[csaa-forum] Cosmetic Surgery Symposium at Centre for Cultural Research

[Meredith Jones]

apologies for cross posting

 

COSMETIC SURGERY: FEMINIST ENGAGEMENTS

 


A one-day Symposium


Sponsored by the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western
Sydney http://www.uws.edu.au/ccr

FREE ENTRY & LUNCH PROVIDED

BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL AS PLACES ARE LIMITED

 

Friday, 24 February 2006

9.30 to 5.30 

Superintendent's Cottage, Building ET, 

University of Western Sydney Parramatta 

 

Bookings and Contact: Meredith Jones

email: meredith.jones at uws.edu.au <mailto:meredith.jones at uws.edu.au>  ;
phone: 02 9685 9600

 

 


9.30    REFRESHMENTS AND WELCOME


 

10.00  GUEST SPEAKER 

Cressida Heyes (Alberta) - Cosmetic Surgery: What is it good for?

 


11.00  ETHICS & POLITICS - Chair, Elizabeth Stephens


 


Gretchen Riordan (Macquarie) - Making the Face Matter: Fleshing Out
Debates on the Ethics of Face Transplant Surgery

Jess Cadwallader (Macquarie) - Memorialising and Forgetting: the Ethics
of Surgery 

Nikki Sullivan (Macquarie) - The Politics of Polemics: Sheila Jeffreys'
Beauty and Misogyny

 


12.30 LUNCH


 

1.30         MEDIA & MAKEOVER - Chair, Meredith Jones 

 

Jenny Kennedy (La Trobe) - The Body as a Project: An Embodied
Perspective

Cynthia Rankin (UNSW) - The 'Ultimate Transformation': An Analysis of
Women, Self-Identity and Cosmetic Surgery in Popular Media 

 


2.30    ART & ANATOMY - Chair, Nikki Sullivan


 

Elizabeth Stephens (UQ) - Flesh Machines: Anatomy as Art in Contemporary
Cultural Practice

Yiorgos Zafiriou (y.) (USyd) - T.B.A.

 

3.30    AFTERNOON TEA

 

4.30    SPACE & PLACE - Chair, Cressida Heyes

Meredith Jones (UWS) - Cosmetic Surgery and the 'Pamela Anderson House'

Susan Stryker (Independent Scholar, USA) - The Transsexual City: Urban
Space and Cosmetic Surgery in 20th Century San Francisco

Alex Edmonds (Macquarie) - Aesthetic Medicine: Reproduction, Sex, and
Cosmetic Surgery in Brazil

 

 

 

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