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Food, Health and Philosophy in East and West
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3656-19-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 31/01/2019
Date and time04.04.2019, at: 08:00 - 13.04.2019, at: 16:00
Regular seats20
Course fee9,000.00 kr.
LecturersPer Sangild
ECTS credits5.00
Contact personCasper Wichmann    E-mail address: casperw@hum.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School) and other Nordic universities. All other participants must pay the course fee.
If you are not a PhD students, please contact Think China: Casper Wickman: cw@thinkchina.dk for enrolment and information about the course fee.

Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Know cultural differences in science between East (China) and West (Denmark)
2. Obtain insights into food from natural, social and human science perspectives
3. Obtain insights into human health from natural, social and human science perspectives
4. Understand cultural and epistemological barriers for science translation

• To give the participants a better understanding of the scientific, cultural and philosophical background for specific diet habits and health views. By coupling fieldwork with insights into the basics of natural, social and human sciences, the course compares traditions of the Western world with those in China.
• This makes the participants aware of the potentials and limitations of modern science and its role in diet and health globalization. An open-minded, fruitful crosstalk across different academic fields shall support researchers from the food-health area to see their own topic from a greater methodological perspective.

• To be able to describe the cultural differences between East and West in scientific methods and practices, related to the food-health area
• To be able to describe insights into food from natural science, social science and human science perspectives
• To be able to describe insights into food from natural science, social science and human science perspectives
• To understand cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary differences in science across all science domains


Content
• Lectures on food and human health
• Lectures on culture, philosophy and religion in relation to food/health
• Lectures on Eastern and Western philosophy
• Course excursions to hospitals, food markets and health food agencies.
• Course excursions to universities and institutes working with food/health
• Course excursions to relevant cultural institutions for understanding the topics


Participants
• PhD students (or similar) across all scientific domains (natural, social and human sciences) – but preferably with some relation to the food-health area in their own research.
• RD research-related personnel from good-health companies or research institutions

Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

All graduate programmes
Basic Metabolic Research
In Vivo Pharmacology and Experimental Animals

Language
English

Form
Lectures, group work and excursions

Course director
Per Sangild, Professor, Dept. of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, KU-SUND & Righospitalet, Dept. of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Teachers
Bent Nielsen, Ass. Prof., Dept Cross-cultural Studies, KU-HUM
Jennifer Wan, Ass.Prof., University of Hong Kong, China
Yanna Zhu,Ass.Prof., Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Dates
4-13 April 2019

Course location
Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, China

Registration
Please register before 15 December 2018

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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