Call for Papers

The call for papers has now closed. We are not able to accept late papers as the program has been finalised.

Online Conference registration and payment is now available. Payments for the conference can now be processed by clicking on the registration page.

Overview

Fashion and dress are key ways in which any culture puts on an appearance - both for the benefit of its own members and for those beyond its boundaries. 'Making an Appearance' is a conference that opens up, for the first time in an Australian university setting, the subject of fashion for public debate and discussion. The event has three main purposes. Firstly to bring together academics in the fields of fashion, dress and consumption studies, as well as cultural theorists, historians and sociologists, to examine and critique its many meanings and implications, and to discuss the current state of the discipline. Secondly, Australia's fashion industry is at an interesting point in respect of its growth and place within global markets. This has important implications for the study of dress. So the further expectation is that academics have the special opportunity to meet with industry practitioners and fashion professionals, thereby finding areas of common interest and points of intersection. The third purpose is to place a focus on fashion today. This means we wish to place some emphasis on the ways in which the cultures of youth, product branding, sport, the new technologies, customisation and subcultural style now drive fashion and its changes.

Papers

We welcome papers that address issues outlined above. But we are especially interested in attracting as wide a range of topics, dealing with fashion and dress, as possible. This will allow us to spread out debate across all facets and aspects of contemporary fashion, dress and consumption. We are also happy to consider offers to organise panels of papers around a single topic. We hope to place some emphasis on:

Fashion, gender and urban life
Youth, branding and fashion
Body adornment, hairstyles and cosmetics
Cinema and stage dress
Dress and religion
Fashion and the culture industry
Fashion and sport
Cutting edge fashion and new technologies
Fashion and aesthetics
The fashion industry - representation and journalism

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Submission Details for Abstracts

Deadline: 30 November 2002 - two hundred words - NOW CLOSED - please contact Dr. Margaret Maynard. If you decide to forward an abstract for late consideration, please see below for more details on the correct proceedure for submission.

Due to new privacy legislation, we must ask you to agree to our privacy policy prior to supplying any personal information to the University. Full details about the privacy policy are available online.

If you are co-presenting a paper with another presenter and you will both be attending the conference, you will need to submit each presenter's details on a separate form, and submit the title of the paper and abstract again as well, so we can cross reference your papers in the eventual conference abstracts. In this way all presenters will be registered on the program.

If you are presenting a paper that has been co-authored but the co-author is unable to attend the conference please simply note the co-author's name in the space provided.

Please scroll down for information for submission via email or other formats.

Various possibilities for publication are being explored. To be considered for publication, papers need to be expandable to essay length of no more than 5000 words. It is hoped that several different publishing outcomes will result, from themed journal editions to selected essays collected around a particular concern. Presenters will be individually contacted should their paper be required in longer format prior to the conference. Unless contacted earlier, all presenters should have their full paper ready by July 10 2003.

All abstracts to be 200 words or less - in Times Roman 12 Font single spacing.

Because of the need to collect privacy consent, please submit your abstract via email using the following instructions:

1. Please insert abstract text in body of email and also send attachment saved as a rich text file.
2. Attachments should be named FASH-Yourlastnameinitial-date(ddmmyy).rtf
eg: FASH-SmithJ-200502.rtf
3. All abstracts to be 200 words or less - in Times Roman 12 Font single spacing
4. You will also need to complete a presenter's registration form, and complete the privacy policy acceptance section, for inclusion in our program. Click here to download Presenter form. Form.doc[83kb] or Form.rtf[337kb] or Form.pdf[153kb].
5. Please download the presenter form, complete, and and return as an email attachment with your abstract.
6. If email submission is not possible, please fax your abstract and forms to us at 61 7 3365 7184.
7. If you would prefer to mail all information please send to:

PROJECT OFFICER: MS. ANDREA MITCHELL
7th Floor Duhig Tower,
Social Sciences and Humanities Library,
University of Queensland,
St. Lucia, QLD 4072 AUSTRALIA

Electronic format queries or enquiries about actual submission to cccs@uq.edu.au
Academic enquiries about your paper to Dr. Margaret Maynard.