[ecrea] CFP - Fashion in Fiction: Style Stories and Transglobal Narratives June 12-14, 2014

Call For Papers: Fashion in Fiction: Style Stories and Transglobal 
Narratives, June 12-14, 2014

Department of English, City University of Hong Kong,
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong


Fashion travels on a never-ending journey from one century to another, 
across country and culture and from one generation to the next. Moving 
from sweatshop to wardrobe; season to season, page to screen, newspaper 
to website, camera to blog, catwalk to high street, producer to 
consumer, writer to reader, artist to audience, and across the lifetime 
of a individual’s wardrobe. The narrative representations of fashion 
across time and cultures have also included a wide range of fiction and 
non-fiction and verbal and non-verbal forms of media from print to 
digital formats. The study and practice of fashion is located across 
space and place as a form of creative expression and as a subject for 
academic analysis Fashion is a universal theme for novelists; poets, 
playwrights, directors, writers, creators, designers, merchants, 
advertisers, bloggers and flaneurs who are drawn to the power of 
appearances.

This conference will focus on the material and non-material forms of 
fashion for a range of professional, commercial, historical, social, 
cultural and creative purposes. The conference will be international and 
cross-cultural in order to highlight the largely transglobal, 
transcultural multiple flows of fashion discourse and to broaden the 
analysis of fashion beyond a purely traditional Western frame of analysis.

Papers may include the way that fashion has been used as a mediated form 
of content for advertising and branding campaigns or as a subject for 
fashion documentaries across the 20th century. It can also be analyzed 
from the perspective of fashion as a literary and filmic device or trope 
for character development and authentic social scene setting in novels, 
films, videos, photographs and art. Equally, these fashion narratives 
can encompass the professional expressions of fashion from design to 
journalistic commentary on the fashion industry in editorials and blogs. 
Participants are also encouraged to define their own ideas of 
transcultural narratives and cross-cultural flows.

Papers fitting the conference theme are sought from those engaged in the 
cross disciplinary fields of fashion studies, social sciences, 
humanities, anthropology, history, cultural studies, visual studies, 
creative writing, professional writing, communication, media studies, 
media production, cultural studies, language studies, design, 
architecture, art, curatorial studies, philosophy, management and business.






Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Fashion and/in novels, plays, diaries, short stories
• Fashion and/in films and television programs
• Fashion as/in art
• Fashion in/as documentaries
• Fashion in/as film
• Fashion as/in poetry
• Fashion journalism
• Fashion and social media
• Fashion events and shows
• Fashion archives
• Fashion illustration
• Fashion and/in marketing communication
• Fashion advertising
• Fashion brands and branding
• Fashion merchandising
• Fashion promotion
• Fashion writing
• Fashion discourse
• Fashion communication
• Fashion as/in videos and viral media
• Fashion photography
• Fashion and performance
• Fashion and the consumer
• Fashion and the body
• Fashion style trend
• Fashion travel
• Fashion and popular culture
• Fashion and cultural hybridity
• Fashion and politics
• Fashion and trade
• Fashion and economy
• Fashion and gender

All submissions for this conference will be blind peer-reviewed. Those 
selected will be published in conference proceedings. Participants 
interested in submitting for this conference should do the following:

In an email submit to Anne Peirson-Smith at: (english.event /at/ cityu.edu.hk) 
in a Single Folder With Your Name As Folder Name.

1. Submit a 500 word abstract (including citations) and 100-word 
biography in a single Word file labeled (your LASTNAME_File One) your 
last name underscore File One.
2. Submit an abstract without your name or biography labeled simply 
(File Two).

Please use your professional emails not any email that use nick-names or 
that are not associated to your professional affiliations. You will also 
need to include all your professional contact information in your email 
as well.

Abstract Deadline: February 1, 2014. Everyone will be notified of 
acceptance by February 14, 2014.

Please visit http://fashioninfiction2014.com/ for more details of the 
conference.

Two Publication Formats For Conference Papers

Participants will have the opportunity to submit their papers for 
publication in either of the following formats:

a.     Book Chapter
Those who would like to submit their papers for book publication can 
submit them to the conference organizers for possible inclusion in the 
book, Fashion in Popular Culture II.

b.     Journal Article
Those interested in having their papers published as a journal articles 
can submit them to the official journal of the conference Fashion, Style 
and Popular Culture:
(http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=221/).







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