Call for Papers: Rags and Riches – Dress and Accessories in Social Context
January 6, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Conference date: 21st April 2012. Call for Papers Deadline: 17th February 2012
This one day conference at the University of Reading aims to bring together archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and others from related disciplines with an interest in the social analysis of dress to discuss current issues of methodology, theory and interpretation. The conference will address the subject holistically: from the production and exchange of textiles and dress accessories to their use and eventual deposition in archaeological contexts, or even their accession in museums. Ideas of identity, materiality, production, and transmission now shape our interpretations of dress accessories and we aim to provide a forum for their discussion.
Abstracts of less than 300 words for 20 minute papers are welcomed from researchers at any stage in their career, studying periods from the Palaeolithic to the present day and addressing subjects relevant to the following themes:
- The construction and display of identity, such as gender, age, and ethnicity
- The facilitation, resistance and articulation of cultural change
- Production and its significance to the meaning of clothing
- Consumption, conspicuous display, and hegemony
- Cross cultural interactions, colonialism and acculturation
- Biographical approaches to objects and people
- Bodies and sexuality
- Ritual and performance
Please send abstracts to Rosie Weetch and Toby Martin along with your name, affiliation and email address to: ragsandrichesconference@gmail.com
