Symposium 2014

Registration

FOR CALL FOR PAPERS
New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future.
Textile Society of America’s 14th Biennial Symposium
Los Angeles, California, September 10-14, 2014

TSA’s Biennial Symposium will take place in Los Angeles, California on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). To encourage the maximum amount of scholarly interchange, TSA has devised a new format for 2014, and plans to hold two days of multiple, concurrent sessions at UCLA on Thursday and Friday, as well as a full day of plenary sessions at LACMA on Saturday. In addition to the sessions, there will be a series of dynamic pre- and post-conference workshops and study tours to local and regional art institutions and collections, receptions, special programs and awards ceremony.

The theme of TSA’s 14th Biennial Symposium New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future will explore change and innovation in textiles in the past while looking at the state of the field of textiles, textile study, production and creativity, today and for the future. Where have we been and where are we going? What are the moments that encapsulate change? What are the shifts in direction for cultures, technology, creativity and knowledge? And how do these effect our understanding of textiles?

Proposed papers should look at important moments in history when innovations or new ideas caused cultures to shift (materially, technically, aesthetically, or conceptually) or present new approaches, new research methods, new ways of understanding the past. They may also focus on key innovators, makers, designers, or scholars whose contributions have had a major impact, or examine critical social, political, economic or artistic processes. Papers could look at the past or present, examining elements of daily life or ideas that impact our world through the medium of textiles, whether from environmental, scientific, economic, social, or artistic perspectives. In addition, papers might look to the future and the pathways of knowledge or production that yield new ways of seeing, making, and understanding textiles.

TSA seeks presentation proposals from all textile-related disciplines and interdisciplinary areas, including but not limited to anthropology, archaeology, art, art history, conservation, cultural geography, design, economics, ethnic studies, history, linguistics, marketing, mathematics, political science, and science, among others. Participation of international and U.S. scholars, researchers, artists, museum professionals, and others is welcome. Submission of abstracts is open to TSA members (see below). CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSES OCTOBER, 1, 2013.

In addition to our general Call for Papers, including individual papers, organized sessions and panels, films and other media submissions, we invite papers that may be considered for our plenary day. The review committee will select from among the general submissions that cogently and directly address the theme of the symposium.

Please download Guidelines for submission: http://tinyurl.com/d7fbb33
For questions about the online submission process please contact:
Newdirections@textilesociety.org

TSA Membership Requirement
All persons submitting proposals for participation in the 2014 symposium must be TSA members in good standing for 2013 at the time of submission. Non-member applicants may join TSA at the time of proposal submission. If extenuating circumstances exist, please write to: Newdirections@textilesociety.org.

PROGRAM SELECTION
TSA follows a policy of peer review and merit consideration for acceptance into the symposium program. Initial review of proposals and abstracts by the jury will be done without author identification. Abstracts for papers outside of the jurors’ expertise will be sent to specialists. Final selections will be made by the Symposium Program Committee, composed of representatives from the Symposium Organizing Committee and the TSA Board, based on jurors’ ranking and comments; relatedness to the symposium theme and the interests of Textile Society of America as expressed in our mission statement; originality of research; and clarity. The final program will be organized to assure a diversity of geographic regions, subject matter, and scholarly approaches. The Program Committee will inform all those submitting proposals of its decisions by December 1, 2013.

Acceptance by TSA implies the presenter’s commitment to register for and attend the 14th TSA Biennial Symposium in Los Angeles, September 11-13, 2014, and intent to participate in the capacity proposed. Following acceptance, all speakers, session organizers, and panel presenters must submit electronically their commitment to present at and attend the symposium by February 1, 2014. All thus-confirmed speakers, session organizers, and panel presenters must then register for the symposium by May 1, 2014. All accepted abstracts and presenters’ biographies will be published on the TSA website and in the Symposium Program and Proceedings.

Publication of Symposium Proceedings
Proceedings generally are electronically published within six months of the symposium. Manuscripts (text and images) for publication in the TSA 2012 Symposium Proceedings must be received no later than December 1, 2014. If no manuscript is submitted, the 300-word abstract will be published. Guidelines for preparing manuscripts for publication will available on the TSA website.

Information about Scholarships and Awards are available on the "Award and Scholarship" tab on the left.


We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Elena Phipps, President, TSA


The 2014 Symposium is organized by the Textile Society of America

Academic Program Chair: Roy Hamilton, Curator, Asian and Pacific Collections, Fowler Museum, UCLA. RHamilton@textilesociety.org 

Co-host: Sharon Takeda, Senior Curator and Department Head, Costumes and Textiles, LACMA

Proceedings editor: Ann Svenson, TSA Board, proceedings@textilesociety.org

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