Join us for a scholarly workshop exploring the multifaceted roles that garments play in embodying colonial legacies, decoloniality, and connections to global fashion, organized in conjunction with the current Cantor Art Gallery exhibition, The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War: Fashion, Citizenship, and Nationalism (1954–75). Workshop events are free and open to all.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 | REHM LIBRARY
Panel 1: The Invention of Asian National Costumes | 9 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.
Panel 2: Evolutions of Asian National Dress | 10:55 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Panel 3: National Costumes in Daily Life | 2:40 – 4:00 p.m.
Keynote Address | 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
Angela Jansen (Research Collective for Decoloniality and Fashion),
“Positioned Relational Fashion: A Decolonial Option for Traditional/National Dress”
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 | REHM LIBRARY
Roundtable Discussion Facilitated by students in Anthropology 269: Fashion, Power,
and Identity | 9:30 – 10:45 AM