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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: Food and The Body:  The Politics of What We Eat
DESCRIPTION:What we eat may feel like a matter of personal choice\, but our choices are shaped by powerful forces: food companies and their marketing teams\, government policy\, agricultural subsidies\, public health priorities\, and an industry whose profits depend on selling us more. \nIn this conversation with Good Food host Evan Kleiman\, pioneering food-policy scholar Dr. Marion Nestle will explore how corporate and political power shape the American diet — and\, ultimately\, our bodies. Drawing on decades of work investigating the intersection of food\, nutrition\, business\, and politics\, as well as her new book\, Sugar Coated: Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America’s Favorite Breakfast Food\, written with Lisa Sutherland\, Dr. Nestle will examine who gets to decide what constitutes a healthy diet\, why meaningful food-policy reform is so difficult\, and what it takes for individuals and communities to push back against a food system designed around corporate interests. \nDr. Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition\, Food Studies\, and Public Health\, Emerita\, at New York University and the author of numerous books\, including Food Politics\, Soda Politics\, Unsavory Truth\, and What to Eat. She writes regularly about the intersection of food\, nutrition\, and politics at FoodPolitics.com. \nEvan Kleiman has been called the “fairy godmother of the L.A food scene.” Former chef-restaurateur\, cookbook author\, and host of KCRW’s Good Food radio show and podcast for nearly 30 years\, Evan is known for her conversational interview style focusing on how food informs human life and life choices. She has interviewed thousands of guests ranging from artists\, cookbook authors\, and chefs to farmers and scientists\, which has enabled her to explore every aspect of food culture and how it intersects with our lives. \nCosponsored by the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-food-and-the-body-the-politics-of-what-we-eat/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: A-Maizing Nahua Healers: Colonial Attacks on Indigenous Healers in Early Modern Central Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Edward Anthony Polanco will discuss how Nahua healers used maize to heal the human body in central Mexican communities in the 16th century. Titiçih (Nahua healing specialists) provided maize to patients topically and orally and relied on it for answers about illnesses. Dr. Polanco will also explore how Spanish Catholic authorities viewed these healers and their practices as a threat to settler colonial society and attempted to extirpate them. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDr. Edward Anthony Polanco is a Kuskatanchanej scholar of Mesoamerica. His parents fled their homeland due to political violence and instability. Although he was born in Los Angeles\, CA\, his ancestors are from Kuskatan of the Nahua territories\, in what is now western and central El Salvador. He is an associate professor\, associate chair\, and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of History\, and the director of Indigenous Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg\, VA. Dr. Polanco’s research presents Native ideas with Indigenous concepts and focuses on 15th-\, 16th-\, and 17th-century Nahua communities in Mexico and El Salvador. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-a-maizing-nahua-healers-colonial-attacks-on-indigenous-healers-in-early-modern-central-mexico/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T160000
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: A Dark Cast: Disability\, Blackface\, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
DESCRIPTION:Drawing from her national best-selling book Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment\, Rhae Lynn Barnes will explore the complex intersections of disability\, presidential power\, and racial masquerade. She will examine how minstrelsy and the dark cast of blackface performance functioned both as cultural entertainment and a political prosthetic during the Roosevelt era\, masking the physical vulnerability of white children with polio while reinforcing racial hierarchies. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDr. Rhae Lynn Barnes is Assistant Professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University. A fourth-generation Southern Californian\, she earned her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Barnes is also the founder of the digital education platform U.S. History Scene\, providing historical multimedia curriculum resources to public schools. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-a-dark-cast-disability-blackface-and-fdr/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270128T160000
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: American Sexual Exceptionalism: Sex\, Labor\, and U.S. Foreign Policy
DESCRIPTION:Between the 1870s and 1930s\, American social reformers\, working closely with the U.S. government\, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these activists worked to eradicate prostitution and trafficking\, they promoted sexual self-control for both men and women as a cornerstone of civilization and a basis of American exceptionalism. American reformers successfully pushed for international anti-trafficking agreements that mirrored U.S. laws\, calling for states to criminalize commercial sex and restrict migration\, and harming the very women they claimed to protect. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nEva Payne is associate professor of United States history at the University of Mississippi. She is a historian of gender\, sexuality\, labor\, and U.S. empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book\, Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution (Princeton University Press\, 2024) received the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize. The book has been featured in such publications as the New Yorker and BBC History. Her writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy\, the Journal of Women’s History\, Radical History Review\, and the European Review of Books. She serves as the Co-Director of the Queer Mississippi Histories Project at the University of Mississippi. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-american-sexual-exceptionalism-sex-labor-and-us-foreign-policy/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270218T160000
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: Art\, Culture\, Ethics\, and Disabilty
DESCRIPTION:Disability is a concept\, social identity\, community\, and shared human experience represented in history\, literature\, visual art\, music\, dance\, architecture\, design\, and popular culture. Images show and shape the way we think about disability and people with disabilities and how we understand variation in human bodies. New ways of seeing and representing disability have appeared in U.S. public culture because of the civil and human rights movement\, its laws\, attitudes\, and social changes. This talk explores these issues by bringing forward the history\, culture\, politics\, aesthetics\, and ethics of disability and people living with disabilities. \nRosemarie Garland-Thomson is a professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University. She works in disability culture\, bioethics\, and health humanities. She is a Hastings Center Senior Advisor and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the co-editor of About Us: Essays from the New York Times about Disability by People with Disabilities and author of Staring: How We Look and several other books. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-art-culture-ethics-and-disabilty/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270415T160000
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: Inviting Death In: How I Helped My Dad Die\, and The Fight to Control How Life Ends
DESCRIPTION:Esmé E. Deprez is an investigative reporter whose father was an aid-in-dying patient. In her forthcoming book\, she explores assisted death through both a clinical and a personal perspective. She considers assisted death as a social phenomenon\, a legal and political movement\, and an area of medical practice that has transformed end-of-life health care. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDeprez is the author of the forthcoming book Inviting Death In: How I Helped My Dad Die\, and The Fight to Control How Life Ends (Simon & Schuster\, 2027). Deprez spent 14 years as a reporter at Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek. Her work has been recognized by National Magazine Awards\, Livingston Awards\, the National Press Foundation\, among many others. She is a contributor to The New York Times. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-inviting-death-in-how-i-helped-my-dad-die-and-the-fight-to-control-how-life-ends/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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