Below is a tentative schedule for the Narratives of Dress Symposium. The final schedule is still in development and will be posted here in the fall. The schedule below is subject to change.
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1:00 pm |
Welcome & Overview
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Kiki Smith, Professor of Theatre
John M. Green Hall
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1:15-2:00 |
Ethics of Access
Sonnet Stanfill ’90, Curator, Contemporary Fashion,
Victoria and Albert Museum
John M. Green Hall
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2:15-3:00 |
African American Style Aesthetics: Complexities of Identity, Identification and the Will to Adorn
Diana Baird N’Diaye, Curator and Cultural Specialist, Center for Folklife and Cultural History
Smithsonian Institution
John M. Green Hall
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3:00-3:45 |
The Best Is Not Enough: What a Group of Clothes Can Say
Nancy Rexford, Independent Scholar, Author
John M. Greene Hall
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3:45-4:15 |
Break
John M. Greene Hall Lobby
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4:15-5:00 |
Hidden in Plain Sight: Histories of African-American Women in the 19th-Century Clothing Trades
Marla Miller, Professor, History
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
John M. Greene Hall
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5:00-5:45 |
Sleuthing Through Some Real Seams
Edward Maeder, Independent Scholar, former Curator at LACMA, Historic Deerfield, Founding Director, Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto
John M. Green Hall
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6:30: |
Reception
Alumnae House Conference Room
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7:30: |
Tour of Smith Historic Dress Collection
Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts
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9:30 am: |
Refreshments
John M. Greene Hall Lobby
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10:00-11:00: |
Two Uniforms Are Better Than One
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th Anniversary Professor, History,
Harvard University, Author
John M. Greene Hall
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11:15 am-
12:00 pm |
Textiles: A Web that Spans the Curriculum
Marjorie Senechal, Louise Wolfe Kahn Professor Emerita of Math and the History of Science
John M. Greene Hall
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12:30-1:30: |
Lunch & Presentions of Local Historic Dress Collections
Colleen Callahan, Textile and Costume Historian
A Tale of Two Collections: Historic Dress Preserved at Smith College and Historic Northampton
Lynne Zacek Bassett, Textile and Costume Historian
The Historic Northampton Costume Collection: Examples of Its Use
Carroll Room, Campus Center
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1:30-3:15: |
Dress in the Smith Classroom:
Faculty/Student Presentations
Panelists:, Cornelia Pearsall, Lane Hall-Witt, Janie Vanpée
John M. Greene Hall
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3:30-4:00: |
Closing Remarks
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4:30: |
Tour of Smith Historic Dress Collection
Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts
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This conference is jointly sponsored by Smith College's Project on Women and Social Change, the Emily Hall Tremaine Symposium Fund through the initiative of Dorothy Tremaine Hildt, class of 1949, the Smith College Lecture Committee, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Smith College Theatre Department, the Smith College History Department, the Smith College American Studies Department and the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute.
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