2nd Global Conference (2010)

2nd Global Conference

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Thursday 23rd September – Sunday 26th September 2010
Oriel College, Oxford


The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Thursday 23rd September 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Jacque Lynn Foltyn

14.00
Session 1: Fetishes, Facsimiles, and Fakes:  Brands, Imitations, and Counterfeits
Chair:  Jacque Lynn Foltyn

Taste and the Rise of Labelled Cult Items: Secondary Lines, Counterfeited and Look-a-Like Luxury
Cecilia Winterhalter

Re-Framing Fashion: Original, Copy, Adaptation
Tiziana Ferrero-Regis

Refashioning Public Education: Being Fe(e)male in the 21st Century
Shenin Yazdanian

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2:  Refashioning Marginal and Deviant Bodies
Chair:  Jess Berry

It’s the Attitude: Fashion Designs for Women with Disabilities
Elizabeth Kaino Hopper

“I Have a Suitcase Just Full of Legs because I Need Options for Different Clothing:” Accessorizing Bodyscapes
Olga Vainshtein

Looking Good and Deviant Bodies: Coping Strategies and Suitable Clothes
Mari Rysst & Ingun Grimstad Klepp

Fashioning the World:  Lee Miller’s Textile Spaces
Patricia Allmer

18.00
Notices and Announcements

18.10
Wine Reception

19.00
Dinner

Friday 24th September 2010
09.00
Session 3:  Weaponizing Fashion:  The Language of Uniforms
Chair:  Elizabeth Hopper

Court Uniform and Identity in Pre- and Post-War Britain
Deirdre Murphy

Fashions for a Woman with a Future: American Women, World War II and the Language of Uniforms
Alexandra Elias

‘Glamazons’ of Pop:  The Enigma of the Female Military-Styled Pop Star – Kate Bush and Madonna
Michael Langkjaer

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4(a): Fashioning Patriotism, Regional Prestige, and Normative Male Attire
Chair: Donna Reamy

Schwartz Rot Gold is the New Black:  The Production of Patriotism in German Fashion
Karolina Burbach

Battle Dressed? Branded Sportswear and Fashioning the ‘Hard Man.’
Jo Turney

The ‘It’ Factor: In Pursuit of the Commoditisation of Fashion
Nathaniel Dafydd Beard

Session 4(b):  Fashionscapes:  New Media and Marketing
Chair: Felicity Perry

Online and On Trend: Fashion and New Media
Gary Needham

Fashion Apps:  Creating Mobile ‘Fashionscapes’ through Smartphone Technology
Mario J. Roman

Fashion Unmarke[te]d:  C.S.R, Customer Care and Consumer Involvement
Constantin-Felix von Maltzahn

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5(a): Performance Anxiety:  Fashion Identity, the Actor, and the Audience
Chair:  Mario Roman

“Putting Himself off with his Clothes:”  Dress and the Body of the Actor
Helen Walter

Fashion: Creative Performances of Becoming. The Case of Aynouk Tan
Danielle Bruggeman

Organizing the Cosmos and Destroying Monsters
Sharon Lloyd

fego DNA Schemas: The Projection of Schematic Constructed Anxiety within Character Dress
Michael Ivy

Session 5(b): Stopping the Clock:  Museums, Archives, and Collections
Chair:  Felix Von Maltzahn

Stopping the Clock: Museums, Fashion, and the Value of Time
Julia Petrov

The Lipperheide Costume Library: An Archive of Clothing and Fashion
Susan Ingram

From Exhibition to Collection:  The ATOPOS Paper Garment Collection
Myrsini Pichou

16.00
Coffee

16.30
Session 6:  The Politics of Clothing: Fashioning Tyranny, Liberty, and Belonging
Chair:  Deidre Murphy

Fashion, the Dictator and the Designers
Maria Sargaco

Couture: Tool of Belonging?
Julie Thomas

The Textile Industry in Iran: Another View
Luca LoSicco & Shahryar Banan

Fashion in Auschwitz:  Concentration Camp Clothing during World War II – Heretofore Unknown Aspects of Personal Experiences
Sofia Pantouvaki

18.30
Sessions End

Saturday 25th September 2010
09.00
Session 7(a):  Music and Fashion:  Of Seams, Songs, and MTV
Chair:  Francesca D’Angelo

La Biaiseuse
Susie Ralph

From Detroit to Wigan: Style as Refusal
Susan Nicholson

Session 7(b): Style Economies:  Catwalks, Fashion Cities, and Coolhunting
Chair: Gary Needham

The Catwalk: An Apparatus for the World Economy
Donna W. Reamy

“Fashionalisation:” Urban Development and the New 0-Rise Fashion Weeks
Wessie Ling & Guido Ferilli

