Sarah J. Hodge

Brindabella Regency and Victorian Festival

March 2024 – Wesley Music Centre, Canberra

Paper: Fashioning Identities: the makers and wearers of fancy dress in nineteenth-century Britain

ANU School of Art and Design Higher Degree by Research Conference

May 2023 – School of Art Building, Australian National University, Canberra

Paper: Fashioning Women’s Agency in Victorian Britain: the wearers and makers of historicised fancy dress, 1796-1851

Extended Seminar: The Colour Revolution in Victorian Britain

November 2022 – Sir Roland Wilson Building, Australian National University

Paper: The Colours of Fancy Dress: Hierarchy and Identity at Queen Victoria’s 1851 Bal Costumé

Object Mobilities Workshop

November 2022 – RSSS Building, Australian National University

Paper: Silk, Lace and Time: The making of Queen Victoria’s 1851 fancy-dress costume 1851-2022

ANU CAHAT Seminar Series

August 2022 – School of Art & Design, Australian National University

Paper: Righteous, Regal and Recherché? An analysis of Queen Victoria’s 1851 fancy-dress costume and its material journey

The Association of Dress Historians Annual New Research in Dress History Conference

27 May 2022 – The National Museum of Scotland

Conference Paper: Queen Victoria’s Fancy-Dress Makers: An examination of a West End fashion house, 1828-1855

REVIEW: Judith Anderson: Australian Star, First Lady of the American Stage by Desley Deacon

ANU Historical Journal II, Number 3 pp. 151-155

Published June 2022

Sartorial Society Series 5: The Places and Spaces of Dress

19 May 2022 – Zoom Seminar

Paper: Beyond the Ballroom: Examining the Material Journey of Queen Victoria’s 1845 Fancy-dress costume

Sartorial Society Looking Back: The Historicisms, Hauntings and Heritage of Dress

29 July 2021 – Zoom Seminar

Paper: A Fancy for the Past: Historical Styles in British Women’s Dress, 1800-1851

ANU Centre for Early Modern Studies Work in Progress Seminar

May 2021 – RSSS Building, Australian National University

Paper: A Composite Order of Dress: Understanding the Development of Women’s Historic Style, 1757-1830