Hunger, (Mal-)Nutrition, and the Self in the 20th and 21st Century

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Hunger, (Mal-)Nutrition, and the Self in the 20th and 21st Century

Veranstalter
Tatjana Tönsmeyer, Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Wupper-tal; Heike Wieters, Saisir l’Europe, Humboldt University Berlin
Veranstaltungsort
Schloss Herrenhausen
Ort
Hannover
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
21.06.2017 - 23.06.2017
Website
Von
Heike Wieters

The many challenges surrounding human nutrition and food security are the focus of ever growing interest, especially in the context of climate change. This international, interdisciplinary conference will discuss developments in these issues through the 20th and 21st century. In its first strand, the conference will approach the experience of hunger or malnutrition, and how these problems have been dealt with, in various contexts characterized by scarcity and limited individual or collective access to food and nourishment in general. In particular, everyday experiences and specific coping strategies will be examined and contextualized. The second theme of the conference will be (mal-)nourishment in the contexts of political, economic and social deprivation, of war, and of collective social engineering strategies employed by political and military leaders or scientists. Topics here will include hunger and food deprivation as a weapon, or as the consequence of political programming and ideology in the 20th century, with a particular emphasis on the correlations between nutrition and approaches to modernisation. Third, the conference will scrutinize the ever more subtle subjectification processes surrounding food intake and nutrition, especially the avoidance of certain nutrients that have gained in appeal throughout the 20th century and into this one. In this strand, the conference will consider the intricate linkages between processes of identity formation and diverse practices of nourishing body and soul in post-industrial societies. The themes of each strand of the conference are characterised by ongoing processes of scientification and institutionalisation, processes which will be traced back to their original contexts, in order to uncover their many-faceted developments and entanglements, and to explore the diverse ties between these historical origins and developments and present day phenomena.
Sponsored by the VolkswagenStiftung

Programm

Wednesday, 21 June

13.30 – 14.30
Conference Registration and Light Lunch

14.30 – 15.00
Welcome by the conference organizers, including acknowledgements and an introduction to the conference topics, questions and key approaches

15.00 – 16.30
Panel 1: Experiencing Hunger/Coping with Hunger (Part 1); Chair: Heike Wieters (Berlin)
Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal): World War II and the Post War Era: The Last European Hunger Crisis
Gadadhara Mohapatra (New Delhi): Hunger in East-India: Coping strategies and Gender Relations

16.30 – 17.00
Coffee Break

17.00 – 18.30
Panel 1: Experiencing Hunger/Coping with Hunger (Part 2); Chair: Heike Wieters (Berlin)
Alice Weinreb (Chicago): Hungry Innocents? Postwar Hungers in Germany 1918–1949
Jörg Dötsch (Köln): Hunger from a Medical point of View

19.00 – 19.30
Apéritif
19.30 – 22.00
Dinner

Thursday, 22 June

09.30 – 12.15
Panel 2: Hunger, Nutrition and (International) Politics; Chair: Tatjana Töns-meyer (Wuppertal)
Christian Gerlach (Bern): Politics, Imperialism and Hunger: The Case of Indonesia, 1945–c. 1980
Felix Wemheuer (Köln): Rationing, Social Status and Hunger in Maoist China
Verena Kröss (Bremen): The World Bank and Rural Development: A Western Strategy to Combat Hunger and Malnutrition, Or Something Completely Different?

12.15 – 14.00
Lunchbreak, and a stroll in the Herrenhausen Gardens

14.00 – 16.45
Panel 3: Techniques and Instruments of Hunger Relief; Chair: Helge Pharo (Oslo)
Daniel Maul (Oslo): Feeding Enemy Children – American Quakers and the "Kinderspeisung" in Post-WWI Germany, 1919–1922
Joel Glasman (Berlin): MUAC. How Acute Malnutrition Became Commensurable on a Global Scale
Heike Wieters (Berlin) & Christiane Berth (Bern): Incaparina, Protein Cookies and Vitaminized Sugar: IO/NGO/Industry Cooperation in the Field of Hunger Prevention

16.45 – 17.15
Coffee Break

17.15 – 19.30
Panel 4: Food and Nutrition Knowledge in a Global Perspective; Chair: Daniel Maul (Oslo)
Corinne Pernet (Genève): Nutrition Expertise and the Right to Food in the 20th Century
Claudia Prinz (Berlin): The Rise of Nutrition Education at the World Health Organization, 1970s-1990s
Lisanne Claessens (Amsterdam): Mindful Guts: Navigating Super Health in Western Cities

20.00 – 22.00
Dinner

Friday, 23 June

09.00 – 12.15
Panel 5: Nutrition, the Body, and the Self; Chair: Helge Pharo (Oslo)
Gabriella Petrick (New Haven): Industrializing Taste: Food Processing and the Transformation of the American Diet, 1900–1965
Uwe Spiekermann (Göttingen): Risky Eating: Food Scandals in Modern Consumer Societies
Monica Rüthers (Hamburg): Nutrition and the Socialist Self
Jürgen Martschukat (Erfurt): Let’s Move and the Politics of Fat in Recent America

12.15 – 13.15
Light Lunch

13.15 – 14.30
Concluding Discussion: Introduced and chaired by Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal) & Heike Wieters (Berlin)
Eva Barlösius (Hannover): Hunger, Nutrition and the Self in the 21st Century, Résuméfrom the sociological perspective to open discussion and systematization

14.30
Conference Close