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
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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
Undressing the Fashionable Myth Symposium
The founders of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture established an exclusive trade union in 1868 made up of fashion houses that produced one of a kind garments of the highest quality for their clients – haute couture. These days, the phrase haute couture is nothing more than a buzzword and is often used … Continue reading
Imaging Identity: Media, Memory and Visions of Humanity in the Digital Present
Imaging Identity: Media, Memory and Visions of Humanity in the Digital Present Location: Australia Symposium Date: 2010-07-15 This symposium is concerned with the many ways in which humanity images identity. Within this broad frame lies a more particular interest, to understand what images of personhood are and how particular kinds of images operate in diverse … Continue reading
Materials of Persuasion – Graduate Student Symposium
Materials of Persuasion, Graduate Student Symposium Bard Graduate Center 38 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 April 23, 2010 Critics passing judgment, clergy seeking converts, advertisers selling products, and politicians running for office are all in the persuasion business. Persuasion is the key to the art of rhetoric, but there has always been a … Continue reading
Annual Fashion and Textile Studies Symposium
Annual Fashion and Textile Studies Symposium Americans in Paris: Designers, Buyers, Editors, Photographers, Models, and Clients in Paris Fashion Since Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson first brought the “American look” to the court of Versailles, American have played a vital role in Paris fashion. Graduate students in FIT’s M.A. program in Fashion and Textile Studies … Continue reading
CFP: Art Performance Film: Postgraduate Symposium in the History of Art
‘The Arts’ as an umbrella term encompasses a huge variety of media, yet it is all too common that academics and artists divide themselves into somewhat segregated areas of study. However, as interdisciplinary research becomes more common in the university context, and artists and performers combine aspects of different ‘Arts’ in their work, it becomes … Continue reading
CFP: Recycling luxury and waste in the long eighteenth century: the after life of used things in Britain and France
Recycling luxury and waste in the long 18th century – the afterlife of used things in Britain and France. International conference June 22nd – 23rd 2010 Université Paris Diderot / LARCA UFR Charles V – 10, rue Charles V 75004 Paris The 2010 conference on the afterlife of used things in the long 18th century … 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
Object of Fashion 