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Atkins, P.J. (2019) Concluding remarks, XV Symposium of the International Commission for Research on European Food History, Albi, France
Atkins, P.J. (2019) The industrialization of the senses: British cheese 1750 to the present, XV Symposium of the International Commission for Research on European Food History, Albi, France
Atkins, P.J. (2018) Trust in food, Middleton Tyas, 5 December
Atkins, P.J. (2018) Stories from the India-Bangladesh borderlands, U3A Teesdale, 15 November
Atkins, P.J. (2016) Food history, U3A Longhirst, Northumberland, 26 October
Atkins, P.J. (2016) Food history, Rotary, Barnard Castle, January
Atkins, P.J. (2015) Infant feeding and infant mortality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Symposium on Food and the Life-span in Europe, 1800-2000, University of Copenhagen, 28-30 September
Atkins, P.J. (2014) The epidemiological transition, Queens University Belfast, 18 November
Atkins, P.J. (2014) Diseases which can pass between animals and humans, Food, Population and Health – Global Patterns and Challenges, Royal Danish Academy, 22-24 September
Atkins, P.J. (2013) Arsenic: health, justice and the more than human, in Earthly Poison: Arsenic and the Bengal Delta, Goldsmiths, 24-25 May, http://vimeo.com/68294814
Atkins, P.J. (2013) Chair of session: Immigration, food and national identity, Anglo-American Conference: Food in History, Senate House, University of London 11-13 July
Atkins, P.J. (2013) What was the point of British Restaurants? Anglo-American Conference: Food in History, Senate House, University of London 11-13 July
Atkins, P.J. (2013) Dilemma: feeding the world, Citzens’ Panel, Grey College 3 June
Atkins, P.J. (2013) Food scares, food quality and Slow Food, public lecture, University of Malta, 9 May
Atkins, P.J. (2013) Genealogies of food quality, 4 lectures, April 15-18, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, Italy
Atkins, P.J. (2013) Fair trade and the politics of food, Hilde Bede College, Durham University, 8 March
Atkins, P.J. (2013) Keynote at Bangladesh National Geography Association conference: Geography and Environment, 5 January
Atkins, P.J. (2013) Inspire Project: Hazard, Risk and Resilience in Bangladesh, Conference arranged by the Disaster Research Training and Management Centre, University of Dhaka, 10 January
Atkins, P.J. (April 2012) Who will feed China? A Level Teachers’ Conference, Durham University, 11-13 April
Atkins, P.J. (2012) Discussant for State-sponsored tastes. The National Home, in ‘A Taste of Home: Food, Identity, Place and Memory in Europe from a Historical Perspective (19-20 Centuries)’, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, 9-10 February
Atkins, P.J. (2011) Salt, sugar and vinegar: the early history of factory made jams and pickles in Britain, Symposium on ‘The History of the European Food Industry’, Bologna, September
Atkins, P.J. (2011) A tale of two cities: the food supply of Paris and London, 1850-1900,So isst die Stadt: Esskultur und die Eigenlogik der Städte, Technische Universität, Darmstadt, 6-7 May, 2011
Atkins, P.J. (2011) Liquid materialities, Food Studies Centre, SOAS, London, March 4th
Atkins, P.J. (2010) Biography of milk, Institute for Cultural Research, London, November 20th
Atkins, P.J. (2010) Milk, the history of science and material politics, Annual Conference, Society for the History of Science, Aberdeen, July 23
Atkins, P.J. (2010) Food geographies, GeoPalestine: Third Geographic Conference, An Najah University, Nablus, Palestine, July 12-16 (Plenary Lecture)
Atkins, P.J. (2010) Environmental risk, health and the law: a case study of groundwater contamination in Bangladesh, Conference on ‘Environmental Risk’, Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, March 11-12, Cambridge University
Atkins, P.J. (2009) Communal Feeding in War Time: ‘British Restaurants’, 1940-1947, Symposium on Food and War in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Sorbonne, Paris, September
Atkins, P.J. (2008) Food exchanges: a geographical perspective, in ‘Les échanges alimentaires dans l’histoire : les hommes, les produits, les idées’, L’Université François-Rabelais de Tours et l’Institut Européen de l’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation, Tours
Atkins, P.J. (2007) Fear of animal foods: a century of zoonotics, ‘In copore sano? Food fears and health’, Institut Européen de l’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation, Tours
Atkins, P.J. (2007) Food geography and food history, public lecture, University of Malta
Atkins, P.J. (2007) Keynote Presidential Address, Tenth Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History, Oslo
Atkins, P.J. (2007) Public reactions to food-related zoonoses in the United Kingdom after 1840, Ninth Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History, Oslo
Atkins, P.J. (2007) Bovine Tuberculosis: it’s Not all About Badgers, ‘Public Enemy No.1: TB Since 1800, Glasgow Caledonian University
