[ecrea] Symposium: Brews and Brows: Shaping Stories from Eyebrows to Scousebrows

Symposium

Brews and Brows: Shaping Stories from Eyebrows to Scousebrows

https://brewsnbrows.wordpress.com <https://brewsnbrows.wordpress.com/>

Registration link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-brews-and-brows-shaping-stories-from-eyebrows-to-scousebrows-tickets-50399057939

9.30-5.00, October 2, 2018, The Box, FACT Liverpool

This project entails gathering stories and creating a new taxonomy of 
the eyebrow where none currently exists. Our project is interested in 
how taste functions in the ways Liverpool women pluck, sculpt, and 
position their eyebrows to enact a carefully crafted aestheticized 
working class self. Labelled the Scousebrow and oft-derided as evidence 
of poor or absence of taste by the popular press and online fora, it is 
a highly resonant marker of identity. The launch point is to challenge 
the current denigration of the Scousebrow, that is associated with both 
working class women of Liverpool and celebrity culture, by creating 
spaces to display and discuss the personal significance of eyebrow shaping.

On World Eyebrow Day, the 2^nd of October we are holding an 
interdisciplinary symposium to discuss our findings and build our 
network. Speakers include core members of the project, Niamh Thornton, 
University of Liverpool, Jacqui McAssey, Liverpool John Moores 
University, Sarah Shrimpton, FaceLab, Liverpool John Moores University, 
Catherine Wilkinson, Edge Hill University, Samantha Wilkinson, 
Manchester Metropolitan University, and invited contributor, Penny 
Spikins, Senior Lecturer in the Archaeology of Human Origins, University 
of York. We will have a preview screening of the documentary on the brow 
with introduction by the director, Liz Greene, Liverpool John Moores 
University.

Symposium contact: Dr Niamh Thornton, University of Liverpool

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