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The clothes on our backs...are intimately connected with bodily experiences, cultural, social and gender portrayals. Economies of fashioning and re-fashioning demonstrate multiple priorities across place and time. The materialities of fashion are shaped by global flows of cloth and beads, furs, ready-made and second-hand apparel, in dynamic processes of exchange.Pasold Conference 2016  |   7-9 July 2016   |   University of Alberta   |This international conference will showcase new research on the centrality of dress in global, colonial and post-colonial engagements, emphasizing entangled histories and cross-cultural analyses.Themes could include, but are not limited to:Cross-cultural practices and patterns of dress and / or body adornmentProduction and distribution of clothingGendered and ethnic shaping of dress practiceFashion politics of dress in globalizing contextsCirculation and re-use of dress and dress idiomsDesign in globalized contextsRepresentations of clothing culturesAppropriation / acculturation of designs, materials, motifsDress in colonial / post-colonial contextsSubmission Requirements:For individual speakers: a 200-word proposal and a 1 page CVFor full panels: a 200-word panel rationale, plus 200 word proposals for each panel participant along with their individual 1 page CVs. We especially welcome themed panels, maximum three speakers but individuals papers are welcomed as well.Send all submissions to: dgb.conference@ualberta.caDeadline for submissions: 1 October 2015.Acceptances of papers to be announced: 1 December 2015.Pleanary speakers:Fashion in Qing/Early Republican China - Antonia Finnane Professor, School of Historical &#38; Philosophical Studies, University of MelbourneAuthor of Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, NationCultures of Dress within Global Africa - Karen Tranberg HansenProfessor Emerita. Department of Anthropology, Weinberg College of Arts &#38; Sciences, Northwestern UniversityAuthor of Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and ZambiaColonial practice, cross-cultural influences in the dress of colonial Spanish America  - Dana LeibsohnPriscilla Paine Van der Poel Professor of Art, Department of Art, Smith CollegePrincipal Organizers:Beverly Lemire, Department of History &#38; Classics, University of Alberta lemire@ualberta.caGiorgio Riello, Department of History and Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwickpasold.research@warwick.ac.ukInformation: http://www.dressingglobalbodies.com/#theconference