THE URBAN CATWALK: FASHION AND STREET CULTURE
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
9:00am until
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Contact: madison moore (madison.moore@yale.edu)
Madison Moore (Yale), Conference Chair
Alex Tudela (Columbia), Conference Co-Chair
Point your browser to www.theurbancatwalk.com for up to the minute conference details.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY CAROLINE WEBER
What is street style, and what is the relationship between style, “the street,” and popular culture? How have the Internet, digital cameras and other technologies impacted how we understand the way we dress? Why do so many care about the way other people dress? In what ways does street style engage with broader issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality?
The Urban Catwalk: Fashion and Street Culture, a one-day symposium at Yale University, aims to investigate and discuss the relationships between street style and identity. We are interested in papers that approach street style from a contemporary lens, but also encourage papers with more of an historical perspective.
We are committed to a conference that blends the intellectual with an ear to the ground. In this way, we will hold a panel discussion with major editors and fashion designers about how they understand the intellectual work street style does. The panel discussion will focus on the editors’ real world expertise, but also on audience participation. Ideally, the conference will be attended by the Yale community as well as by people from the broader New Haven area. We close conference with a special street style fashion show at Artspace Gallery in Downtown New Haven, where real-people models will show us their street style.
These 20-minute presentations can treat any aspect of street fashion, including:
- Street style and Contemporary art
- (Black) Dandies
- Style blogs and the Internet
- Urban versus suburban style
- Hipsters and neo-bohemia
- Goth, punk, and skate culture
- Street style and hip hop culture
- Fashion magazines and the street
- Male androgyny; men in high heels
- Street style in media
- How to figure out a style persona; rules and boundaries
- Lady Gaga, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and other pop icons
- Japanese street fashion
- Street style in literature
- LGBTQ identity and street style
- Models
- Street style in the 19 th century
- Fashion designers
- Ready-to-wear
- Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, and trend spotters
- Vogueing, ball culture
- Sex and the City and street style
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to madison.moore@yale.edu by Friday, November 26th.
Selected papers may be considered for an edited volume.
best,
madison moore
__________________________
madison moore, ph.d. candidate
yale university
american studies program
new haven, ct
cell: 212.748.9905
email: madison.moore@yale.edu
web:www.mynameismadisonmoore.com
Monday, August 30, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
URBAN POP CULTURES
1st Global Conference
URBAN POP CULTURES
Tuesday 8th March - Thursday 10th March 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues related to urban life. The project will promote the ongoing analysis of the varied creative trends and alternative cultural movements that comprise urban popultures and subcultures. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural and political contexts within which alternative urban subcultures are flourishing.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:
1. Urban Space and the Landscape of the City
Urban Aesthetics and Architecture, Creative Re-imagining and Revitalization of the City. The Metropolis and Inner City Life: Urban Boredom vs. Creativity.
2. Urban Music Cultures
Histories, Representations, Discourses and Independent Scenes. Popular Music Theory. The Visual Turn. Urban Intertextualities and Intermedialities. Postmodernity and Beyond.
3. The City as Creative Subject/Object
Urban Life and Themes Considered in Music, Literature, Art and Film, Urban Fashion, Style, and Branding.
4. Urban Codes
Urban Popular Culture and Ideology, Politics of Popcultures, D.I.Y, Alternative Ethics of the City. Urban Religion and Religious Expressions. The Avantgarde and Urban Codes.
5. The City and Cyberculture
Virtual Urbanity - Online Communities and the Impact of Social Networking. Urban Identity and Membership. Globalization/Localization of Urban Experience. Recent trends in Copyright/Copyleft. The Role of Internet in the Transformation of Music Industry. The Impact of User-generated Content.
6. The Urban Underground
The Rise and Fall of the Experimental Subcultures, Scenes and Styles. Alternative and Underground Dance, Hip Hop, and Punk Scenes. Queer Theory and Urban Cultures. Gendered Music and Fashion. Free Urban Exploration and Libertine Lifestyles.
7. Urban Activities in Massmedia
The Visual Aspects of Urban Entertainment. The Evolution of Music and Thematic Television. Media Structure of Music Video. Explicit TV and Censorship. Urban Styles and Extreme Sports.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st October 2010. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 4th February 2011. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Jordan Copeland
La Salle University,
Philadelphia, USA
Daniel Riha
Hub Leader (Cyber), Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
The conference is part of the 'Critical Issues' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s) or for inclusion in a new Cyber journal (launching 2011).
Style Sheets
In preparing your papers, please pay strict attention to the following style sheets
a.. Download Oxford Style Sheet - v7 (pdf)
b.. Download Oxford Reference Style Sheet 2 (pdf)
c.. Download Template document (Word)
URBAN POP CULTURES
Tuesday 8th March - Thursday 10th March 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues related to urban life. The project will promote the ongoing analysis of the varied creative trends and alternative cultural movements that comprise urban popultures and subcultures. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural and political contexts within which alternative urban subcultures are flourishing.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:
1. Urban Space and the Landscape of the City
Urban Aesthetics and Architecture, Creative Re-imagining and Revitalization of the City. The Metropolis and Inner City Life: Urban Boredom vs. Creativity.
2. Urban Music Cultures
Histories, Representations, Discourses and Independent Scenes. Popular Music Theory. The Visual Turn. Urban Intertextualities and Intermedialities. Postmodernity and Beyond.
3. The City as Creative Subject/Object
Urban Life and Themes Considered in Music, Literature, Art and Film, Urban Fashion, Style, and Branding.
4. Urban Codes
Urban Popular Culture and Ideology, Politics of Popcultures, D.I.Y, Alternative Ethics of the City. Urban Religion and Religious Expressions. The Avantgarde and Urban Codes.
5. The City and Cyberculture
Virtual Urbanity - Online Communities and the Impact of Social Networking. Urban Identity and Membership. Globalization/Localization of Urban Experience. Recent trends in Copyright/Copyleft. The Role of Internet in the Transformation of Music Industry. The Impact of User-generated Content.
6. The Urban Underground
The Rise and Fall of the Experimental Subcultures, Scenes and Styles. Alternative and Underground Dance, Hip Hop, and Punk Scenes. Queer Theory and Urban Cultures. Gendered Music and Fashion. Free Urban Exploration and Libertine Lifestyles.
7. Urban Activities in Massmedia
The Visual Aspects of Urban Entertainment. The Evolution of Music and Thematic Television. Media Structure of Music Video. Explicit TV and Censorship. Urban Styles and Extreme Sports.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st October 2010. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 4th February 2011. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Jordan Copeland
La Salle University,
Philadelphia, USA
Daniel Riha
Hub Leader (Cyber), Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
The conference is part of the 'Critical Issues' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s) or for inclusion in a new Cyber journal (launching 2011).
Style Sheets
In preparing your papers, please pay strict attention to the following style sheets
a.. Download Oxford Style Sheet - v7 (pdf)
b.. Download Oxford Reference Style Sheet 2 (pdf)
c.. Download Template document (Word)
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