Atkins, P.J., Hassan, M.M. & Dunn, C.E. (2007) Expertise and environmental justice, Arsenic in the natural environment; the geography of a global problem, RGS/IBG Conference. Powerpoint mounted at http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/arsenic/
Atkins, P.J. (2006) Keynote address, ‘Food, health and history’, Food and History conference of the International Commission for the History of Travel and Tourism, University of Central Lancashire, 29th June-1st July (also chaired session)
Atkins, P.J. (2006) Quality and trust in European food history, International Economic History Association’s conference, Helsinki (convened and chaired session)
Atkins, P.J. (2006) Animals in the city, Eighth International Conference on Urban History, ‘Urban Europe in Comparative Perspective’, European Association of Urban Historians, Stockholm (convened and chaired session)
Atkins, P.J. (2006) Historical perspective, in Symposium on tuberculosis in animals and humans: are we a threat to each other?, The Royal Society of Medicine
Atkins, P.J. (2005) Dietary restrictions in the emergence of modern asceticism, International Conference, Beyond Pleasure. A History of Modern Asceticism, 1890-1960, Department of History, University of Leuven, October 5-8th
Atkins, P.J. & Stanziani, A. (2005) From laboratory expertise to litigation: the municipal laboratory of Paris and the Inland Revenue laboratory in London, 1870-1914. A comparative analysis, ‘Expertise, Science et Capitales’, University of Oxford, Maison Française, 14-15th October, 2005
Atkins, P.J. (2005) A tale of two cities: a comparison of food systems in London and Paris in the 1850s, Ninth Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History, Berlin
Atkins, P.J. (2005) Keynote Presidential Address, Ninth Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History, Berlin
Atkins, P.J. (2004) Experiences and reflections on the establishment of university research centres: the Global Change Institute, AID Group Seminar, Anthropology Department, University of Durham
Atkins, P.J. (2004) Food culture and its transmission: geographical and historical insights, Institut Européen de l’Histoire et Culture de l’Alimentation, Tours
Atkins, P.J. (2003) Food and the Empire Marketing Board in Britain, 1926-1933, Eighth Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History, Prague
Atkins, P.J. (2002) Lobbying and resistance with regard to policy on bovine tuberculosis: an inside/outside model, 1900-1939, From Urban Penalty to Global Emergency: Current Issues in the History of Tuberculosis, Sheffield Hallam University
Atkins, P.J. (2002) Clean milk in Britain: concept, implementation and health consequences, 1900-1960, Un aliment sain dans un corps sain, IIe Colloque international de l’Institut Européen d’Histoire et Culture de l’Alimentation, Tours
Atkins, P.J. (2001) Food Safety, Changing Politics, CSG, Department of Geography, Durham
Atkins, P.J. (2001) White heat in Whitehall. Inter-departmental friction and its impact upon food safety policy: the example of milk, 1930-35, Perspectives on the History of Food Safety, University College London
Atkins, P.J. (2001) School milk in interwar Britain: an eating out experience? Seventh Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History, Alden Biesen, Belgium
Atkins, P.J. (2001) Clean milk in Britain: concept, implementation and health consequences, Research Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Durham
Atkins, P.J. (2000) The Glasgow Case: meat, disease and regulation, 1889-1924,Animals, Vets and Vermin in Medical History, University of East Anglia
Atkins, P.J. (2000) Infant feeding practices in Britain, 1880-1930, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool
Atkins, P.J. (2000) The science and policy of food risk : the historical example of milk in the United Kingdom, Laboratoire de Recherche sur la Consommation, Institut de la Recherche Agronomique, Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris
Atkins, P.J. (1999) The pasteurization of Britain: milk and tuberculosis, 1900-1950, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester
Atkins, P.J. (1999) The pasteurization of Britain: milk and tuberculosis, 1900-1950, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of East Anglia
Atkins, P.J. (1999) Is it urban? The relationship between food production and urban space in Britain, 1800-1950, Sixth Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History, Tampere, Finland
Atkins, P.J. (1999) Getting into the in-tray. The pre-history of a policy network: pressure groups and bovine tuberculosis, 1850-1950, Annual Conference, Society for the Social History of Medicine, University of Aberdeen
Atkins, P.J. (1999) Infant feeding practices in Britain, 1880-1930, Conference on Infant Mortality, University of Manchester
Atkins, P.J. (1998) Historical geography and food studies: the example of milk pasteurization in Britain, 1900-1950, Explorations in Historical Geography, University of Cambridge
Atkins, P.J. (1998) The pasteurization of Britain: milk and food safety, 1900-1950, Annual Conference of the British Society for Population Studies, Cambridge University
