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From ArtHist.net and the Design History Society:

Textiles and Masculinities
Online, Design History Society, 15 June 2024

Proposals due by 11 April 2024

Banyan, British, ca. 1780, silk (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978.135.1).

The complex and evolving relationships between masculinities and textiles have been underrepresented in histories of design to date. This picture contrasts with the cultural and social importance textiles have in maintaining, contesting, and performing masculinities. This online symposium will share international research on historical and contemporary textiles in global contexts. We invite researchers at any level who investigate some aspect of masculinities and textiles to submit an abstract.

Themes include but are not limited to:
• Fashion textiles and masculinities
• Maintaining, performing, or contesting masculinities through textiles
• Queer, non-binary, and fluid gender identities and textiles
• Masculinities, textiles, and interior design
• Decolonising textiles and masculinities
• Textiles for menswear in fashion for all
• Design, production, and consumption of textiles and masculinities

Due to the language limits of the organisers, the symposium will take place in English. We acknowledge that information/knowledge can be disseminated in different ways, and so we are open to different presentation styles and formats. To be considered for a 15-minute presentation, please submit a 300-word abstract and a 50- to 100-word biography to the DHS Senior Administrator Jenna Allsopp at designhistorysociety@gmail.com by 11 April 2024. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of the submission within two weeks of the closing deadline. Please contact Dr Fiona Anderson (Glasgow School of Art) at f.anderson@gsa.ac.uk with any questions.