The Folklore and Ethnology Working Group

IU SYMPOSIUM ON DRESS AND ADORNMENT
PROGRAM SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, APRIL 18 2:30-5:00
WYLIE HOUSE MUSEUM
307 E. Second Street

2:30 pm
Exhibit walk-through with curator of “What Women Wore: Clothing and Accessories of the 19th Century”
Suzanne Ingalsbe, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and School of Library Sciences

3:00 pm
“Life in the Sage Collection: Exploring Artifact-based Study of Dress and Adornment”
Kate Rowold and Kelly Richardson, Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design

3:30-5:00 pm
Panel 1: Fashion in the 19th Century

“Let your Fingers Do the Walking: Fashion Gloves from 1870-1930”
Deborah Christiansen, Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design

“The Carnival of Fashion: Fashion and the Grotesque”
Laura-Louisa Kahle, Department of the History of Art

“Wearing the World: 19th Century Fashion and Imperialism”
Kristiana Willsey, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Moderator: Pravina Shukla

SATURDAY, APRIL 19 9:30-5:30
WALNUT ROOM
Indiana Memorial Union

9:30-12:00
Panel 2: Dress, Uniform, and Costume

“Identity and Style: Neckties as Personal Expression”
Janice Frisch, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

“From West Point to the West End: James McNeil Whistler’s Uniformed Dandyism”
Adam Veil, Department of the History of Art

“Failed Gifts and Kept Commodities: Transforming Unworn Clothing.”
Carrie Hertz, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

“Chicks Dig Guys in Kilts: Utilikilts and the Intersection of Product and Gender Identity”
Benjamin Aldred, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

“Body Art, Aesthetics, Community Among Tribal Belly Dancers”
Jeana Jorgensen, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Moderator: Jason Jackson

12:00 -1:00
Lunch

1:00-3:00
Panel 3: Displaying Identity through Dress

“National Dress Among the Native American Peoples of the Southeastern United States”
Jason Baird Jackson, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

“The Ancestors’ Clothes: Performance of “African” Attire in AfroGuyanese KwehKweh Rituals”
Gillian Richards-Greaves, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

“The Carnen Miranda ‘Look’”
Lori Hall-Araujo, Department of Communication and Culture

“Sideshow Freak, Practice Canvas, Familial Advertisement, or Change Agent: The 19th Century Caucasian Woman and Her Tattoos”
Theresa Winge, Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design

Moderator: Pravina Shukla

3:00-3:20
Coffee

3:30-5:30
Panel 4: Dress as Marker of National and Ethnic Identity
“Heritage and History: The Swedish Folk Costume”
Pravina Shukla, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

“Dress and Transnational Identities in Mexican American Quinceañeras”
Rachel Gonzalez, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

“Speaking through the Veil: Constructing Identity through the Mauritanian Mulapha”
Katherine Wiley, Department of Anthropology

“Dress and Adornment from India: Its Study in the Indian Diaspora in the United States”
Puja Sahney, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Moderator: Suzanne Ingalsbe

The original call for papers can now be found here.