8:30 – 9:00 AM: Continental Breakfast, Moran Lounge (Smith Hall)
Panel 1: The Invention of Asian National Costumes
9:00 – 10:40 AM
Speakers
Rachel Silberstein (SOAS, University of London), “Chinese National Dress and the International Health Exhibition of 1884”
Genevieve Clutario (Wellesley College), “Tensions at the Seams: Petty Politics and Sartorial Battles”
Minjee Kim (Research Associate, Tracing Patterns Foundation), “Hanbok as Nation: Cultural Paradoxes of Korean Dress”
Sarah Frederick (Boston University), “Kimono as Japanese and Asian Dress in Imperial Japan (1905–1945)”
Student Panel Facilitators: Claudia Ericson and Daniel Santiago
Panel 2: Evolutions of Asian National Dress
10:55 AM – 12:15 PM
Speakers
Alexandra Dalferro (University of California, Berkeley), “National Dress, Royal Appearance, and Resistance in Thailand”
Parminder Bhachu (Clark University), “Stitching Diasporic Nationhood through Design, Fashion, Improvisation, and Mobility”
Martina Thucnhi Nguyen (Baruch College, City University of New York), “Madame Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, the Second Republic, and Reimagining Vietnamese Imperial Motifs in a Postcolonial Moment”
Student Panel Facilitators: Camiah Small, Ryan Tanaka
12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch (Hogan Campus Center)
1:40 – 2:30 PM: Tour of Exhibition (Cantor Art Gallery)
Panel 3: National Costumes in Daily Life
2:40 – 4:00 PM
Speakers
Carla Jones (University of Colorado Boulder), “Gauzy Yet Firm: The Blouse at the Center of Indonesian Soft Power”
Karen M. Teoh (Independent Scholar), “Heritage in Motion: The Kebaya and Multiethnic History in Malaysia and Singapore”
Ann Marie Leshkowich (College of the Holy Cross), “Femininity, Embodiment, and National Dress in Vietnam”
Student Panel Facilitators: Alarisse Romano Lopez, Charlotte Sullivan
Keynote Address
4:15 – 5:30 PM
Angela Jansen (Research Collective for Decoloniality and Fashion), “Positioned Relational Fashion: A Decolonial Option for Traditional/National Dress.”
9:00 – 9:30 AM: Continental Breakfast (Moran Lounge, Smith Hall)
Roundtable Discussion
Facilitated by students in Anthropology 269: Fashion, Power, and Identity
9:30 – 10:45 AM
Student Panel Facilitators: Mateo Buyu, Sara Hayes
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch (Moran Lounge)
Boxes will be provided for those who need to depart