From Fashion Forecasting to Coolhunting: Previsional Models in Fashion and in Cultural Production
Marco Pedroni

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8:  Eco-Fashion:  Sustainable, Second-Hand, and Recycled Clothing
Chair: Cecilia Winterhalter

Ecology and Fashion: Development Lines and Prospects
Sabine Walter & Ines Weller

Recycling Waste Clothing Based on “Fine-Type’ Model
Xiaolei Wang & Hui Tao

Eco-Fashion and Fair Trade
Elizabeth Laskar

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9:  Extended Meanings: Stilettos, Handbags, Sportswear, and Fashion for Fido
Chair:  Wessie Ling

Standing Tall: The Stiletto Heel as Metamorphosis of the Self
Francesca D’Angelo

An Exploration of the Extended Meanings of and Emotional Attachments to Handbags among UK Women
Lisa Mann

Outdoor Recreational Outfits – New Possibilities or New Barriers?
Silje E.  Skuland and Injun Grimstad Klepp

The Dog Walk: Canine Chic, Companion Animals, and Consumer Culture
Jacque Lynn Foltyn

16.00
Coffee

16.30
Session 10(a):  Wire, Rubber, and Clinging Vines:  19th & Early 20th Century Euro-American Design
Chair:  Mike Ivy

Hoop Dreams:  The Rise and Fall of the Crinoline n Second Empire France
Leonard R. Koos

Craze and Shame:  Rubber Clothing during the 19th Century in Paris, London and New York
Manuel Charpy

Art Nouveau and the Symbolic Blurring of Women’s Spatial and Corporeal Environments:  The Paradox of Organic Inspiration in Fashion and Interiors
Angie G. Dowell & Denise Bertoncino

Session 10(b): Style Communities: Makeover Television and Street Fashion Blogs
Chair: Nathaniel Dafydd Beard

Street-Style:  Fashion Photography, Web Logs and the Urban Image
Jess Berry

On the Style Site* – Face Hunter as Node and Prism
Charlotte Bik Bandlien

18.00
Sessions End

Sunday 26th September 2010
09.00
Session 11(a):  Shopping for Identity: Asian Style
Chair:  Ericka Basile

Because We are ‘Brazilian:’ Analyzing the Trend of Adopting Brazilian-Like Fashion of Japanese-Brazilian Girls in Japan
Yumiko Yamazaki & Chiemi Yamazaki

Session 11(b):  Contemporary Avant-Garde Design
Chair: Sofia Pantouvaki

The Fashion Revolution of Japanese Designers: Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo, and Yohji Yamamoto
Flavia Loscialpo

The Materialization of Change and Continuity in the ‘Successor’s Griffe:’ A Case
Aurelie Van de Peer

10.00
Coffee

10.30
Session 12(a):  Bad Girls:  Sluts, Skanks, Mountaineers, and Veiled Ladies
Chair:  Aurelie Van de Peer

The Slut at School: Sex, Dress, and ‘Authentic’ Identity
Felicity Grace Perry

Sexism for Women: Rauch and the Representation of Postfeminist Culture in the Ads of Tom Ford
Sara Kern

“But What do I Wear?”  A Study of Women’s Climbing Attire
Claire Evans

10.30
Session 12(b): Clothing Narratives: Fashioning Transnational and Transhistorical Identities
Chair: Julie Thomas

Colour Me Drab? Colours in Dutch Regional Wear and Fashion
Maaike Feitsma

African Fashion from Dual Directions: Representing Self and Other
Victoria Rovine

Cosmopolitan Urban Scenes and Transnational Creative Practices
Lisa Wiklund

Nigerian Clothing Tradition: A Review of Used Alaari Fabrics among Ondo People of  South Western Nigeria
Sunday Ogunduyile & Evelyn Adepeko

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 13: Fools, Clowns, and Wits:  Fashion and Humour
Chair:  Susan Ingram

Fashion and Its Fools
Lorraine Warde

Humor as a Strategy in Contemporary Fashion
Orna Ben-Meir

Smartening Up the Smartly Dressed: Fashion, Femininity, and Dorothy Parker “as seen in” Vogue
Leigh Bennett

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 14: Vintage Style: Fashion Icons, Films, and Connoisseurship
Chair: Michael Langkjaer

Vintage Clothing Cultures:  The Comfort/Consumption of History in Middle Class Dress Codes
Sarah Lloyd

Vintage Paperback Meets Vintage Couture: How Tom Ford Brought Christopher Isherwood Out from Behind the Lens
Kathryn Franklin

Audrey Hepburn and Breakfast at Givenchy’s
Jayne Sheridan

17.30
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks

18.00
Conference Ends

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