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Information Overload and/or Closet Organizers

Information Overload and/or Closet Organizers

From Indexed. (http://thisisindexed.com/2009/07/information-overload-andor-closet-organizers/)

The Art of Dress in Modern India

From an IU India Studies Press Release:

The Indiana University India Studies Program Presents:

The Art of Dress in Modern India

A faculty lecture by
Pravina Shukla
Associate Professor of Folklore
Indiana University

Pravina Shukla is Associate Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, where she teaches courses on dress, adornment, and body art, museums, food, and material culture. Her museum experience has included working at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, California, and at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City. Two research topics that have interested her, resulting in extensive fieldwork, exhibitions, and publications, are: carnival costumes in Brazil, and dress and body adornment in India. She is the author of The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment and the Art of the Body in Modern India (Indiana University Press, 2008.) Her current research topic is on the various cultural uses of costumes.

Two-time winner of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, Professor Shukla has lectured on material culture, dress and adornment within the United States, and also in India, Bangladesh, Canada, and Israel.

Friday, November 7th at 5:30 pm

India Studies House, 825 East 8th Street (Corner of 8th and Woodlawn)

Free and open to the public

For more information, contact the India Studies Program

(812)855-5798

http://www.indiana.edu/~isp

IU Symposium on Dress and Adornment

Thanks go to everyone who participated on Friday [4-18] and Saturday [4-19] in the symposium on dress and adornment that Suzanne Godby Ingalsbe, Pravina Shukla and I organized. The paper presentations were diverse, interesting and innovative and it was exciting to talk shop with faculty and students drawn from the IU departments of anthropology, apparel merchandising and interior design, folklore and ethnomusicology and history of art. In addition to the faculty and student presenters, thanks also go to those who came to take in, and comment upon, the presentations. While the Saturday events took place at the IU Memorial Union, the presentations on Friday were held at the Wylie House Museum, where our host was the museum’s director Jo Burgess and our kickoff activity was a tour (by Suzanne) of the new exhibition What Women Wore: Clothing and Accessories of the 19th Century. The Friday papers were a special treat, delivered as they were in the first floor of Wylie House. The house was dark enough to see the slides of the presenters, but it was open to the breeze and to just enough sunlight on a beautiful Bloomington afternoon. The experience was a great reminder of what a wonderful resource Wylie House is for the IU community.