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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

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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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Macaques at the margins 13.03.2018 41:12

Professor Sarah Elton (Durham) discusses 'what we can learn about the evolution of human dietary diversity from studying other primates outside the tropics', a UBVO seminar 16 November 2017

The discursive regulation of 'too fat' and 'too thin' bodies 13.03.2018 21:03

A presentation by Helen Malson (University of the West of England) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017

Obesity in the US media, 1999-2010 13.03.2018 22:33

A presentation by Natalie Boero (College of Social Sciences, San Jose, California) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017

Completing contemporary discourses of obesity 13.03.2018 18:23

A presentation by Helene Shugart (University of Utah) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017

Analytic approaches to media representations 13.03.2018 15:43

A presentation by David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017

Text mining techniques 13.03.2018 24:01

A presentation by John McNaught (Deputy Director of the National Centre for Text Mining) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017

Dangerous engagements? Exploring pro-anorexia websites and in the media 13.03.2018 18:53

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

Not social mobility but deprivation mobility: places change their characteristics and people change their places 13.03.2018 53:19

Paul Norman (University of Leeds) presented this UBVO seminar on 2 November 2017

Constructing the archetypal anorectic trends in media representations of eating disordered celebrities 13.03.2018 16:27

A presentation by Paula Saukko (Loughborough University) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017

Polyrational approaches to obesity 28.02.2018 56:49

In this talk, Professor Stanley Ulijaszek considers whether obesity is a polyrational problem

Physical activity and the built environment 28.02.2018 32:51

A presentation given by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the Fribourg Obesity Research Conference in Switzerland in 2017

Models of Obesity - A Book Launch 28.02.2018 13:35

To mark its publication of Models of Obesity: From Ecology to Complexity in Science and Policy in September 2017, author Stanley Ulijaszek discusses the book's themes and purpose

Listening to the News Audience - What's Missing from Obesity News? 28.02.2018 41:40

A seminar by Catriona Bonfiglioli, a senior lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia

Childhood Obesity in Portugal 28.02.2018 11:47

Professor Stanley Ulijaszek interviews Professor Cristina Padez as part of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) 'Instruments and Institutions' interviews series

What is Nutritional Anthropology? 28.02.2018 33:16

A talk by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek

Obesity and Consumption 28.02.2018 1:06:05

A lecture presented by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.

Life between protocols: the pragmatics of care in a nutrition intervention in Khayelitisha, South Africa 05.09.2017 31:39

Michelle Pentecost (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford) gave this talk on 18 May 2017 as part of the Unity for Biocultural Variation and Obesity seminar series

Food and eating 05.09.2017 1:00:36