[ecrea] KIMPOSIUM! first call for papers

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. 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 father, Robert 
(now deceased), famously and successfully defended O.J. Simpson at his 
trial for murder. Their stepmother, 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. 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.

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