The conference is open to the public and free. However, registration is advised as seats based on avalibility.
FASHION STUDIES TODAY: HISTORY THEORY PRACTICE
An International Multidisciplinary Conference
Organized jointly by
Fashion Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center (MALS & IDS) and The Department of Art and Art professions, Costume Studies @ New York University
Friday May 4th
9:15-6:00 @ The Graduate Center
(Room 9205)
9:15am/Welcome and Opening Remarks Eugenia Paulicelli, Fashion Studies, CUNY
9:30-10:45am
Moderator: Deirdre Farabaugh
Louise Wallenberg – Just doing gender? Re-thinking queer through transvestite embodiment in everyday life and work
Vicki Karaminas – Looking for a Queer Style. Locating Other Dressed Identities
Jill Cole – Himba in the Mix: The catwalk politics of culture in postcolonial Namibia
11.00am-12:15pm
Jo Anne Entwistle – Models as brands: Critical thinking about bodies and images
Veronica Manlow – Luxury Fashion Flagships and Websites: Results, Reflection and Visual Documentation
Elizabeth Wissinger – Fashionable Bodies
12:30-1:30pm/Lunch break
1:45-3:00pm
Moderator: Kim Hartswick
Grazia D’Annunzio – The Function of Costumes in Hollywood Movies
Paul Julian Smith – Costume and fashion in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
Valerie Steele – Fashion & Film
3:15-4:30pm
Moderator: Dicky Yangzom
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu – Fashion’s Intimacies: Race, Design, and the Problem of Creative Labor
Agnes Rocamora – Immediacy and Acceleration in the field of fashion: the role of new media
Suzanne Wasserman – The Garment Industry History Initiative Project of the Gotham Center for NYC History
4:45- 6:00 pm | Round Table – Fashion: Production in the Digital Age
Moderator: Michael Skafidas
Bruce Boyer, Vicki Vassipoulos, Leonard Logsdail, Father Andrew More O’Connor, Anna Akbari, Rhonda Erb
Discussant: Sharon Zukin and others
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Saturday May 5th
9:30-5:30 @ NYU
(Department of Art and Art Professions)
9:30am/Welcome and Opening Remarks Nancy Deihl
9:45-11:00am
Moderator: Christina Marie Karr
Tara Zanardi, Hunter College
Amanda Wunder, Lehman and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Bella Mirabella, NYU
11:15am-12:30pm
Moderator: Katy Werlin
Karen Cannell
Francesca Granata
Sarah Scaturro
12:30-2:00pm/Lunch break
2:15-3:30pm
Moderator: LLana Winter
Eugenia Paulicelli
Yuniya Kamawura
Jessamyn Hatcher
3:45-5:00pm
Round Table – Alternative Pedagogies
Moderator – Liz Way
Nancy Deihl, Michele Majer, Minh-Ha Pham & Carmela Spinelli
5:00pm
Closing Reception – 34 Stuyvesant Street
Reception to follow
Click to register for the event at NYU: NYU registration
Credits
Organized jointly by Fashion Studies at the CUNY Graduate center and The Costume Studies Program at NYUSteinhardt, along with the Department of Media Culture and Communication.
Co-sponsored by the CUNY Ballalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Stockholm, Sweden (Center for Fashion Studies), London College of Fashion.
With generous support from the Steinhardt Global Integration Fund, NYUSteinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and the Department of Art and Art Professions.
