On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, REBECCA BURCH wrote: > What and where is Costume College? And the GenCon that everybody was > going to last week? Isn't there some big deal in Kalamazoo, MI in the > spring?
Just back from a trip and catching up, and I don't know if anyone has answered the last part of this. The International Congress on Medieval Studies, held each May in Kalamazoo, Michigan (home of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University) is the world's largest interdisciplinary conference on medieval studies. It's an academic conference, not a costume event. There are 600-plus sessions, averaging three papers each, in all areas of medieval studies (literature, art, history, etc.); among these are several sessions on medieval dress and textiles. About four of these sessions are the ones I organize, under the sponsorship of the organization DISTAFF; there's often another dress-related session or two elsewhere in the Congress, and a handful of dress-related papers scattered about in other sessions, plus additional papers/sessions on topics that might be of interest to the costume scholar, e.g. on trade, economics, law, archaeology, or material culture. However, it is not something that would appeal to the typical costumer, but rather to the serious scholar of historic dress. More information on request, or see http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/ Completely unrelated to that: A costume event not on your list above, but worth mentioning, is CostumeCon, which rotates among cities. There's a large overlap with the sf/fantasy con costuming community there. Next one is in St. Louis in March/April: http://www.cc25.net/start.htm --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
