Food and life-span in Europe, 1800-2000
Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities (CoRe) at the Saxo Institute is co-organizing an international conference on food and the life-span in Europe from an historical perspective. Keynote lectures are open.
This conference will focus on the changing relationship between food and the life-span in Europe from an historical perspective. Examining changes in the relationship between food and different age segments of the population, both in and across time, will enhance our overall understanding of the fundamental changes in European standards of living during and after industrialization.
In order to shed light on the theme of the conference, contributions from a range of academic disciplines will be presented; including history, sociology, anthropology, biology and nutrition.
Full participation are for invited and registered participants only. However, keynote lectures and opening are open (first come, first serve).
The open programme
Venue: KUA1, room 22.0.11, Njalsgade 120
Monday, 28 September
- 10:30 Welcome Alain Drouard, President for ICREFH
- 10:45 Introduction Tenna Jensen (CoRe, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen) & Caroline Nyvang (The Royal Library)
- 11:00 Dual Keynote: Anne Løkke (Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen) and Peter J. Atkins (Durham Univerisity): Infant feeding and infant mortality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Denmark and Britain.
Tuesday, 29 September
Venue: Karen Blixen Salen, The Royal Library, Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
- 9:00 - 9:45 Keynote: Ulrike Thoms: Food for the elderly, Germany 1850-1950