‘Fashion, Vision and Visuality’ CFP Deadline: November 7, 2011 38th Annual AAH Conference & Bookfair The Open University, Milton Keynes UK March 29 – 31, 2012 Session Convenors: Caroline Evans, University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design c.evans@csm.arts.ac.uk Andrea Kollnitz, Centre for Fashion Studies, Art History Department, Stockholm University … Continue reading
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The Journal of Design History: Uniforms in Design History Special Issue
The Journal of Design History has published its latest special issue Uniforms in Design History. This issue covers various types of uniforms as well as uniforms from many different countries including Great Britain, Turkey and Japan. http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4266/2 Special Issue: Uniforms in Design History Volume 24 Issue 2 May 2011 Articles Artemis Yagou Foreword: Uniforms in … Continue reading
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award: Fashion for the High Street
Closing Date: Monday 26th May 2010 Background Applications are invited for this AHRC-funded three year collaborative doctoral award, entitled ‘Fashion for the High Street. The design and making of menswear in Leeds 1945-1980’, tenable in the School of History at the University of Leeds, in partnership with Leeds Museums and Galleries. This project will investigate … Continue reading
CFP: Material Culture, Craft & Community
Material Culture, Craft & Community: Negotiating Objects Across Time & Place (20-21 May 2011, University of Alberta, Canada) This interdisciplinary conference will explore the varied expressions of craft – material, cultural, social – in past and present societies. Craft practice has a rich history and remainsB vibrant today, sustaining communities while negotiating cultures. Craft-made goods … Continue reading
Femininities: Cultural History Conference
FEMININITIES This three-day international conference (22-24 April) organised by the Department of History, marks the ten year anniversary of the department’s annual Cultural History Conference. Focusing on the theme of ‘femininities’ this conference brings together leading international scholars to examine the state of the field in women’s history, gender history and the history of sexuality … Continue reading
Object of Fashion 