UQ lecture gives global perspective on dress

A free University of Queensland public lecture will examine the concept of world fashion.
One World? Dress, Identity and Globalisation is part of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies’ 2002 seminar program and will take place on Thursday, August 1, at 2pm in the Social Sciences and Humanities Library Conference Room, Campbell Road, St Lucia.

Dr Margaret Maynard from UQ’s School of English, Media Studies and Art History will be examining patterns of consumption and how local ethnicities, tastes and clothing differences are affected by social encountering.

She will explain how today’s dress in both developed and undeveloped countries is shaped by a complex mix of cultural, economic, institutional and political factors.

Dr Maynard trained as a dress historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art London, and is now a senior lecturer in art history at UQ.

She has published extensively on dress, cultural studies and Australian colonial art and photography.

Her first book was entitled Fashioned from Penury: Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia (1994) and was followed by Out of Line: Australian Women and Style (2001).

Her latest book is due out next year and will examine how dress is used to construct, contest and evade identities.

Media: for further information, contact Dr Maynard (telephone 07 3365 2960, 07 3379 7640), Andrea Mitchell, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies (telephone 07 3365 7182, mobile 0412 474 978) or Joanne van Zeeland at UQ Communications (telephone 07 3365 2619 or email: communications@uq.edu.au).