The Brighton postgraduate design history society (PDHS) is delighted to be holding its eighth annual postgraduate symposium on the 5th of June at the Centre for Research and Development (CRD) at the University of Brighton's Grand Parade campus. As always the programme is extremely varied focusing on many areas within material culture and design history. The symposium acts as a showcase for the high quality postgraduate research conducted in the field and particularly, though not exclusively, as an outlet for the MA in Design History and Material Culture at Brighton. We aim to provide a friendly welcoming atmosphere to our students in the very early stages of their research careers and welcome their fresh takes on diverse subjects while giving them the opportunity to get feedback on their research from respected academics. Admission and lunch are free and open to all who are interested, whether they be affiliated with the university or not. See below for a list of papers to be presented on the day in order of presentation time. For more information, registration and a full programme please contact us at brightonpostgraddesignresearch@hotmail.com
Jane Shepard, ‘Time for a Story: The Life and Adventures of Punchinello’
Georgina Jarvis, ‘Media, Monarchy, Memory: A Study Using Found Scrapbooks’
Sarah Ward,‘Re-Making Home in Temporary Places: A Case Study of the Material Culture of Property Guardians’
e-j Scott, ‘The Concetta Trotter Collection of Everyday Clothes c.1965- 1970’
Janet Aspley,‘Sharp-Dressed Man: Biography of a Nudie Suit’
Suzanne Rowland, ‘An Introduction to Silhouettes, Fashion and Image 1760-1960, a joint project between the University of Brighton and the Regency Town House.’
Christine Gent, ‘The Wooden Toys of Channapatna: Indian Turned Lac Ware and the Role of Fair Trade in the Commercialisation of the Craft.’
Pallavi M. Patke, ‘Fashionable English Adaptation of Indian Embroideries from c.1850 to 1914’
