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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
Behalf Of Situating Science
Sent: 27 September 2011 19:00
To: STSGRAD
Subject: LIVE STREAM Sept. 30th 7pm ADT! Dr. Steven Shapin: "The Long 
History of Dietetics: Thinking about Food, Expertise, and the Self"

Hi there,

Please disseminate the following notice:

Situating Science is pleased to support the LIVE STREAMING of the 
Science and Technology Studies (STS) 4th annual lecture at St. Thomas 
University in Fredericton, New Brunswick:

"THE LONG HISTORY OF DIETETICS: THINKING ABOUT FOOD, EXPERTISE, AND THE 
SELF"

DR. STEVEN SHAPIN, Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science 
at Harvard University 7pm ADT (GMT-4hrs), SEPT 30, 2011 Kinsella 
Auditorium, McCain Hall, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New 
Brunswick LIVE STREAMED AT:
http://www.livestream.com/situsci
AND
www.situsci.ca

Internationally renowned historian and sociologist of science Steven 
Shapin will explore how ideas about food, and its relation to health and 
disease, have shifted over time from the ancient world to the rise of 
nutrition science in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In "The Long History of Dietetics: Thinking about Food, Expertise and 
the Self," Shapin will speak about the history of eating over the last 
two millennia and what has changed over the last century. He will 
explore how our consumption of food has evolved as both a medical and 
moral problem, bringing to light the tensions among experts on eating 
and the rest of us as consumers of food.

"The notion that 'you are what you eat' seems like common sense today 
and in the ancient world these linkages between edibles and entity were 
even stronger, with both a medical and a moral component," said 
Professor Jane Jenkins, Director of the Science and Technology Studies 
Program at St. Thomas University.

"By following the shifting meanings from the ancient world to the 
present of our medical and moral attitudes towards food, Professor 
Shapin will bring some fascinating insight into the making of the modern 
self and the interplay between expert and lay authorities."

Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at 
Harvard and he has published widely in the historical sociology of 
scientific knowledge. His research interests include historical and 
contemporary studies of dietetics, the nature of entrepreneurial 
science, and modern relations between academia and industry. He writes 
regularly for the London Review of Books and has written for The New Yorker.

Among his many awards are the J. D. Bernal Prize of the Society for 
Social Studies of Science for career contributions to the field and the 
Herbert Dingle Prize of the British Society for the History of Science 
for The Scientific Revolution, which has been translated into
16 languages. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 
Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. 
With Simon Schaffer, he was the 2005 winner of the Erasmus Prize for 
contributions to European culture, society or social science.

Poster online at www.situsci.ca
Free event
Online questions for QandA welcome

About Science and Technology Studies at St. Thomas University Science 
and Technology Studies is an interdisciplinary programme that examines 
the interactions between science and technology and society and the 
complicated array of social, legal and ethical issues that arise from 
them. We focus on how science and technology both influence and are 
influenced by society. STS courses give students in the social sciences 
and humanities opportunities to understand and engage in debates about 
the impact of science and technology on today's world.

About the Situating Science Strategic Knowledge Cluster
(www.situsci.ca)
Created in 2007 with the generous funding of the Social Sciences and 
Humanities Research Council of Canada Strategic Knowledge Cluster grant, 
Situating Science is a seven-year project promoting communication and 
collaboration among humanists and social scientists that are engaged in 
the study of science and technology. 7 Years. 6 Network Nodes in Canada. 
4 Themes. Countless Possibilities.

Emily Tector
Project Coordinator
Situating Science
University of King's College
6350 Coburg Rd
Halifax  NS  B3H 2A1
Phone: (902)422-1271, ext. 200
Fax: (902)423-3357
www.situsci.ca

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(@situsci)



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