Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

194 Episodes

1. Fatness and the body 5/5: When the measure becomes the metric - making sense of the body mass index in research and practice

   Published: 6/24/2024
2. Fatness and the body 4/5: Fifteen (plus!) ways estrogens influence adipose tissues

   Published: 6/24/2024
3. Fatness and the body 3/5: Why is there a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity in rural areas? A qualitative study of rural children's perspectives of rural foodways

   Published: 6/24/2024
4. Fatness and the body 2/5: Being fat or having obesity - combining social constructivism and biomedical research on childhood obesity

   Published: 6/24/2024
5. Fatness and the body 1/5: Childhood adversity and adiposity - examining differences by sociocultural context

   Published: 6/24/2024
6. Emotions in international food law

   Published: 4/30/2024
7. Sugarcoated: Sugar tax and media discourses on the context of policymaking

   Published: 4/30/2024
8. Sweetness as an aesthetic relationship

   Published: 4/30/2024
9. Outwitting the temporalities of ‘control’ for Type 2 diabetes in urban India

   Published: 4/30/2024
10. Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience

    Published: 12/15/2023
11. From grassroots to platforms. The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in an online world

    Published: 12/15/2023
12. Curating good choice, digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating

    Published: 12/15/2023
13. Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries

    Published: 12/15/2023
14. Lazy, crazy and disgusting: stigma and the undoing of global health

    Published: 10/22/2021
15. Connection and conflict: hHw neoliberal healthism and inequity shape bariatric surgery support forum dynamics

    Published: 10/22/2021
16. Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya: Anthropology and ethics in the pursuit of public health

    Published: 10/22/2021
17. Cultured meat as a case study in the future of food

    Published: 10/22/2021
18. Feeling the ‘weight’ of expectation: The necessity of understanding ‘obesity’ as a biopsychosocial phenomenon

    Published: 10/22/2021
19. The damaging impact of weight stigma: Psychosocial stress and harmful health consequences

    Published: 10/22/2021
20. The syndemic of COVID-19, obesity and food insecurity in the United States

    Published: 10/22/2021