ICV27, hosted by the Flag Institute, took place at Imperial College, London from 7 -11 August 2017.
Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Vexillology
All 43 papers, listed in presentation order, are available to view or download in PDF format.
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
