9:30 Registration
9:45 Welcome and Introduction
Dietrich Boschung, M. Dores Cruz, Sinah Kloß
10:00-11:15 Past Matters: Dress, Veneration and Ethnicity
Panel Chair: Monika Schausten (University of Cologne)
Sabine Schrenk (University of Bonn) “Clothing-relics: Authorized Transmitters of Reality and Closeness”
Kerstin Nowack (University of Bonn) “Clothes and the Making / Unmaking of Ethnicity in the Inca Empire”
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:45 Clothing and Identity: Postcolonial Approaches
Panel Chair: Claudia Schubert (Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur)
Ana María Presta (University of Buenos Aires) “Mulatas settled in La Plata (Charcas, today Bolivia), 1575-1635: Professional Practices, Intra-ethnic Relations, Clothing, and Identity in a Colonial Society”
Steeve Buckridge (Grand Valley State University) “Visualizing Natural Lace: Jamaican Lace-bark as the Basis of Women’s Power, Strategies, and Agency”
12:45-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-16:15 Dress Practices and Materiality
Panel Chair: Jenny Chio (Emory University)
Laila Abu-Er-Rub (Heidelberg University) “Golden Times: Fashion, Luxury and Metallic Aesthetics in Neoliberal India”
Lucy Norris (University College London/ESMOD University of the Arts, Berlin) “Pieced Together: Material Practices of Love and Affection”
Sinah Kloß (University of Cologne) “Inventing Uniformity? The Color and Practice of ‘Dye’ in a Guyanese Community”
16:15-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 Keynote Address
Emma Tarlo (Goldsmiths, University of London) “An Anthropologist in the Wardrobe: Reflections on Three Decades of Working with Dress”
18:30 Reception