London Renaissance Seminar: Clothing the Renaissance

1 – 6 p.m., Saturday 20 January 2018
Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury

Join London Renaissance Seminar for an afternoon of new research and inter-disciplinary discussions exploring clothing and accessories in the Renaissance.

Programme Summary:

1.00pm Coffee

1.20-2.00 Eleanor Lowe, ‘ “Scouring faults”: Linen, Cleanliness and Early Modern Drama’

2.00 – 2.40 Hester Lees-Jeffries ,‘Shakespeare’s Tailors’

2.40 – 3.30pm discussion

3.00-3.30 Coffee

3.30 Rebecca Unsworth, ‘Doublets in Early Modern Europe’

4.10-4.50 Natasha Awais-Dean ‘Men and Jewellery in Renaissance Portraiture’

4.50 – 5.10 Discussion

Organisers: Sue Wiseman and Sarah Birt

The London Renaissance Seminar (LRS) is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of early modern history, literature, and culture. It meets regularly at Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square. Anyone with a serious academic interest in the Renaissance is welcome and no registration is necessary.

For further information about LRS contact Sue Wiseman. To join the LRS mailing list, please contact Tom Healy.

Twitter: @LondRenaissance

CALL FOR PAPERS: Dressing Global Bodies

The clothes on our backs...

are intimately connected with bodily experiences, cultural, social and gender portrayals. Economies of fashioning and re-fashioning demonstrate multiple priorities across place and time. The materialities of fashion are shaped by global flows of cloth and beads, furs, ready-made and second-hand apparel, in dynamic processes of exchange.

Pasold Conference 2016 | 7-9 July 2016 | University of Alberta
This international conference will showcase new research on the centrality of dress in global, colonial and post-colonial engagements, emphasizing entangled histories and cross-cultural analyses.

Themes could include, but are not limited to:

• Cross-cultural practices and patterns of dress and / or body adornment
• Production and distribution of clothing
• Gendered and ethnic shaping of dress practice
• Fashion politics of dress in globalizing contexts
• Circulation and re-use of dress and dress idioms
• Design in globalized contexts
• Representations of clothing cultures
• Appropriation / acculturation of designs, materials, motifs
• Dress in colonial / post-colonial contexts

Submission Requirements:

For individual speakers: a 200-word proposal and a 1 page CV

For full panels: a 200-word panel rationale, plus 200 word proposals for each panel participant along with their individual 1 page CVs.

We especially welcome themed panels, maximum three speakers but individuals papers are welcomed as well.

Send all submissions to: dgb.conference@ualberta.ca

Deadline for submissions: 1 October 2015.

Acceptances of papers to be announced: 1 December 2015.

Plenary Speakers:

Fashion in Qing/Early Republican China - Antonia Finnane Professor, School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne
Author of Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation

Cultures of Dress within Global Africa - Karen Tranberg HansenProfessor Emerita. Department of Anthropology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University
Author of Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia

Colonial practice, cross-cultural influences in the dress of colonial Spanish America - Dana LeibsohnPriscilla Paine Van der Poel Professor of Art, Department of Art, Smith College

Principal Organizers:
Beverly Lemire, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta lemire@ualberta.ca
Giorgio Riello, Department of History and Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick pasold.research@warwick.ac.uk

For further information please refer to http://www.dressingglobalbodies.com

Exploring Early Modern Dress: The Merits and Challenges of Diverse Sources

Inaugural Dressing The Early Modern Network Conference

The field of early modern dress history draws from a variety of sources in order to map out fashions and trends within the confines of readily available early modern source materials. The analysis of a vast range of sources is done in the context of an interdisciplinary research where different research fields and schools of thought collide and emerge in the form of dress history. Pictorial representations of early modern dress together with surviving garments, garment fragments and textiles form some of the obvious tools from which information is drawn and pieced together. Archival sources, including house inventories, account books and sumptuary legislation, among others, have also consistently been employed to verify the various types of garments used in the early modern period. However, while each of these sources have their definite merits, they also pose considerable challenges due to the fact that they can sometimes be fragmented. The conference aims to generate a discussion about the benefits and advantages, as well as the limitations and constraints that the plethora of these diverse sources pose in order to build a solid platform from which researchers can draw conclusions about early modern dress history.

