Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2015, Week 7
ALL WELCOME
Speakers: Karin Eli, Oxford University
Conveners: Stanley Ulijaszek and Michelle Pentecost
Date: Monday 23rd November
Time: 1-2pm
Location: 61 Banbury Road (seminar room), Oxford OX2 6PE
22nd – 25th November 2015, Coex, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Bioconvergence for Food Function
Speaker: Dr Barbara Haesler from the Royal Veterinary College and LCIRAH
Date: Thursday 19th November, 2015
Time: 17:15
Location: Gottmann Room, School of Geography and the Environment
To register contact: roger.sykes@eci.ox.ac.uk
For more information see website.
Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2015, Week 6
ALL WELCOME
Speakers: Thomas Cousins and Michelle Pentecost, Stellenbosch University, and Oxford University
Conveners: Stanley Ulijaszek and Michelle Pentecost
Date: Thursday 19th November
Time: 1-2pm
17th-19th November 2015, ExCeL, London
The relationship between food, nutrition and health remains one of the most critical issues of our time.
The Food Matters Live 2015 Conference addresses this complex and challenging subject through a rich and varied programme across 17 thought-provoking debates.
10th - 12th November 2015, Athens, Greece
Food Science Research and Innovation: Delivering sustainable solutions to the global economy and society.
The Conference will be organized by the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) on behalf of the European Federation of Food Science and Technology (EFFoST).
Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2015, Week 4
ALL WELCOME
Speaker: Bethan Evans, University of Liverpool
Conveners: Stanley Ulijaszek and Michelle Pentecost
Date: Thursday 5th November
Time: 1-2pm
A major symposium on the global impacts of UK food consumption.
Food production and biodiversity conservation are in conflict. Join experts and leading voices from farmers' groups, food suppliers, major retailers, conservationists, scientists, NGOs and policy-makers to debate sustainable solutions to the growing challenge of balancing food security and environmental protection.
Dates: 21 Oct - 22 Oct 2015
Venue: ZSL London Zoo, Outer Circle, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY
Speaker: CAPT Joseph R. Hibbeln, MD, Chief, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, Bethesda, USA.
Title: 'Modern Nutrition and the Modern Mind: Aggression and Depression'.
Location: Warneford POWIC/SANE seminar room, OX3 7JX
Time: Noon
Date: Fri 17th, July 2015
Date: Tuesday, 30th June, 2015
Venue: Moa Room, ECI, SOGE
Time: 10 am - 11 am
Talk title: Food safety, farming environments and sustainability: Examining lettuce production in California, and the UK
Speaker bio: Laura Driscoll is a PhD student in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Anthropological Sciences from Stanford University. Her Masters research explored the impacts of ecotourism on cultural identity and consumption patterns in indigenous communities living in the buffer zone of Peru's Bahuaja-Sonene National Park.
She has conducted social and ecological impact assessments for tourism companies and policy makers in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Tanzania, assessing landscape change and seeking to align tourism development goals with sustainable development targets. Her current research interests include global dynamics of climate change, environmental policy, and food systems, and sustainability planning. Her dissertation will explore how the parallel goals of ensuring food safety and protecting the environment can be jointly pursued in developed world agriculture, by examining how governance frameworks and private food safety standards in leafy greens production affect farmers' environmental practices in California and the United Kingdom.
