This symposium on new research in fashion studies will celebrate the opening of the exhibition French Fashion, Women, and the First World War at Bard Graduate Center (on view September 5, 2019 – January 5, 2020). In honor of the Bard Graduate Center’s mission to bridge the divide between texts and objects, this symposium will invite scholars who think critically about fashion’s materiality to present their latest research. How has the material turn contributed to producing a discursive space where questions about clothing become central? How has the close study of clothing and textiles advanced the discipline of cultural history? Bringing together experts in the fields of history, art history, and ethnography, this symposium aims to show the direction in which the field of fashion studies is advancing today.
Deborah L. Krohn
Bard Graduate Center
Welcome
Nina Stritzler-Levine
Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Remarks
Maude Bass-Krueger and Sophie Kurkdjian
Leiden University and Institut d’Histoire
du Temps Présent (IHTP)
Introduction
Anne Bissonnette
University of Alberta
Studying Fashion, War, and Politics in
1790s France: A Material Culture Perspective
Peter McNeil
University of Technology Sydney
Appearing and Being: Macaroni
Materialities, c. 1760-1780
Questions
and Discussion
Justine De Young
Fashion Institute of Technology
Working Girl: Sex, Fashion, Class, and
the Demoiselle de magasin
Ariane Fennetaux
Université Paris Diderot
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives
Sylvia Houghteling
Bryn Mawr College
Clothing Materials as Cultural History in
Early Modern South Asia
Questions and Discussion
