Invited scholars at different career stages, from Latin America, Australia, and Canada, will come together to workshop their in-progress research on queer and feminist fashion from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, media, art history and gender and sexuality studies.

The scholars' sessions will focus on varieties of (in)visibility in trans fashion, theorizing immaterial labour, fashion as feminist intervention and the queer 1930s.

To register, please email Roberto Filippello at r.filippello@uva.nl. 

SCHEDULE

9:00am               Arrival, coffee

9:15am               Welcome, housekeeping (Roberto Filippello, Natalya Lusty, Ilya Parkins)

9:20am               Session 1 – Varieties of (In)Visibility in Trans Fashion

• Diego Semerene (University of Amsterdam), “Travesti Glamour is Not a Reparative Metaphor”
• Miyuki Shiraki (University of British Columbia), “Trans Material Labout and Inconspicuous Fashion: Cutting-Together-Apart Practices of Packing”

11:00am             Coffee break

11:20am             Session 2 – Theorizing Immaterial Labour

• Edward Salazar Celis (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Unfixing the Archive: Latinx and Latin American Fashion and the Politics of Creative Labour”
• Ilya Parkins (University of British Columbia), “Sartorial Emotion Work and Social Reproduction”

1:00pm               Lunch

1:50pm               Session 3 – Fashion as Feminist Intervention

• Karen Van Godtsenhoven (Ghent University), “Opacity as Decolonial Feminist Strategy: Rei Kawakubo of Comme Des Garçons”
• Tamara Poblete (University of Amsterdam), “Guerrilla Marika: Dress, Enjoyment and Subversion”

3:30pm               Coffee break

3:45pm               Session 4 – The Queer 1930s

• Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University), “Fashionable Fairies on Film: Alternative Male Ideals on the Swedish 1930s Screen”
• Natalya Lusty (University of Melbourne), “Schiaparelli and the Readymade: Queering  Capitalist Form”