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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

The Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) is an interdisciplinary research unit based at the University of Oxford, dedicated to understanding the complex and interwoven causes of obesity in populations across the world. This seminar series is hosted by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.

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Jun 24, 2024

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Episodes

'Instruments and Institutions'. An interview on 'Evolving Human Nutrition' 01.07.2019

An interview with Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (5 November 2018)

Energy balance behaviours: the role of emotions and emotion regulation 01.07.2019

This UBVO seminar was presented by Cristiana Duarte (University of Leeds) on 31 January 2019

Making Cultures Count: Following the Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing 01.07.2019

Sarah Bourke (a DPhil student in Anthropology, Oxford) presented this UBVO seminar on 1 February 2019

How do we fix the food waste problem? 01.07.2019

Claire Kneller (Head of Food, Wrap Global) delivered this UBVO seminar on 21 February 2019.

Functions of fat. What are the determinants and what does it matter? 01.07.2019

Marijana Todercevic (Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolis), delivered this UBVO seminar on 28 February 2019

Obesity, insecurity, inequality and social welfare 01.07.2019

A talk by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek

Obesity and socioeconomic status 01.07.2019

A talk by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (march 2019)

From village chickens to maternal and child health 12.02.2019

A UBVO seminar presented by Robyn Alders (Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney) in July 2018.

Marion Nestle and Claude Fischler in conversation about commensality and the soda tax, Tokyo 12.02.2019

A conversation for UBVO between Professor Marion Nestle (NYU Steinhardt) and Professor Claude Fischler (CNRS, Paris), December 2018.

Sociality and aging 12.02.2019

Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (Oxford) gave this presentation at the Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Dublin, in 2018

How could it be otherwise? The body as a resource for exploring the past 12.02.2019

A UBVO seminar given by Dr Caroline Potter of the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, on 10 May 2018.

Ultra-processed Foods, Big Food and the Corporate Capture of Nutrition 12.02.2019

A UBVO seminar given by Gyprgy Scrinis of the University of Melbourne on 31 October 2018.

An interview with Professor Meg Warin on 'the Australian Senate Inquiry into Obesity' 12.02.2019

An interview for UBVO with Professor Meg Warin, University of Adelaide, 8 October 2018

A cognitive profile of obesity and its translation into new cognitive-behavioural health care interventions 12.02.2019

A UBVO seminar by Anita Jansen, Professor of Experimental Clinical Psychology at Maastricht University, given 13 June 2018

An interview with Andrew Ross on 'The future of bread' 12.02.2019

An interview with Professor Andrew Ross (Food Science and Technology Department, Oregon State University) for the UBVO 'Instruments and Institutions' series. July 2018.

How literary studies can help us understand eating disorders 17.09.2018

This UBVO seminar was given by Emily Troscianko (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) in May 2018

The matter of being: knowing bodies and 'mental' health 17.09.2018

This UBVO seminar was given by Grace Lucas (Centre for Maternal and Child Health, London University) in May 2018

What remains? Dancing archaeology 17.09.2018

This UBVO seminar was given by Marie-Louise Crawley (Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University) in May 2018

My fat body: an axis for research 17.09.2018

This UBVO seminar was given by independent artist Rebecca D. Harris on 17 May 2018

What is Rational About Obesity? 17.09.2018

This UBVO seminar was given by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek in May 2018

Framing Obesity as a Problem 17.09.2018

This seminar was given by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the Center for Research on Human Nutrition in Paris in 2018

Resisting moralisation in health promotion 13.03.2018

A seminar by Rebecca Brown (University of Oxford)

Not your good fatty: how fat activists disrupt using Web 2.0 13.03.2018

A seminar by Cat Pausé (Massey University, New Zealand)

Anorexia, care and comfort 13.03.2018

A presentation by Anna Lavis (Goldsmiths, London) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017

Bitter-sweet adaptation 13.03.2018

A seminar by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford)

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