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DESCRIPTION:Fashion\, Anxiety and Society: Gender With Margaret H. Darrow a
 nd Kate Strasdin\, moderated by April Calahan and Cassidy Zachary\, creato
 rs of Dressed: The History of Fashion podcast.Fashion\, Anxiety\, and Soci
 ety is a conversation series curated by Kristen J. Owens. Organized in con
 junction with Bard Graduate Center Gallery’s fall exhibition\, French Fash
 ion\, Women\, and the First World War\, these monthly conversations explor
 e contemporary questions of gender\, labor\, justice\, and subversion as t
 hey relate to fashion. Other conversations in the series include:Fashion\,
  Anxiety and Society: LaborWith Marissa Nuncio\, Minh-Ha T. Pham and Eliza
 beth Wissinger\; conversation curated and moderated by Sara ZiffThursday\,
  October 24\, 2019Fashion\, Anxiety and Society: JusticeWith Rikki Byrd\, 
 Rhea Combs\, Tanisha C. Ford and Eric Darnell PritchardThursday\, November
  14\, 2019Fashion\, Anxiety and Society: SubversionWith Lucia Cuba\, Fawn 
 Krieger\, and Otto von BuschThursday\, December 12\, 2019Meet the Speakers
 Margaret Darrow is a modern European historian specializing in French soci
 al and women's history. Recently her work has focused on women and war—spe
 cifically French women in the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War.
  After receiving her PhD from Rutgers University\, she joined the Dartmout
 h College faculty in 1980\; she teaches in the Department of History and t
 he Gender and Women’s Studies Program. Her first book\, Revolution in the 
 House\; Family\, Class and Inheritance in Southern France\, 1775-1825 (Pri
 nceton University Press\, 1989) is a study of the impact of the French Rev
 olution on family relationships and practices\, especially marriage and in
 heritance\, in the early nineteenth century. Since that book\, her researc
 h moved a century forward and resulted in the publication of French Women 
 and the First World War: War Stories of the Home Front (Berg\, 2000). Her 
 current research explores French women's patriotism and citizenship at the
  end of the nineteenth century. A special issue of French Historical Studi
 es in the spring of 2008 published part of this research as ''In the Land 
 of Joan of Arc:' The Patriotic Education of Girls and the Prospects of War
  in the Early Third Republic.Kate Strasdin is a senior lecturer in cultura
 l studies at Falmouth University in the South West of the UK and a special
 ist visiting lecturer at the DeTao Masters Academy in Shanghai. Her resear
 ch centers on the dress practices of women in the nineteenth and early twe
 ntieth centuries\, diverse figures ranging from early women mountaineers t
 o Queen Alexandra. Her first book\, Inside the Royal Wardrobe—A Dress Hist
 ory of Queen Alexandra\, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2017. She
  is an accredited lecturer for The Arts Society and is deputy curator of t
 he Totnes Fashion and Textiles Museum.Meet the ModeratorsApril Calahan is 
 a special collections curator at the Fashion Institute of Technology\, whe
 re she also serves as instructor in the History of Art Department. She has
  lectured on the history of fashion at the Dallas Museum of Art\, Los Ange
 les County Museum of Art\, Parsons School of Design\, and Yale University.
  She is the author of Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style (Yale University 
 Press\, 2015)\, co-author of Fashion and the Art of Pochoir (Thames & Huds
 on\, 2015)\, and contributing author to the anthology The Hidden History o
 f American Fashion: Rediscovering 20th-century Women Designers (Bloomsbury
 \, 2018).Cassidy Zachary is a fashion historian and author who lives in Al
 buquerque\, New Mexico\, where she also works as a costume designer and su
 pervisor for film and television. She is the co-author of Fashion and the 
 Art of Pochoir (Thames & Hudson\, 2015) and a contributing author to numer
 ous publications including the recent The Showgirl Costume (McFarland 2019
 ). Zachary lectures around the country at venues such as the Los Angeles C
 ounty Museum of Art and the Costume Society of America\, and she founded t
 he popular fashion history blog and Instagram account\, The Art of Dress.T
 he way in which we dress our bodies can be used to express gender identity
 \, politics\, and even our national origins. Each week\, Dressed: The Hist
 ory of Fashion podcast delves into the incredibly rich social and cultural
  histories behind clothing\, exploring themes and stories that speak to th
 e very heart of who we are. Hosts April Calahan and Cassidy Zachary's work
  as fashion historians has been featured by Vogue\, Harper's Bazaar UK\, W
 WD\, Architectural Digest\, and the Business of Fashion.Meet the CuratorKr
 isten J. Owens is an arts administrator\, curator\, researcher\, and archi
 vist with interests in visual culture\, fashion\, and African American stu
 dies. She works at the intersection of material preservation\, information
  access\, and arts education. As a curator\, she has co-created exhibition
 s including Performing Fashion: New York City at NYU’s 80WSE Gallery (2017
 ) and Dressed at Rutgers University-Newark's Paul Robeson Galleries (2018)
 . As a researcher\, she has presented papers on African American photograp
 hy and conduct literature\, such as etiquette manuals\, at conferences inc
 luding Fashioning the Black Body in Bondage and Freedom (Brooklyn\, 2017) 
 and the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National 
 Conference (San Diego\, 2017). Owens holds an MA in visual culture: costum
 e studies and an MS in library and information science from New York Unive
 rsity’s dual degree program with LIU Palmer. She holds a BA in fashion stu
 dies and has returned to her alma mater\, Montclair State University\, as 
 a lecturer in that subject.Leading support for Public Programs at Bard Gra
 duate Center comes from Gregory Soros and other generous donors.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Fashion\, Anxiety\, and Society: Gender
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