Call for Papers | International Symposium “Vogue’s View: On Education” | December 13th, 2024 @ ESMOD Paris

“VOGUE’S VIEW”: ON EDUCATION.
DIACHRONIC AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON VOGUE MAGAZINE, FROM THE ARCHIVES TO THE
CLASSROOM

If we consider (women’s) magazines such as Vogue are placed within the framework of prescriptive literature, what can we infer from its content as to its intended and actual uses? How do we retrace and make sense of the culture(s) of reception and the “imagined communities” (as defined by
Benedict Anderson) – of femininity, taste, class, and beyond – formed around the magazine at different periods and in various places? Taking into account the vast transnational network woven by national editions (most prominently British and French Vogues, but also from the 1970s, Italian, Brazilian, German, Spanish, Singaporean, Korean, Taiwanese, Russian, and Japanese Vogues, see Button 2006, as well as Garrity 1999, Bartlett 2006, Matthews-David 2006, Moeran 2006, Kopnina 2007, Mészáros 2019, Paccaud 2021), issues around the construction of national identities also crucially come to light. How have these receptions been re-mediated in popular culture (literature,
movies, etc.)?

We hope to see all these questions and more addressed and debated during the symposium. We strive to foster an interdisciplinary, international discussion.