[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Fashioning Fiction (UK) (4/21/06; 5/27/06-5/28/06)

[Nazan Haydari]

UPDATED INFORMATION: 

Please note that DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS HAS BEEN
EXTENDED UNTIL 21ST
APRIL 2006.

The organisers of the following conference are
delighted to inform
prospective attendees that a publisher has expressed
an interest in
releasing a collection of edited essays or proceedings
from the
Fashioning Fiction conference. We also have organised
a celidh in The
Queen's Hotel: http://www.queenshotelscotland.com/ .
For further
information visit www.fashioningfiction.stir.ac.uk .

Fashioning Fiction (grad): University of Stirling (UK)
Abstract Deadline: 03/10/06
Conference Dates: 05/27/06 - 05/28/06
'What a strange power there is in clothing' - Isaac
Bashevis Singer
Clothes serve more than a practical purpose; they
communicate identity.
Our choice of clothing aligns us with cultural,
religious and national
groups. Clothing enables us to perform gender, conceal
and transform 
the
body, whilst facilitating our self-fashioning. From
the monk to the
punk, clothes, and the way we wear them, provide us
with a sense of
belonging and a feeling of individuality. The
conference invites
proposals for papers lasting no longer than twenty
minutes from
post-graduate students from all area of the Arts and
Humanities. Papers
should focus on the representation of clothing and the
adornment of the
body. Possible topics are listed below, although
papers are free to
interpret the conference theme in any way they see
fit. Disguise and
Concealment 
Masks and Veils
Religious Dress and Ceremonial Clothing
Transformation and Self-Fashioning 
Fetish Clothing, Corsetry and the Physical
Manipulation through 
Clothing
Tattoos and Body Piercing Plastic Surgery and
Prosthetics National 
Dress
Uniforms and Work Clothing Costume in Performance
Studies 
Cross-Dressing
and Gender Constructions Nudity and Eroticism The
deadline for 
abstracts
is the 10th of March 2006, and we would ask that the
abstract is
approximately 250-300 words, and is sent by email to
Amy Palko, Kerstin
Pfeiffer, and Elizabeth Andrews at
fashioningfiction at stir.ac.uk 
We can confirm that our plenary speakers are Dr
Catherine Spooner from
the University of Lancaster who has published
_Fashioning Gothic 
Bodies_
for Manchester University Press, and Dr David Murphy
from the 
University
of Stirling, who has published widely on African -
particularly
Senegalese - culture, and on the relationship between
Francophone and
Postcolonial Studies. More information on both plenary
speakers, the
conference, and Stirling, can be found at
www.fashioningfiction.stir.ac.uk

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