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

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

• Yasmine Nachabe Taan,
  The Arab Garçonne
• Nancy Micklewright,
  Fashion and the Camera: Istanbul in
  the Late Ottoman Empire

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

• Kirsten Scheid,
  The Nudism Movement:
  Learning to Look at/as Nudes
• Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, 
  Undressing Patients, Redressing Photographs

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

• Tina Sherwell,
  Tracing Threads: The Thob and The Kufiyeeh
  - read by Michelle Hartman
• Reina Lewis, 
  Visibilising the Modern Body in Harem Literature

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