Daily Archives: 26 April 2016

Fashion Rules OK Exhibition – Now Online

The University of Otago Special Collections is pleased to announce that the current exhibition ‘Fashion Rules OK’ is now online.

In Hollywood Costume (2012) Valerie Steele writes: ‘fashion is usually defined as the prevailing style of dress at any given time, with the implication that it is characterised, above all, by change… Fashion is also a system, involving not only the production and consumption of fashionable clothes but also discourses and imagery’. Some of these discourses and imagery are showcased in Fashion Rules OK, revealing both the allure and the work of fashion.

Drawing on a diverse collection of books, magazines, and objects, Fashion Rules OK samples the breadth and diversity of writing on this subject, and offers a glimpse below the surface of appearances. Perspectives range from the world of couture, the peripheries of production, and childhood fashions, to Chinese dress, the runway, and the laundry. It presents the highs and lows of fashion style from the Regency period to the Moderns; some iconic Fashion Greats; and aspects (often forgotten) such as fashion etiquette, fashion marketing, fashion theory, and costume. Although for want of space some important areas of fashion writing are neglected here, the exhibition is not so much a stocktake as an exploration of contrasts. Taken together, Fashion Rules OK aims to show the ubiquity of fashion in the history of daily life.

To view the online exhibition, please visit: http://www.otago.ac.nz/library/exhibitions/fashion_rules.

“Shakespeare & Co: The Bard and His Peers in the Digital Age”, Free Lecture and Panel Discussion @ UQ (St Lucia campus)

Lecture and Panel Discussion: “Shakespeare & Co: The Bard and His Peers in the Digital Age”, Professor Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle), with Dr Jennifer Clement (University of Queensland) and Professor Peter Holbrook (University of Queensland)

Date: Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Time: 5:30pm (for a 6pm start)
Venue: F.W. Robinson Reading Room, Fryer Library, Level 4 Duhig Building, University of Queensland (St Lucia campus)
Register: Free. RSVP here

Professor Hugh Craig is Deputy Head of the Faculty of Education and Arts at the University of Newcastle and Director of the University’s new Centre for Twenty-First Century Humanities. His work is based largely on frequency data and has led to several breakthrough findings in regard to Shakespearean works. Using computational techniques he found that Shakespeare was the likely author of a number of passages from The Spanish Tragedy that had previously been attributed to the playwright Ben Jonson. The results are presented in his co-edited book Shakespeare, Computers and the Mystery of Authorship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Following a lecture about his work in the digital humanities, Professor Craig will be joined in conversation by Peter Holbrook, Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature at the University of Queensland, and Dr Jennifer Clement, who teaches the undergraduate course “Introduction to Shakespeare” at UQ.

This event, part of the Friends of the Library program, coincides with the establishment in 2016 of UQ’s Centre for Digital Scholarship, located above the Fryer Library.

Presented by the Fryer Library, University of Queensland.