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By muting hunger and recalibrating blood sugar, Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs offer life-saving tools to address chronic health conditions like diabetes and obesity. And yet, these biomedical advances have arisen amid a landscape of global food insecurity, disordered eating, and shifting narratives about health and body image. This program invites participants to explore what it means to hunger – for nourishment, belonging, and balance – in an age of pharmaceutical “fixes.”
What happens when complex questions about our bodies are answered with commercial taglines? When we treat appetite as a switch and diets as data points, do we lose food’s deeper connections to nourishment, community, heritage, and care? How do technologies that promise bodily control intersect with human experiences of health, beauty, identity, and justice?
Join us for an evening that brings together scholars, clinicians, culinarians, and community members to explore the meaning of appetite and nourishment through science, story, and sensory experience. By mixing art, food, and conversation, we’ll reflect on the possibilities that emerge when we consider metabolism as a bridge between science and meaning, the body and the world.
