[MGSA-L] [CFP] REMINDER Dressing Global Bodies: Clothing Cultures, Politics, and Economies in Globalizing Eras, c. 1600s-1900s

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Sun Sep 13 12:32:52 PDT 2015


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[CFP] REMINDER Dressing Global Bodies: Clothing Cultures, Politics, and Economies in Globalizing Eras, c. 1600s-1900s
by Meaghan WalkerYour network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.Type: Call for PapersDate: October 1, 2015Location: Alberta, CanadaSubject Fields: 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 Dressing Global Bodies: Clothing Cultures, Politics and Economies in Globalizing Eras, c. 1600s-1900s7-9 July 2016, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CanadaCo-Organized with the Pasold Research Fund, UKdressingglobalbodies.comThe 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. 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.  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).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 and dress practice
   - Fashion politics of dress in globalizing contexts
   - Circulation and re-use of dress and dress idioms
   - Design in globalized contexts
   - Representations of clothing cultures
   - Appropriation / acculturation of designs, materials, motifs
   - Dress in colonial / post-colonial contexts
Send all submissions or inquiries to: dgb.conference at ualberta.caDEADLINE for Submissions is: 1 OCTOBER 2015Acceptance of papers to be announced: 1 December 2015The Principal Organizers are Dr. Beverly Lemire and Dr. Giorgio Riello Please see the full CFP at our website: dressingglobalbodies.com  Contact Info: ADDRESS:
Dressing Global Bodies Conference
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c/o Meaghan Walker
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Department of History & Classics
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2-28 Tory Building
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University of Alberta
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Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2H4
Contact Email: dgb.conference at ualberta.caURLhttp://dressingglobalbodies.com
   
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