dimanche 20 septembre 2009

Fusion Culture: Fashion beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism


University of Potsdam (Germany), November 5-7, 2009, house 8, rooms 0.60/0.61

Programme:

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Introduction: Prof. Dr. Gertrud Lehnert & Prof. Dr. Gabriele Mentges

Section I: Orientalism as Sensual Fantasy of „Other“ and “Self”

Ina McCabe (Tufts University, USA) Orientalism in France: Shaping Fashion through Resisting the Exotic

Gabriele Mentges (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany) Positions and Demarcations. The Oriental Othering in the Costume Books of the Renaissance

Nicole Pellegrin (Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, France ) Être (dés)habillé en Turc : habits de parade et vêtements d'intérieur. Pour une histoire de la robe de chambre masculine (XVIe-XIXe siècles)

Nina Trauth (Universität Trier, Germany)«As favoured by Europeans»: Oriental Clothing in Portraiture

Marianne Koos (Université de Fribourg, Germany)Artists and Garments in Transfer. The Case of the Genevan 'Peintre Turc' and 'Peintre de la vérité' Jean-Étienne Liotard

Section II: Practices of Fragmentation and Assimilation of the „Other“

Gertrud Lehnert (Universität Potsdam, Germany)Orientalism in 18th and 19th Century Fashion Journals

Daniel Devoucoux (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)Orientalisme plus occidentalisme, ou les nouvelles strategies vestimentaires dans le cinéma de Bollywood

Friday, November 6, 2009

Continuation of Section II

Simona Segre Reinach (Università IUAV di Venezia, Università IULM di Milano, Italy )From “made in China” to “made for China”

Yuniya Kawamura (State University of New York, USA)The Globalization of Japanese Lolita Fashion

Section III: Re-Orientalizing, Re-Occidentalizing: Cross Cultural Consumption, Cultural Self-Reflexion, Return of the Local

1. Transcultural Concepts of Fashion

Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)Fashion and the Four Parts of the World: Historical Interpretations of Fashion as Concept and Practice in the Early Modern Period

Dorothy Ko (Columbia University, USA)Fashion in the Orient: Toward a Definition of Non-Western Fashion

Pravina Shukla (Indiana University, USA)The System of Fashion in the East – Dress in Modern India

2. Transculture, Fusion Culture

Lise Skov (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)How Orientalism/Occidentalism in Fashion Design is Produced, Discovered and Valued across Cultures

Heike Jenß (Parsons The New School for Design, USA)Hybrid Wardrobes: Fashioning Trans-Cultural Identities

Mona Abaza (The American University in Cairo, Egypt)Ethnic Chic, Islamic Fashion and the Globalisation of Fashion in Egypt Reception and Performance of Oriental Dance

Saturday, November 7, 2009

3. Re-Orientalizing

Maxine Berg (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)Trading Asian Export Ware 1650-1800

Reina Lewis (University of East London, United Kingdom)Mixing and Matching: Fashion and the Politics of Cultural Exchange

Emma Tarlo (Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom)Dis-Orienting Fashion: Islamic Fashion Trends in the West

Oly Firsching-Tovar (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)Reviving Kimono: Fashion as Memory at the Turn of the Century

Organisation: Prof. Dr. Gertrud Lehnert (Universität Potsdam)Tel.: +49 (0)331-977-4180E-Mail: glehnert@uni-potsdam.de

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Mentges (Technische Universität Dortmund)Tel.: +49 (0)231-755-2960 E-Mail: gabriele.mentges@tu-dortmund.de