Programme
16 November 2018
Registration and coffee in the Aula, Singel 411
Welcome by Marike van Roon
Professor J.M. van Winter Stipendium
Key note lecture by David Gentilcore: Drinking Water in Italy: Element, Aliment, Medicament in Europe
Panel 1 – Nutritional Science and its Applications
Chair: Peter van Dam
Peter Scholliers - Problematic calories: Belgium, 1890-1918
Lisa Haushofer - Food groups and macronutrients revisited: the role of nutritional products
Adele Hite - A tangled web with no spider: “Eating right” and the U.S. dietary guidelines
Lunch break
Intermezzo – The Four Humours in Early Modern Artt
- Claudia Goldstein – Fire, Water, Air, Earth: Nutritional Advice and Social Class in Beuckelaer’s Four Elements
- Alexandra van Dongen – Kitchenware in Bruegels “Battle between Carnival and Lent”
Panel 2 – (Not) in Control: Diets and Bodily Discipline
- Chair: Tessel Bauduin
- Carla Cevasco – Feasting and Fasting: Native Americans, European Settlers, and Undisciplined Bodies in Colonial North America, 1600-1770
- Emma Hilborn – The feminisation of dieting. Food and controlled eating 1890-1930
- Zofia Boni – Fat Bodies and Fat Souls: Experiencing Childhood Obesity in Poland
Tea Break
Prize-giving Ceremony of the 2017 Johannes van Dam Prize
Drinks at Special Collections UvA.
17 November 2018
Registration
Panel 3 – Prescriptions and Proscriptions: Nutrition and Public Health
- Chair: Peter Scholliers
- Joseph L. Barona – Tadasu Saiki: Science and Nutritional Policies in Japan in Interwar Years
- Efrat Gilad – “The Child Needs Milk and Milk Needs a Market”: The Politics of Nutrition in the interwar Yishuv
Coffee
- Chair: Carolyn Birdsall
- Nathalie Cooke – Validating medicinal and nutritional information when Every(wo)man was their own doctor
- Maria Tonini & Max Gonen – “Watch Me Eat My Weight in Mac n Cheese”: Mukbang and the Performance of Unclean Eating
- Wrap-up by Irene Zwiep
Closing remarks and topic for 2019
Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2018
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