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The Museum at FIT’s New Directions in Fashion Research Symposium
Scholars, curators, and collectors will explore topics such as practice-based research, collecting practices, theories and methodologies, and the role of diversity, equity, and inclusion in fashion education.
Speakers include: Ben Barry, Dean, School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design; Hilary Davidson, a dress historian, curator, and archaeologist, and chair of Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice at FIT; Patricia Gherovici, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, author, and recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award for her clinical and scholarly work with Latinx and gender variant communities, Emilie Hammen, junior professor of art history and fashion history at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Colleen Hill, curator of costume and accessories at MFIT; Nathalie Khan, course leader for the BA Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins; Alphonso McClendon, an associate professor at Drexel University; and Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of MFIT.
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