List of Speakers (in alphabetical order)
1. Bédinadé, Daphné, PhD Candidate in Ethnology and Social Anthropology, EHESS and CESSP (France)
Paper title: The Afro Hairdressing Market in Francsse and the Search for Professional Legitimacy
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2. Craig, Maxine, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis (USA)
Paper title: Perfect Smiles and the U.S. State
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3. Gordon, Doreen, Dr., Lecturer and Researcher, University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
Paper title: Black Bodies in Dispute: Subverting the Governance of Black Bodies and Black Hair in Jamaica
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4. Gretschel, Lennart, PhD Candidate, Centre for Health Service Research & Working Group Adipositas / Metabolic Syndrome in an Aging Society, Brandenburg Medical School – Theodor Fontane (Germany)
Paper title: „We work hard and eat well“. Negotiating healthcare, aesthetics & identification in people with overweight and their physicians in rural post-communist Germany (with Stefan Reinsch and Annika Wagner)
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5. Heyes, Cressida, Professor of Political Science, University of Alberta (Canada)
Paper title: Beauty Sleep: Overwork and the Aesthetic Citizen
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6. Jarrín, Carmen Alvaro, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross (USA)
Title of keynote lecture: The Multiplicity of Beauty: Biopolitics, Affect, and the Struggle Over Decolonizing Beauty in Brazil.
7. Jones, Meredith, Dr., Director of the Institute for Communities and Society, Brunel University London (UK)
Paper title: The Kardashians: Constructions of Beauty, Citizenship, and Christianity
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8. Khan, Hareem, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, California State University (USA)
Paper title: Authenticating Ayurveda: Beauty and Wellness in the Global Marketplace
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9. Kukuczka, Anne, PhD Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Research Associate, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Paper title: Making service employees: Gendered labor hierarchies, bodily difference and political belonging in Nepal’s expanding job training industry.
10. Lensu Suvi, PhD Candidate in Anthropology and African studies, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Paper title: Reimagining aesthetic citizenship in post-genocide Rwanda
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11. Maycock, Matthew, Dr., Senior Lecturer, Monash University (Australia)
Paper title: ‘Fair and Handsome’ – Skin whitening and the performance of subaltern masculinities in far-west Nepal
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12. Majczak, Ewa, Dr., Postdoctoral researcher in Anthropology, University of Oxford (UK)
Paper title: Citizens of glamour: young women, state parades and politics of belonging in Yaoundé, Cameroon
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13. Mustonen, Liina, Dr., Postdoctoral researcher, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany).
Paper title: Crafting liberal bodies, crafting whiteness: Stratified Markets of the Fashion industry in Egypt
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14. Penger, Severin, PhD Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Research Associate, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Paper title: Naples’ Urban Skin: How Tattoos, Graffiti, and Digital Images Mediate Value Between
the Self, the City, and the State
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15. Reinsch, Stefan, Dr., Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Health Service Research & Working Group Adipositas / Metabolic Syndrome in an Aging Society, Brandenburg Medical School – Theodor Fontane (Germany)
Paper title: „We work hard and eat well“. Negotiating healthcare, aesthetics & identification in people with overweight and their physicians in rural post-communist Germany (with Lennart Gretschel and Annika Wagner)
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16. Wagner, Annika, PhD Candidate, Centre for Health Service Research & Working Group Adipositas / Metabolic Syndrome in an Aging Society, Brandenburg Medical School – Theodor Fontane (Germany)
Paper title: „We work hard and eat well“. Negotiating healthcare, aesthetics & identification in people with overweight and their physicians in rural post-communist Germany (with Stefan Reinsch and Lennart Gretschel)
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17. Wright, Andrea, Dr., Lecturer in Anthropology, Harvard University (USA)
Paper title: “Just the Right Pressure”: Laboring for Citizenship in Contemporary India
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18. Yang, Jie, Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Title of keynote lecture: The art of Chinese beauty care: Gendered anxiety, Chinese medicine, and aesthetic governance.
19. Zhao, Yang, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Queensland (Australia)
Paper title: Doing masculinities through wearing black: Self-making, masculinity, and nationalism for Uzbek men in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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