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DESCRIPTION:Fashion\, Anxiety and Society: LaborWith Marissa Nuncio\, Minh-
 Ha T. Pham and Elizabeth Wissinger\; conversation curated and moderated by
  Sara Ziff Fashion\, Anxiety\, and Society is a conversation series curate
 d by Kristen Owens. Organized in conjunction with Bard Graduate Center Gal
 lery’s fall exhibition\, French Fashion\, Women\, and the First World War\
 , these monthly conversations explore contemporary questions of gender\, l
 abor\, justice\, and subversion as they relate to fashion. This conversati
 on is curated and moderated by Sara Ziff. Other conversations in the serie
 s include:Fashion\, Anxiety and Society: GenderWith Margaret H. Darrow and
  Kate Strasdin\, moderated by April Calahan and Cassidy Zachary\, creators
  of Dressed: The History of Fashion podcastThursday\, September 19\, 2019F
 ashion\, Anxiety and Society: JusticeWith Rikki Byrd\, Rhea Combs\, Tanish
 a 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 SpeakersMarissa Nuncio is t
 he director of the Garment Worker Center. Nuncio practiced law as a labor 
 and employment attorney for seven years\, and she has been an advocate for
  worker’s rights for more than 12 years\, including as program coordinator
  for Sweatshop Watch (a co-founding organization of the Garment Worker Cen
 ter) from 2000 to 2003. Minh-Ha T. Pham is an associate professor in the G
 raduate Program in Media Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Her resea
 rch examines fashion labor and power in the contexts of global and digital
  capitalism. Her current book project examines the roles social media inte
 ractions and architectures are playing in regulating the global fashion ma
 rket through the establishment of cultural and social norms around propert
 y and impropriety. Elizabeth Wissinger is a professor of sociology at City
  University of New York’s Graduate Center and at Borough of Manhattan Comm
 unity College\, where she teaches fashion studies and sociology. Her resea
 rch focuses on technology\, fashion\, and embodiment. She has lectured in 
 the United States\, Canada\, Australia\, and Europe on topics related to g
 ender and race\, media\, bodies\, and work. Wissinger is the author of Thi
 s Year’s Model: Fashion\, Media\, and the Making of Glamour (New York Univ
 ersity Press\, 2015)\, in which she explores what she terms ‘glamour labor
 \,’ e.g. the work to make one’s physical presence resemble one’s highly fi
 ltered and edited presence online. Sara Ziff is the founding director of t
 he Model Alliance\, an organization that promotes fair treatment\, equal o
 pportunity\, and sustainable practices in the fashion industry\, from the 
 runway to the factory floor. ZIff has worked as a model for nearly two dec
 ades and produced the feature documentary Picture Me\, which chronicles mo
 dels’ experiences of their industry. She spearheaded and oversaw efforts t
 o extend labor protections to child fashion models in New York State. She 
 also helped to draft and introduce legislation that would create the first
  federal protections for child performers. Ziff holds a BA from Columbia U
 niversity and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.Meet the Cu
 ratorKristen J. Owens is an arts administrator\, curator\, researcher\, an
 d archivist with interests in visual culture\, fashion\, and African Ameri
 can studies. She works at the intersection of material preservation\, info
 rmation access\, and arts education. As a curator\, she has co-created exh
 ibitions including Performing Fashion: New York City at NYU’s 80WSE Galler
 y (2017) and Dressed at Rutgers University-Newark's Paul Robeson Galleries
  (2018). As a researcher\, she has presented papers on African American ph
 otography and conduct literature\, such as etiquette manuals\, at conferen
 ces including Fashioning the Black Body in Bondage and Freedom (Brooklyn\,
  2017) and the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Na
 tional Conference (San Diego\, 2017). Owens holds an MA in visual culture:
  costume studies and an MS in library and information science from New Yor
 k University’s dual degree program with LIU Palmer. She holds a BA in fash
 ion studies and has returned to her alma mater\, Montclair State Universit
 y\, as a lecturer in that subject.Leading support for Public Programs at B
 ard Graduate Center comes from Gregory Soros and other generous donors.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Fashion\, Anxiety\, and Society: Labor
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