DRESS AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA NETWORK CORE MEMBERS

Professor Christopher Breward, V&A Museum, London

Avis Charles, Avis Charles Associates, London

Dr. Janice Cheddie, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados

Professor Carolyn Cooper, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Professor Susan Kaiser, University of California at Davis, CA.

Dr. Van Dyk Lewis, Cornell University, New York

Professor Leslie Rabine, University of California at Davis. CA.

Carol Tulloch, Chelsea College of Art and Design, and V&A Museum

DADN FRAMEWORK • critical studies• historical studies• entrepreneurial aspect of fashion, production development• design• empirical approaches • visual culture• museology/curatorship• educational policy• literature• craft/techniques • colonial legacy• old and new diaspora • ideas of diaspora has refashioned the self in the centre• diaspora in continuous change• the celebration of diaspora • Post-colonialism• globalisation • the slave trade• tensions expressed through dress as

mediator

• citation• notions of style and textualisation• appropriation and how to address it• fashion being uncomfortable• body arts • dress as a vehicle of ideas around culture, self-expression, and modernity • authenticity • spectacle• Mimicry• theoretical concepts • terminology• the issue of place and/or groups• homogeneity/heterogeneity • authenticity/representation• identity/identification • the real/imagined• creative tensions • creolisation• interconnectivity • similarity

Should Art … Be Authentic? Debate V&A Museum, 2006

Dr. Krystyne Loughran, Independent Scholar, Florence Paper: Bridging the Gap: Tuareg Jewellery in the 21st Century

Dr Jessica Hemmings, Edinburgh College of Art.

Paper: Constructions of Dress in South African Fiction

Professor Leslie Rabine, University of California, Davis

Paper: Internal and External Diasporas, Between Dakar, Bamako and the U.S.

Nicola Stylianou Collaborative Ph.D CandidateTRaIN/V&A, London

Paper: Addressing the AbsenceDress and the African Diaspora at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Professor Anitra Nettleton, Wits School of Arts University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgPaper: Threading the IntersticesTradition and Modernity in an African Wedding in Kwala-Zulu Natal

Dr Van Dyk Lewis, Cornell University, New YorkPaper: Trauma in Fashion

Elke aus dem Moore, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart

Paper: Les Histoires Commune A Workshop and Exhibition Which Created New-Common-Stories

Rochelle Rowe, Ph.D Candidate, University of Essex

Paper: ‘Glorifying the Jamaican Girl’: The Ten Types Beauty Contest, Racialised Femininities and Jamaican Nationalism

Professor Susan Kaiser, University of California, Davis Paper: The (K)nots of Fashion, Agency and Regulation in African-American Style

Avis Charles, Avis Charles Associates, LondonIdentity/Identification: The Practitioner’s Perspective

‘Krays-Windrush’ ‘Blacking Up Composite’

Gavin Fernandes Identity/Identification: The Practitioner’s Perspective

Judith Rouhani, Textile Designer, NewcastleIdentity/Identification: The Practitioner’s Perspective

Dress and the African Diaspora Network Reading Group

• Avis Charles, Managing Director, Avis Charles Associates• Christine Checinska, Ph.D Candidate, Goldsmiths College• Dr Janice Cheddie, researcher and writer• Edwina Ehrman, Curator, V&A• Paul Goodwin, Curator of Cross Cultural Programmes, Tate Britain• Dr Jessica Hemmings, Reader in Textiles Culture, Winchester School of

Art• Dominique Heyse-Moore, Curatorial Trainee,Manchester Museum

Consortium• Frances Ross, Principal Lecturer, London College of Fashion• Rose Sinclair, Lecturer and Ph.D Candidate, Goldsmiths College• Nicola Stylianou, AHRC Collaborative Ph.D Candidate, TrAIN/V&A• Professor Lou Taylor, University of Brighton

Reading Group Meeting and Museum VisitBrighton Museum and The University of Brighton Organised by Professor Lou Taylor

Textiles in the Thomas Aldridge Collection,Brighton Museum

Les Histoires Communes, Elke aus dem Moore, editor, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, 2007.