[csaa-forum] Kimposium! The Sequel

[Meredith Jones (Staff)]

KIMPOSIUM! THE SEQUEL                     ONLINE, 14 - 16 September 2021

In 2015 we held Kimposium!<https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/jan/14/whats-wrong-with-studying-the-kardashians> to great success. Now, as Keeping Up with the Kardashians draws to a close <https://theconversation.com/keeping-up-with-the-kardashians-no-more-the-complicated-legacy-of-realitys-first-family-145949> after twenty seasons, we revisit and renew our feminist thinking about these globally famous women.  Renowned and reviled, loved and hated, the Kardashians are icons of early 21st century celebrity cultures. But this family represents and embodies so much more. Indeed, studying the Kardashians and their products leads to consideration of some of the most pressing social and cultural issues of our time.

Please submit your proposals of less than 300 words by 26 July 2021 to kimposium at brunel.ac.uk<mailto:kimposium at brunel.ac.uk>
For more information see https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Institutes/Institute-of-Communities-and-Society/Kimposium?klk

We welcome submissions in various formats including but not limited to:

  *   Artist responses
  *   Performances, live or recorded
  *   Five-minute ‘pop up’ papers
  *   Pre-recorded audiovisual presentation
  *   Group presentations
  *   Standard 20-minute papers
  *   Interviews
  *   Video essays

We invite works from any discipline that address, but are not limited to:

  *   Advocacy, prison reform
  *   Aesthetic labour, glamour labour, Beauty, cosmetic surgery, makeup, contouring
  *   Birth, surrogacy, egg freezing
  *   Blackfishing, cultural appropriation
  *   Celebrity and trans
  *   Gender, matriarchy, momagers
  *   Ideal body types, shapewear, revenge bodies
  *   Influencers, digital entrepreneurs
  *   Kardashian histories including the murder of Nicole Brown & trial of OJ Simpson
  *   Ideal body types, shapewear, revenge bodies
  *   Influencers, digital entrepreneurs
  *   Kardashian histories including the murder of Nicole Brown & trial of OJ Simpson
  *   New forms of consumerism and capitalism
  *   Represented space: Los Angeles, Architecture, interior design
  *   Sex tapes
  *   Celebrity Single motherhood
  *   Social media and selfies
  *   Vocal fry

For a full list see https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Institutes/Institute-of-Communities-and-Society/Kimposium?klk

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