M&Others Conference: Final Program and Tickets - December 9, 1pm
Register to attend in-person or online!
Revers invites you to the in-person and online conference, book launch, and signing for M&Others: Motherhood in Fashion, on December 9, 1pm-5:30pm (GMT+1), at Zebrastraat Gent. The conference is organized by Revers (UGent) and Modemuseum Hasselt, in collaboration with Lannoo, and generously funded as part of the FWO Senior Research Project led by Prof. Bass-Krueger. The venue will be the Ned Kahn Auditorium of the Zebrastraat, Ghent.
Those who register for online attendance will receive a link to the livestream the day of the conference.
Final Programme: M&Others: Motherhood in Fashion
Ned Kahn Auditorium, Zebrastraat, Zebrastraat 32, 9000 Gent
13:00: Welcome.
13:00-13:15: Introduction by Eve Demoen (Modemuseum Hasselt) and Karen Van Godtsenhoven (Ghent University).
13:15-13:45: Francesca Granata (Parsons - The New School), "Fashioning the Pregnant Body: Gynophobia and Experimental Fashion from the 1980s Onwards".
13:45-14:10: Lydia Kamitsis (independent curator), "Madeleine Vionnet: Matrix".
14:10-14:25: Karen Van Godtsenhoven, "Mother-daughter transmission in fashion creation: Sonia and Nathalie Rykiel".
14:25-14:45: Eve Demoen, "Mother as muse: the power of memory in the work of Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent".
—Break—
15:15-15:35: Pauline Devriese (Modemuseum Hasselt) and Tirza Westland (Kunstmuseum Den Haag), "Unexpected: Developing Object-Based Methods for Tracing Historical Pregnancy Dresses in Museum Collections".
15:35-16:00: Roundtable on Non-Normative Bodies in Museum Exhibitions: Pauline Devriese, Caroline Esgain(Fashion & Lace Museum Brussels), Wim Mertens (MoMu Antwerp), Tirza Westland.
16:00-16:30: MSc Zelda (Fitzgerald) Dapaah, representing the Xclusive House of Lanvin FOR ALL QUEENS!, "The multifunctionality of Fabulosity: The case of the African Mother".
16:30: Conclusion by Karolien De Clippel (Modemuseum Hasselt).
16:40-17:15: Book launch M&Others. Fashion and Motherhood in collaboration with Lannoo Publishers and signing in the presence of the authors.