2008 Events
14-15 July 2008
BSA Food Study Group Conference: Food, Society and Public Health
The British Library Conference Centre, London
Confirmed keynote speakers: Claude Fischler, EHSS and CNRS, Paris and Allison James, University of Sheffield.
9 June: Facilitated debate based on Guthman and DuPuis’s 2006 paper from Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24(3) 427 – 448 Embodying neoliberalism: economy, culture, and the politics of fat.
Friday, 30 May 2008 at 12-2pm, the Usher Room at the University of Edinburgh, Public Health Sciences, Teviot Place. Andrea Tonner from the University of Strathclyde presented a short paper on ‘cookbook choices: a matter of self identity’. This was followed by discussion and a general round-up of members' research activities.
2007 Events
3 December - Family Food and Convenience Consumption
Marylyn Carrigan, University of Birmingham
24 September - Domestic Kitchen Practices: Routines, Risks and Reflexivity
Lydia Martens, University of Keele
4 June 2007 - The Impacts of Nutrigenomics on Public Health
Rachel Dechenne
3 May 2007
Size Acceptance, Dieting and Gender
A half-day seminar supported by Coventry University's Applied Research Centre in Health & Lifestyle Interventions
Programme:
12.00–1.00pm: Registration/ Lunch/ Welcome
1.00–2.00pm: Men, Dieting and the War on Obesity: Understandings from a Sociological Study, Dr Lee Monaghan, University of Limerick
2.00–2.30pm: tea/coffee
2.30-3.30pm: Male partners and their response to female desire to lose weight, Prof. Julia Buckroyd, University of Hertfordshire
3.30–4.00pm: General discussion
13 April 2007
BSA Conference - Social Connections: Identities, Technologies, Relationships - Food Study Group Stream
University of East London, Docklands Campus, London
Programme:
0900-0930 Study Group 'Meet & Greet'
0930-1100 Food Study Group Generations and Kinship session Chair - Wendy Wills
1130-1300 Food Study Group Mundane Cultures Session: Chair - Libby Bishop
1300-1330 Food Study Group AGM.
1530-1700 Food Study Group Beliefs and Disenchantment session:Chair - TBC
1730-1830 Food Study Group Keynote Lecture: 'Youth Cultures of Eating: Intimacy, Youth and Friendship' - Prof. Elspeth Probyn, Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney. Abstract available here.
26 February 2007 - Bread: Health and Production Aspects
Dr Bogdan Dobraszczyk, The University of Reading
26 January 2007
Obesity and Extremes: What's the problem?
University of Edinburgh
Speakers: Karen Throsby, University of Warwick - "Dieting like a Normal Person": Obesity, Risk and Responsibility in Accounts of Weight Loss Surgery.
Lucy Aphramor, Coventry University and 'HELP' (Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme) - Has the Energy Balance Equation had its day? Remapping Fatness with Society in Mind.
2006 Events
British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2006
Food Study Group (SCOFF) Stream
Abstracts of the 9 papers from Harrogate are available here
Photographs from the study group's drink reception and 'meet the author' session are available by Clicking here (Powerpoint format).
London seminar and lunch series 2006 - University of Westminster.
February 2006 - Liz Dowler spoke about the work of the Food Ethics council. You can find out more about the FEC here: http://www.foodethicscouncil.org/
Monday, 22nd May: Dr Jane Whittle, History Dept, University of Exeter. 'The consumption of food in an early seventeenth century household' - Short report available here.
Monday, 11th September: - Food Poverty - Acting Local, Thinking National
Chaired by Lisa Wilson from Sustain's Food Poverty Project.
Monday, 18th December - Insitute of Education in conjunction with the Auto/Biography Study Group conference on 'Food and Lives'.
2005 Events
11th October 2005: Learning to cook - straightforward, necessary or really worth the effort? Speaker: Dr Frances Short. University of Westminster, London.
30th June 2005: The Benefit of Experience? Food and easting in later life, University of Edinburgh
22nd March 2005: 'Food, eating and the lifecourse'
Food Study Group stream at the BSA Annual Conference, University of York.
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