The Association of Dress Historians (ADH) supports and promotes the study and professional practice of dress and textile history. Please join us for our annual New Research in Dress History Conference, where we host innovative, interdisciplinary, and critical research papers or those that add to or challenge established studies.
This year’s conference title and theme are:
INTERWOVEN: Dress that Crosses Borders and Challenges Boundaries
Topics of potential conference papers could include (but are not limited to):
Cross-cultural appropriation of clothing and textiles
Representation of genderless dress through subcultural style
Androgynous dressing from the high street to the royal court
Android to cyborg: fashion and technology’s ongoing relationship
Fashion designers who challenge boundaries in innovative ways
Icons who adopt clothing and textiles that challenge boundaries
Clothing and textiles that cross political or state barriers
Uniforms and occupational dress that have crossed into popularity
Industrial and manufacturing processes that have crossed borders
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Please submit your conference paper proposal for a twenty-minute presentation to jennifer.daley@kcl.ac.uk as a .doc or .docx file that includes (only) your name, email address, affiliation, descriptive paper title, a 200-word abstract, and a 100-word biography. We also encourage proposals for themed panels of three speakers. The deadline for submissions is 23:59 GMT, 15 January 2017. Notification of the outcome of proposals will be advised by 23:59 GMT, 20 January 2017.
More information about our conferences and events can be viewed on our website: www.dresshistorians.co.uk
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