NICA recommends | ‘B(l)ending Research Methods in Fashion Scholarship’ – ASCA x International Journal of Fashion Studies

NICA recommends | ‘B(l)ending Research Methods in Fashion Scholarship’ – ASCA x International Journal of Fashion Studies
Date: 25 May 2023
Time: 13:00-17:00
Location: University of Amsterdam (JK Bulding, Room JK 1.90, Roeterseiland Campus, Valckenierstraat 65-67, 1018 XE)

During the workshop, the INFS editors and various panel speakers will exchange ideas on the journal’s upcoming Special Issue (mid-2024) that aims to reimagine a world of fashion studies where scholars are sensitive to the merits of divergent ways of producing fashion knowledge and exercise critical awareness of their own methodological limits. Such a shift in methodological thinking allows novel, inductive approaches to thrive and enrich the interplay between theory and methodology in fashion scholarship.

Panel speakers: INFS Editors, Marie-Aude Baronian, Rosie Findlay, Mary Hanlon, Misha Kavka, Vésma Kontere McQuillan, Diego Semerene, Tommy Tse, Johanna von Pezold, Sophie Wood, Paolo Volonté, and more.

We invite fashion scholars and ASCA members with a multiplicity of methodological backgrounds and conceptual orientations to participate. If you have any questions, please contact Tommy Tse (h.l.t.tse@uva.nl). Please spread the word, and see you there!

Schedule

• 13:00
  Introduction: B(l)ending Research Methods in Fashion Scholarship
  INFS Editors, Diego Semerene (University of Amsterdam) and Tommy Tse (University of Amsterdam)
• 13:20
  On wardrobe study and patchwork ethnography in fashion studies
  Johanna von Pezold (University of Amsterdam) and Sophie Wood (Regent’s University London)
• 13:50
  Panel Discussions / Q&A
  Rosie Findlay (City, University of London), Johanna von Pezold, Sophie Wood
• 14:10
  Researching fashion space, digital archives, and the body
  Mary Hanlon (Okanagan College, BC, Canada), Vésma Kontere McQuillan (Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway), and Daniel de las Heras Romano (Pratt Institute, New York City, USA)
• 14:50
  Panel Discussions / Q&A
  Mary Hanlon, Vésma Kontere McQuillan, Daniel de las Heras Romano, and Tommy Tse
• 15:20
  Break
• 15:35
  Tracing the theoretical turn(s) of studying fashion: Lacanian psychoanalysis, Cultural analysis, and affect theory
  Marie-Aude Baronian (University of Amsterdam), Misha Kavka (University of Amsterdam) and Diego Semerene
• 16:15
  Panel Discussions / Q&A
  Marie-Aude Baronian, Misha Kavka, Diego Semerene, and Paolo Volonté (Politecnico di Milano)
• 16:45
  Snacks and drink

The event is sponsored by: UvA Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) / European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant 2021 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 101044619). Snacks and drinks will be provided at the end of the event.

Photography by: Paul Cox
Poster design by: Qidi Feng