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