Graduate Seminar Series

Each semester, FSAD offers seminars on topics important to our teaching and research. The typical audience consists of graduate students, academic staff and faculty, however these seminars are open to the general public. For Spring 2021, Seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 1:30pm via Zoom, unless otherwise noted. For more information, contact Karen Steffy.
Spring 2021
February 9 | Prof. Melik Demirel, Penn State Squitex: Self-healing squid ring teeth protein fibers and composites |
February 16 | TBD |
February 23 | Prof. Gareth Williams, School of Pharmacy, UCL-University College London Electrospun fibres in drug delivery |
March 2 | Dr. Sabrina Strings, Dept. of Sociology, University of California Irvine Fashioning the Black Female Body: Negrophilia/negrophobia and the Racial Economy of Desire Co-sponsored by the Central NY Humanities Corridor, Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design, Department of History, and the American Studies Program. Dr. Strings will be the inaugural speaker in the "Fashion & Social Justice" lecture series, which is hosted by the "Decolonizing Fashion Studies: Rethinking Curriculum, Collections, and Creative Practice" Central NY Humanities Corridor working group. |
March 9 | Wellness day – no classes |
March 16 | TBD |
March 23 | TBD |
March 30 | Dr. Charlene Lau Unruly Bodies: Fashion, Costume and Vulgarity in Contemporary Performance |
April 6 | Prof. Tanisha C. Ford, Dept. of History, The Graduate Center, CUNY Ebony Fashion Fair Comes to Harlem: Glamour, Philanthropy, and the Civil Rights Movement |
April 13 | Prof. Jessica Schiffman, UMass Next-generation nanofibers: Applications in water purification to probiotic delivery |
April 20 | Prof. Ramazan Asmatulu, Wichita State University |
April 27 | TBD |
May 4 | Dr. Marie Chae |
May 11
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Dr. Monica Titton, University of Applied Arts Vienna Fashion in Crisis - Mapping Sites of Transformation |