Fat Studies

The second of the seminar series, ‘Treating Fatness’ at The University of Warwick, Centre for the Study of Women and Gender

Friday 15th February 2008, 2-5pm ‘Resisting Treatment’

Speakers:

Lucy Aphramor (Coventry University)

Charlotte Cooper (size activist and journalist)

Publicity materials are available for the Fat Studies UK seminar!

Here’s a poster (in PDF format).

The Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at Warwick University are having a series of seminars:

This series of three seminars aims to explore the ways in which the fat body is treated, both in terms of medicalised attempts to “cure” and in terms of how people behave towards those who are visibly fat.

The first of these is entitled “Measuring Children” and it is on this coming Friday, 9th November 2007.
(more details).

Welcome to this blog, from Corinna Tomrley (cgt500@york.ac.uk) and Sharon Curtis (sharoncurtis@brookes.ac.uk).

This blog has been set up to help facilitate a Fat Studies in the UK seminar, coming soon in May 2008. Please see the links on the right for more details about the seminar. We hope to see you there!

More information will be added here as and when we have it…