Dublin Seminar | Statement | 2010 Conference | Publications for Sale | Forthcoming Publications
C O N F E R E N C E
Dressing New England: Clothing, Fashion, and Identity
Illustration from Godey’s Lady’s Book and
Magazine, July 1868. Courtesy of Historic
Deerfield, Inc.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 18 through 20, 2010
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Dressing New England: Clothing, Fashion, and Identity is a three-day conference 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 conference opens Friday evening with papers on dressmakers and milliners, and Native American dress. It continues on Saturday with fashion and fashion accessories, and the dress of clergymen and working people. Papers on menswear will follow that evening. Sunday’s papers address New England designers and retailers and the reuse and giving of clothes. The Seminar is designed for educators, historians, collectors, dealers, authors, librarians, and museum curators; students and the general public are cordially invited to attend. Past Seminar Proceedings and publications by program speakers will be available for purchase at the conference.
The 35th annual meeting in the Seminar series, Dressing New England: Clothing, Fashion, and Identity will take place on the weekend of June 18 through 20, 2010, in Deerfi eld, Massachusetts. The lecture program will be held at the Eaglebrook School beginning on Friday evening and will continue until approximately 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. Meals will include lunch and dinner on Saturday, June 19; coffee and doughnuts will be served each morning. Dormitory accommodations will be available at Eaglebrook’s campus beginning Friday afternoon. (A list of nearby motels and bed and breakfast establishments is available at www.franklincc.org/accom.html.) A selected and edited transcript of this conference will appear as the 2010 Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, which will be issued about two years after the conference.
LECTURE PROGRAM
Friday Evening, June 18
Dressmakers and Milliners
Marla R. Miller, University of Massachusetts (Amherst): Mehitable Primus and Addie Brown: Women of Color and Dressmaking in Nineteenth-Century Hartford, Connecticut
Nadine L. Stewart, Fashion Institute of Technology: “dull work like mending”: A Look at the 1864 Diary of Emma Anne Foster, Milliner
Native American Dress
Laureen LaBar, Maine State Museum: Identity, Communication, and the Role of Diplomacy in Wabanaki Dress
Saturday Morning, June 19
Fashions and Fashion Accessories
Jennifer M. Swope, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Robbins Family of East Lexington, Massachusetts, and Their Clothing, 1780–1820
Alden O’Brien, DAR Museum: Federal New England Fashion in the Diary of Sylvia Lewis
Lauren D. Whitley, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Boston in Paris: The Fashions of Mrs. Benjamin S. Rotch, 1850–1853
David E. Lazaro, Historic Deerfield: Supporting Role: The Hoop Skirt in 1860s Western Massachusetts Fashion
Jacqueline B. Carr, University of Vermont: The Procurement, Marketing, and Selling of Women’s Fashion Accessories
Saturday Afternoon, June 19
The Clothing of Working People
Ross W. Beales Jr., College of the Holy Cross: A Minister’s Clothing and Accessories: The Reverend Ebenezer Parkman of Westborough, Massachusetts
Linzy Brekke-Aloise, Stonehill College: “Clothes that is fit to wear”: Fashion, Wage Work, and Community among Female Textile Workers in New England, 1825–1865
Blair H. Walker, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts: Aspecs of Livery
Saturday Evening, June 19
Menswear for Soldiers, Sailors, and Officers
Matthew Keagle, University of Delaware: The Life and Death of the American Grenadier: Military Headgear and National Character in the Age of Revolution
Michael S. McGurty, New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site: “a tolerably decent appearance”: The Clothing of the Continental Army at the New Windsor Cantonment, 1782–1783
Phil Dunning, Parks Canada: Yeomen and Merchants: Clothing from a 1690 Wreck
Sunday Morning, June 20
New England Designers and Retailers
Elena M. Sarni, Independent Scholar: Folly Cove Designers: A Time and Place
Susan Ward, Independent Curator: “Uniform for Intellectuals”: Marimekko, Design Research and Mid-Century Modernism in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Rebecca Jumper Matheson, Fashion Institute of Technology: Emily Wilkens: Connecticut-born Designer for All-American Teens
Reusing Clothes, Giving Clothes
Elizabeth C. Stevens, Rhode Island Historical Society, and Jessie MacLeod, James Madison’s Montpelier: “I wish I Could Help You Turn, and Press, and Re-fit”: The Clothing of Missionary Daughters in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New England
Karen J. Herbaugh, American Textile History Museum: Frugality or Necessity? Remaking Clothes in the 1890s
Mary Beth Sievens, State University of New York (Fredonia): “Prized the more by me for having once been yours”: Gifts of Clothing in Nineteenth-Century New England
ADVANCE REGISTRATION
To register for this conference, please check the appropriate box (or boxes) on this form. Reservations are limited and will be accepted in the order received and must arrive on or before June 4, 2010. Registrants may request complimentary lecture abstracts through e-mail. Advance registrations are refundable, less $10 handling, if returned before June 4, 2010.
[ ] Registration for lecture program, June 18 to 20, including lunch and dinner on Saturday, June 19. $120
[ ] Registration for full-time students including lunch and dinner on Saturday. (Please indicate school and year of graduation.) $90
Optional Housing
[ ] Housing at Eaglebrook School dormitory, Friday and Saturday nights, June 18 and 19. $80
[ ] Single-room surcharge. $45
[ ] I wish to apply for a scholarship to attend the conference. My résumé and two letters of recommendation are enclosed.
[ ] Please send me e-mail abstracts of speakers’ papers.
Optional Museum Pass
[ ] Reduced-rate ticket to Historic Deerfield, Thursday, June 17, through Monday, June 21 (must be reserved in advance). $5
Dublin Seminar Annual Membership
[ ] Members receive topic, conference, and publication announcements; a copy of the current Annual Proceedings; 10 percent discount on conference fees; and 10 percent discount on all Seminar publications purchased at the conference. $30
[ ] Donation to Scholarship Fund. Amount _________.
Funds will be applied to applications received this year. Any leftover scholarships
will be applied to this purpose in 2011.
Mail to:
Peter Benes, Director, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Boston University Scholarly Publications
985 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215
Phone: 978/369-7382 • E-mail: dublsem@bu.edu
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Note to Massachusetts public school teachers: This conference may be used for Professional Development Points.