Conference Program: The Body, Public Health and Social Theory 9:00-9:30 9:30-10:00 10:00-11:00 11:00-11:15 11:15-12:15 12:15-13:15 13:15-15:15 15:15-15:45 15:45-16:45 19:00 9:00-9:30 9:30-10:30 10:30-10:45 10:45-11:45 11:45-12:45 12:45-14:45 14:45-15:15 15:15-16:15 16:15-16:30 Wednesday April 3rd Registration, coffee Introduction to conference by Nanna Mik-Meyer Body, Public Health and Social Theory Keynote speaker Bryan S. Turner Towards the Post-Body - Social Futures and the Catastrophic Imagination Coffee break Keynote speaker Annemarie Mol: The Eating Body’s Pleasures in Health Care Practice and Social Theory Lunch Parallel paper sessions (a, b, c & d - see details below) Coffee break Keynote speaker Richard Jenkins: Saving Social Constructivism…by Bringing Physiology Back in Conference dinner Thursday April 4th Coffee Keynote speaker Peter Taylor Gooby: The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and the Way Out Coffee break Keynote speaker Simon Cohn: Conceiving a Public Body for Health Intervention Work Lunch Parallel paper sessions (e, f, g & h - see details below) Coffee break Keynote speaker Katherine Frohlich: Sociology in Public Health or Sociology of Public Health? Having our Cake and Eating it Too Closing remarks
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