Events

Guest Lecture in "Queer Fashion" Graduate Seminar

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:11:52 +0000

Guest Lecture in "Queer Fashion" Graduate Seminar @ Syracuse University

Presentation: "Race WERK: Williwear and Patrick Kelly Paris"

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:33:45 +0000

Presentation: "Race WERK: Williwear and Patrick Kelly Paris" @ 3rd Annual Vanderbilt University Callie House Research Center for the Study of Global Black Cultures and Politics' "Work-in-Progress Seminar" Newport, Rhode Island - One of eight scholars invited by Professor Tracy Sharpley-Whiting to workshop and provide feedback on manuscripts-in-progress over the course of a four day seminar.

Roundtable: Writing and/as Community

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:36:37 +0000

Roundtable: Writing and/as Community - "Teaching, Writing, and Community: A Symposium in Honor of Craig Werner " @ University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Speaker on a roundtable discussion at a symposium to honor the phenomenal Craig Werner, one of my dear mentors and friends who will be retiring from UW-Madison this year.

Lecture: "'Our Politics Evolve from a Healthy Love'

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:41:05 +0000

Lecture: "'Our Politics Evolve from a Healthy Love': The Combahee River Collective's Black Lesbian Feminist Activist-Rhetorical Extracurriculum, 1977-1980" @ University of Virginia -A lecture presenting research from my next book project about Black queer feminist activism and community literacies in the 1970s and 1980s. Sponsored by The Academic and Professional Writing Program at UVA.

Workshop: Guardian Dead

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:56:50 +0000

Workshop: Guardian Dead: Ancestor Let Intellectual Practices (w/ Alexis Pauline Gumbs) @ Michigan State University --A one-day reprise of a 2013 workshop originally developed and co-facilitated with Alexis Pauline Gumbs in Durham, North Carolina. Sponsored by the Department of English and the College of Arts and Letters Engaged Pedagogy and Programming Funds.

Lecture: "Queer Students in Higher Education," UB Office of Inclusive Excellence Dinner Series

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:57:40 +0000

A dinner and dialogue with the UB community about the experiences of queer students in higher education, at the invitation of the Undergraduate Student Inclusive Excellence Council. Sponsored by the University at Buffalo Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIX)

Keynote - 2019 Syracuse University Commemorative Black History Month Lecture “The Legacies of Black Gay Fashion Designers

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:58:52 +0000

Lecture: "Fried Chicken, Foie Gras, and Pearls: Patrick Kelly’s Aesthetics”

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:17:27 +0000

Guest Lecture: “Ancestorship and Diasporic Black Queer Fashion” @ UNC-Chapel Hill

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:19:02 +0000

Rap Sessions National Tour: Consent, Silences, and Institutional Complicity" @. Penn State University

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:23:34 +0000

Panel: “Fashion, Anxiety, and Society: Justice” @ Bard Graduate Center Gallery

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:35:02 +0000

Guest Seminar: "Teaching Writing as a Practice of Freedom and Wellness" @ UB Writing Program

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 12:46:02 +0000

In this pedagogy session, facilitated by Dr. Eric Darnell Pritchard, we will have an informal discussion about a wide array of transgressive and contemplative practices used by teachers committed to grappling courageously and meaningfully with identity, anti-racism, and other matters of social justice in the teaching of writing, from university classrooms to community programs. Our shared texts for the discussion will be selections from bell hooks’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994) and Becky Thompson’s Teaching with Tenderness: Toward an Embodied Practice (2017). We ask that attendees read the selections and come prepared to share and listen. We will meet in 540 Clemens Hall on the North Campus at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Refreshments will be served.

Panel: "Change is Gonna’ Come: Black LGBTQ Influences in Fashion" @ Smithsonian "Fashion, Culture, Futures" Symposium

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:34:07 +0000

“Fashion, Culture, Futures: African American Ingenuity, Activism, and Storytelling” is a two-part symposium co-organized by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. These programs gather academics, designers, critics, models, artists, activists, and others to share new perspectives on the relationship between fashion and the African American experience.

