Call for Submissions

The Canadian Fashion Scholars Network (CFSN) is looking for a Managing Director starting February 1, 2023.

Interested candidates are invited to submit a CV and a Letter of Application (1 page max) by January 20, 2023 to: ksark@sdu.dk (only short-listed candidates will be contacted for a Zoom interview). Everyone is welcome to apply.

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The Critical Pulse

online magazine

The Critical Pulse works with UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, not only engaging with environmental problems, but also from a social justice perspective. For us, it is important to put topics such as inclusivity, diversity, intersectional feminism, and decoloniality on the agenda for more equality for all human beings. We want to see a transformation in the fashion system. Our magazine includes reviews of books, films, and current events. We only be publishing well-researched and well-analyzed information. The Critical Pulse is a nonprofit magazine with two issues per year.

Our Values and Focus Points:

Inclusivity and diversity
SDGs, Ethics and Sustainability
Social justice, Intersectional feminism, Identities and genders (non-binary)
Decoloniality

Our Mission / Goals:

Educate public about ethical fashion
Empower young professionals and creatives
Empower and amplify marginalized voices
Build a sustainable and ethical fashion future
NOT DEBATING FACTS (human rights are not debatable), not engaging with un-informed opinions, only publishing well-researched, well-analyzed information
The editorial team is comprised of students and volunteers

Ongoing submissions are welcome!

Copenhagen Chic: A Locational History of Copenhagen Fashion

Edited by Katrina Sark

This new volume in the Urban Chic Series will be an edited collection, commissioned from experts on Danish fashion.

Chapter proposals are due by June 1, 2020.

Fashioning Reconciliation is an upcoming edited collection based on the project and lecture series of the same name led by @rskucheran. The project seeks to mobilize Indigenous cultural and economic resurgence through fashion. Our goal is that this book will share the rich lived experiences and oral histories of Indigenous fashion in Canada through first-personal narratives, interviews, research essays, photo essays, poetry and hybrid formats. For more information, visit fashionsocialchange.com/FRbook and to submit a proposal, email Michel Ghanem at fashionsocialchange@ryerson.ca with a 250-500 word abstract, a working title, and a short bio by March 1, 2019.

FASHION AND EMPOWERMENT

Roundtable Discussion Panel, organized by Dr. Kat Sark

June 2-5, 2019, Congress at UBC Vancouver - Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA)

This Roundtable Discussion Panel is designed to bring together fashion scholars from across Canada to discuss the most pressing issues and latest research on fashion cultures, protest, dissent, activism, feminism and empowerment. Instead of formal papers, the panelists will be asked to briefly introduce themselves and their fashion-related work (3min max.) and submit a relevant discussion question prior to the panel discussion. The panelists are also invited to submit a chapter to an edited volume on "Fashion, Protest, and Empowerment" (for more information, see below).

Please submit a short letter of interest including possible discussion questions (150 words) and a short bio as a WORD DOCUMENT to Kat Sark (katrina.sark@mail.mcgill.ca) with the subject line: Fashion Panel, before November 1, 2018.

ETHICAL FASHION AND EMPOWERMENT

Edited by Katrina Sark

You are invited to submit to this collection of peer-reviewed essays, photography, and art on solution-based, ethical, and sustainable fashion practices, consumption, consciousness-raising change in the industry, social justice activism and empowerment. This volume will be edited by Katrina Sark.

Research essays (6-10 pages max, double spaced, with bracket citations and a bibliography)
Art and photography pertaining to ethical fashion, empowerment and social justice (please send as JPEGs, labelled with author’s name, title, and year)
Personal reflections and reports on ethical fashion practices (1-3 pages max)

DEADLINES:

Abstract proposals (200 words max) and a short bio due Friday, March 30, 2018.
Final submission due Friday, June 1, 2018.

FASHION CULTURES AND MEDIA – CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES

Special Fashion Issue of Imagination: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies

Editors | Katrina Sark and Elena Siemens

This special issue on Fashion Cultures and Media profiles interdisciplinary research and artistic output by the Canadian Fashion Scholars Network. Founded in 2014, this association gathers Canadian scholars, fashion artists, designers, and other fashion professionals. The Network’s annual symposia has taken place in Montreal (McCord Museum, 2014), Vancouver (Museum of Vancouver, 2015), and Toronto (Bata Shoe Museum, 2016). This issue includes sections on “Consuming Canada,” “Fashion Culture,” and “Fashion Media,” as well as two critical introductions by the co-editors. As the scholarly and artistic contributions to this volume demonstrate, fashion media and fashion cultures are inextricably linked. Critical studies of fashion media and fashion cultures are still largely under-represented in Canadian Fashion Studies. Analyzing fashion cultures requires interdisciplinary and comparative approaches and methodologies. It presupposes an understanding of fashion and of culture as complex frameworks of cultural analysis that can be multifaceted and contradictory, and often challenge disciplinary training as feminists, historians, theorists, literary and media critics and scholars. The contributions to Fashion Cultures and Media – Canadian Perspectives aim to celebrate, promote, and strengthen these interdisciplinary collaborations in Canada.

Please send your proposals, including your name, affiliation, a short 100-word bio, and your 250-word submission proposal to both editors at ksark@uvic.ca and esiemens@ualberta.ca by February 1, 2017.

Final submission of selected contributions will be June 1, 2017.