The Association of Dress Historians supports and promotes the study and professional practice of the history of dress, textiles, and accessories of all cultures and regions of the world, from before classical antiquity to the present day.
ADH Call For Papers & Submissions
Call for papers: New Research in Dress History Conference 2023
The call for papers is open for our Spring 2023 New Research in Dress History Conference. The conference will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and online via Zoom.
The New Research in Dress History conference welcomes submissions from researchers new to the field of dress history and currently undertaking studies. We are particularly interested in hearing about new perspectives and new discoveries on themes covering dress, adornment, and its materials, from diverse worldviews and addressing global histories. We encourage submissions from candidates with educational, personal, and cultural backgrounds who may consider themselves outside of established academia. The New Research conference offers a welcoming and supportive environment to anyone new to presenting in a scholarly discussion forum.
To be considered for a 15 minute presentation, please submit:
- A 150 word abstract describing what you will present
- A 50 word biography about yourself
- An image of yourself or representing your subject, to be published online in the conference programme (this can be embedded or as a separate attachment)
to NewResearch@dresshistorians.org by 00:00 GMT, Monday 16 January 2023.
Presenters will be expected to be members of the ADH at the time of their presentation and purchase conference attendance.
Abstracts will be selected by a panel consisting of ADH committee members and an invited expert in the field of dress history. Candidates will be informed of the panel’s decision within approximately four weeks of the submission deadline.
Call for papers: “Ad-Dressing Margins”: Historically Underrepresented Fashion & Style
An ADH International Hybrid and In-Person Conference & Workshop
Philadelphia, PA, USA, Drexel University 26-28 October 2023
For this conference, we seek to center work focusing on historically marginalised communities, fashion, style, and dress in historic and modern contexts. Our intention is to show the myriad ways marginalised communities engage with the fashion system such as in everyday contexts and/or means of resistance. We are seeking scholarship that centers marginalised identities and those who have often been marked as “other” or outsiders.
Fashion and style are broadly defined, and we invite contributions from any discipline and methodological approach. We encourage submissions that use a critical lens (e.g. Black feminist thought; feminist theory; critical race theory; crip theory; postcolonial and decolonial theory) and that consider the numerous intersections of power and oppression at work in race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and nationality.
We welcome submissions for a 15-20 minute research presentation. We also encourage submission of interviews, creative works, and curated exhibitions in digital or physically mounted formats.
We encourage submissions that investigate, but are not limited to, any of the following in relation to fashion, style, and dress:
- Indigenous nations and communities
- LatinX and Asian communities
- Fat bodies and “straight” sizing
- Corporate Pride and LGBTQ+ anticapitalist critique
- Trans and gender non-conforming identities
- Disability studies
- Religion, dress, and identity
- Black resistance movements (e.g. Black Lives Matter), collective action, prison abolition, and racial profiling
- Trans and gender-non-conforming fashion entrepreneurship
- Decolonising fashion and Indigenous fashion designers
- Representation of trans identities in the media
- Critiques of mainstream brands (e.g. Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren, Uniqlo, Gap, etc.)
- Modest wear for Muslim women
To submit your proposal, include a 150-word synopsis, a 50-word biography of the presenter(s) and an image with caption to represent either presenters or subject, which you are happy to be published in our online programme and social media channels.
Submissions to: dressingmargins@dresshistorians.org and cc Dr. Joseph H. Hancock, II by 23:59 EST 1 August 2023.
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