From 7-11 August 2017, the Flag Institute hosted the 27th International Congress of Vexillology (ICV27) at Imperial College London.
The proceedings are published here as Ian Sumner and Margaret Sumner (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Vexillology, (Kingston upon Hull: Flag Institute, 2022).
Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Vexillology
- ICV27 programme
- ICV27 report: flag, registration, opening ceremony, presentations, companions tour, events and excursions, closing banquet and awards, Hemisflag/ICV28
- ICV27 papers, individually numbered and paginated, and listed in presentation order:
- Anne M. Platoff: Little Leninists: flags, symbols, and the political socialisation of Soviet children
- Tiago José Berg: Vexillology with high school students
- Edward B. Kaye: American city flag redesign: a welcome change
- Kevin Harrington: Flags and the anniversaries of 2017: myths, mistakes, misconceptions
- Christopher Maddish: Colour coding and new vexillological avenues for flag design
- Pierre-Jean Guionin: Album des pavillons nationaux et marques distinctives: from lithograph on paper to paperless digital
- Victor Lomantsov: Flags of trade union sport societies in the USSR
- Sekhar Chakrabarti: Variant of a political party’s flag doubling as the national flag: confusions and controversies
- John Cartledge: Red for danger
- Ralph Bartlett: Flags by King for country
- Rachel Phelan: What’s up with the big green flag? The conservation of the flag of the Irish Republic
- Roberto Breschi: A vexillological treasure in Florence: a story in three acts
- Manuela Schmöger: kommunalflaggen.eu: a wiki about municipal flags
- Scot Guenter: Historical shifts and emergent paradigms: tradition, ideology, sources of power and influence in flag studies
- Alan Hardy: Yellow everyone: the standard colour set, a common ratio, contrast and individualities
- Cédric de Fougerolle: Ex-libris and vexillology
- Ralph Kelly: A flag for the Empire
- Ladislav Hnát: Party flags, colours and logos in the 8th European Parliament
- Thai Vexillological Society: History of the Thai flag
- Barbara Tomlinson: Using and extending the flag collection at Royal Museums Greenwich
- Marcel van Westerhoven: Polderboard flags: requiem for a dream
- Bruce Berry: The beloved green and white: (white) Rhodesia’s search for a unique symbol of identity
- Stoyan Antonov: Flags of Bulgarian municipalities
- Hervé Calvarin: Doubts and certainties in vexillology
- Jos Poels: Where the Gambia River gives life: a tribute to Gambia’s flag designer Louis Lucien Thomasi
- David Chkheidze: The flags of contemporary Georgia
- Aleš Brožek: The survey of flags used by rowing clubs in the Czech Republic
- Avelino Couceiro Rodriguez: Cuba y Puerto Rico: dos banderas … de un pájaro las dos alas
- Patrice de La Condamine: Women and flags
- Uroš Žižmund: Two flags, two proposals: a new system of national and rank flags of Slovenia
- Stan Zamyatin: County flags of Ireland
- Željko Heimer: Historical origins of contemporary Croatian municipal flags
- Tony Burton: Budgie smuggling: flag mayhem in Malaysia
- Alain Raullet: The third way of raising flags in Brittany
- Roman Klimeš: The Czech Olympic Committee and its symbols in 1912
- Carlos Alberto Morales Ramirez: Zoogeographic vexillology of North America: exploring endemism in subnational flags
- Nicolas Hugot: A journey through constitutional vexillology: a survey of the constitutions of member states of the United Nations
- Xinfeng Zhao: The flags of Genghis Khan
- Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg: Five rings to bring them all: a presentation of the Olympic flags
- Attila István Szekeres: The evolution of the Szekeler flag in the last four centuries
- Rob Raeside: The development of the subnational flags of Canada
- Aleksander Hribovšek: The new Association flag and the flags of the officers (Heraldry Society of Slovenia)
- Theun Okkerse: The obverse-reverse paradox: reading flags differs fundamentally from reading text
