Casci has presented ongoing research at conferences and symposiums in the UK, France and America as well as participating in digital conferences during the Covid-19 pandemic.
2023
Welcome to Satisfaction: Fashioning the Love God
Triple Threat 40 Symposium
NYU University and online, March 31 to April 2, 2023
“Base, mascara, erase: I wanna look good for you”: Prince, makeup and star image’
Screen Star Makeup: Beauty, Stardom, Masquerade Symposium
Queen Mary University of London, March 11, 2023
2022
ALL OF MY PURPLE LIFE: Uncovering the sartorial legacy of Prince through the Minnesota Historical Society and private fan collections
Disrupting Dominance in the Archives Conference
University of the Arts, London and online, Dec 5 and 6, 2022
All of my Purple Life: Clothing, creativity & community within the Prince fandom
Critical Costume: Connections Conference
Online, November 17-20, 2022
The enduring legacy of the poet shirt: Disruptive bodies (over)dressed for desire
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear Symposium, V&A Museum, London, October 13-14, 2022
Touching Prince: Embodiment, fandom, and Private Joy through object analysis with Prince-worn clothing
European Popular Culture Association (EPCA) 2022 Conference
Online, July 14-15, 2022
The Chain Hat: Subverting Prince, Fashioning Love Symbol
SexyMF30 Virtual Symposium
NYU University, Online, March 26-27, 2022
2021
Undressing Prince Rogers Nelson – Bodywear, Adornment and Masculinities, 1978-1988
78-88: Prince, The First Decade: An Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Minnesota.
June 2021
The Style We Sportin’: Redefining New Power Masculinities in Prince’s ”Gett Off”
1plus1plus1is3 Virtual Symposium,
NYU University, March 26-28, 2021
2019
Love Signs: Prince, fashion and style tribes, 1980 to 1992.
Prince Panel
Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures Conference
Roubaix, France, July 2019
Uptown Rude Boy: Minneapolis and the fashioning of Prince Rogers Nelson
New Reflections on Fashioning Identities.
University of Roehampton, June 2019
Glasgow Girls and The ‘Cinema City’
Woman, War and The West End Talk
Glasgow City Heritage Trust, January 2019
2018
Glasgow Girls and The ‘Cinema City’ How Hollywood cinema influenced the way women dressed in the 1940s and 1950s
Women Creating Scotland: Creating for Change Conference
Glasgow Women’s Library, August 2018
‘Before the Rain 1980 to 1984: How Prince Got The Look’
Prince from Minneapolis Symposium
University of Minnesota, April 2018
‘Before the Rain 1980 to 1984: How Prince Got The Look’
Masculinities: Transgressing Binaries and Boundaries Symposium
Fashion, Costume and Visual Studies, April 2018
‘The Walls of Jericho – Dressing for the bedroom during the 1930s and 1940s’
The Underpinnings Museum Twitter Conference, January 2018
‘Before the Rain 1980 to 1984: How Prince Got The Look’
Association of Dress Historians New Research Conference
April 2018
2017
‘Before the Rain: How Prince Got The Look’
Purple Reign: An interdisciplinary conference on the life and legacy of Prince.
University of Salford, May 2017