The Fabric : Objects, Memory, Technology

Keynote Speakers:

Anne Rosalind Jones Professor of Comparative Literature

Peter Stallybrass Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Literary Theory

The Conference is one of several steps in a research and pedagogical project, in part digital, that explores in theory and practice how fibers, fabrics, and clothing, as well as texts, tell the stories of people and communities across cultures, class, gender and space. The Conference’s presentations will investigate the power of the materiality of texts and fabrics to ground, through use, care and making, memories, aesthetics, political awareness and activism. Even the most ubiquitous of garments such as white t-shirts and jeans connect people, sewing the visible and invisible stitches of a community that is an incubator for innovation in the arts, craft and technology.