Part two of the symposium, presented by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, explores the inspirational ways that African Americans have and continue to redefine the fashion industry. Even as they have faced inequality, discrimination and misrepresentation, African Americans have creatively influenced and been influenced by the fashion industry. The symposium will cover the historical and contemporary contributions of Black fashion designers, fashion collections at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, LGBTQ+ influences on fashion, modeling during and after segregation, social media and fashion, and African Americans in the global world of fashion." The event is free, but registration is required. You can registere here. (Source: NMAAHC)

Panel Moderator: "COLLECTIVE MEMORY: STORYTELLING AND COLLABORATION IN THE WRITING OF HISTORY" @ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:02:51 +0000

"The conversation will be moderated by Eric Darnell Pritchard, author and Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, with panelists including Steven G. Fullwood, Archivist and Co-founder of the Nomadic Archivists Project, Uzodinma Iweala, author and CEO of the Africa Center, and Kelly Elaine Navies, Museum Specialist in Oral History for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).

This free program will feature a moderated panel discussion followed by an audience Q+A hosted through Zoom. A link will be emailed to you upon registration.

CART captioning will be provided. Please reach out to us with any information on how we can support your participation, and with requests for services by emailing CHAccess@si.edu."

Panel: Researching and Teaching about Race in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication @ Indiana University-Bloomington (Panel)

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:09:43 +0000

Zoom Panel on Researching and Teaching about Race in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication

Thursday, March 18, at 7:00pm

Participants:

Keith Gilyard, Penn State

Aja Martinez, University of North Texas

Eric Darnell Pritchard, University of Arkansas

Iris Ruiz, UC Merced

Speaker: FIDM Museum "Collection Conversation" on Patrick Kelly with Dr. Eric Darnell Pritchard

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:17:53 +0000

Lecture: "Race WERK: A Fashion Rhetoric" @ Virginia Tech

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 03:02:48 +0000

Grad Student Informal Meet-Up @ Virginia Tech

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 03:06:10 +0000

Panel: Unravelling Threads: Tracing and Transforming Violence and Trauma through Fashion @ London College of Fashion & The Courtauld Institute of Art

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 03:13:47 +0000

Fashion sits intimately upon the skin, functioning as a barrier between the self and the outside world, with the ability to offer notions of both physical and psychological protection. Yet it is also inherently revelatory, and can express our feelings and experiences – or mould them, and communicate how we would like to be perceived.

Fashion also has an unrelenting relationship with the contexts in which it occurs. It reflects, responds to, and contributes towards wider events, from cultural to political and beyond. In this way, fashion operates as a phenomenon that is deeply personal yet simultaneously inseparable from wider society.

This places fashion as uniquely able to express trauma and violence, whether on an individual or collective scale, and it can function as a site upon which they can manifest. Yet, at the same time, fashion also offers a powerful vehicle for deflection, protection, and healing from those very same notions.

This two-day conference, hosted by London College of Fashion and The Courtauld Institute of Art, seeks to explore the wide-ranging and nuanced relationships between fashion, violence, and trauma. It aims to understand how violence and trauma manifest upon the body, as well as how fashion offers the prospect of processing, resolving, and overcoming violent and traumatic experiences.

From 1940s Germany to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2022, the conference will take an international, interdisciplinary, and cross-temporal approach. We will hear how these themes impact and inspire subjects such as fashion design, fashion education, personal narratives, and more. The conference will present a varied range of formats, including academic papers, industry panels, an interview with practicing psychologists, and film.

This conference is organised by Dr Rebecca Arnold (The Courtauld) and Dr Lucy Moyse Ferreira (London College of Fashion) as a collaboration between London College of Fashion and The Courtauld Institute. The first day will be hosted by LCF as part of the School of Media and Communication Hub, and the second by The Courtauld as part of the Documenting Fashion group.