Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick

Thursday 30 April 2009 

This RDF-funded meeting organized by Stella Bruzzi (Film Studies) and Giorgio Riello (History) is designed to discuss the methodologies and research agendas of the growing area of Fashion Studies and possible future opportunities for collaboration.

Over the last decade Fashion Studies has emerged as an interdisciplinary field of research. It integrates history, film and theatre studies, cultural studies, business studies, curatorship, and sociology and other disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. Notwithstanding its interdisciplinarity, the study of fashion as an academic subject remains weak, particularly in universities.

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Programme 

 

11.00-11.30  Arrival – Tea and coffee 

 

11.30-13.00. Session 1. Fashion Studies: Europe, North America and Australia. Chair: Stephen Gundle (Warwick)

Elizabeth Wilson, The Evolution of Fashion Studies

Eugenia Paulicelli, Fashion Studies: A North American View

Louise Wallenberg, Fashion Studies: A Scandinavian Perspective

Simona Segre Reinach, Fashion Studies: Fatto in Italia

Peter McNeil, Fashion Studies: An Australian Tale

 

13.00-14.00  Lunch

 

14.00-15.30    Session 2. Fashion Studies: Methodologies and Disciplines. Chair: Alison Clarke (University of Applied Arts, Vienna)

Christopher Breward, Fashion in the Museum

Rebecca Arnold, The Teaching of Fashion Studies

Caroline Evans, Fashion and Research

Stella Bruzzi, Fashion and Film: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Giorgio Riello, Fashion in the University

 

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

 

16.00-16.30 Session 3. Fashion Studies: Collaborations and Developments. Chair: Stella Bruzzi, Giorgio Riello (Warwick) and G. L. Fontana (Padova)

Evelyn Welch, The Early Modern Dress and Textiles Network   

Alistair O’Neill and Shaun Cole, 'Interpreting Fashion and Modernity': A Project

 

16.30-17.30 Final Discussion

 

17.30-18.30    Drinks at Arden Conference Centre followed by dinner

 

Participants 

Rebecca Arnold (Royal College of Art)

Christopher Breward (Victorian & Albert Museum)

Stella Bruzzi (University of Warwick)

Alison Clarke (University of Applied Arts, Vienna)

Shaun Cole (FBMC)

Giovanni Luigi Fontana (University of Padova)

Caroline Evans (University of the Arts London)

Stephen Gundle (University of Warwick)

Peter McNeil (University of Stockholm and UTS, Sydney)

Rachel Moseley (University of Warwick)

Alistair O’Neill (University of the Arts London)

Eugenia Paulicelli (Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick)

Simona Segre Reinach (IUAV Venice and IULM Milan)

Louise Wallenberg (University of Stockholm)

Evelyn Welch (Queen Mary College, London and AHRC)

Elizabeth Wilson (University of the Arts London)