Atkins, P.J. (1997) Milk consumption and tuberculosis in Britain, 1850-1950, 5th Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History, Aberdeen
Atkins, P.J. (1997) Country cows, urban disease: risk and regulation of bovine tuberculosis in Britain, 1850-1950, Annual Conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine/Second Conference of the International Network for the History of Public Health, Liverpool
Atkins, P.J. (1997) Atlas of women and men in India, Annual Conference of the RGS-IBG, University of Exeter
Atkins, P.J. (1996) The British food system and health, circa 1850-1950, Annual Conference, British Agricultural History Society
Atkins, P.J. and Townsend, J.G. (1996) A gender atlas of India, British Council, Manchester
Atkins, P.J. (1995) Urbanization in the Middle East and Mediterranean, International Environment Institute, Foundation for International Studies, University of Malta
Atkins, P.J. (1995) Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, International Environment Institute, Foundation for International Studies, University of Malta
Atkins, P.J. (1995) Elite residence in nineteenth century London, Urban History Group Conference, University of Edinburgh
Atkins, P.J. (1994) GIS and development, Department of Geography, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
Atkins, P.J. (1993) The aristocratic house and the monopoly of space in 19th-century London, The Aristocratic Town House in London, Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Atkins, P.J. (1994) Joint Annual Conference of the Agricultural History Society and the Historical Geography Research Group
Atkins, P.J., Alexander, M.J. and M. Abu Ali (1993) Aspects of sheep and goat agriculture in the West Bank, First National Conference of Palestinian Geographers, Nablus
Atkins, P.J. (1993) The dialectics of environment and culture: kimilsungism and the north Korean landscape, Fifth Indo-British Geographical Seminar, Mussoorie
Atkins, P.J. (1993) The Great and the Dear: North Korea towards the millennium, IBG Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London
Atkins, P.J. (1992) Are there issues of relevance to the developing world in Britain’s historic food marketing systems and consumption patterns?, Issues in Urban Food Marketing and Consumption in the Developing World, Developing Areas Research Group, Institute of British Geographers, University of Glasgow
Atkins, P.J. (1992) Developments in British Geography since World War Two, Bangladesh Geographical Society, Dhaka University
Atkins, P.J. (1992) Operation Flood and Indian Rural Development, Department of Geography, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
Atkins, P.J. (1992) Development North Korean Style, Bangladesh International Institute for Strategic Studies
Atkins, P.J. (1992) Power over space: the gates and bars of Victorian London, London Group of Historical Geographers
Atkins, P.J. (1992) The democratization of space? Street barriers in Victorian London, staff research seminar, Department of Geography, University of Durham
Atkins, P.J. (1991) Environment and food systems, Department of Geography, Beijing University, China
Atkins, P.J. (1990) Disease and the food supply: the example of milk, 1850‑1930, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford
Atkins, P.J. (1990) Operation Flood: the white revolution in India, paper for the 43rd Conference of the South Asia Library Group
Atkins, P.J. (1989) The Geographical Structure of Operation Flood, paper for International Seminar on Dairying as an Instrument of Progress: the Indian Experience, Anand, 16-21 January 1989
Atkins, P.J. (1989) Adulteration and disease: the social consequences of milk consumption in nineteenth century London, paper for the Joint Annual Conference of the Agricultural History Society and the Historical Geography Research Group
Atkins, P.J. (1988) From EC surplus to dairy development in India: geographical aspects of Operation Flood, Anglo‑Japanese Symposium, Durham
Atkins, P.J. (1988) European Community policies and regional development: a review of literature relating to the Common Agricultural Policy, paper for Durham‑Bordeaux Seminar
Atkins, P.J. (1987) Geographical aspects of development in the rural South’, paper for Department of Sociology, University of Madras
Atkins, P.J. (1983) A comparative study of marketing and consumption in London’s dairy and fruit and vegetable trades, circa 1800-1914′, invited paper for the Joint Winter Conference of the Agricultural History Society and the Historical Geography Research Group.
Atkins, P.J. (1980) Covent Garden and London’s food supply, paper commissioned by Museum of London to mark re‑opening of the former Covent Garden Market
Atkins, P.J. (1980) Fruit and vegetable production and marketing in the late nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century, paper invited by the SSRC Historians and Nutritionists Seminar
Atkins, P.J. (1979) The food of London, paper presented to the Urban History Seminar, University of Leicester