Event Description
This virtual conference organized by Cambridge Body and Food Histories Group will bring together academics and professionals working within interdisciplinary fields including history, sociology, medicine and theology.
It aims to draw from research being undertaken concerning the body, medicine, nutrition and disability, and to reflect critically on past and present understandings of health and bodily perfection.
The ultimate aim is to enlighten our understanding of current ideals of the “perfect” body by fostering a working dialogue between a range of academic disciplines.
30th July
9.30-10.30 – KEYNOTE – Chair: Niamh Colbrook
Anna Lavis, University of Birmingham
10.50-12.10 – PANEL 1 – Chair: Lucy Havard
Waiting Bodies as Objects and Symbols: A Study of Luxury Restaurant Waiters in Late-Victorian and Early-Edwardian London – Carina Mansey (University of London)
‘Before you break my heart’: Health Education, Thatcherite Values and the Armchair Nation – Peder Clark (University of Strathclyde)
Riots Not Diets: The Body Positive Movement on Instagram – Sarah Merton (London South Bank University)
13.00-14.20 – PANEL 2 – Chair: Meg Roberts
The Medicalisation of the Early Modern Menopausal Body – Anna Graham (Queen’s University Belfast)
The ‘Pad’, the ‘Belly’ and the Politics of Female Appetite in the Late Eighteenth Century – Charlotte Goodge (University of Kent)
Women’s Bodies and Public Drinking: How the Past Continues to Shape the Perceptions of Today – Claire Markham (Nottingham Trent University)
14.40-16.00 – PANEL 3 – Chair: Niamh Colbrook
From Ideal Health to Ideal Recovery: Perceptions of Perfect Health in the Orthorexia Narrative – Kaila Tova Prins (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Representing Embodied Expertise: Anorexia and the Celebrity Athlete’s Lifestyle Advice – Jon Verriet (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Healthy Bodies or Healthist Bodies? Biopolitics and Moralizations in Produce Prescription Programs – Alanna K. Higgins (West Virginia University)
16.20-17.40 – PANEL 4 – Chair: Lucy Havard
Eugenics and Exercise in Interwar Ireland – Conor Heffernan (University of Texas at Austin)
Hello, Dad Bod: How Gender, Power & Media Shape Twenty-First Century Body Ideals – Emily J.H. Contois (University of Tulsa)
‘A Step Ahead of Death’: The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise and the Changing Expectations of Aging with Disease in America, 1972-1985 – Travis A. Weisse (Marist College)
31st July
9.40-11.00 – PANEL 5 – Chair: Niamh Colbrook
An Orthodox Body and Soul: The Sacred Ideal – Lesa Scholl (University of Adelaide)
Expectation vs Reality: Eating Disorders, Bodily Experience, and Commensality in Contemporary Christianity – Christabelle Thwaites (University of Exeter)
Clean Eating and the Pursuit of the Ideal Body in Twenty-First Century Britain – Louise Morgan (University of Warwick)
11.20-12.40 – PANEL 6 – Chair: Meg Roberts
Hearts of Soil in Early Eighteenth-Century Germany – Mark Seow (University of Cambridge)
Body Knowledge: Self-Experiment in the Eighteenth Century – Rosalind Powell (University of Bristol)
‘For girls that are crooked or inclined to be so’: Correcting Postural Deformities in Georgian Children – Helen Esfandiary (King’s College London)
13.30-14.50 – PANEL 7 – Chair: Lucy Havard
Between Adele and Lizzo: Figuring Body Ideals and the ‘Ideal Body’ in a Time of Body Positivity – Jennifer Lynn Jones (University of Tulsa)
Precarious Body: The ‘Crooked Carpenter’ of Innsbruck – Sara Frier (Yale University/CASVA)
Embodying Infection: How Young Women Experience Chronic Yeast Infections – Victoria Ford (University of Cambridge)
15.15-16.15 – KEYNOTE – Chair: Meg Roberts
Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease – Carolyn Day (Furman University)
Thursday 30th – Friday 31st July 2020
Source: https://bodyandfoodhistories.wordpress.com/2020-conference/
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