MATERIAL GILRS AND BOYS. FASHION IN CHILDREN’S MEDIA

THURSDAY, 7. March 2024 (World Book Day) 

12.00 | Registration and Snack
12.30 | Introductory remarks
(Kiera Vaclavik and Iris Schäfer)

PICTURING CHILDREN’S FASHION
(Chair: Kiera Vaclavik)

13.00 Nicola Miles: Evoking Other Worlds: Visual Narratives in Children’s Clothes Design
13.45 Natalia Ivanova: Cross Dressing im Manga
14.30 Adriana Acquaviti: “That particular day I was wearing jeans.” – About the Function and Depiction of Clothing in Una’s Sociocritical Graphic Memoir Becoming Unbecoming (2015)

15.15 | Coffee-Break

 FASHION AND AGE / AGENCY
(Chair: Iris Schäfer)

15.45 Victoria Chantseva: The right to wear underpants. Age, gender and pedagogical rhetoric in French children’s potty-training books
16.30 Thomas Küpper: “…about grandpa’s strange new taste”: Clothing and Ageing Trouble in Kirsten Boie’s Children’s Book Grandpa Loves Pink Shorts
17.15 Anika Ullmann: Doing Teen-Age: Exploring Commodity Age in Youth Literature

18.15 | How to Draw Clothes for Animal Characters (Interview with a Picture Book Artist)

19.15 | Conference Dinner

End of Day 1

FRIDAY, 8. March 2024 (International Women’s Day)

09.00 Nane Pleger: Haare werden getragen — Zur Darstellung von schwarzem, krausem Haar in Bandes de filles und Mignonnes

09.45 | Coffee-Break

FASHION IN / AND FANTASY
(Chair: Kiera Vaclavik)

10.15 Anna Kérchy: Sleeptalking garments and vestimentary nonsense. Jan Svankmajer’s “Jabberwocky or Little Straw Hubert’s Clothes”
11.00 Oxane Leingang: “Goodness, just look at his clothes!” Sozialdistinktive und nationalidentitäre (Ver-)Kleidung in Richmal Cromptons Just William-Series
11.45 Charlotte von Alemann: Die Macht der Mode – wie Kleidung das Harry Potter-Universum im Griff hat

12.30 | Lunch

FAIRY TALE FASHION
(Chair: Iris Schäfer)

13.30 Miriam Wray: Fashion, Textile and Costume in Little Red Riding Hood Across Time
14.15 Kira Kohlgrüber: Der Schuh im Märchen
15.00 Ann-Kathrin Zettl: „Siebzehn Ponys, fünfzig Puppen [und] ein Zimmer voll mit schönen Kleidern“. Das Prinzessinnenkleid im Kontext der Geschlechtskonstruktion von Prinzessinnen in Erstlesebüchern

15.45 | Coffee-Break

16.30 | STRUWWELPETER-MUSEUM (Guided tour on fashion in Struwwelpeter)

End of Conference