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 →

Call for Papers: Deconstructing Costume Histories: Rereading Identities in Fashion Collections and Exhibitions

100th Annual CAA Conference – Los Angeles, February 22-25, 2012 Session – Deconstructing Costume Histories: Rereading Identities in Fashion Collections and Exhibitions Co-chairs: Consuelo Gutierrez and Ian McDermott NEW Abstract Deadline: May 20th, 2011 Please send completed submission form, a one to two page double-spaced abstract, a letter explaining the speaker’s interest and expertise in … Continue reading →

Call for Papers: Feminism & Early Modern Art

Feminism & Early Modern Art (CAA, Los Angeles 2012) Deadline: May 27, 2011 College Art Association, Los Angeles, February 22-25, 2012 Sponsor: The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (www.ssemw.org) Organizer: Andrea Pearson, American University Feminism has indelibly transformed the study of early modern art and architecture, and yet seldom, in comparison to … Continue reading →

EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT: An Other Fashion: Claiming America through

The description of the project is below as well as a call for donations to the exhibition. Please forward or link this to any group or individual you think might have objects that would enhance this exhibition. Please consider cross-posting or linking to this post on your blogs. The direction of the exhibition will continue … Continue reading →

CFP: SF/Fantasy & Vampire Romance: MAPACA 2010

Call For Papers in SF/Fantasy & Vampire Romance: MAPACA 2010 Location: Virginia, United States Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-06-15 The Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) invites academics, graduate and undergraduate students, independent scholars, and artists to submit papers for the 2010 conference in the areas of Science Fiction/ Fatnasy, and our new area, … Continue reading →

Liquid Sky: Interview with Slava Tsukerman

Wonderful interview with Slava Tsukerman by Brigitte Nicole from Opening Ceremony about Tsukerman’s brilliant 1982 post-punk new-wave movie Liquid Sky. One of my all-time favorite movies, it addresses everything from gender to class issues as well as ideas of the alienation/other and stereotypes. http://www.openingceremony.us/entry.asp?pid=653 Continue reading →