Call for Papers: Front and (Off-)Centre: Fashion and Southeast Asia
Jaya Khidir, page 71 of ‘YALAM’. Erwin Shah, a graphic design graduate dressed in baju keluar, one of the “fashion situations” given by the artist to his collaborators. Image courtesy of the artist.
The Courtauld Research Forum, Online via Zoom, 5th – 6th May 2023, 9am BST – 1pm BST
The conference, seeks to highlight the diversity and sophistication of fashion practices within or relating to Southeast Asia, and contributes to efforts to decentralise fashion studies.
How do fashion practitioners with ties to Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) engage with the self, their local regional communities, as well as the global fashion system? What are the ideas and values that underpin the work that they do? And what are the common threads and unique characteristics that define fashion from the region, if any?
We welcome all proposals that discuss historical and contemporary fashion as part of material and visual culture, including but not limited to these areas of interest:
Archives (clothes, photographs etc.)
Diaspora
Fashion businesses
Fashion curation
Fashion films
Fashion journalism
Identities (gender, national etc.)
Multidisciplinary practices
Wardrobe practices
Formats and Submission Process
20-minute academic presentations
20-minute industry presentations including but not limited to business practices, community collaborations and creative innovations.
40-minute moderated conversations
In a single PDF with the applicant's full name indicated as the file name, please submit the following to frontandoffcentre@gmail.com:
an abstract/proposal of 150-200 words in English
a representative image can be included if desired
a brief biography of approximately 100 words
Important Dates
19 Dec 2022 Submission of abstract/proposal
30 Jan 2023 Notification of acceptance by organisers
10 Feb 2023 Notification of acceptance by presenter
Organised by Dr Rebecca Arnold (The Courtauld) and Dr Nadya Wang (LASALLE College of the Arts)
The call for papers was originally published here.
