This symposium will bring together three groups of researchers and experts: one group focused on the social determinants of health in the earliest stages of the human life course (i.e., just before conception, through pregnancy, and through infancy), one focused on human food and nutrition, and the third focused on measuring and visualizing internal and chemosensory perceptions of bodily functions and experiences. There’s good reason to intuit that pregnancy and lactation alter these kinds of sensations and perceptions and that such sensations and perceptions alter pregnancy and peri-natal nutrition and health, but we don’t yet know whether or to what extent that’s actually the case. So, please bring your perspectives and expertise on one of these areas of inquiry and let’s move the conversation forward on how and why to test this intuition!
The event will feature keynote as well as lightning talks and trainee posters from each of these respective areas of research; multiple, in-depth panel and plenary discussions; some multi-sensory and potentially perception-bending workshops; and 2.5 hours of brainstorming and collective writing for any participants interested in writing a collective piece about the potential for developing the field of perception transformation during pregnancy and its implications for nutrition/ food sciences and health.
To guarantee yourself a spot, please register now and pay the nominal fee of 125 DKK for faculty or professionals, 100 DKK for postdocs and PhD students, 75 DKK for bachelor or master’s students (which will help to cover the costs of food, drink and administrative assistance). We look forward to seeing you!
09.00 - 09.15 | Welcome with coffee, buns and fruit |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Opening remarks by organizers |
09.30 - 10.00 | Embodiment workshop 1 |
10.00 - 11.00 | Keynote: 'Interoception and brain-body interactions: theory, neurobiology and methods' |
11.00 - 11.10 | Mini break |
11.10 - 12.00 | Lightening talks on Perception and Cognition, followed by panel discussion |
12:00-12:15 | Introduction to video installation on ‘Embodiment and Motherhood’ by Julienne Doko |
12.15 - 13.15 | Lunch and small group visits to video installation ‘Worth Of My Body (W.O.M.B.)’ by Julienne Doko |
13.15 - 14.00 | Sensory walk: Experiencing and perceive our worlds through our ears, nose, skin, taste buds and inner monitoring? by William Hightower (Founder of Theatre Think Tank) |
14.00 - 14.15 | Coffee |
14.15 - 15.15 | Keynote: ‘Next steps for advancing health promotion and health equity: The case of families with gestational diabetes' by Helle Terkildsen Maindal (Aarhus University) |
15.15 - 15.50 | Lightening talks on peri-natal and post-partum periods, followed by panel discussion |
15.50 - 16.10 | Open discussion |
16.10 - 16.45 | Video installation and networking over soft drinks |
18.30 - 22.00 | Dinner at Madklubben |
09.40 - 09.55 | Coffee and arrival |
09.55 - 10.00 | Welcome by Agnete Larsen |
10.00 - 11.00 | Keynote: ‘Building Blocks for Breastfeeding Success: The Importance of Antenatal Support and Self-Efficacy' by Sharleen O’Reilly (University College Dublin) |
11.00 - 11.25 | Storytelling workshop: Stories of the Forgotten Placenta by Sara Domingo Brauman (UAC Art Platform) |
11.25 - 11.30 | Mini break |
11.30 - 12.30 | Lightening talks on nutrition and food science, followed by panel discussion |
12.30 - 13.15 | Lunch |
13.15 - 14.15 | Keynote: ‘Applications of lipid bioinformatics as a useful tool to understand how maternal breast milk lipidome influences atopic disease and developmental outcome in early life’ by Raymond Thomas (University of Western Ontario) via Zoom |
14.15 - 14.30 | Open discussion and conclusion of academic/scientific program |
14.30 - 15.15 | Embodiment workshop 2: Research dissemination and knowledge translation using multi-sensory means |
15.15 - 16.30 | Group writing session |
16.30 - 16.45 | Last chance to visit video installation and posters |
18.00 - | Self-paid, self-organized dinner |
The event is open to all interested. Registration closes on 24 May 2024.
Please sign up via the button above or here.
The conference is funded by:
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University
