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This conference aims to engage with the politics of beauty and
their ramifications.
Travel from the train station to the venue of the conference: Programme
Mill Lane Lecture Rooms is approximately 8 minutes by car, and International CONFERENCE
taxis are stationed immediately outside of the train station at all
times. Alternatively, delegates can walk from the train station to Mill
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Lane Lecture Rooms by following signs to the city centre and locat-
ing the venue from there. This takes approximately 2025 minutes.
Downing College is on Regent Street, 5 minutes by car from the train
station.
If you need to call a taxi we recommend Panther Taxis:
+44 (0)1223 715715
3.003.30pm Arrival with Coffee and Registration 9.0010.00am Session 4 2.303.40pm Session 7
Chair: Mnica Moreno Figueroa, University of Cambridge, UK Chair: Manali Desai, Cambridge UK
3.303.45pm Welcome
Browning Dont Always Carry the Swing: The Browning
3.454.45pm Session 1 Or: What Are the Prospects for Joy Gregory
The Politics of Beauty a Black Anti-Racist Sark Aesthetics? London, UK
Mnica Moreno Figueroa Shirley Tate
University of Leeds, UK Film Taxidermy and Re-Animation
University of Cambridge, UK
Ngendo Mukii
Margrit Vogt 10.0011.20am Session 5 Nairobi, Kenya
University of Flensburg, Germany Chair: Denise Noble, Birmingham City University
Dominique Grisard Blackamoors, Noble Savages and
University of Basel, Switzerland Beauty Capitalism, Modern Citizenship Mungo Macaronis: the Black Male Body
and Neo-colonial Racial Formations in Fashion Media
4.456.10pm Session 2
Chair: Lauren Wilcox, University of Cambridge, UK
Meeta Rani Jha Christine Checinska
University of Winchester, UK University of Johannesburg VIAD,
Vulval Images: SA/Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Myth, Horror, Transformation The Promise of Beauty
Meredith Jones Mimi Thi Nguyen Q&A
Brunel University, UK University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA
3.404.20pm Network Meetings over Coffee Break
Cuteness, Womanliness and the Beautiful Futures?
Fat Bodies and Queer Failure
4.205.20pm Session 8
Meg Ryan Star Persona Chair: Margrit Vogt, University of Flensburg, Germany
Diane Negra Francis Ray White
University of Westminster, UK The Digital Cultures of Beauty Surveillance
University College Dublin, IR
Q&A Rosalind Gill
Unusual Faces City University London, UK
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 11.2012.00pm Network Meetings over Coffee Break 5.205.40pm Session 9
Emory University, USA 12.001.20pm Session 6
General Q&A
Q&A Chair: Meeta Rani Jha, University of Winchester
and Concluding Remarks
6.107.10pm Session 3 Strong is the New Skinny:
Chair: Dominique Grisard, University of Basel, Switzerland Gender, Race, and the Politics of the Body
5.406.00pm End of Conference/Departure