[csaa-forum] CFP - Cosmetic Cultures: Beauty, globalisation, politics, practices - University of Leeds , 24 - 26 of June 2009

[Meredith Jones]

Call for Papers and Panel Sessions

Cosmetic Cultures: Beauty, globalisation, politics, practices
University of Leeds , 24 - 26 of June 2009

Papers and panel sessions are invited for an international, 
interdisciplinary conference on Cosmetic Cultures to be held in the 
Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds 
from the 24 to 26 of June 2009.

Papers on any element of ‘cosmetic cultures’ are welcomed but the 
conference seeks to move beyond well-rehearsed ‘Beauty Myth’ arguments.

Beauty has often been conceptualised as the concern only of women (or 
the only concern of women!) and as idealised in ‘whiteness’ or 
‘Westerness’. Whilst many have found significant evidence to support 
these claims, work in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 
has already flagged up the importance of men, masculinities and beauty, 
both in the ‘West’ and ‘East’ and has disrupted the idea that whiteness 
alone presents idealised beauty in all parts of the world, or even in 
this one. Whilst beauty ideals may be important in one sense, this 
conference also aims to explore beauty practices. The subject’s 
engagement in beauty practices may be ‘transformative’ in line with 
current ideals, and undertaken in the clinic, or it may be everyday and 
mundane, practices in the home or ‘salon’.

Themes will include:

* National beauty cultures and histories and the intersection between 
local and globalised ideals;
* Beauty practice ranging from ‘spectacular’ makeover cosmetic surgery 
to mundane beauty technologies such as diet and exercise, skin tanning/ 
lightening, hairstyling, hair removal and tattooing/piercing.
* Intersections of ‘race’, class, gender and beauty cultures and 
practices; men, masculinities and beauty;
* LGBI and Trans beauties; surgical tourism;
* TV makeover shows;
* Work in the ‘beauty industry’, including medical practices and 
cultures, beauty salons and cosmetics marketing and manufacture as well 
as (fashion and glamour) modelling.

By encouraging participants to explore beauty cultures, practices and 
politics in their broadest sense we hope to advance current debates and 
develop an international network of researchers.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

* Professor Carolyn Cooper – University of the West Indies
* Professor Kathy Davis – University of Utrecht
* Dr Debra Gimlin – University of Aberdeen
* Dr Meredith Jones – University of Technology, Sydney
* Professor Toby Miller – University of California, Riverside
* Professor Elspeth Probyn – University of Sydney

200 word abstracts and panel suggestions should be emailed to: Matthew 
Wilkinson at m.wilkinson at leeds.ac.uk no later than 1 March 2009.

Please mark all emails with ‘Cosmetic Cultures’ in the subject line.


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