Can Food Make the World Go Round? Scientific Nutrition, Environmental Thinking and Empire
Humankind is currently eating in ways that might cause our own
extinction. This presentation focuses on the history of scientific
standards in nutrition that have created new ways of imagining
the world as one, through political programs that connect
different environments, markets, and eco-systems.
Date: 18 October 2022, 17:15 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Auditorium
Speaker: Dr Alma Igra (Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Frances Roach, Zachary Oliver