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Symposium: Brews and Brows: Shaping Stories from Eyebrows to Scousebrows 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 2ndof 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 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 [https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F49980753%2F144676377781%2F1%2Foriginal.jpg?w=1000&auto=compress&rect=0%2C48%2C594%2C297&s=fc37bcb1c97f5c9168d38c0c6ccf0404]<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-brews-and-brows-shaping-stories-from-eyebrows-to-scousebrows-tickets-50399057939> Symposium: Brews and Brows: Shaping Stories from Eyebrows to Scousebrows Tickets, Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 09:30 | Eventbrite<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-brews-and-brows-shaping-stories-from-eyebrows-to-scousebrows-tickets-50399057939> www.eventbrite.co.uk Eventbrite - Department of Modern Languages and Cultures presents Symposium: Brews and Brows: Shaping Stories from Eyebrows to Scousebrows - Tuesday, 2 October 2018 at FACT, Liverpool, England. Find event and ticket information. __________ Dr Niamh Thornton<https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/modern-languages-and-cultures/staff/niamh-thornton/> | Reader in Latin American Studies Digital Strategies Lead, Histories Languages and Cultures Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Rm 2/029, 1-7 Abercromby Square, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7WY, UK @enortee | www.niamhthornton.net<http://www.niamhthornton.net/> Brews and Brows Project: https://brewsnbrows.wordpress.com/ Twitter @brewsbrows Instagram @brewsnbrows https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/modern-languages-and-cultures/research/brews-and-brows/ Film Festival 2017: Me, Them, Us Liverpool Iberian and Latin American Film Festival<https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/modern-languages-and-cultures/latin-film/> -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid “engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list.” For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------