• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
• Timing: 4pm on Thursdays, except for Weeks 2 and 6 (on Zoom)
• Web Address: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/unit-for-biocultural-variation-and-obesity
• Organising department: School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Life between protocols: the pragmatics of care in a nutrition intervention in Khayelitsha, South Africa
  Michelle Pentecost (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Crowdsourced: cartographic citizenship, digital legitimacy and future humanitarianism
  Dr Darryl Stellmach (University of Sydney and Médicins Sans Frontierès)

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Listening to the news audience - what's missing from obesity news?
  Catriona Bonfiglioni (University of Technology, Sydney)

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Bitter-sweet adaptation
  Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Not social mobility but deprivation mobility: places change their characteristics and people change their places
  Paul Norman (University of Leeds)

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Resisting moralisation in health promotion
  TBA

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Macaques at the margins: what we can learn about the evolution of human dietary diversity from studying other primates outside the tropics
  Sarah Elton (Durham University)

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Tackling Obesity: Right from the Start
  Mary Rudolf (Bar Ilan University)

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Plastic foods, cooking and embodied skill in Australian obesity education
  Please note that this is an additional seminar on the Monday of Week 8.
  Megan Warin (University of Adelaide)

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Not your good fatty: How fat activists disrupt using Web 2.0
  Cat Pause (Massey University)

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Ethnography in a grievance: enunciatory communities, law and environmental justice in Nicaragua's chronic kidney disease epidemic
  Alex Nading (Brown University)

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Chess, not chequers
  This seminar has been CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Harry Rutter (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Theorising with narrative: How careful analysis of stories can help us rise above ‘behaviour change’ research
  Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - How climate change as an idea travels to sub-Saharan Africa: The anthropology of forecasting, future-making and humanitarianism
  Dr Sara de Wit (InSIS, University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The taste for health
  Gabriela Morini (University of Gastronomic Science, Pollenzo)

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Public expressions of trust and distrust in official dietary advice: What do letters reveal about lay people’s relation to the National Food Agency in Sweden?
  Karolin Bergman (Uppsala University)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Digital methods and their implications for social science
  Torben Jensen (Aalborg University, Copenhagen), Anders Munk (Aalborg University, Copenhagen)

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Chess, not chequers
  Professor Harry Rutter (University of Bath)

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Discussing weight management in primary care - insights from conversation analysis of the BWel trial
  Charlotte Albury (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - CANCELLED: Function of fat. What are the determinants and does it matter?
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Marijana Todorčević (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Ultra-Processed foods, big food and the corporate capture of nutrition
  This is an additional seminar series (please note the location)
  Gyorgy Scrinis (University of Melbourne)

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Revealing later life vulnerabilities through the study of food practices
  With apologies, this seminar was cancelled at the last minute due to illness
  Wendy Wills (UNiversity of Hertfordshire)

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Psychosocial inequality, insecurity and overweight/obesity in a Danish Youth Cohort
  Per Høgh Poulsen (Department of Occupational Medicine, Herning Hospital, Denmark)

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Assessing the reformulation efforts of soft drink companies in the UK
  Lauren Bandy (University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Genomics of common obesity
  Prof Cecilia Lindgren (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Are your genes to blame when your jeans don’t fit?
  This seminar has been CANCELLED
  Dr Giles Yeo (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Following the Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing
  Sarah Bourke (University of Oxford)

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Energy balance behaviours: the role of emotions and emotion regulatio
  Cristiana Duarte (University of Leeds)

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Bug burgers, lab meat and plant blood: what implications for food and farming?
  Alexandra Sexton (University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - How do we fix the food waste problem?
  Claire Kneller (Head of Food, WRAP Global)

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Function of fat. What are the determinants and does it matter?
  Marijana Todorčević (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The social life of childhood obesity in Poland
  Zofia Boni (SOAS Food Studies Centre; Department of Anthropology, University of Poznań)

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - 'Materialities of eating disorders' and 'Materialities of anorexia'
  Dr Karin Eli (University of Warwick), Dr Anna Lavis (University of Birmingham)

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Materialities of food education: practice, research and policy
  Barny Haughton (Square Food Foundation, Bristol)

