CFP: Re-examining Fashion in Western Art, 1775-1975

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Workshop: Making Things Speak: Objects, Commodities, and Societies in Historical Perspective

Making Things Speak: Objects, Commodities, and Societies in Historical Perspective Workshop at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin June 23-25, 2011 Registration deadline: June 21, 2011 The “Making Things Speak” workshop investigates objects and their agency — how they are transformed (or not) by their uses and contexts and how they impact human lives. The past twenty-five … Continue reading →

Conference: Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues

Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues 3rd Global Conference Thursday 22nd September – Sunday 25th September 2011 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Fashion is a statement, a stylised form of expression which displays and begins to define a person, a place, a class, a time, a religion, a culture, and even a nation. This interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary … Continue reading →

Farewell to Visual Studies

The Stone Summer Theory Institute 2011 Theme: Farewell to Visual Studies July 17-23, 2011 Application deadline: Apr 15, 2011 School of the Art Institute of Chicago The Stone Summer Theory Institute – Fellowship opportunities James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); Sunil Manghani (York St. John’s University); Gustav Frank (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich) Chicago The … Continue reading →

CFP: Thinking Gender 21st Annual Graduate Student Research Conference — Deadline for Proposals is October 22!

UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN seeks submissions for Thinking Gender 2011 Friday, February 11, 2011 UCLA Faculty Center Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, gender and sexuality across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre‐constituted panels. This year, we especially welcome … Continue reading →

CFP: Third Conference of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies SILAS 2011

Third Conference of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies SILAS 2011 – Dublin City University Friday, March 11th ; Saturday, 12th March 2011 Location: Ireland Call for Papers Date: 2010-10-29 Secrets and Lies clandestine…hidden…concealed…covert… …private…confidential… …secretive… …occult… obscure… mysterious… All these concepts can be present and instrumental in the interactions between people, societies, cultures, … Continue reading →

CONF: Medieval Textiles East and West: Identity and Exchange

CONF: Medieval Textiles East and West: Identity and Exchange October 22, 2010 University of Zurich, Hauptgebäude, KOL-F-30 Program 10:00 – 10:15 Welcoming Remarks 10:15 – 12:00 Session I: Textile Identities: Byzantium, Islam, and Eurasian Borderlands Branislav Cvetkovic (Regional Museum, Jagodina, Serbia), Textiles and Their Usage in Medieval Balkans: The Royal Context Warren Woodfin (University of … Continue reading →