
Upcoming seminarS and events
MICHAELMAS term 2023
Convened by Zofia Boni and Stanley Ulijaszek
Thursdays 4-5pm, UK time
On Zoom
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89010521271?pwd=qbLC2lYNvjmtIxbZbTDUWKNaOnWA7b.1#success
October 19
Emily Yates-Doerr, Oregon State University
American mal-nutrition: Interventions into the science and policy of maternal health
October 26
Anne Saab, Geneva Graduate Institute
Emotions in international food law
November 2
Ellen Margrete Iveland Ersfjord, University of Agder, Norway
Why is there a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity in rural areas? A qualitative study of rural children's perspectives of rural foodways
November 9
Susan Greenhalgh, Harvard University
Soda science: How coke created a global science of exercise for obesity (1995-2015) and why it matters today
November 16
Tayla von Ash, Brown University
Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities for childhood obesity
November 23
Katia Lurbe i Puerto, Sciences Po, Paris
The stakes around bariatric surgery in France : a critical sociology of the medical community and of public policies
November 30
Ilya Gutin, University of Texas at Austin
When the measure becomes the metric: making sense of the body mass index in research and practice