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Author (2022). Title. Paper/poster/session presented at 8th Annual International Weight Stigma Conference, 14–15 July, Berlin, Germany. DOI: 10.31076/2022.xxx
Prize winners:
Best poster presentation: Erin C. Standen, Psychology, University of Minnesota, USA
Best oral presentations: Sepehr Kosravi, Dept of Psychology, California State University, USA; Veronika Merklein, artist, Austria
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| Brochure | Click to download full WSC 2022 CONFERENCE BROCHURE AND ABSTRACTS |
| Day 1 | |
| Keynote Speaker | |
| Talk | Dr Doris Liebscher Ombuds Office, Berlin State Anti-Discrimination Law, State Office for Equal Treatment Against Discrimination, Germany Legal protection against weight discrimination – perspectives from the practical work with the General Equal Treatment Act and State Antidiscrimination Law Berlin |
| Oral Presentations: Theme 1 – Policy and Legislation | |
| Slides | Is fatness a disability? A short introduction to fatness, discrimination, and law Stephanie von Liebenstein, German Society Against Weight Discrimination |
| Slides | Touchstones: Making fat rights a core issue in the run-up to elections Natalie Rosenke, German Society Against Weight Discrimination |
| Slides | US fat rights laws: Updates on pending legislation and future pursuits Tigress Osborn, NAAFA, USA |
| Oral Presentations: Theme 2 – Medical and Healthcare | |
| Slides | “A fat person goes to the doctor ….” Veronika Merklein, Artist, Austria |
| Slides | The right to size affirmative therapy: The impact of micro/macro-aggressions and therapist criticality in psychotherapy with fat clients Michelle Oldale, Open University, UK |
| Slides | The (un)health care of fat people in Brazil: A socio-anthropological analysis of the Health Department’s clinical guidelines Lisa Moura, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| N/A | Canada’s new Clinical Practice Guidelines: How vested interests are shaping the narrative Lily O’Hara, Qatar University, Qatar |
| Breakout Sessions 1 | |
| Website | ‘Gimme More! Gimme more! Gimme more!’: What can fat performance teach us about creating community? Katie Greenall, Writer and Performer, UK; Rachel Vogler, Theatre Practitioner, UK |
| Workbook | Self-defence against diet-culture doctors Dorothee Jankuhn, Larger Living Coaching, Germany |
| Breakout Sessions 2 | |
| Website | Stories from Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old – And the Role of Storytelling in Social Sciences Kimberly Dark, California State University, San Marcos, USA |
| Short film: Plump | “To be seen as that”: Fat representation and visuality Sofia Apostolidou, University of Potsdam, Germany and University of Melbourne, Australia; Magdalena Hutter, Concordia University, Canada |
| Keynote Speaker | |
| Slides | Dr Asher Larmie General Practitioner and Activist ‘The Fat Doctor’ Trust me, I’m a doctor: The untold harms of medical weight stigma |
| Poster Session and Reception | |
| Poster | Diagnosis on the perception of weight stigmatization in people submitted to bariatric surgery in a high specialty hosptial in mexico Izchel Cosio Barroso, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico |
| Poster | Fat food justice: Addressing weight bias in food studies scholarship Jennifer Brady, Acadia University, Canada |
| Associations between pereived weight, gender roles, and sexual orientation William Silvia Jr, Ohio University, USA |
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| Poster | Women’s journeys towards body acceptance Kathleen O’Keefe, University of New Brunswick, Canada |
| Poster | Weight stigma in pregnancy: A meta-ethnography Jenny Cunningham, Kingston University, UK |
| Poster | Weight stigmatization in healthcare and emotional eating Lisa-Michelle Dietz, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
| Poster | Experiences of weight-based oppression in the Arab region: A qualitative study in Qatar Lily O’Hara, Qatar University, Qatar |
| Weight bias: Experiences of users of mental health services Ana Maria Gallardo, Universidad Gabriela Mistral, Chile |
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| Poster | Developmental course of explicit and implicit anti-fat attitudes in Iranian elementary school girls Mahshid Fonoudi, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran |
| Poster | Fat Iranian women’s experiences in health care system and the professional’s view on legislation Mahshid Fonoudi, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran |
| Associations between experienced and internalized weight stigma and disordered eating in higher-weight and non-higher-weight individuals Riley Keast, Western University, Canada |
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| Poster | Weight-related advice from healthcare providers: An “anti-obesity” policy that may do more harm than good Erin C Standen, University of Minnesota, USA |
| Effects of news media exposure on weight stigma among university students Sharon DeJoy, West Chester University of PA, USA |
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| Poster | Weight stigma and consumer behaviour: The acceptability of plus-size models in advertising Klaudia Domagala, University of Essex, UK |
| Poster | Motivation to exercise: The good, the bad, and the ugly Yakub Ali, University of Essex, UK |
| Day 2 | |
| Keynote Speaker | |
| Slides | Dr Hannele Harjunen University of Jyväskylä, Finland Fat bodies as anti-neoliberal bodies |
| Oral Presentations: Theme 3 – Everyday Weight Stigma | |
| Slides | Fat, normal, slim, overweight? Self-description and external descriptions for body weight Lara Kronenbitter, German Centre for Integration and Migration Research |
| Slides | Weight stigma in everyday life: A systematic review of the findings and methodological features of studies using ecological momentary assessment methods, and suggestions for future research Hugh Bidstrup, Australian Catholic University, Australia |
| Slides | Lack of guilt, shame, and remorse following weight stigma expression captured using real-time assessment Lauren Breithaupt, Harvard University, USA |
| Slides | Stigmatization experiences of higher-weight parents: Managing steretoypes and expectations Judith Pape, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
| Slides | “I thought I was normal”: Embodiment and weight stigma experiences in Chilean children Cecilia Prieto, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Slides | Qualitative study of body image and culture among Iranian-Americans Sepehr Khosravi, California State University, USA |
| Slides | Recognizing weight stigma experiences as trauma Kiki Fornero, Linfield University, USA |
| Breakout Sessions 3 | |
| Website | Fat embodiment as birthright Mäks Roßmöller, Therapist, Somatic Practitioner, Germany |
| Website | Muse: An experiment in storytelling and life drawing Cameryn Moore, Performer/Playwright, Germany |
| Oral Presentations: Theme 4 – Theoretical Perspectives | |
| Slides (Rachel) | Medicine, structural stigma, and pathologization: A new approach toward studying and fighting weight stigma
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| Slides | Weight stigma and sin: discourses of morality women’s weight-loss memoirs Kathleen Self, St Lawrence University, USA |
| Slides | Weight stigma and the profit motive: How drug companies created BMI categories and turned body size into a disease Katherine Flegal, Stanford University, USA |
| Oral Presentations: Theme 5 – Activism and Interventions | |
| Slides | Political subjects, subjects of rights: The influence of Trans activism on Argentinean demands for fat depathologisation Laura Contrera, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Slides | “Don’t assume I’m a failed heterosexual”: Negotiating fat lesbian identities and activism in Britain Carlie Pendleton, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Slides | Be Body Positive facilitator training program enhances experience of embodiment, self-compassion, and resilience to weight-based oppression in female undergraduate students in Arab Gulf region: A mixed methods study Lily O’Hara, Qatar University, Qatar |
| Slides | Why we founded the Interdisciplinary Association for Equity in Health in Denmark Lene Meyer, Inger Bols, Interdisciplinary Association for Equity in Health in Denmark, Denmark |
| Slides | Weight discrimination: Raising awareness and improving the data situation Melisa Salazar, Anti-Discrimination Association of Germany, Germany |