[can-events] PROGRAM - RMIT KINGPOWER DESIGNING MASCULINITIES SYMPOSIUM - P1-J

King Power: Designing Masculinities Symposium

King Power is presented by the RMIT Fashion Program and the Frances Burke Centre in collaboration with RMIT Gallery. The two day Symposium will address expressions of masculinity through notions of style, identity and appearance, and will interest those involved in areas including design, fashion, cinema studies, cultural studies, media, history, performance studies, fine art, philosophy and theory.

Symposium Program

King Power: Designing Masculinities Symposium will feature more than 25 paper presentations by individuals and panel members from the international practitioner and academic community. 

Presenters include Peter Allan, RMIT University; Jeremiah Boniface, University of Wellington, New Zealand; Anne Farren, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia; Caitlin Fry, University of South Australia;Yuniya Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York; Cameron White and Vicki Karaminas, University of Technology, Sydney. Other presenters are from Monash University and University of Melbourne; University of Sydney; Queensland University of Technology; Massey University, New Zealand; University of California and Drexel University, USA; and Nottingham Trent University, UK. Full presenter details coming soon.

Note: This is a draft program only. Please check regularly to keep up to date with any changes. 

King Power Symposium Headquarters
Kaleide Theatre
RMIT University
Building 8
Level 2
360 Swanston Street (enter from Swanston Street). 

Venues for parallel paper sessions will be advised in the program available at the Symposium.

REGISTER ONLINE NOW:
http://www.rmit.edu.au/fbc/kingpower

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Registration 

Welcome & Housekeeping 

King Power Panel: ‘Take Me to Your Leader’ 
Facilitator: Sue Ryan

Panelists: 

Shaun Cole: King Power Symposium Keynote Speaker. 
Curator, writer & lecturer, Queen Mary, University of London; Associate Lecturer (BA Fashion Promotion), London College of Fashion.
Georgina Safe: Fashion Editor, The Australian newspaper.
Jo Ely: Exhibitions and displays curator, Performing Arts Collection, Melbourne. 

Morning Tea 

20 minute Paper Presentations: 

Paper: Wrapped Fragments: Drapery, the Eighteenth Century Portrait Bust and the Male Subject 
Paper: Men in Bronze Suits
Paper: Suiting Up
Paper: Sneakers as a Symbol of Masculinity
Paper: Do Asian men live in Oz/Aus? Visual representations of Asian Australian Masculinity in The Fuji ACMP Photographer's Collections 2 -10
Paper: Questioning current notions of masculinity as constructed by the British lifestyle media

Lunch Break 

20 minute Paper Presentation: 
Paper: Future Menswear Designers

Keynote Presentation by Shaun Cole 
Curator, writer & lecturer, Queen Mary, University of London; Associate Lecturer (BA Fashion Promotion), London College of Fashion.

Shaun Cole will touch on topics covered in his book Do We Now Our Gay Apparel. For example, the dress choices made by gay men, their strategies for dress choice and self identification and how these are influenced by masculinity and femininity, stereotypes, sexual attraction, class and gay men's roles in subcultures.Cole will contextualise his work, discussing how the research began and the major sources of research material, particularly oral history techniques, novels and newspapers. Further, he will outline research that he has undertaken on gay styles that have emerged since the publication of the book, or that were not covered in the book, such as Bears, Scallies, Homothugs, post new romantic clubbing culture and the new genderfuck. He will address how gay men's dress choices have impacted upon hegemonic (straight) men's fashion. An outline of Cole’s latest research on the history of men's underwear will be given.

Afternoon Tea 

20 minute Paper Presentations: 

Paper: Uniforms to Suits - Post war masculinity: a New Zealand perspective
Paper: Tough C**T
Paper: Australian Masculinity: Dancehalls to Beaches
Paper: Gay Turkish Skinhead: On Figures of Authority and Ciphers of Reaction in the Style of Gurkin Ozkan, Wolfgang Tillmans and Hussein Chalayan
Paper: Positioning Challenges to the Military Man

Closing Remarks 

Living Elvis Exhibition - RMIT Gallery
All delegates are invited to attend the opening of Living Elvis 
RMIT Storey Hall
Building 16
336-348 Swanston Street
RMIT University [City campus

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FRIDAY 17 AUGUST 2007
 
20 minute Paper Presentations: 

Paper: Superman's Unmarked Masculinity: The Evolution of Clark Kent
Paper: The Dissolving Man: Entropy and Masculine Identity
Paper: Uber Men: Fashionable Heroics and Masculine Style
Paper: Chelsea on 5th Avenue Hypermasculinity and Gay Culture in Abercrombie & Fitch's Retailing Branding Strategies
Paper: Kings and Queens of Fashion - attitudes to male fashion designers.

Morning Tea 

20 minute Paper Presentations: 

Paper: Vision of Masculinity
Paper: 'Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
Paper: 'I got this image': The Stylisation of Masculinity in 'Grease'

Panel Presentation: 
Paper: Where has Bruce Lee Gone?: The Disappearance of the Hypermasculine Chinese
Paper: Masculinity and Bollywood
Paper: Redesigning Singapore Men

Lunch Break 

20 minute Paper Presentations: 

Paper: Dissipation and Extravagance: Ageing Fops
Paper: Special Presentation with Dale Nason, Video Jockey

Special Guest Presentation by Dr AlkaPande 

Arts Advisor & Curator, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Visiting Faculty for ‘Aesthetics’ at the Delhi College of Art.

Look here dear fellow: 

I wear these men’s clothes only for you 
Sometimes I am man 
Sometimes I am woman. 
O lord of the meeting rivers, I’ll make war for you 
But I’ll be your devotees’ bride. 
(Tr. Ramanujan: 1973:29) 

Why should clothes be treated so seriously? How does it matter if a person is wrongly dressed according to his or her own family and friends? In India, it simply matters because of the unique and peculiar role that clothing plays in perceptions and identity. An extension and expressions of the people who wear them. In the representation of the image of the philosophical notion of Ardhanarishvara or the Lord who is half woman, the emergence of the ‘design’ for masculinities appears - in the image of the androgynous God, the lord who is half woman. The masculine aspect or the primordial God Shiva becomes the first stereotyping of the maleness. The masculine side of the syncratic image is rough, wearing snakes as armlets, matted dreadlocks as hair, a circular pendant as earrings. While the feminine of the goddess is ultra feminine with a curvaceous rounded body type. The representation of maleness through the ages then is foregrounded through icons, which could be emblematic of cross dressing which is embedded in the Indian cultural sensibility.

Afternoon Tea 

20 minute Paper Presentations: 

Paper: Grant Lingard (1961-1995): Hutch and Lure; Unstuffed Jockey's.
Paper: The male sock: A reflection of knitted stocking to the sock
Paper: Built for the Kilt: Gendered constructions of what 'real men' wear
Paper: Boys and their Toys: Metaphors of Masculinity in 'By Hook or By Crook' 
Paper: More Masculinities - More of the Time

Closing Conversation / Convenor Address 


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