Reykjavik, 2015

3rd Annual International Weight Stigma Conference, 2015

Citing conference presentations

Author name(s) (2015) Title. Paper/Poster presented at the 3rd Annual International Weight Stigma Conference, September 18-19, Reykjavik, Iceland.

2015 WSC Brochure	2015 Conference brochure & abstract book Cover art by Hildur Ása Henrysdóttir
	Keynotes
Slides	Prof Abigail Saguy, UCLA What’s wrong with fat?
	Ragen Chastain, Activist Elimination is oppression: The ill-advised fight against obesity
Slides	Dr Daniel S Goldberg, East Carolina University Medicalization & institutionalized weightism: The significance of social scripts in shaping weight stigma
	Oral Presentations
	Why are fat people the focus of medical attention? Dr Ástrídur Stefánsdóttir, University of Iceland
Slides	Pilot test of an obesity stigma reduction intervention in maternity care Dr Sharon DeJoy, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Slides	Unlearning Weight Bias: Does training reduce automatic activation of obesity stereotypes? Dr Clare Kennedy Purvis, Stanford University
Slides	The fatality of stigma: Perceived experiences with weight discrimination and mortality Dr Angelina R Sutin, Florida State University
Slides	Public health obesity messages: a stigma asymmetry theory of the divergent effects of blame and entity theorising on anti-fat prejudice Dr Crystal L Hoyt, University of Richmond
Slides	Weight satisfaction buffers the negative consequences of stigma Dr Paula Brochu, Nova Southeastern University
Slides	Anti-fat attitudes: when do we internalise them and when do we fight back? A model of individual response to societal weight stigma among fat individuals Angela Meadows, University of Birmingham
	Unpicking the workings of weight stigma: hostile and benevolent weightism on reality TV Dr Jayne Raisborough, University of Brighton
Slides	Online talk around obesity-related news media: Connecting information delivery with public perceptions Dr Phillip Brooker, University of Bath
Slides	Obesity stigma and the pursuit of venture funding: weight, attractiveness, and perceived quality of entrepreneurs’ business pitches Dr Jeffrey M Pollack, North Carolina State University
	A cross-cultural examination of fat women’s bodies: stigma and gender in North Amerian and Finnish culture Dr Jeannine A Gailey, Texas Christian University and Dr Hannele Harjunen, University of Jyväskylä
Slides	Depictions and portrayals of overweight characters in genre fiction Jasmine Woods, University of Bristol
Talk	A long century of weight stigma: President William Taft in American popular culture Dr Deborah Levine, Providence College
	Symposia
Slides	‘FAILING’ BODIES IN ONLINE MEDIA TEXTS Embodying the good, the bad and the ugly: Gendered and classed, moralising discourse around ‘failing’ bodies in online media texts “Bad parents making bad choices.” A discourse analysis on parenting- forum talk around the National Child Measurement Programme in the UK Dr Bridgette Rickett,Leeds Beckett University Internalising discourses of the failing body through emotive self-talk: A voice-centred analysis of Internet blogs Dr Lucy Thompson, Leeds Beckett University “Be a man and accept your breasts”: A discursive exploration of men’s online accounts of gynecomastia acceptance Dr Katy Day, Leeds Beckett University Fat slobs breed with fat slobs and produce fat slobs’: Discursively accounting for ‘childhood obesity’ in online media commentary Dr Maxine Woolhouse, Leeds Beckett University
	WEIGHT STIGMA IN EDUCATION Good teaching for EveryBODY: Highlighting current and future research in education-based weight stigma Dr Erin Cameron and Bahar Haghighat, Memorial University, Dr Shelly Russell-Mayhew, Dr Angela Alberga, and Sarah Nutter, University of Calgary
Slides – Beake Slides – Jónsson	WEIGHT STIGMA AND PUBLIC HEALTH: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Results of the Weight Bias Summit: a Canadian perspective Dr Angela Alberga et al., University of Calgary Weight bias and discrimination in Iceland: Results from a national survey Dr Stefán Hrafn Jónsson, University of Iceland, Sigrún Daníelsdóttir, Directorate of Health, Iceland Fatty invastions: The NCD public health movement and narrating “obese” others through Alianza por la Salud Alimentaria and Bloomberg’s Transnational Obesity Prevention Programme in Mexico Sasha Nicole Kruger, Columbia University [unable to present] The call to advocacy: A perspective on weight stigma in Australian public health Kerry Beake, Edith Cowan University
	THE USE OF WHOLE SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO REDUCE OBESITY INTERVENTION-RELATED STIGMA Re-placing individually-focused public health interventions with a whole systems approach to tackling inequalities in obesity Dr Jo Cairns, Durham University and Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health Complex systems approaches to obesity: A review of the field and means to reducing weight stigma Dr Emily Henderson, Durham University and Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health Moving away from more of the same: the development of local ‘whole systems approaches’ Dr Erica Gadsby, University of Kent
Slides	INTERSECTING STIGMAS, INTERSECTION SOLUTIONS: Insights from “Through thick and thin”, a collaborative research project exploring queer women’s experiences of body image and body management Contradiction and Community: Doing, learning and “failing” in community -engaged arts-informed methods Dr Jen Rinaldi, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Digital storytelling from the margins: Queer racialized women’s embodied experiences of weight stigma+ Dr Carla Rice, University of Guelph Of bridges and intersections: Situating weight stigma by critically exploring eating disorder and obesity research Andrea LaMarre, University of Guelph
	WORKSHOPS
	Weight Stigma and Weight Loss Surgeries: What Do We Know? Lisa Jenette Du Breuil, MSW, LICSW, Massachusetts General Hospital
Slides	Uncovering weight stigma in scientific literature: learn how to find it to combat it Gwyneth Olwyn, Patient Advocate, Restrictive Eating Disorders
Slides	PRESENTATION: “Of course weight stigma is bad. But, obesity!” Critical weight science for health care professionals and policy advisors Angela Meadows, University of Birmingham
Slides	Youth creating change: Partnering with youth to stop weight stigma in schools Carmen Cool, MA LPC
	Fat bodies, little books: A zine-making workshop focused on the development of fat culture Lauren Munro, Wilfrid Laurier University
Slides	Media boot camp: How to get the media to pay the right kind of attention Harriet Brown, Journalist, Newhouse School Syracuse University

Prize winners

Best oral presentation: Jasmine Woods, University of Bristol
Best poster presentation: Caitlin O’Reilly, University of British Columbia

We are grateful to Praeger/ABC-Clio for donating a copy of The Politics of Size: Perspectives from the Fat Acceptance Movement, edited by Ragen Chastain, as a prize for the best oral presentation during the 2015 conference.

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