Stanley Ulijaszek	16 February, 2015
UNU Lecture- Societal Change and Health	Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Stanley Ulijaszek	16 February, 2015
UNU Lecture-Systems Change and Obesity	Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Stanley Ulijaszek	16 February, 2015
Keynote: Nutritional States and Welfare Regimes	Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Stanley Ulijaszek	16 February, 2015
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture- Evolution of Human Nutrition	Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Stanley Ulijaszek	16 February, 2015
Malaysian Food Barometer	Elise Mognard gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Elise Mognard	16 February, 2015
Clothes, Sizing and Obesity	Maciej Henneberg, School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Maciej Henneberg	16 February, 2015
Is Obesity a Disease?	Paul Griffiths, Charles Perkins Center, University of Sydney, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.	Paul Griffiths	16 February, 2015
Obesity and time urgency	Peter Whybrow gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series, part of the Welfare Regimes Hypothesis.	Peter Whybrow	16 February, 2015
Political ecology of obesity	Stanley Ulijaszek gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series, part of the Welfare Regimes Hypothesis	Stanley Ulijaszek	16 February, 2015
Inequality and obesity	Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, Welfare Regimes Hypothesis, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 27th November 2009.	Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett	16 February, 2015
The history of the obesity epidemic	Thorkild Sørensen (University of Copenhagen) gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 27th November 2009	Thorkild Sørensen	1 February, 2015
Behavioral biology and obesity	Trent Smith (Washington State University) gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 27th Novmber 2009	Trent Smith	1 February, 2015
Anthropology, Childhood, and Obesity	Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity and Karolinska Institutet Workshop: Developmental Frameworks of Childhood Obesity.	Stanley Ulijaszek	17 December, 2014
Evidence of the effectiveness of health-related food taxes	Peter Scarborough, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Michaelmas Term UBVO Seminar series.	Peter Scarborough	17 December, 2014
It's not fat - it’s bioprene: marathon swimming and heroic fatness	Karen Throsby, Leeds University, gives a talk for the Michaelmas term UBVO seminar series.	Karen Throsby	17 December, 2014
Rodent Models of Obesity-Reductionist Approaches to Understanding the Basis of a Complex Human Trait	Neil Docherty, University College Dublin, gives a talk for the Michaelmas Term UBVO Seminar Series.	Neil Docherty	17 December, 2014
Exploring critical geographies of obesity and fatness: environments, bodies and activism	Rachel Colls, Durham University, gives a talk for the Michaelmas Term UBVO seminar series.	Rachel Colls	17 December, 2014
From denial to corporate social responsibility: rhetoric of the food industry on obesity prevention	Amadine Garde, Liverpool University, gives a talk for the Michaelmas Term UBVO seminar series.	Amadine Garde	17 December, 2014
The Disenchantment of the Plate	John Coveney, Flinders University, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series	John Coveney	30 June, 2014

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