Please join us for the keynote lecture of the 2011 Mid-America American Studies Association conference. Free and open to the public!
"REFASHIONING IDENTITY: Secondhand Clothing in Haiti and the Diaspora"
Dr. Hanna Rose Shell, MIT
Friday, April 8, 2011
8:30am Room L160, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
Dr. Hanna Rose Shell, MIT
Friday, April 8, 2011
8:30am Room L160, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
Description: Clothing is a circulating technology that is also a medium of social transmission: material culture par excellence. This multimedia lecture and film presentation examines "pèpè," or secondhand clothes imported into Haiti from North America. Recycled clothes wear the traces and bear the burdens of an increasingly global history of American material culture.
Dr. Shell is assistant professor at MIT in the Program in Science, Technology and Society, and Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Sponsored by the University Lectures Committee, Material Culture Focus Group, Art History Department, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Department, Art History GradForum, and the Center for Visual Cultures.
Sponsored by the University Lectures Committee, Material Culture Focus Group, Art History Department, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Department, Art History GradForum, and the Center for Visual Cultures.
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