Subverting Fashion - 11 July 2014, St. Mary's University

TVAD researcher Barbara Brownie will be speaking at the Subverting Fashion conference on the subject of 'The  Masculinisation of Dressing Up' on 11 July 2014, at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, London. Other speakers will include...

Fashioning Fans

Bethan Jones (Aberystwyth University) - Affect, Performance and Sacred Identity in Fannish Tattooing
Helena Louise Dare-Edwards (University of East Anglia) - Styles’ got Style: Harry Styles, Fangirls and Gender
Carla Schriever (University of Oldenburg) - Men in high heels: Performing cross-maleness in fan culture

The Art of the Costume in Film & TV

Llewella Burton (University of East Anglia) - Bond Undressed: Fashioning a Lifestyle in the James Bond Films
Yvonne Augustin (University of Zurich) - Oversized, colourful, extraordinary – the costume of the clown in movies as a subversion of fashion
Dene October (London College of Communication) - Materialising Meaning(s): Fans, Fashion and the Twelfth Doctor

Music, Gender and Fashion

Jung-Whan Marc de Jong (State University of New York) - “These men look like Barbies”: (Re)conceptualizing “Korean masculinity”, “western masculinity”, and “Asianness” in global digital K-pop fandom
Richard Mills (St Mary’s University) - Transformer: David Bowie’s Glam Re-invention, 1969-1972
Jon Hackett (St Mary’s University) - Glam Rock: Gender, Fashion and Pop-Modernism

Style Cultures/Subcultures

Enrica Picarelli (Independent Scholar) & Livia Apa (University of Naples) - La Sape: from literature to the digital screen
Shaun Cole (London College of Fashion) - Looking Queer? Gay men’s negotiations between masculinity and femininity in style and dress in the 21^st Century
Barbara Brownie (University of Hertfordshire) - The Masculinisation of Dressing Up

Tickets available online at:  http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/108890