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CALL FOR PAPERS
Dressing New England:
Clothing, Fashion, and Identity
A
conference offered in conjunction with Boston University's Program in American
& New England Studies, the Costume Society of America, and Historic Deerfield
Illustration from Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine, July 1868.
Courtesy of Historic Deerfield, Inc.
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (founded 1976) is pleased to announce the subject of next year’s conference, Dressing New England: Clothing, Fashion, and Identity, to be held in June 2010.
The Seminar is accepting proposals for papers and presentations on dress, fashion, and personal appearance in New England and contiguous portions of New York and Canada from the seventeenth century to the present. The emphasis of this interdisciplinary conference will be on regional and subregional identity; the role of ethnicity; the evolution of fashion “turning points”; the role of clothing in group and personal identity; and comparative studies using Native American, French-Canadian, and European clothing. Other areas of interest include clothing production; imports; procurement and acquisition practices; specialty regional retailers such as Orvis and L.L.Bean; broadcasting or advertising; the broad role
of dressmakers, mantua makers, and alteration experts; military and occupational uniforms; livery or workers’ and servants’ clothing; the dress of families in poverty; restrictive or sumptuary laws; garment reform; religious clothing; wedding attire, clothing for infants and young children; and garments for leisure and sports. The Seminar also invites proposals on fashion accessories such as male and female jewelry, hats, gloves, and shoes, as well as on body art such as hairstyles, make-up, and personal adornment (including tattoos), as well as theoretical approaches to these subjects.
The Seminar encourages papers based on original sources such as letters and diaries, portraits, prints and photographs, business records, museum collections, extant garments, samples and patterns, probate inventories, run-away advertisements, design patents, prescriptive literature, fashion plates, and retail and trade catalogues.
The thirty-fifth annual meeting in the Seminar series, Dressing New England: Clothing, Fashion, and Identity will take place in Deerfield, Massachusetts, on the weekend of June 18 and 19, 2010. The program will consist of approximately seventeen lectures of twenty minutes each, with related tours; selected papers will appear as the 2010 Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar to be issued about eighteen months after the conference.
[ ] To request further information regarding this conference, please check here and return this form to the address shown below or to dublsem@bu.edu.
[ ] To submit a paper proposal for this conference, please check here and return this form together with a one-page prospectus that cites sources and a one-page vita or biography by January 15, 2010. E-mail proposals sent as attachments are encouraged; please follow up with a hard copy.
Dublin Seminar Annual Membership
[ ] Members receive topic, conference, and publication announcements; a copy of the current Annual Proceedings; pre-conference abstracts and bibliographies; a 10 percent discount on conference fees; and a 10 percent discount on all Seminar publications sold at the conference. $30.
Mail to:
Peter Benes, Director, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Boston University Scholarly Publications
985 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215
E-mail: dublsem@bu.edu; Phone: 978/369-7382
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