Fashion: 84th Anglo-American Conference of Historians

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Date / time: 2 July - 3 July, All day

Location
University of London Senate House


Fashion: 84th Anglo-American Conference of Historians

In a major collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Institute of Historical Research is taking Fashion as the theme for its annual conference. Fashion in history is a topic which has come of age in recent years, as scholars have turned to addressing what is chic and what is style over the ages and across different cultures. The history of fashion, and the role of fashion in history, is not just confined to the study of dress and costume, but encompasses design and innovation, taste and zeitgeist, treats as its subjects both people and objects, and crosses over into related disciplines such as the history of art and architecture, consumption, retailing and technology.

Across the world, fashion brings together museums, graduate teaching programmes, learned societies and the fashion profession around a common set of interests and concerns. The IHR conference this year, we hope will be a perfect showcase and a meeting-point for the wide spectrum of specialists in this exciting field.

Our plenary lecturers include Chris Breward (University of Edinburgh), Beverly Lemire (University of Alberta), Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge University) & Maria Hayward (University of Southampton), Valerie Steele (The Museum, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York) and Lucy Worsley (Historic Royal Palaces). The conference will include a publishers’ book fair, 32 panel sessions, exhibition tours in Senate House Library and half a day at the Victoria and Albert Museum (including exhibition tours and plenary lectures).

For programme and registration details, visit the conference website

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