The programme wants to investigate the way that beauty is being commodified and how it is being negotiated and renegotiated in local and global contexts via magazines, advertisement and television. Moreover it wants to look at the effects of globalizing beauty standards on people’s identification and wellbeing.

Papers may address any of the following subtopics:

- Local and Global Cultures of Beauty
- Construction of Beauty: Psychological Perspective
- (Globalizing) Beauty Standards: The Role of the Media, Advertisement and Industry
- Beauty and Society: Physical and Mental Health, Plastic Surgery, Deontology

The deadline for submitting your application is Sunday 13 May 2012. Candidates should send in the completed submission form, accompanied by a short academic curriculum vitae and an outline of the proposed paper. The selection of participants will be communicated by the beginning of June 2012.

Selected participants will present their papers in a panel session (20 minutes in English). A selection of papers presented at the workshop will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed book volume on the topic of the workshop.

On our website you will find a full project description, as well as the application procedure and the online submission form: www.ucsia.org