• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 12 October 2017

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

Thursday 26 October 2017

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

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 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

• 13:00 - Resisting moralisation in health promotion
  TBA

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 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

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

Monday 27 November 2017

• 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

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

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 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

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

Thursday 11 October 2018

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

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 29 November 2018

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

Thursday 17 January 2019

• 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

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

Thursday 31 January 2019

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

Thursday 7 February 2019

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

Thursday 21 February 2019

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

Thursday 28 February 2019

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

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 16 May 2019

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 23 January 2020

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

Thursday 30 January 2020

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

Thursday 6 February 2020

• 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

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

Thursday 20 February 2020

• 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

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

Thursday 5 March 2020

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 21 October 2021

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

Thursday 28 October 2021

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

Thursday 4 November 2021

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

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 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

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

Thursday 25 November 2021

• 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

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

Thursday 27 January 2022

• 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

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

Thursday 10 February 2022

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 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)