“Filipino Couture and the New Silk Road.”
When: Wednesday, October 23. 12-1pm
Who: Denise Cruz
Where: JHB 719
Graduate students and faculty are asked to welcome Professor Cruz to the department and join the GEA for the first Brown Bag Lunch of the year!
Here is a brief abstract to pique your interest:
“This presentation is part of a larger project that stages Manila couture as critical to imaginings of late twentieth-century and contemporary formations of gender and sexuality in the wake of global economic developments. Rather than the familiar east-west binaries of empire and Orientalism, I claim the importance of recognizing new silk roads, alternate circuits that connect Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. Influenced by shifts in global economies, recently governments, businesses, and consumers have become increasingly aware of the importance of the political, economic, and purchasing power in Asia and the Middle East. These regions have specifically turned to couture as another realm in which they might actively compete with, and perhaps even surpass, American and European business.”