POP and Methods Lab are very pleased to co-host a lecture and masterclass/workshop by Professor Shahidha Bari
LECTURE:
CLOTHES and CONCEPTS: Methods for a new materialism
24th March, 2021, 4.30pm – 6pm GMT
Online event
Free. All welcomePlease register on Eventbrite
This lecture explores emergent approaches to the study of material culture, thinking specifically about the sensory study of dress. Placing the study of dress in the philosophical tradition of phenomenology, it asks “How do objects yield concepts?”.
Tracing the broader history of fashion studies, the lecture argues for the crucial role of clothes in the establishment of cultural studies. And, tracking new trends in the field, the lecture suggests how the latest developments in fashion research serve to crystallise some of our most urgent social and political issues, making the study of dress crucial to our understanding of labour, identity and digital life.
MASTERCLASS:
Academic Writing: the art of the essay and the invention of style
24th March, 2021, 10.00 GMT
Online event
Free. All welcomePlease register on Eventbrite
You will be send readings in advance and a link to the event
How do academics express their ideas in writing? What makes for an effective prose style? And what are the different mediums by which researchers can share their work?
In this workshop, we’ll be looking at writing and considering the effects of different styles and forms. We’ll be considering what constitutes scholarly academic writing, reflecting on how to adapt research for knowledge exchange and public engagement, and exploring the art of the essay.
Professor Shahidha Bari is an academic, critic and broadcaster. She studied English at Cambridge and Cornell and taught philosophy and literary theory before turning to fashion studies. She is Professor of Fashion Cultures and Histories at London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London), the presenter of BBC Radio 3’s nightly Free Thinking programme, also known as the Arts and Ideas podcast, and the occasional host of BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. She’s the author of “Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes” (2019), the winner of The Observer Anthony Burgess Arts Journalism Prize 2016 and has been a judge for the Forward Poetry Prizes and the Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction Prize. She writes for The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and Frieze magazine.
