Fashion Week Schedule

New York Fashion Week february 10th-17th

London Fashion Week: february 18th-23th

Milan Fashion Week: february 23th-march 1st

Paris Fashion Week: march 1st-9th

Fashionable Queens: Power -Gender

Dieses zweitägige Symposium, von dem Institut für Soziologie und Englisch und Amerikanistik organisiert sollte auf keinen Fall von Fashion Liebhabern verpasst werden. Und bei dieser großen Auswahl an Vorträgen ist sicher etwas für jeden dabei! See u there!

December 3rd and 4th 2010

@ Unterrichtsraum UR
Department Of English and American Studies
Campus der Universität Wien, Hof 8
Spitalgasse 2-4, 1090 Vienna

Program

Friday, December 3rd 2010

09:30–10:00
Conference Opening

10:30–12:30 
Dressing the First Ladies: The 1960s to the Present
Stella Bruzzi (University of Warwick)

Let them Go Shopping: Marie Antoinette on Screen
Pamela Church-Gibson (London College of Fashion)

12:30–14:00
Lunch

14:00–16:00
Lucile: Capricious in Couture
Amy de la Haye (London College of Fashion)

The Queen Stripped Bare: Luise of Prussia, Nudity Fashion and Political Iconography
Katharina Sykora (HBK Braunschweig)

16:30–18:30
Wearing Prada in the Renaissance: Queen Elizabeth I. and her Fashionable Portraits
Elisabeth Bronfen (Universität Zürich) and Barbara Straumann (Universität Zürich)

What Garbo did not do: Gender, Intellect, Power in the Body and Representations of Queen Christina of Sweden
Griselda Pollock (Universität Leeds)

Saturday, December 4th 2010

10:00–12:00
Majesty/Alchemy/Anarchy: Fashionable and Unfashionable Queens in Derek Jarman’s Jubilee (1978)
Claire Monk (DeMontfort University Leicester)

Queens of the Catwalk: Fashion Models in the Modernist Period
Caroline Evans (Central Saint Martins London)

12:00–13:00
Lunch

13:30–15:30
The Queen’s and King’s new Clothes: How Bloggers turned the Fashion World upside down
Stephan Hilpold (Der Standard, Wien)

Dressed to kill: Cinematic Marie Antoinette
Barbara Vinken (Universität München)

15:30–16:00
Coffee

16:00–18:00
Costumes of Power: Female Politicians walking the Tightrope
Eva Flicker (Universität Wien)

The Reign of “Effortless Chic” – On Authenticity and Naturalness in Street Style Blogs
Monica Titton (Universität Wien)

19:00
Heuriger (visit to Austrian wine tavern)