Event Details

End: October 1, 2015
Contact: dgb.conference@ualberta.ca

CFP: Dressing Global Bodies: Clothing Cultures, Politics and Economies in Globalizing Eras, c. 1700s-1900s

7-9 July 2016, University of Alberta, Canada

The clothes on our backs are intimately connected with bodily experiences, cultural, social and gender portrayals, plus the economies of fashioning across place and time. Garments reflect the priorities of collective and personal inclinations, religious norms and conversions. These materialities are shaped by global flows of cloth and beads, furs, ready-made and second-hand apparel.

This international conference will showcase new historical research on the centrality of dress in global, colonial and post-colonial engagements, emphasizing entangled histories, and cross-cultural analyses.

Themes could include, but are not limited to:

Cross-cultural practices and patterns of dress and / or body adornment
Production and distribution of clothing (across cultures, entangled, comparative)
Gendered and ethnic shaping of dress practice
Fashion politics of dress
Circulation and re-use
Design in globalized contexts
Representations of clothing cultures
Appropriation / acculturation of fashions
Dress in colonial / post-colonial contexts

We especially welcome themed panels, maximum three speakers.

Individual speakers: a 200-word proposal and a 1 page CV

Full panels: a 200-word panel rationale, plus 200 word proposals for each panel participant with individual 1 page CVs.

Deadline: 1 October 2015