Fashion Tales 2012 Outline and Call for Papers

Fashion Tales International Conference Milan, June 7-9 2012 Room Pio XI Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Gemelli 1 CFP Deadline: November 30, 2011 Since its beginnings in the middle of the XIX century, fashion has been narrated through multiple media, both visual as well as verbal, and for different purposes such as marketing and … Continue reading →

CFP: Symposium: Uniform – State – Power. Uniforms as signs of change in state power?

Uniformity as an expression of material culture is a phenomenon which pervades many areas of our life. It appears, for instance, in corporate workwear, sportswear or the common style among certain youth subcultures. In the academic discourse on uniforms as a means of social communication, those civil forms have recently gained much attention. State uniforms, … Continue reading →

CFP: Strange Worlds – Paths and Spaces of the Fantastic in the 21st Century

Call for Papers – UPDATE!!! 1st annual and founding conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF) (Association for Research in the Fantastic) Fremde Welten Wege und Räume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert (Strange Worlds – Paths and Spaces of the Fantastic in the 21st Century) University of Hamburg 30. September – 03. October 2010 GUEST … Continue reading →