Food-Related Lectures & Seminar Series, Hilary Term 2013

There are a number of interesting talks and seminars taking place in Oxford this term on the subject of food, covering an impressively wide range of issues relating to this topic.

You can also see all of these talks listed on the Events page on the Future of Food website.

Please note that the first Oxford Food Security Forum Seminar is taking place today, Monday 14th January at 12.30pm!

• Green Templeton Lectures 2013: Feeding a Better Future
• The Oxford Food Security Forum Lunchtime Talks Hilary Term 2013: Global Food Security
• Linacre College Lectures 2013
• Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Seminars, Hilary Term 2013: Socialities and Childhood Obesity

Green Templeton Lectures 2013: Feeding a Better Future

In an annual series of four lectures in Hilary Term, the Green Templeton Lectures explore a given contemporary theme through a number of different perspectives, whether it be historical, political, educational or philosophical. Previous themes have included the pharmaceutical industry in 2009 and the sources and forms of uncertainty in modern life.

The theme of the 2013 lectures is Feeding a Better Future. The lectures take place on Monday 21 and 28 January and Monday 4 and 11 February.

One Billion Hungry: Can we Feed the World?
Speaker: Sir Gordon Conway, Professor of International Development, Imperial College.
Monday 21 January

The Role of Nutrition in Mental Health and Performance: Changing Diets, Changing Minds
Speaker: Dr Alex Richardson, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford; Visiting Research Fellow, Depertment of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, and Founder Director, FAB Research.
Monday 28 January

Food Democracy, Food Control and the Social Dimension of Modern Food Policy
Speaker: Professor Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, Centre for Food Policy, City University, London.
Monday 4 February

Global Malnutrition: Can We Make A Difference?
Speaker: Professor Jeyakumar Henry, Director, Clinical Nutrition Sciences, Singapore Institute of Clinical Sciences; Director, Functional Food Centre, Oxford Brookes University.
Monday 11 February

Venue: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford.

http://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/academic/lectures-seminars/gtlectures/green-templeton-lectures-2013.html

The Oxford Food Security Forum Lunchtime Talks Hilary Term 2013: Global Food Security

These lunchtime talks are organised by the student-led Oxford Food Security Forum

Mondays, 12:30-1:30 PM Hilary Term

Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, Meeting Room A, 3 Mansfield Road

Week 1 (14 January): “Climate Change and Rice in India”- TODAY
Prof. Barbara Harriss-White, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford

Week 2 (21 January): “Biochar, Sustainability and Food Supply”
Alfred Gathorne-Hardy, Research Fellow, 'The Materiality of Rice' project, University of Oxford

Week 3 (28 January): “Distributed Governance and Restless Consumption: The Case of Novel Foods in Europe”
Tanja Schneider, Research Fellow in Science and Technology Studies, Said Business School, University of Oxford
Javier Lezaun, PhD, Deputy Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society, University of Oxford

Week 3 (29 January): “Why Eat Local?” *NOTE: This talk will be on TUESDAY of Week 3
Julian Cottee, Cultivate Oxfordshire

Week 4 (4 February): “Diet, Environmental Sustainability and Chronic Disease”
Peter Scarborough, DPhil, British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, University of Oxford

Week 5 (11 February): “Food Security and Environmental Change: A Two-­Way Street”
John Ingram, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Food Security Leader, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

Week 6 (18 February): “Food Security, Nutrition and Climate Change Mitigation: Exploring the Links”
Tara Garnett, Food Climate Research Network, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

Week 7 (25 February): "Environment and (not “or”) Economics and (not “or”) Ethics"
Mike Gooding, Managing Director at FAI Farms Limited

Week 8 (4 March): “The Role of ‘Gathering’ in Relation to Food Security and Reduced Vulnerability as Part of Agroforestry Development in Rural India”
Professor Steven Newman, Managing Director at BioDiversity International

http://www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/oxford-food-security-forum-lunchtime-talks-hilary-term-2013

Linacre College Lectures 2013

Urbanization and food insecurity in an unequal world.
Gordon McGranahan, Principal Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development.
Thursday 17th January, 17:30
Department of Plant Sciences.

Please check their website for further lectures later in the term:
http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/About/events/LinacreLectures

Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Seminars, Hilary Term 2013: Socialities and Childhood Obesity

24 January (Thursday, week 2)
Karin ELI & Rosie KAY, ISCA, University of Oxford & Rosie Kay Dance Company
"Participant observation in motion: what dance can teach us about eating disorders"

31 January (Thursday, week 3)
Mariano BEGUERISSE-DIAZ, Department of Mathematics and Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
"Network mathematics in the social sciences: concepts, applications, and perspectives into obesity and public health"

7 February (Thursday, week 4)
Angela DAVIS, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick
"Maternity and childcare in Britain: a historical perspective"

14 February (Thursday, week 5)
Brit OPPEDAL, National Institute of Public Health, Norway
"Social integration of migrant children: uncovering family factors promoting healthy development: experience from Norway"

21 February (Thursday, week 6)
Hiranthi JAYAWEERA, COMPAS, University of Oxford
"Minority families and barriers to health care"

28 February (Thursday, week 7)
Laurel EDMUNDS, Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford
"Treating obesity early in life: the common misunderstandings between parents and health care providers"

7 March (Thursday, week 8)
Lucy COOKE, Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London
"Children’s eating habits and food preferences: determinants and consequences"

http://www.oxfordobesity.org/files/UBVOseminarsHT13.pdf

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