Thursday, October 26
3 pm
Welcome and Introduction
Johannes Paulmann (Mainz)
Cornelia Aust (Mainz)
3:30 pm
Keynote lecture
Chair: Thomas Weller (Mainz)
Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge)
The Right to Dress: Sumptuary Laws, Dress Practices and Political Change in the Early Modern World
5 pm
Dress and Social Status
Chair: Jan Kusber (Mainz)
Beata Biedronska-Słotowa (Cracow)
Polish National Dress as an Expression of Tradition and of Political and Cultural Independence
Cornelia Aust (Mainz)
From Noble Dress to Jewish Attire: Jewish Appearances in the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth
Friday, October 27
9:30 am
Signifiers and Symbols
Chair: Sebastian Becker (Mainz)
Susanna Burghartz (Basel)
Transparent or Opaque? The Veil, a Major Signifier of Difference
Flora Cassen (Chapel Hill)
Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy: Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols
11:30 am
Regional Identities
Chair: Henning P. Jürgens (Mainz)
Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu (Bucharest)
Shawls and Sable Furs: How to Be a Boyar under the Phanariot Regime (1710–1821)
Denise Klein (Mainz)
Becoming an Istanbulite: Immigrant Clothing, Lifestyle, and Identity
2:30 pm
Liturgical Dress
Chair: Christopher Voigt-Goy (Mainz)
Nikolaos Vryzidis (Athens)
Communicating Multiplicities: The Compositeness of Greek Ecclesiastical Dress Code during the Ottoman Period
Christopher König (Bochum)
…ehrlich vor den Altar gehen.« Church Vestments, Religious Identity, and the Lutheran Reformation
4:30 pm
Historic Dress and Costume in Film and Theater
Moderation: Denise Klein (Mainz)
Maria Molenda (Nowy Sącz)
Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu (Bucharest)
Ann-Christin Eikenbusch (Mainz)
Saturday, October 28
9:30 am
Dress and Foreignness
Chair: Róisín Watson (London/Mainz)
Gabriel Guarino (Coleraine)
Fit for a Queen: Female Education, Dress, and Body Image in the Early Modern Spanish Court
Thomas Weller (Mainz)
»He knows them by their dress.« Dress and Otherness in Early Modern Spain
11:30 am
Fashion and Cultural Transfer
Chair: Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge)
Maria Hayward (Southampton)
»a sutte of black which will always be of use to you«: Difference, Similarity and the Value of Transculturalism in the Clothing Choices of the 17th Century Scottish Male Elite
Giulia Calvi (Siena)
Imperial Fashions: Cashmere Shawls between Istanbul, Paris, and Milan (XVIII-XIX Centuries)
1 pm
Concluding Discussion