Program
Hunter College, CUNY, October 17-19, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 7:00 pm, Kossack Lecture Hall, Hunter North 1527
Keynote: Natalia Majluf, Director of the Museo de Arte de Lima
Materiality. José Gil de Castro and the Portraiture of Things
Friday, October 18, Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, Hunter North 424
9:30-11:15
Welcome remarks
Heather A. Hughes, University of Pennsylvania, Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Global Order in Robert Vaughan's Months
Mariana Françozo, Leiden University and the National Museum of Ethnology, the Netherlands, Early Modern Comparative Ethnography: The "Locke Drawings" Collection and the Representation of Indigenous Peoples in Global Perspective (c. 1680-1750)
Deborah Dorotinsky, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, Mexico City, It Is Written in Their Faces: Seri Women and Facial Painting in Photography
Q & A session
11:15-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-1:00
Intersections of Tradition & Modernity
Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo, U.N.E.D., Madrid, Contemporary Customs in Late Nineteenth-Century Madrid: Points of Convergence between the Popular and the Modern in the Illustrated and Comical Press
Lynda Klich, Hunter College, CUNY, Circulating Indigenism in Mauricio Yáñez's Postcards from Mexico
Denise Birkhofer, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Enrique Díaz's Parade of Progress: Fashioning a Streamlined Mexican Future
Q & A session
1:00-3:00: Lunch
3:00-5:00
Matthew Keagle, Bard Graduate Center, Uniform Schemas: The Abstraction of Dress and The Unity of Uniforms
Elisabeth Fraser, University of South Florida, The Ottoman Costume Album and Inclusive Empire: Louis Dupré in Ottoman Greece
Victoria L. Rovine, University of Florida, Fashion at the Intersection of French and African Colonial Cultures
Q & A session
Saturday, October 19, 9:30 am, Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, Hunter North 424
9:30-11:00
Ann Jones, Smith College, Merchandising Gender: Women's Dress and Women's Duties in Two Sixteenth-Century Costume Books, Jost Amman's Frauenzimmer/Gynaeceum and Cesare Vecellio's Habiti antichi et moderni (1590 and 1598)
Leyla Belkaïd, University of Lyon, A Stylistic Change and Its Pictorial Representation: The Algiers Dress in Western Imagery
Maya Jiménez, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, The Myth of the Bahiana in Nineteenth-Century Photography
Q & A session
11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
11:30-1:00
Eugenia Paulicelli, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, Performing Dress: Love, Politics and "venezianità" in Giacomo Franco's Habiti d'huomini et donne venetiane
Sarah Buck, Florida State University, Les Costumes grotesques (c. 1695): Prints and Professional Habits in the ancien régime
Emily Morgan, Iowa State University, "True Types of the London Poor:" Street Life in London's Transitional Typology
Q & A session
1:00-3:00: Lunch
3:00-5:00
Ashley Bruckbauer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Playing the Ambassador and the "Other:" Cultural Cross-dressing and French Foreign Policy in the 18th and Early-19th Centuries
Tara Zanardi, Hunter College, CUNY, The Mantón de Manila at the Crossroads of Identity
Teresa Eckmann, University of Texas at San Antonio, Playing the Devil's Advocate with a Twist: Julio Galán and Lo mexicano
Charlene Lau, York University, Sartorial Remembrance: Bernhard Willhelm and Tirolean Folk Dress
Q & A session
