Politicising Fashion and Fashioning Politics Symposium

Programme

9:30 – Welcome

10:00 – Keynote – Eleri Lynn

11:10 – Panel 1: Fashioning Parliament

Alison Toplis – Workmen’s Clothing and the Political Hierarchy in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Emmeline Ledgerwood – Standing out or Fitting in?: Dressing for a Parliamentary Career in the Twentieth Century

12:00 – Lunch

13:00 – Panel 2: Accessorizing Empire

               Yona Lesger – Hattitude: The Politics of Global Headwear

Meha Priyadarshini – The Mantón de Manila in Spain: From Imperial Commodity to National Symbol

14:00 – Panel 3: Political Women

Charlotte Vallis – ‘…men’s clothes suited her marvelously…’: Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, 1741-61, Fashion, Politics and Identity

Brenda Mondragón Toledo– ‘Knitting and Embroidery, another way of fighting’: Online Craftivism as a Way of Crafting a Feminist Self

14:50 – Tea Break

15:30 – Panel 4: Political Expression

               Laura Dickinson – A Social Policy for Gentrification: Fashion & Policymaking in the East Midlands

Pauline Rushton – Rage Hard! Political imagery and messaging on the clothing merchandise of Liverpool band, Frankie goes to Hollywood, c. 1984-87

Christine Checinska & Elisabeth Murray – Quiet and Loud: The Politics of the Contemporary African Fashion Scene

16:40 – Close