Bodies of Evidence: Fat Across Disciplines
19-20 September 2007
Newnham College
University of Cambridge
The current fascination with obesity poses many interesting problems. Not
least of which remains a question of definition: What is obesity? The obese
body is on the one hand regarded to be somewhat self-evident and yet also
evokes an increasingly complex range of explanations and explorations. This
conference seeks to bring together academics from a broad range of
disciplines to examine the obese body as a case study of both the contested
nature of evidence and as a site for the construction of interdisciplinary
evidence and problem-solving. It will seek to highlight the different ways
of thinking about, researching and 'doing' obesity and will ask what is it
about the obese body that makes it a particularly novel and problematic
site for the construction of evidence.
Confirmed Speakers include:
Professor Ian Hacking (University of Toronto)
Dr Katie LeBesco (Marymount Manhatten College)
Professor Don Kulick (New York University)
Professor Anne E Becker (Harvard Medical School)
Dr Virginia Chang (University of Pennsylvania)
Dr Petra Jonvallen (Linkopings Universitet, Sweden)
Dr Karen Throsby (University of Warwick)
Megan Clinch (BIOS, LSE)
Dr Ana Carden Coyne (University of Manchester)
Professor Simon Marvin (University of Salford)
Preliminary details (including booking forms) are available on the
following website:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2006-7/obesity.html
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