On Thursday 10 April, the CECID (Center for International Cooperation and Development Studies) will host a seminar at the ULB by Prof. Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge), titled “Global Development in the 21st Century and Ultra-Processed Food: A Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities”.
Prof. Mawdsley will be welcomed by our Postdoctoral Fellow Fadia Panosetti, who is currently carrying out a second year of research at the University of Cambridge under the joint supervision of Prof. Mawdsley and Dr Mezna Qato.
Abstract of the talk
What does a critical assessment of Ultra-Processed Food (UPF) offer as a way of thinking about global development in the twenty first century? In this talk, Emma Mawdsley will use UPF to reflect on how global development is conceptualised and studied; and on the ways in which UPF transcends scales, issues, and geographies to both drive some of the world’s most challenging developmental issues. Examining UPF through this lens also opens up questions about development ‘solutions’: what hope can be found in contestation of various sorts, and the making of alternatives?
The seminar will take place from 6 pm to 8 pm in room Depage (S.H1302), building H, avenue Paul Héger.
Contact: cecid@ulb.be
For more information about Fadia’s research, you can visit her personal page on the website of Newnham college.