Deadline: May 6, 2013 Re-examining Fashion in Western Art, 1775-1975 College Art Association (CAA) February 12-15, 2014 Chicago Chair: Justine De Young, Harvard University, deyoung@fas.harvard.edu The recent “Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity” exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago (2012-2013) foregrounded the importance of fashion to the Impressionists and … Continue reading
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Call For Papers: SPLENDOR: SUMPTUARY ARTS IN THE HISPANIC MIDDLE AGES
VII JORNADAS COMPLUTENSES DE ARTE MEDIEVAL Faculty of Geography and History at Complutense University in Madrid – Casa de Velázquez – National Archaeological Museum, Madrid November 13, 14 and 15, 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: June 1, 2013 Sessions I-II: The sumptuary arts in context: status, function and meaning Session III: Materiality and technology Session … Continue reading
Fashion Illustration Talk & Booksigning
Antonio Lopez: Fashion, Art, Sex, & Disco Tuesday, March 12, 2012 at 6pm Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center, first floor New York City Authors Roger Padilha and Mauricio Padilha, along with special guests Pat Cleveland and Corey Tippin, discuss their first complete monograph on the work of extraordinary fashion artist … Continue reading
CFP: Benjamin, Barthes, and Fashion
Call For Papers Deadline: April 1, 2013 The University of Manchester Conference Date: June 28, 2013 http://benjaminbarthesandfashion.tumblr.com/CFP Historian, philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin wrote on fashion’s relationship to modernity, commodity fetishism, history, and memory. In his unfinished The Arcades Project, the notes for a large section on Fashion reveal Benjamin’s desire to read the … Continue reading
CFP: Panel on Material Culture, Eastern Christianity, Ethnicity, and Race
Deadline for abstract: February 19, 2013 Anthropology of Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion November 23-26, 2013 in Baltimore, MD http://rsnonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1187&Itemid=1337 You are invited to submit a 250-word abstract proposal to a panel concerned with material culture, ethnicity, and race relations in Eastern Christianity for the Anthropology of Religion Group of the American … Continue reading
CFP: Fashioning Identities: Types, Customs, and Dress in a Global Context
Call For Papers Deadline: January 15, 2013 A Symposium at Hunter College City University of New York October 18-19, 2013 Chairs: Lynda Klich and Tara Zanardi, Dept. of Art & Art History http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/art Pictorial imagery of local types, traditions, and dress has a long history, dating back to the sixteenth century. From costume books and … Continue reading
JOB: Professor in Design and Dress History
Professor in Design and Dress History position University of Brighton Based at Grand Parade, Brighton £55,908 – £59,306 per annum at Grade 10 £59,306 – £62,908 per annum at Grade 11 The University of Brighton is seeking a high calibre, inspirational individual to join the Faculty of Arts to play a major role in helping … Continue reading
Art, Anxiety, and Protest in the Edwardian Belle Époque Graduate Student Symposium
Call for Papers: Art, Anxiety, and Protest in the Edwardian Belle Époque Graduate Student Symposium Deadline: Jan 7, 2013 Yale Center for British Art New Haven, Connecticut, March 02, 2013 britishart.yale.edu “The belle époque, the long summer garden party of the Edwardian afternoon, when there was a lightness in the air, when “the fruit was … Continue reading
The Object of Fashion: methodological approaches to the history of fashion
Fashion Studies Essays That Say So Much Speaking of objects of fashion, The Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, an anthology of fashion studies and history of dress, published an essay by Giorgio Riello entitled “The object of fashion: methodological approaches to the history of fashion.” In it, Riello discusses three different approaches to the study of fashion … Continue reading
Performing Identity: The Relationship between Identity and Performance in Literature, Theatre and the Performing Arts
Performing Identity: The Relationship between Identity and Performance in Literature, Theatre and the Performing Arts The Euroacademia Global Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions Again CALL FOR PAPERS FOR NEW PANEL: This special section on Arts and Performance has been added to the conference. This session would work well for those interested in gender and … Continue reading
