Upcoming Events
14.01.2025: W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures
14 January 2025
6:15–7.45 p.m.
Unter den Linden 6, Raum 3059
Nina Mackert (University of Erfurt): “Making Calories Count: A History of Measuring Food, Bodies, and Choices in the US, 1880s–1930s”
Calorie counting is ubiquitous in today's societies. Promoted as an innocent and neutral scientific unit of measurement, calories have come to measure more than food energy: they also seem to assess food value, health, lifestyle, and personal conduct. This talk traces the emergence of calorie counting in the late nineteenth century and some of its multiple sites in early twentieth-century U.S. society. It sheds light on how calorie counting transformed modern America and its inclusions and exclusions. Calorie counting helped regulate wage levels, sharpen racial and gender boundaries, and create normative ideas about proper consumption and body size. In the process, calorie counting emerged as a blueprint for modern consumer citizenship.
Nina Mackert is a historian and currently an interim professor of North American history at the University of Erfurt. Her research focuses on the history of knowledge and bodies and their significance for the orders of modern societies, with a particular emphasis on food, health, and the environment. Her second book, a history of the calorie in the United States, is forthcoming from NYU Press.
Ringvorlesung Inklusion
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21.01.2025: Humboldt Book Club
Invite
You are cordially invited to the next meeting of the Humboldt Book Club at 6pm on 21 January 2025 in Room 0.03, Dorotheenstraße 28, the premises of the Department of English and American Studies.
Our pick: Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
In case anyone is feeling apprehensive about coming along to the Book Club, I would like to once again reiterate that this “club” is an interdepartmental social activity, open to everyone working or studying at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Rest assured, whatever your level of English, it will be enough for you to be part of the group. The atmosphere is very relaxed and people can particpate as much or as little as they wish.
For further details contact eimear.kelly@hu-berlin.de
Ringvorlesung im Wintersemester 2024/25: Literatur und Musik
On January 28th 2025, from 16:00 to 18:00 (DOR 24, Raum 1.101), Fenja Akinde-Hummel and Elahe Haschemi Yekani will present a lecture on “Polyphony and the Postcolonial Novel” as part of the Ringvorlesung Literatur und Musik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
For more information, click here
