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This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore ways of reconstructing the social practices of the past through investigations of the cultural significance of clothing. Papers have been offered from a range of disciplines and perspectives, and we have been able to put together a varied and interesting programme:
Friday 30th November 2001
- Production, Consumption, and Process
- Andrew Butcher (Kent), 'Clothing Canterbury, 1350-1540'
- Susan Mee (Surrey), 'Clothing the People of Kent & Suffolk, c.1575-1610'
- Kirstie Buckland (Independent Scholar), 'The Mystery of Capping'
- Joanna Crawford (Sydney), 'Clothing Distributions & Social Relations’, c.1350-1500
Saturday 1st December 2001
- Status and Identity
- Maria Hayward (Southampton), 'Fashion, Finance, Foreign Politics & the Wardrobe of Henry VIII'
- Oxsana Sekatcheva (Moscow Textile Academy), ‘Russian Historic Costume Before Peter The Great Reforms’
- Francoise Tétart-Vittu (Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris), 'Costumes of the Musée Galliera'
- Malcolm Walsby (Kent), 'Clothes, Power and Status in Renaissance France'
- Elizabeth Wincott Heckett (Cork), 'Tomb Effigies and Archaic Dress in 16th century Ireland'
- Display, Morality, & Fashion
- Ulrike Ilg (Florence), 'The Cultural Significance of Costume Books in 16th Century Europe'
- Cordelia Warr (Queens Belfast), 'Clothing for the Afterlife'
- Joy Gibson (Stratford), 'Dressing the Supernatural on the Elizabethan Stage'
- Sheila Sweetinburgh (Kent), Clothing the naked in late medieval east Kent'
- Tessa Storey (London), 'Clothing Courtesans: Fabrics, Signals, and Experiences'
- Tobias Capwell (Leeds), ‘Style, symbolism and sentiment in fifteenth century military effigies’
- Claire Bartram (UKC), 'Social Fabric in Thynne's Debate Between Pride and Lowliness'
- David Goldfarb (Columbia, USA), ‘The Foppish Pole in the Renaissance and Beyond’
- Helen Smith (York), 'The Clothing of the 17th Century Book'
- Roze Hentschell (Paterson, USA), 'Foreign Textiles and the National Imaginary'
- Anne Saunders (Costume Society), ‘“A cloke not made so orderly”: the Merchant Taylors’ Company and the mis-making of clothes’
Sunday 2nd December 2001
- Discourse, Body, and Gender
- Elizabeth Hallam (Aberdeen), 'Undressing the Body'
- Elisabeth Salter (Kent), 'Reworked Material: Discourses of Clothing Culture in early 16th Century Greenwich'
- Will Fisher (CUNY, USA), 'Codpieces and Masculinity in Early Modern England'
- Andrea Denny-Brown (Columbia, USA), 'Rips and Slits: the Torn Garment & the Medieval Self'
- Loreen Giese (Ohio, USA), 'Exposing Illicit Sexuality in Early Modern London'
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