Talks
UPCOMING
"Making Calories Count: A History of Measuring Food, Bodies, and Choices in the US, 1880s–1930s," Harvard University, Harvard History of Medicine Working Group, March 26, 2025.
"Unequal Prevention: Race, Coercion, and Responsibility in Early Twentieth-Century Public Health," Chicago, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 5, 2025.
"'Lifestyle Diseases,' Race, and Responsibility in the US, 1900-1940," Washington, DC, German Historical Institute Research Seminar, April 9, 2025.
RECENT (Selection)
2025
"'Lifestyle Diseases', Gesundheit und Verantwortung in den USA des 20. Jahrhunderts," University of Tübingen, "Gesprächskreis Verantwortung" und Forschungskolloquium Zeitgeschichte, January 27, 2025.
"Making Calories Count: A History of Measuring Food, Bodies, and Choices in the US, 1880s–1930s," W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series, HU Berlin, January 14, 2025.
2024
"Challenging the Planetary in the 'Planetary Health Diet,'" Conference "Imagining Planetary Health, Well-Being, and Habitability: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities," Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, October 2-4, 2024 (with André Krebber).
“Die Vermessung des Essens – Wie viel Geschichte im Kalorienzählen steckt,“ “Letzte Vorlesung,” University of Leipzig, February 2, 2024.
2023
“Ernährung und Gesundheit – eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte der Moderne”, Keynote at the joint conference of Deutsche Adipositasgesellschaft and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Essstörungen, Congress Center Gera, September 28, 2023 (with Maren Möhring).
“Normal ist ideal. Zur historischen Genese “gesunder” Körper im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert,” Conference Normalität – Begriff und Praxis gesellschaftlicher Konstruktionen aus historischer und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive,“ University of Jena, September 15, 2023.
“From Limited Budgets to Abundant Choices: Food Calories, Class, and Consumption in the US, 1880s to 1920s,” Workshop “The Metrics of Energy: Accounting for Nature in the History of Social Science and Ecological Economics,” Institute of Advanced Studies (IHS) Vienna, June 16, 2023.
“Three and a half men. Calories and the Production of Gendered Bodies in early 20th Century Nutrition Studies,” American University, Washington, DC (online), March 22, 2023
2022
“Prävention Provinzialisieren. Zur verschränkten Geschichte von Infektionskrankheiten und ‘Lifestyle Diseases,’” University of Hagen, December 6, 2022
“Beef, Bohnen, Brühe – und Petit Fours! Eine politische Geschichte der Kalorie,” University of Hagen, October 18, 2022
“Interrogating the Planetary Health Diet,” Second Annual Meeting of the Research Centre Global Dynamics, Leipzig University, April 28, 2022
“Eat What You Like: Kalorienzählen und Konsumgesellschaft in den USA der Zwischenkriegszeit,” University of Duisburg-Essen (online), January 11, 2022
2021
“Eat Your Way to Health. Zur Entstehung von Gesundheit als Fähigkeit in den USA des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts,” Biennial Meeting of German Historians, University of Munich (online), October 5, 2021
“Pandemic Space: Race, Health, and Responsibility during the Spanish Flu,” Workshop “The Making of Race and Health in Migration and Development,” Leipzig University (online), June 4, 2021
“Response: Covid-19 as a Caesura,” First Annual Meeting of the Research Centre Global Dynamics, Leipzig University (online), April 29, 2021
“Factor 0.8: Gendered Bodies in Calorimetric Science,” Conference “Feminism, Gender, and (Historical) Science and Technology Studies,” University of Wuppertal (online), March 18, 2021
2020
“Kalorienzählen. Ernährung, Körper und Konsum im frühen 20. Jahrhundert,” First Virtual Meeting of Austrian Historians, University of Innsbruck (online), April 4, 2020
“Eat Your Way to Health. On the Emergence of Health as Ability in the Early Twentieth Century US,” 2020 HOTCUS Winter Symposium, February 22, 2020, University of Keele
“Fat that Matters. Eigen-Sinn und Körperfett,” Conference „Eigen-Sinn Reloaded,“ January 1, 2020, Erfurt University
2019
“Evaluating Food, Bodies, and Citizens. On the Power of the Calorie in Early 20th Century America,” Workshop “Evaluation, Improvement and Self-Optimization: Mobilizing Bodies in the Age of Global Healthism,” Leipzig University, December 4, 2019
“Fat Shaming. Körperfett und Soziale Ordnung im 20. Jahrhundert,” Conference “Körper-Kränkungen. Der menschliche Leib als Medium der Herabsetzung,” Annual Meeting 2019 of the SFB 1285: Cultures of the Invective, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, November 14, 2019
“Responsible Selves. The Popularization of the Calorie, Scientific Expertise, and Citizenship in early 20th Century US,” Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, University of Utrecht, July 24, 2019
“Indigestible Efficiency. The Rocky Career of the Calorie in the early 20th Century,” Annual Meeting of the American Society of Environmental History, Columbus, Ohio, April 13, 2019
2018
“How to train the appetite into natural paths. Zur Ambivalenz des Authentischen in US-amerikanischen Ernährungsdiskursen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts,“ Conference „Historische Authentitzität,“ Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschungen Potsdam, September 14, 2018
“The Calorie and the Production of Metabolic Abledness in late 19th and early 20th Century US,” Lancaster Disability Studies Conference, Lancaster University, September 12, 2018
“The Calorie and the Making and Unmaking of Racial Bodies,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 6, 2018