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Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation (Virtual)

Event Details

Date
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Time
12-1 p.m.
Description
Beauty pageants are big business in Nigeria. They are transformed by multiple stakeholders into contested vehicles for promoting complex ideas about gender and power, ethnicity and belonging, and a rapidly changing articulation of Nigerian nationhood. Drawing from fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, this talk examines how Nigerian beauty competitions use a tactic I call beauty diplomacy to redeem Nigeria’s poor global reputation.
Cost
Free

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