Event | Masculinity, Art and Fashion: from Renaissance Europe to Contemporary Australia

Masculinity, Art and Fashion: from Renaissance Europe to Contemporary Australia

Where Harold White Theatrette, University of Melbourne, 757 Swanston Street, Parkville
When Friday 1 August

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Morning Session 9:30 – 12:30

John Gagné, Italian men, French shirts, and the problems of belonging 
John Gagné is Cassamarca Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney.

Sarah A. Bendall, New styles and global novelties: The influence of French and East Indies goods on men’s fashion in the late 17th century 
Sarah A. Bendall FRHistS  is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian Catholic University and was appointed as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2023.

Professor Peter McNeil, The eighteenth-century men’s silk waistcoat as emotional/erotic field.   
Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil FAHA is an art and design historian at University of Technology Sydney.

Professor Melissa Bellanta, The man about town in Australia, c.1880-1939
Melissa Bellanta is Professor of History at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney.

Afternoon session: 1:45 – 5:00pm

Tets Kimura, Masculinity at its peak: Japan’s wartime clothing of kokuminfkuku  
Tets Kimura  is currently a Sir William Dobell Fellow with the School of Art and Design, Australian National University, and also has an affiliation at Flinders University.

Professor Antonia Finnane, Dandies, sissies and masculinity in the Communist Party State: comparing male fashions in the Mao and Xi eras.
Professor Antonia Finnane is an honorary professorial fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Lorinda Cramer, Styling the Australian body: masculinity, materiality and mid-twentieth-century suits
Dr Lorinda Cramer is a lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University.

Paola Di Trocchio, Curating masculine identities and fashion subculture histories
Dr Paola Di Trocchio is a freelance fashion curator, writer, speaker and historian.

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