ADH Conferences & Events

The Association of Dress Historians (ADH) Winter Seminar Series 2022-2023
Join us on the first Friday of each month from November 2022 to March 2023 for a presentation and discussion. Attendance is free to ADH Members and you will receive a sign-up notice in our monthly Thoughts and Threads email.

If you are not a Member and are curious to hear an individual session, tickets are £10 including fees and available on ADH Eventbrite. Your contribution helps to support our online platforms and events.

Seminar Series line up:

Friday 4 November 2022, past
Luis Estévez: Fashion, Elegance, and Exoticisation.
With Joshua Simon, Western Michigan University

Friday 2 December 2022, past
Tiny Needleworked Treasures of 17th-Century Schoolgirls
With Isabella Rosner and Sew What? podcast

Friday 13 January 2023, 18:00-19:00 GMT

Queering Masculinities: Dress, Gender, and the Body in the Antwerp Fashion Scene

With Nicola Brajato, University of Antwerp

Presenter biography: Nicola Brajato is a PhD candidate in fashion and gender studies at the University of Antwerp funded by the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO). His current research aims to investigate the impact of Antwerp fashion in critically questioning the idea of masculinity, the male body and menswear. 

Previously, he was research scholar in the fashion studies department of the University of Bologna with a project on fashion archives aimed to the realisation of an exhibition on the relationship between club culture and fashion. As part of the research project, Nicola curated the site specific art work “Fashion in Paradise: Rimini and the Golden Age of Discoteca Paradiso”. Nicola has published articles on the relationship between fashion, identity, and the body in different journals, including Fashion Theory, Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, and NORMA: The International Journal for Masculinity Studies, and he has collaborated with different fashion institutions including La Cambre (Brussels), Modeklasse (Vienna), and Parsons Paris. Nicola is currently guest-editing a special issue on fashion and gender of the academic journal ZoneModa Journal.

Friday 3 February 2023, 18:00-19:00 GMT
Rags and respectability: attitudes toward textile waste in the nineteenth century

With Philip Sykas, Manchester Metropolitan University

Presenter biography: Dr Philip Sykas is known for his study of printed textiles through the evidence of manufacturers’ pattern books. He recently published three volumes of historical resources with Routledge under the series title Pathways in the Nineteenth Century British Textile Industry, exploring themes from the nineteenth century that have current resonance. One of these is waste textiles.

Friday 3 March 2023, 18:00-19:00 GMT  
Sarah Goldsmith, University of Edinburgh, and Gill MacGregor, Textile Conservator

Details to be confirmed