16th Oct 2007 - 4th Dec 2007
Centre for Research and Development, Grand Parade, University of Brighton
The Design History Research Seminar Series took place between October and December 2007. The seminars followed three themes being explored by researchers in the Faculty of Arts: Design and Identity; Dress History and Collecting Practice; Gender and Built Space.
16 October 2007, Oneself as Another: Artists' Narratives of Affinity and Selfhood
Linda Sandino, University of the Arts, Camberwell
23 October 2007, The People’s Picture Gallery: Advertising 1900-1914
John Hewitt, Head of Postgraduate Research, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University
30 October 2007, Manufacturing Contested Spaces: Segregation Walls in Occupied Iraq
Haifa Zangana, activist and novelist
6 November 2007, 'Dear Sadie...' : Letters, Biography and Design History
Jill Seddon, School of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Brighton
13 November 2007, From Female Impersonation to Fashion Design: An Assessment of the Contribution of “Glamour Drag” and Performance to the Design Work of the London Couturier Norman Hartnell
Jane Hattrick, PhD candidate, University of Brighton
20 November 2007, What Next? A Researcher's Thinking Around Future Projects
Carol Tulloch, Senior Research Fellow in Black Visual Culture at Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Victoria and Albert Museum
27 November 2007 Community Art and Conflict: Designing a Book of 'Troubles'
Laura Jackson-Willis, PhD candidate, University of Brighton
4 December 2007, The Biographical Approach to ‘Things:’ Village Lace from Shamanic Making in the Polish Highlands to Globalised Soft Porn Artefact'
Lou Taylor, Professor of Dress History, School of Historical and Critical Studies
