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Workshop - From Traditional Attire to the Modern Dress
New Europe College Bucharest, Romania
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Date: 13-14 June 2008
Deadline: 31 January, 2008
Open to: scholars from prestigious research institutes and universities in Central and South-eastern Europe
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Announcement follows
New Europe College - Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest, Romania, is organizing a regional symposium, From Traditional Attire to the Modern Dress: Modes of Identification, Modes of Recognition in the Balkans (XVI-XXI Centuries). Please find further details concerning this event below.
The symposium is scheduled to take place on 13-14 June 2008 at the New Europe College, 21 Plantelor str., 023971 Bucharest, Romania. Our aim is to gather scholars from prestigious research institutes and universities in Central and South-eastern Europe (but also outside
it), who work on such topics. Should you be interested to take part in this symposium, we kindly ask you to send us the title of your contribution and a short abstract (200-300 words), together with a one-page CV (including title, positions, institution, degrees, awards, main publications) until 31 January, 2008. The selection committee will inform you about their decision in due time (by the end of February at the latest).
The working languages of this international symposium will be French and English. The organizers will cover travel and accommodation expenses within the limits of the budget. We would be grateful if you could also find additional financial support for participating in our
symposium. Papers must be submitted by e-mail no later than 31 January 2008 to Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu : c_ghitulescu@yahoo.fr
According to a Romanian saying, "dress doesn't make a person". True as it may be, the moral implications of this saying are of less concern to us here than its possible social significance, which would rather suggest its reading in the affirmative. In the past, dress was an
important social indicator. It told a lot about the social condition, the status of a person, her wealth. But dress can also provide information on the evolution of a society, on the dynamic interrelation between fashion and social behavior. Dress can thus become the prime matter for the analysis of a society through the joint efforts of historians, anthropologists, ethnologists, and sociologists. The Balkans, a cultural, ethnic and social mosaic, provides an ideal setting for such a research. One can find here similarities at a regional level, and wide differences coexisting in proximity, in the same geographic region.
The symposium proposes to gather researchers from various fields, and from a number of academic and research centers in South-Eastern Europe and in other parts of the world, inviting them to focus their reflections on dress and its role in social, political, and ideological change, on the lines suggested below:
A. The significance of dress in the establishment and acceptance of a political regime
1. the "oriental dress" and the modes of representation of a social elite
2. "from oriental attire to the tail coat": dress as an indicator of modernization
3. dress and its manipulation in the process of social/political emancipation
B. Diversity in dress / Diversity of social categories
1. dress, color schemes, norms as indicators of social hierarchy
2. the dress of the "parvenu" as a symbol of social promotion
3. egalitarian modes of dressing and the leveling of "social visibility"
C. Dress and identity construction 1. Romanticism and the rediscovery of the "national" costume
2. identity construction – dress construction
3. the folk costume between tradition, modernity, and contemporary handicraft
4. fashion: lost or reconfigured meanings in a unified Europe
The preservation of local identities in an enlarged European Community has become a growing concern. Can dress still define social categories and peoples? Or do certain types of traditional dress become mere museum objects? Do they find refuge in a handicraft that reinvents and
refashions an idealized, barely known, largely imaginary past? The symposium will attempt to investigate the ways in which dress entered the political, social and cultural play; the major role attributed to dress by social actors in a more or less distant past, and within its
various constructions; its instrumentalisation in modern times, in search of identity. The Balkans, where an earlier common history developed into a variety of distinct trajectories, are a particularly propitious field for such a research, which may shed some light on
certain peculiarities of "Balkanism".
Email: c_ghitulescu@yahoo.fr
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