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10.00-10.15: Welcome

10.15-11.15: Keynote by Susie Orbach

11.15-11.30: Coffee break

11.30-12.45: Panel One – Bodies and Appetites

‘Eat Junk, Look Like Junk’: The Discursive Production of Food in Contemporary Women’s Media, Gemma Cobb

‘Because I Think I’ve Always Just Seen It As, Oh, Women Have Small Appetites That’s Just How It Is’: Feminist Approaches to Eating Disorders, Su Holmes

Towards a Trans Inclusive Corporeal Feminism: Experiences of Disordered Eating Among People of Transgender Experience, Felix McNulty

12.45-1.45: Lunch (catered by El Piano)

1.45-3.00: Panel Two – Consumption and Entrepreneurship

From ‘Cooking in Colour’ to ‘The Great British Bake Off’: Shifting Accounts of Home-Baking and Domesticity, Emma Casey

Gender, Baking and YouTube’s Algorithmic Publics, Sophie Bishop

Appetite for Waste: Postfeminist Femininity, Food Saving and Women Food Social Entrepreneurs, Maud Perrier & Elaine Swan

3.00-3.15: Coffee break

3.15-4.30: Panel Three – Knowledge and Politics

The Food Babe Blogger is Full of Sh*t: Self-Styled Food Experts and Claims to Authority in Postfeminist Media Culture, Heidi Zimmerman

Contemporary Superfood Cults: Nutritionism, Neoliberalism and Gender, Tina Sikka

Local Food will not Dismantle the Master’s House?, Beth W. Kamunge

4.30-4.40: Break

4.40-6.00: Round table with Joanne Hollows, Karen Throsby, Karen Wilkes, Tracey Jensen, and Virginia Braun

Round table speakers announced

We are delighted to announce the round table for this event will include a fantastic line-up of feminist scholars, including:

Dr Joanne Hollows, freelance writer and researcher

Dr Karen Throsby, University of Leeds

Dr Karen Wilkes, Birmingham City University

Dr Shirley Tate, University of Leeds

Dr Tracey Jensen, University of Lancaster