Current seminars

The Hilary Term UBVO Seminar Series will take place in the second half of the term on Thursdays from 1-2pm, at various venues **please note changes of venue**. Speakers will touch on a range of topics, including food security, weight loss management programmes, visual representations of the body, and migration. Download the programme here.

*Wednesday, 15 February (Week 5) **64 Banbury Road**
JOHN GERRARD, Recipient of 2012 Legacy Fellowship at the University of Oxford and Modern Art Oxford
Exercise

Thursday, 23 February (Week 6) **43 Banbury Road**
MELANIE WENGER, Wolfson College, ISCA
Narratives from eating management programs in the US

Thursday, 1 March (Week 7) **43 Banbury Road**
MARISA MACARI, Green Templeton College, ISCA
Nutritional trajectories in migration: a case study of Mexicans in NYC

Thursday, 8 March (Week 8) **43 Banbury Road**
ADAM GILBERTSON, St Cross College, ISCA
Insecurity and food insecurity: findings from an informal settlement in Mombasa, Kenya

To view previous speakers, and to access slides and audio recordings from previous seminars, please visit our seminar archive.

Adam Drewnowski presenting one of his series of Astor Lectures at the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity, Oxford, 2008.

Items of interest

UBVO SEMINARS

The UBVO seminar series programme for Hilary Term 2012 has commenced! Check out the programme here. Don't forget that you can listen to all of the old seminars at the UBVO page in Oxford's iTunesU.

OPINION PAPERS ONLINE

In a new, ongoing series of opinion papers, UBVO Fellows, associates and students are invited to consider how material objects, performance art or events can help us to think about obesity in different ways. You can find the UBVO Opinion Papers here.