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<h2><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://networks.h-net.org/node/GROUP_NID/discussions/83048/cfp-reminder-dressing-global-bodies-clothing-cultures-politics-and">[CFP] REMINDER Dressing Global Bodies: Clothing Cultures, Politics, and Economies in Globalizing Eras, c. 1600s-1900s</a></h2>
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<div class="yiv4967064187node-body"><div class="yiv4967064187reposted-header">Your network editor has reposted this from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://networks.h-net.org/node/GROUP_NID/announcements/82189/cfp-reminder-dressing-global-bodies-clothing-cultures-politics">H-Announce</a>. The byline reflects the original authorship.</div><div class="yiv4967064187reposted"><div class="yiv4967064187field yiv4967064187field--name-field-announcement-type yiv4967064187field--type-list-text yiv4967064187field--label-inline yiv4967064187clearfix"><div class="yiv4967064187field__label">Type: </div><div class="yiv4967064187field__items"><div class="yiv4967064187field__item yiv4967064187even">Call for Papers</div></div></div><div class="yiv4967064187field yiv4967064187field--name-field-announcement-date yiv4967064187field--type-datetime yiv4967064187field--label-inline yiv4967064187clearfix"><div class="yiv4967064187field__label">Date: </div><div class="yiv4967064187field__items"><div class="yiv4967064187field__item yiv4967064187even"><span class="yiv4967064187date-display-single">October 1, 2015</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv4967064187field yiv4967064187field--name-field-announcement-country yiv4967064187field--type-list-text yiv4967064187field--label-inline yiv4967064187clearfix"><div class="yiv4967064187field__label">Location: </div><div class="yiv4967064187field__items"><div class="yiv4967064187field__item yiv4967064187even">Alberta, Canada</div></div></div><div class="yiv4967064187field yiv4967064187field--name-field-subject-fields yiv4967064187field--type-taxonomy-term-reference yiv4967064187field--label-inline yiv4967064187clearfix"><div class="yiv4967064187field__label">Subject Fields: </div><div class="yiv4967064187field__items"><div class="yiv4967064187field__item yiv4967064187even">Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Early Modern History and Period Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies</div></div></div><div class="yiv4967064187field yiv4967064187field--name-body yiv4967064187field--type-text-with-summary yiv4967064187field--label-hidden"><div class="yiv4967064187field__items"><div class="yiv4967064187field__item yiv4967064187even"><div> </div><div><div style="text-align:center;"><strong>Dressing Global Bodies: Clothing Cultures, Politics and Economies in Globalizing Eras, c. 1600s-1900s</strong></div><div style="text-align:center;"><strong>7-9 July 2016, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada</strong></div><div style="text-align:center;"><strong>Co-Organized with the Pasold Research Fund, UK</strong></div><div style="text-align:center;"><em><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://dressingglobalbodies.com/">dressingglobalbodies.com</a></em></div></div><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue';"><span>The clothes on our backs are intimately connected with bodily experiences, cultural, social and gender portrayals, as well as the economies of fashioning and re-fashioning across place and time. Garments reflect the priorities of local and international economies, 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, in dynamic processes of fashion exchange. Dress is a charged cultural instrument, as evident in colonial and decolonization processes, social and political agendas, animated by cross-cultural and commercial flows, industrial and institutional innovations.</span></div><div><div> </div><div>This international conference will showcase new historical research on the centrality of dress in global, colonial and post-colonial engagements, emphasizing entangled histories, comparative and cross-cultural analyses. This scholarship redefines national and collective communities, in the practice of fashion and the dynamics of re-fashioning and re-use, from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. <div><div> </div><div>We are exicited to accept individual papers or themed panels, maximum three speakers, on historical topics about clothing and the body, not limited to any culture(s) or geographic location(s).</div><div><strong>Themes could include, but are not limited to</strong>:</div><ul><li>Cross-cultural practices and patterns of dress and / or body adornment</li><li>Production and distribution of clothing (across cultures, entangled, comparative)</li><li>Gendered and ethnic shaping of dress and dress practice</li><li>Fashion politics of dress in globalizing contexts</li><li>Circulation and re-use of dress and dress idioms</li><li>Design in globalized contexts</li><li>Representations of clothing cultures</li><li>Appropriation / acculturation of designs, materials, motifs</li><li>Dress in colonial / post-colonial contexts</li></ul><div>Send all submissions or inquiries to: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dgb.conference@ualberta.ca" target="_blank" href="mailto:dgb.conference@ualberta.ca">dgb.conference@ualberta.ca</a></div><div><strong>DEADLINE for Submissions is: 1 OCTOBER 2015</strong></div><div><strong>Acceptance of papers to be announced: 1 December 2015</strong></div></div><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue';">The Principal Organizers are Dr. Beverly Lemire and Dr. Giorgio Riello</div><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue';"> </div><div>Please see the full CFP at our website: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://dressingglobalbodies.com/">dressingglobalbodies.com</a></div><div> </div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv4967064187field yiv4967064187field--name-field-announcement-contact yiv4967064187field--type-text-long yiv4967064187field--label-above"><div class="yiv4967064187field__label">Contact Info: </div><div class="yiv4967064187field__items"><div class="yiv4967064187field__item yiv4967064187even"><address class="yiv4967064187p1">Dressing Global Bodies Conference</address><address class="yiv4967064187p1">c/o Meaghan Walker</address><address class="yiv4967064187p1">Department of History & Classics</address><address class="yiv4967064187p1">2-28 Tory Building</address><address class="yiv4967064187p1">University of Alberta</address><address class="yiv4967064187p1">Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2H4</address></div></div></div><div class="yiv4967064187field yiv4967064187field--name-field-announcement-email yiv4967064187field--type-email yiv4967064187field--label-inline yiv4967064187clearfix"><div class="yiv4967064187field__label">Contact Email: </div><div class="yiv4967064187field__items"><div class="yiv4967064187field__item yiv4967064187even"><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dgb.conference@ualberta.ca" target="_blank" href="mailto:dgb.conference@ualberta.ca">dgb.conference@ualberta.ca</a></div></div></div><div class="yiv4967064187field yiv4967064187field--name-field-announcement-url yiv4967064187field--type-link-field yiv4967064187field--label-inline yiv4967064187clearfix"><div class="yiv4967064187field__label">URL: </div><div class="yiv4967064187field__items"><div class="yiv4967064187field__item yiv4967064187even"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://dressingglobalbodies.com/">http://dressingglobalbodies.com</a></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>  </div> </div>  </div> </div></body></html>