Events organised by Yves Saint James
2019 CAVE Culture and Cognition Workshop
Guest Speakers:
Dr Glenda Satne ↗, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
Prof Michael Gillings ↗, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
Dr Katsunori Miyahara ↗, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
2018 CAVE Workshop on the Ethics of Pathologising Ugliness
Guest speakers:
A/Prof Joanna Elfving Hwang ↗, Head of Department, Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia
Prof Anand Deva ↗, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Clinic, Macquarie University Health Sciences Centre
A/Prof Robert Sinnerbrink ↗, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University
2018 CAVE Culture and Cognition Workshop
Guest Speakers:
Prof Greg Downey, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University; Prof John Sutton, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University; Dr Karola Stotz, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University; Dr Kate Lynch, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University; Prof Richard Menary, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University
2018 CAVE Public Lecture: Prof Andy Clark
Topic: What Am I? Human Persons as Bio-Technological Hybrids
Speaker bio: Andy Clark ↗ is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is the author of several books including Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind (Oxford University Press, 2016), Mindware (Oxford University Press, Second Edition 2014), Supersizing the Mind (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Being There: Putting Brain, Body And World Together Again (MIT Press, 1997).
Past conference presentations
“Ethnic cosmetic surgery: Naturalising identification and transformation of racialised bodies in medicine”; Symposium: Critical Perspectives on Transrace; Macquarie University; 29 November 2019.
“Pathologising ugliness: Gendered and racialised dimensions of aesthetic medicine” in the panel “Colonial Aesthetics and Colonised Bodies”; Bodies of Work Conference; University of Sydney, Australia; 4 October 2019.
“Ugliness as disease: A dangerous intersection of medical and aesthetic traditions”; 11th Biennial Conference in Philosophy, Religion and Culture: Beauty and Tradition; Catholic Institute of Sydney; 28 September 2018
“Pathologising Ugliness: An ethical critique of intersectional prejudice in aesthetic medicine”; 32nd European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care; Lisbon, Portugal; 22-25 August 2018
[Speaker and organiser] “Ugliness as disease: Ethical conflicts between cosmetic surgery and the goals of medicine”; Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Ethics of Pathologising Ugliness: Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; 19 March 2018
“Pathologising Ugliness, Normalising Prejudice”; Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference; University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia; 29 November to 01 December 2018
“Practice makes perfect: How medicine promotes the pathologisation of ugliness”; Medical Humanities Seminar Series, Macquarie University; 12 October 2017
“Practice makes perfect: Evaluating the conflict between aesthetic interventions and the ethos of medicine”; Australasian Association for Bioethics and Health Law 2016; Melbourne, Australia; 24-26 November 2016
“Asian cosmetic surgery: Could we use aesthetic standards to define pathology?”; Workshop on Defining the Boundaries of Disease, Macquarie University; 15-16 October 2016
Attendee; Winter School on Philosophical and Historical Dimensions of Biological Individuality; University of Sydney, Australia; 18-21 July 2016
“Customising the Asian face: Does cosmetic surgery lead to medicalisation of racial features?”; 28th European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care; Ghent, Belgium; 19-22 August 2015