NICA recommends | Fashion, Beauty & Creativity Unbound: China, Africa and the Multiple Souths International Workshop

NICA recommends | Fashion, Beauty & Creativity Unbound: China, Africa and the Multiple Souths International Workshop
Dates: 26 September 2024
Time: 8:30-16:00 (CEST) & 9:30-17:30 (EAT)
Location: Nairobi Garage Spring Valley, 3rd Floor, The Promenade, Nairobi, Kenya (and on Zoom)
Contact: w.wang3@uva.nl
Registration: here

We are delighted to announce the details of our upcoming international workshop “Fashion, Beauty & Creativity Unbound: China, Africa and the Multiple Souths”. This hybrid event will be held on Thursday 26 September 2024 (9:30-17:30 EAT / 8:30–16:30 CEST) in the Nairobi Garage Spring Valley, 3rd Floor, The Promenade, Nairobi, Kenya (and on Zoom). Most speakers and moderators will attend the Nairobi event in person. Refreshments will be served.

See the below link or the above poster’s QR code for registration (both in-person and online attendance). The full programme details and Zoom link will be sent to the registered participants a week before the event.
This full-day event will include one thematic talk and four panel discussions, covering the following key themes:
  1. De-centering creativity
  2. Global Africa as method
  3. Fashion supply chains
  4. Creative resilience
  5. Web3
  6. AI and creative labour
  7. Fast fashion
  8. Brands, labels and authenticity
  9. African creative industries
20+ academic researchers and creative industry practitioners will join the event, including:
  • David Avido (Kenyan fashion designer)
  • Prof. Yiu-Fai Chow (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  • Dr. Erica de Greef (African Fashion Research Institute)
  • Sunny Dolat (The Nest Collective)
  • Prof. Anthony Fung, PhD, JP (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Prof. Jeroen de Kloet (University of Amsterdam)
  • Siviwe James (South African fashion practitioner)
  • Dr. Tom McDonald (University of Hong Kong)
  • Prof. Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam)
  • Prof. Bin Shen (Donghua University)
  • Dr. Nina Sylvanus (Northeastern University)
  • Dr. Tommy Tse (University of Amsterdam)
  • … and many more!
We cordially invite you to join this academic and networking event in Nairobi, Kenya. Kindly circulate this through your academic networks. Can’t wait to see you all there in person (or on Zoom)!
For enquiries, please contact: Dr. Wei (Jupiter) Wang: w.wang3@uva.nl
*The international workshop is sponsored by The European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant 2021 research and innovation programme (grant agreement: 101046619) and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA); supported by: the University of Amsterdam’s Media Studies Department; ASCA Global Africa Research Group; African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI); International Institute for Asian studies (IIAS); University of Nairobi; National Museums of Kenya & Nairobi Gallery;African Studies Centre, Leiden (ASCL); European Journal of Cultural Studies; Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture; The Nest Collective; and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA).
Poster designed by: CAT and Qidi Feng.
Photography by: Qidi Feng Dilayla Romeo David, and Yingfei Faye Liang.

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