<div>I am actually going to go to this one - it's pertinent to my thesis.</div><div></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><font size="2">WHO ARE YOU WEARING?
FASHION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES</font></font></div>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Wednesday, April 25, 6:00- 8:00 p.m
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street.</font></p>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Admission: Free.</font></p>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Created
to open up a dialogue between major figures from the fields of design
and the social sciences, this lecture series highlights The New
School?s commitment to the study of the intersection these disciplines.
This inaugural lecture presented by Parsons The New School for Design
and The New School for Social Research, features Elizabeth Wilson and
Arjun Appadurai speaking about fashion as both a social phenomenon and
as actual material objects.</font></p>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Elizabeth
Wilson is a fashion scholar whose 1985 book Adorned in Dreams: Fashion
and Modernity was the first book on the field of fashion studies. She
has taught cultural studies for ten years and regularly writes and
speaks on the topic. Arjun Appadurai is a social theorist and John
Dewey Professor of the Social Sciences at The New School for Social
Research; he wrote The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural
Perspective in 1986. This event is supported by a grant from the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation.
</font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Organized
by Parsons The New School for Design and The New School for Social
Research. This event is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.</font>
FASHION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES</font></font></div>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Wednesday, April 25, 6:00- 8:00 p.m
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street.</font></p>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Admission: Free.</font></p>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Created
to open up a dialogue between major figures from the fields of design
and the social sciences, this lecture series highlights The New
School?s commitment to the study of the intersection these disciplines.
This inaugural lecture presented by Parsons The New School for Design
and The New School for Social Research, features Elizabeth Wilson and
Arjun Appadurai speaking about fashion as both a social phenomenon and
as actual material objects.</font></p>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Elizabeth
Wilson is a fashion scholar whose 1985 book Adorned in Dreams: Fashion
and Modernity was the first book on the field of fashion studies. She
has taught cultural studies for ten years and regularly writes and
speaks on the topic. Arjun Appadurai is a social theorist and John
Dewey Professor of the Social Sciences at The New School for Social
Research; he wrote The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural
Perspective in 1986. This event is supported by a grant from the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation.
</font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Organized
by Parsons The New School for Design and The New School for Social
Research. This event is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.</font>
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