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Rights-based approaches to the regulation of food marketing’ and ‘What’s in the fridge? The everyday materiality of health and wellbeing’
  Amandine Garde (University of Liverpool), Tess Bird (Wesleyan University, Connecticut)

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Can wearable sensors and machine learning enhance our understanding of lifestyle health behaviours?
  Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Nutrient timing and human health
  James Betts (University of Bath)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Height, weight and prostate cancer
  Aurora Perez-Cornago (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Is obesity a choice?
  Dr Giles Yeo (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Coffee, pure and simple: Rejection of milk and sugar by Brazilian specialty coffee consumers
  Sabine Parrish (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - An eco-bio-socio-political approach to anaemia in Peru
  Doreen Montag (Queen Mary University of London)

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - New perspectives on weight and metabolic changes in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
  Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Framing obesity as a problem
  Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - CANCELLED UBVO Workshop: Materialities of Obesity and Eating Disorders - New Policy Directions?
  This event has been cancelled
  Various Speakers

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Visual materiality of corporate science: asbestos, tobacco, pharma, and food
  Tess Bird (Wesleyan University, Connecticut)
• 13:00 - Sustainability on stage: FoodTech and the spectacle of innovation
  Tanja Schneider (University of St Gallen, Switzerland)

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Talking sugar in South Africa
  Visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/talking-sugar-in-south-africa
  Hannah Graff (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The role of popular culture in creating new norms for wellness
  Visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-role-of-popular-culture-in-creating-new-norms-for-wellness
  Karen Watson (Imperial College London)

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Preconception interventions: the future of obesity prevention strategies?
  Visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/preconception-interventions-the-future-of-obesity-prevention-strategies
  Michelle Pentecost (Kings College London)

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - From the pandemic to the pan: A cross-continental overview of changes in consumers cooking and food practices during COVID-19
  Visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/from-the-pandemic-to-the-pan-a-cross-continental-overview-of-changes-in-consumers-cooking-and
  Fiona Lavelle (Queen's University Belfast)

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Changes in physical activity and eating habits during the pandemic: A Brazilian view
  Visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/changes-in-physical-activity-and-eating-habits-during-the-pandemic-a-brazilian-view
  Carol Ferreira (University of São Paulo), Bruno Gualano (University of São Paulo)

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The social origins of childhood obesity
  Please visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-social-origins-of-childhood-obesity
  Erik Hemmingsson (Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm)

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Post-COVID-19 futures: The need for a paradigm shift in economics
  Visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/post-covid-19-futures-the-need-for-a-paradigm-shift-in-economics
  John Komlos (University of Munich)

Thursday 14 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Travelling with Sugar
  Amy Moran-Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sensing Sugaropolis: Geographies of sugar in Greenock, Scotland
  Marisa Wilson (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sugarproof
  Michael Goran (University of Southern California)

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sugar-Coated: Sugar tax and media discourses in the context of policymaking
  Esther González-Padilla (Lund University)

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Cultural Contexts of Health: Global Lessons and Policy Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic
  David Napier (UCL), Ted Fischer (Vanderbilt University)

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Change and stability in eating practices: Evidence from four Nordic countries
  Lotte Holm (University of Copenhagen)

Thursday 25 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - First results of the SWEET EU project: Sweeteners and the incidence of obesity and related health outcomes in 5 European cohorts
  Edith Feskens (Wageningen University)

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Anthropology for policy
  Rachel Bruce (Cabinet Office Her Majesties Government, UK)

Thursday 27 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:00 - Food and digital media: a more-than-human approach
  Please note that this seminar is at 8pm UK time, rather than the usual time of 4pm
  Deborah Lupton (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

Thursday 3 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Curating good choice: Digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating
  Jeremy Brice (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience
  Thao Dam (University of Gastronomic Science, Pollenzo)

Thursday 17 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries
  Anna McReady (University of Reading)

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - UBVO Seminar Week 6
  Please note that this seminar is at 5pm UK time instead of the usual 4pm
  Shima Barakat (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Long covid: how changing my world view led to my recovery
  Paul Garner (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - CANCELLED: A new era of nutritional research; Insights from the ZOE Covid and PREDICT studies integrating AI, novel technologies, citizen science and remote clinical trials
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Sarah Berry (Kings College London)