[ecrea] CFP: Fashion, Costume & Visual Cultures conference

CALL FOR PAPERS
Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures Conference (#FCVC2018)

University of Zagreb, Croatia

17-19 July 2018

Keynote Speakers

Pamela Church Gibson - London College of Fashion.

Joseph H Hancock II - Drexel University, USA.

Vicki Karaminas - Massey University, New Zealand.

Stella Bruzzi - University College London.

CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE: 23 February 2018

Individual academic paper, panel contributions, round table discussion 
and Pecha Kucha presentation proposals are invited for the inaugural 
Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures conference to be held at the 
University of Zagreb, Croatia, 17 – 19 July 2018.

Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures is an international, 
interdisciplinary conference which aims to bring together established 
and emerging academics and practitioners in order to explore key issues, 
theoretical debates, new methodologies and case studies exploring 
fashion and costume design and their distinct, yet simultaneously 
symbiotic relationship within contemporary visual cultures.

Panel strands include, but are not limited to:

Film, fashion and consumption
Costume on screen (film, TV, new media)
Fashion, style and popular culture
Fashion and star-celebrity culture
Fashion cities and street style
Fashion branding, promotion and advertising
Established and emerging fashion designers
Costume designers and makers
Costume and performance
Skin as costume
Costume and identities
Digital fashion films
Fashion & photography: advertising, editorial and fine art.
Fashion on and beyond the catwalk
Fashion and costume in the museum
The blockbuster exhibition
Fashion and art
Fashion in painting, illustration and graphic design
Fan cultures & pilgrimages
Cosplay
Subcultures
Queer fashion
Fashion and performance art

Throughout the conference there will be visits to arts and cultural 
venues, together with opportunities for networking and publishing. 
Presenters at Fashion and Costume in Visual Cultures will be encouraged 
to develop their papers for publication in a number of Intellect 
journals, including Film, Fashion and Consumption, and Fashion, Style 
and Popular Culture.  Journal editors will be working closely with 
strand convenors and a full list of Intellect journals is available at: 
http://www.intellectbooks.com
Submissions for all strands will be subject to peer review. Proposals 
for individual presentations must not exceed 20 minutes in length, and 
those for panels limited to 90 minutes. Round table discussions, video 
projections, Pecha Kucha and poster presentations are welcomed in 
addition to formal academic papers.

Proposals comprising a 250-word abstract, your full name, affiliation, 
and contact details (as a Word .doc attachment) should be submitted to 
Sarah Gilligan (Hartlepool College, UK), Petra Krpan and Nina Katarina 
Simončič (University of Zagreb, Croatia) at: (fashionandcostume /at/ outlook.com).
Please note, the conference will be held in English.

Receipt of proposals will be acknowledged via e-mail.

Closing date for abstracts: 23rd February 2018

Please note: the conference has been arranged in co-operation with the 
European Popular Culture Association, so that delegates travelling long 
haul can also consider presenting papers at EUPOP 2018 in Prague (24-26 
July 2018).


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