Fashion Studies: An International Exploration will be the first of a series of Symposia in Fashion, Textiles and Fashion Studies to be hosted at UTS from 6-7 April 2018. Led by Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil FAHA, it coincides with the launch of a new Sydney Foundation, Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas, which takes as its first theme a focus on critical fashion.
The UTS Workshop is generously supported by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and ‘Design Cultures’ at UTS.
The inter-disciplinary event brings together art historians, historians, literary theorists, Asian Studies specialists, designers, material culture anthropologists and curators.
This year we welcome a Taiwanese University delegation including staff and PhD candidates from National Yang-ming University and the National Palace Museum.
Topics and themes include Networks and Knowledges, Imperial Traffic, New Materialism, & Fashion and Millenials. The symposia will have a focus on inter-disciplinary methods and approaches as well as Early Career Researcher training.
Keynotes include Professor Beverly Lemire, Henry Tory Marshall Chair, University of Alberta, who will speak on ‘Fashioning Colonial Winter’.
Participants include Dr Sarah A Bendall, Dr Melissa Bellanta, Paola Di Trocchio, Prof Antonia Finnane FAHA, Catriona Fisk, Dr Chia-Hua Yeh, Laura Jocic, Tara Moss, Prof Mina Roces FAHA, Todd Robinson, Dr Madeleine Seyes and Dr Toby Slade.
Please note that the speaking program is full, but that currently enrolled PhD and Masters research candidates from any related discipline, academics, museum curators and freelance cultural workers may attend the free event.
The symposium will be held at UTS in DAB Building 6, Level 6, HDR seminar room from 10 am each day Friday 6-Saturday 7 April.
Further details and ticketing please contact peter.mcneil@uts.edu.au
The Australian Academy of the Humanities is pleased to be a principal sponsor for this workshop.
The Academy is the national peak body for the humanities in Australia. It was established by Royal Charter in 1969 and is one of Australia’s four Learned Academies — independent organisations established to encourage excellence in their respective fields, and to provide expertise and advice across public, institutional, and government levels.
The Academy is comprised of an elected Fellowship, 600 leaders and experts spanning the humanities disciplines such as cultural and language studies, history, philosophy, classics, and the creative arts.
This event was proposed by Academy’s The Arts Section, and awarded principal sponsorship based on the workshop’s approach to encouraging a network to explore new areas of humanities enquiry.