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.

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