Dec 28, 2015
DRESS AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA NETWORK CORE MEMBERS
Professor Christopher Breward, V&A Museum, London
Avis Charles, Avis Charles Associates, London
Dr. Janice Cheddie, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
Professor Carolyn Cooper, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Professor Susan Kaiser, University of California at Davis, CA.
Dr. Van Dyk Lewis, Cornell University, New York
Professor Leslie Rabine, University of California at Davis. CA.
Carol Tulloch, Chelsea College of Art and Design, and V&A Museum
DADN FRAMEWORK • critical studies• historical studies• entrepreneurial aspect of fashion, production development• design• empirical approaches • visual culture• museology/curatorship• educational policy• literature• craft/techniques • colonial legacy• old and new diaspora • ideas of diaspora has refashioned the self in the centre• diaspora in continuous change• the celebration of diaspora • Post-colonialism• globalisation • the slave trade• tensions expressed through dress as
mediator
• citation• notions of style and textualisation• appropriation and how to address it• fashion being uncomfortable• body arts • dress as a vehicle of ideas around culture, self-expression, and modernity • authenticity • spectacle• Mimicry• theoretical concepts • terminology• the issue of place and/or groups• homogeneity/heterogeneity • authenticity/representation• identity/identification • the real/imagined• creative tensions • creolisation• interconnectivity • similarity
Dr. Krystyne Loughran, Independent Scholar, Florence Paper: Bridging the Gap: Tuareg Jewellery in the 21st Century
Dr Jessica Hemmings, Edinburgh College of Art.
Paper: Constructions of Dress in South African Fiction
Professor Leslie Rabine, University of California, Davis
Paper: Internal and External Diasporas, Between Dakar, Bamako and the U.S.
Nicola Stylianou Collaborative Ph.D CandidateTRaIN/V&A, London
Paper: Addressing the AbsenceDress and the African Diaspora at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Professor Anitra Nettleton, Wits School of Arts University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgPaper: Threading the IntersticesTradition and Modernity in an African Wedding in Kwala-Zulu Natal
Elke aus dem Moore, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart
Paper: Les Histoires Commune A Workshop and Exhibition Which Created New-Common-Stories
Rochelle Rowe, Ph.D Candidate, University of Essex
Paper: ‘Glorifying the Jamaican Girl’: The Ten Types Beauty Contest, Racialised Femininities and Jamaican Nationalism
Professor Susan Kaiser, University of California, Davis Paper: The (K)nots of Fashion, Agency and Regulation in African-American Style
Avis Charles, Avis Charles Associates, LondonIdentity/Identification: The Practitioner’s Perspective
‘Krays-Windrush’ ‘Blacking Up Composite’
Gavin Fernandes Identity/Identification: The Practitioner’s Perspective
Dress and the African Diaspora Network Reading Group
• Avis Charles, Managing Director, Avis Charles Associates• Christine Checinska, Ph.D Candidate, Goldsmiths College• Dr Janice Cheddie, researcher and writer• Edwina Ehrman, Curator, V&A• Paul Goodwin, Curator of Cross Cultural Programmes, Tate Britain• Dr Jessica Hemmings, Reader in Textiles Culture, Winchester School of
Art• Dominique Heyse-Moore, Curatorial Trainee,Manchester Museum
Consortium• Frances Ross, Principal Lecturer, London College of Fashion• Rose Sinclair, Lecturer and Ph.D Candidate, Goldsmiths College• Nicola Stylianou, AHRC Collaborative Ph.D Candidate, TrAIN/V&A• Professor Lou Taylor, University of Brighton
Reading Group Meeting and Museum VisitBrighton Museum and The University of Brighton Organised by Professor Lou Taylor
Textiles in the Thomas Aldridge Collection,Brighton Museum