The Southeastern Region announces its 2008 Symposium
Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2008
"The Many Layered Meanings of Costume"
Hosted by:
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, The College of William and Mary, and the Jamestown Yorktown Foundation
Symposium Highlights Include:
- Juried paper presentations and research exhibits
- Behind-the-scenes tours of host facilities
- New 'Preserving Our Past' workshops
- New quilted clothing and object exhibition at CWF
- All Hallows' Eve Costume Dinner and Catwalk
Keynote Speaker - Caroline Weber, author:
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
Call for Abstracts: The symposium title is designed to be broadly themed and attract research papers and exhibits from all areas of costume studies. Preference will be given to those abstracts which present research into the cultural significance of costume, explore the meaning of the word costume, study layered and/or quilted objects of adornment, update formerly presented research, offer important new conclusions, or raise stimulating new questions. Research papers will be given in 20-30 minute presentations; research exhibitions will be presented in a single venue for approximately 2 hours.
A submitted abstract must designate whether it is for a research paper or exhibition, is to be 575 words or less excluding bibliography, and may include up to 3 pertinent images.
Abstracts for research exhibits should, in addition to discussing the research, briefly describe the exhibit format, i.e.: traditional poster, 3-dimensional objects, lap-top presentation.
All abstracts are to be submitted electronically; the author's name and contact information are to appear only in the e-mail cover letter, the abstract text is to be a Microsoft Word document attachment.
Due date: All abstracts are due by midnight July 31 to: fburroughs@cwf.org. Submitters will be notified of the jury's decision before August 15. Abstracts for student papers submitted for consideration for the Jim Liles Student Award should be submitted by July 15 to: Kim Miller Spillman (kspill@uky.edu).
For further information contact Doris Warren (dwarren@cwf.org) or Mark Hutter (mhutter@cwf.org), or call 757-229-1000 ext.2538.
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