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
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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
Lambda Nordica: queer fashion double issue
Dirk Gindt has recently edited a double issue of lambda nordica: Journal for LGBT-Studies on the theme of queer fashion. lambda is a peer-reviewed journal that presents research in the humanities and in sociology with relation to LGBT or queer studies in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Although half the articles, including Gindt’s introduction, are … Continue reading
CFP: Inaugural Issue: The Journal of Black Masculinity
Call for Papers: Inaugural Issue: The Journal of Black Masculinity Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-08-31 The Journal of Black Masculinity is an online open access peer-reviewed international publication providing multiple discoursed and multiple disciplined based analyses of issues and/or perspectives with regard to black masculinities. The journal invites empirical, theoretical, and literary scholarship; as well … Continue reading
CFP: UCL Autopsies Project Study Day: “Yesterday’s Objects”
‘Yesterday’s Objects: The Death and Afterlife of Everyday Things’ Autopsies Research Project Study Day Friday, 4 June 2010 University College London (UCL) The Autopsies Project explores how objects die. Just as the twentieth century was transformed by the advent of new forms of media – the typewriter, gramophone, and film, for example – the arrival … Continue reading
CFP: Fashioning the Neo-Victorian. Iterations of the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Literature and Culture
International Conference, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 8-10 April 2010 keynote speakers: Prof Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Marie-Luise Kohlke (Swansea University), Prof Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford) The notion of the Neo-Victorian has become an increasingly common denominator for cultural products re-iterating Victorian culture. Sometimes a critical engagement but equally often a … Continue reading
Object of Fashion 