Modern Bodies

Program

Thursday 15 March, 2018
9:30 am - 9:50 am Registration and coffee
9:50 am - 10:00 am

Welcome Note

  • Elie Haddad,
    Dean School of Architecture and Design, LAU
  • Frances Corner,
    Pro-Vice Chancellor of UAL
    And Head of London College of Fashion
10:00 am - 11:00 am Keynote 1:
Mary Roberts
Sartorial Space: Metaphors of Modernity in
Ottoman and Orientalist Visual Culture
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Panel A:
Representation and Contestation:
Visual Regimes and Body Politics

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch break
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Panel B:
Surface and Surveillance: 
Clothing and Picturing Modern Genders

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Panel C:
Imagining Nation, Consecrating Taste: 
Mediating the Material

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Coffee break
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Keynote 2:
Wilson Chacko Jacob,
What’s a body to do? (Un)dress,
Masculinity, and Power in Post-Ottoman Egypt

6:00 pm Reception