Fat Studies » other UK fat-related seminars http://fatstudiesuk.edublogs.org UK-based blog concerning the academic discipline of fat studies Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:45:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Friday 15th February, seminar at Warwick http://fatstudiesuk.edublogs.org/2007/11/13/friday-15th-february-seminar-at-warwick/ http://fatstudiesuk.edublogs.org/2007/11/13/friday-15th-february-seminar-at-warwick/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:07:09 +0000 corinna http://fatstudiesuk.edublogs.org/2007/11/13/friday-15th-february-seminar-at-warwick/ 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)

]]> http://fatstudiesuk.edublogs.org/2007/11/13/friday-15th-february-seminar-at-warwick/feed/ 0 Fri Nov 9th, seminar at Warwick http://fatstudiesuk.edublogs.org/2007/11/03/seminar-at-warwick-fri-november-9th/ http://fatstudiesuk.edublogs.org/2007/11/03/seminar-at-warwick-fri-november-9th/#comments Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:43:56 +0000 sharonc http://fatstudiesuk.edublogs.org/2007/11/03/seminar-at-warwick-fri-november-9th/ 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).

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