Saturday, 19 September 2015, Dutch University Institute for Art History (NIKI), Viale Torricelli 5, 50125 Florence, Italy (www.niki-florence.org)

PhD students and early career researchers are invited to speak about their experiences in relation to the sources that they use, with reference to their current or previous projects. We invite potential speakers to submit as a single document: (1) a 300-word paper abstract, which should include the main question of the research project, (2) a paper title, (3) a brief curriculum vitae, (4) institutional affiliations and (5) contact information to the Dressing the Early Modern Network at info@dressingtheearlymodern.com

Each speaker will be allotted twenty minutes. The deadline for submissions is 30 May 2015. Notification of the outcome will be advised by e-mail on or before 15 June 2015.

Please note that funding is not provided for this event, so participants will be required to fund and arrange their own travel and accommodations.

www.dressingtheearlymodern.com

Inaugural Dressing The Early Modern Network Conference: Exploring Early Modern Dress: The Merits and Challenges of Diverse Sources

19 September 2015
Dutch University Institute for Art History (NIKI)

Viale Torricelli 5, 50125 Florence Italy (www.niki-florence.org)  

Topics include extant garments and textiles, dress and nationhood in archival sources, dress in portraiture, and the integration of archival and visual sources.

09:00              Registration 

09:00-09:30   Morning Coffee and Tea

09:30-09:45   Welcome

09:45-11:15   Panel 1: Extant Garments and Textiles 

Chair: Professor Evelyn Welch, King’s College London

09:45-10:05 

The Contribution of Material Culture to Fashion Studies, Elisa Tosi Brandi (University of Bologna) 

10:05-10:25

Cross-Referencing Data in Account Books and Textile Fragments, Suzanne Lasalle (European University Institute, Florence)

10:25-10:45 

Putting the Pieces Together: Dress in Seventeenth-Century Gothenburg, Sweden, Eva Andersson (University of Gothenburg)

10:45-11:15   Discussion

11:15-11:45   Coffee and Tea Break

11:45-13:15   Panel 2: Archival Sources and Nationhood 
Chair: Professor Luca Molà, European University Institute, Florence

11:45-12:05

Early Modern Fashion in Italy: A Matter of Sources, Lucca and Florence, Bruna Niccoli (University of Pisa) 

12:05-12:25

Raincoat or ‘jamberloek’: Fashion Among the Dutch in Early Modern Istanbul According to Probate Inventories, Final Wills and Personal Correspondence, Marloes Cornelissen (Sabanci University, Istanbul)

12:25-12:45

Dressing an Early Modern Ambassador: How to Trace Diplomatic Clothing in the Sources? Laura Mesotten (European University Institute, Florence)

12:45-13:15   Discussion

13:15-14:30   Lunch Break 

14:30-16:00   Panel 3: Decoding Portraiture
Chair: Professor Luca Molà, European University Institute, Florence

14:30-14:50 

Dress Studies and Visual Culture: Depicting Dress in Ghirlandaio’s Tornabuoni Portraits,  Maria Merseburger (Humboldt University, Berlin)

14:50-15:10

The Philosopher and His Nightgown, Elise Urbain Ruano (Ecole du Louvre and Université Lille 3)

15:10-15:30

How a Fashion and Dress Approach Can Give New Perspectives to History, Kjerstin Vedel (Museum of Natural History, Frederiksborg and University of Southern Denmark) 

15:30-16:00   Discussion 

16:00-16:30   Coffee and Tea Break 

16:30-18:00   Panel 4: Integrating Archival and Visual Sources
Chair: Professor Evelyn Welch, King’s College London

16:00-16:30  

‘Shewed like a bear’: Fur Fashion in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Florence, Patricia Lurati (University of Zurich)

16:50-17:10 

Dutch Seventeenth-Century Jewellery: Researching the Representativeness of Jewels in Paintings, Monique Rakhorst (Radboud University, Nijmegen and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

17:10-17:30 

Textiles, Threads and Linen: Sources for the History of Early Modern Fashion in the Southern Netherlands (1650-1700), Hannelore Magnus (KU Leuven)

17:30-18:00   Discussion

18:00-18:10   Closing Remarks 

18:10-19:00   Drinks in the Garden

There is no registration fee for this conference and lunch will be provided.
Please email us to RSVP at info@dressingtheearlymodern.com by 31 August 2015 if you plan to attend. The venue has a limited capacity and we need to provide accurate catering numbers for lunch.

Organised by Jola Pellumbi and Sara van Dijk Dressing the Early Modern Network  

For more information visit www.dressingtheearlymodern.com
Please email us to RSVP at info@dressingtheearlymodern.com