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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Conference: The Fabric of Cultures<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Thursday, May 4, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">10:00am – 6:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room #2 (Level 5)<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">The Fabric of Cultures Conference is one of several steps in a research and pedagogical project undertaken by Eugenia Paulicelli and her students at Queens College
and the CUNY Graduate Center. The ongoing Fabric of Cultures series explores, in theory and practice, how fibers, fabrics, clothing, and texts tell the stories of individuals and communities across cultures, class, gender, and space. To this end, the Conference’s
presentations will investigate the ways in which the materiality of texts and fabrics can ground our memories, aesthetics, political awareness, and activism through use, care, and making. This collaborative event will also serve as a preview of "The Fabric
of Cultures: Objects, Memory, Technology", to be exhibited at the QC Art Center in Fall 2017.</span></strong><b><br>
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</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Keynote Speakers:
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</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Ann Rosalind Jones</span></strong><b><br>
</b><strong><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Esther Cloudman Dunn Professor of Comparative Literature</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">, Smith College
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</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Peter Stallybrass</span></strong><b><br>
</b><strong><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities; Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Literary Theory</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">,
University of Pennsylvania</span></strong><b><br>
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</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Panel Discussions:
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</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">“Objects and Memory: From the Personal to the Collective”</span></strong><b><br>
</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">“Intersections: Craft and Technology”</span></strong><b><br>
</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">“The Old and the New: Sustainable Fashion”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Free and open to the public.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Event co-sponsors and partners: Queens College Art Center\Kupferberg Center for the Arts\Tech Incubator@QC\M.A. in Liberal Studies\The Center for
Teaching and Learning\Center for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding\European Languages and Literatures\Freshman Year Initiative\Fashion Studies (CUNY Graduate Center)\Brooklyn Fashion and Design Accelerator\Instituto Italiano di Cultura\Italian Trade
Agency (Under the Patronage of the Italian Trade Commission)</span></strong><b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Caslon Pro",serif;color:#9CC2E5">Amanda Nocera<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Caslon Pro",serif;color:#9CC2E5">Director, Queens College Art Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Caslon Pro",serif;color:#9CC2E5">Administrative Coordinator, Art Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Caslon Pro",serif;color:#9CC2E5">(718) 997-4803<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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