[csaa-forum] KIMPOSIUM An interdisciplinary symposium about all things Kardashian

[Meredith Jones]

KIMPOSIUM
An interdisciplinary symposium about all things Kardashian

Brunel University London
Sociology Division
26-27 November 2015
Contact:
Dr Meredith Jones meredith.jones at brunel.ac.uk

The Kardashians are members of an LA-based family famous for their reality TV series Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007—present). Of the three starring sisters (Kourtney, Khloe and Kim) Kim is extraordinarily famous (and made $28 million in 2014). She is best known for displays of her body and face in various media and for her current marriage to Kanye West. She is credited with making ‘booty’ desirable in mainstream culture. Their mother, Kris, is the executive producer of the series and manages the careers of all her children (those named above, their brother Rob, and two younger sisters Kendall and Kylie). Kris’ first husband, Robert, now deceased, famously and successfully defended his dear friend O.J. Simpson at his trial for murder. Kris’ second husband, Caitlyn Jenner (formerly Bruce,), is an adored American Olympian and has recently come out as transgender. The Kardashians play huge roles in contemporary popular culture, particularly via twitter and Instagram, and are experts at self-making and self-marketing. They are form a powerful industry in themselves. This symposium aims to examine the Kardashian phenomenon in all its aspects.

A wide variety of formats is encouraged, including (but not limited to):

• Standard 20 minute papers
• Five minute ‘pop up’ papers
• Films
• Group presentations
• Performances



Suggestions for topics/issues:
Beauty
Matriarchy
Bodies
Mobile games
Celebrity culture
Mother-daughter relationships
Comedy
Mobile apps
Convergence of TV and social media
Nudity
Fame
Popular culture
Fashion
Pornography/sex tapes
Femininity
Race and ‘inter-marriage’
Feminism
Reality TV
Glamour labour/aesthetic labour
Scandal
Image consumption
Selfies
Image-making
Social media cultures
Instagram Trans
Masculinity
Twitter

Please send abstracts or proposals of less than 300 words to Meredith.jones at brunel.ac.uk by Monday 7 September 2015.




Dr Meredith Jones

Reader, Brunel University

Department of Social Sciences, Media and Communications<http://www.brunel.ac.uk/cbass/social-sciences-media-communications>

phone 01895 268058

Student consultation hours:

Monday 11-12

Thursday 3.30-4.30

(Please email to make an appointment)


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