AHRC Research Network: Tailored Trades: Clothes, Labour and Professional Communities (1880-1939)
Dear All,
Please see the programme below for the final network workshop on the topic “Women, Clothes, and the New Workforce” that will take place on Monday, 14 July 2014 at the University
of Exeter. Highlights include Becky Munford’s paper on Virginia Woolf and trousers and Rhonda Garelick’s lecture on Coco Chanel!
The event is free of charge but requires registration. Please book your place here:
http://store.exeter.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=16&prodid=848.
All welcome!
All the best,
Vike
Workshop Four
Women, Clothes, and the New Workforce
Monday, 14 July 2014
Thornlea Building, University of Exeter
Workshop Programme:
10.00-10.15: Registration and Welcome
10.15-11-15: Dr Lucy Noakes (University of Brighton): “‘Eve in Khaki’: Feminine and Military Identities in First World War Britain”
11.15-11.45: Tea and Coffee
11.45-12.45: Dr Becky Munford (Cardiff University): “‘TROUSERS: Tспнуест: Trousers: Trousers’: Virginia Woolf, Inexpressibles, and the Work of the Woman Writer”
12.45-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.30: Dr Fiona Hackney (Falmouth University): “The Pretty Girl at the Machine: Dress and Workplace Identities in British Women’s Magazines, 1919-1939”
14.30-15.00: Tea and Coffee
15.00-16.00: Professor Rhonda Garelick (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): “An Exterminating Angel: Coco Chanel, Myth and Fashion
16.00-17-00: Wine Reception and Roundtable with all Participants
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Dr Vike Martina Plock
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
Co-Editor,
Literature and History
Principal Investigator,
Tailored Trades: Clothes, Labour and Professional Communities, 1880-1939
University of Exeter
Queen’s Drive
Exeter EX4 4QH
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