“Fashion in Crisis – Five Sites of Transformation” (compendium of five lectures)

“Critical Fashion Knowledge: Learnings from Decolonization and Feminist Activism” (compendium of four lectures)

March 2023, Università La Sapienza, Rome (IT)

MA Fashion Studies, Department of History, Anthropology, Religion & Arts, La Sapienza Università di Roma

“Collective Narratives of Self in Digital Fashion Media: A Critical Overview”

2 December, 2021, IUAV Venezia (IT)

Research Lab “Fashion Response-ability: Transnational Dialogues and Local Impact”

Fashion, Feminism and Radical Protest: Paths towards a Praxis of Joyful Militancy

11 June, 2021, London College of Fashion, London

Talk as part of the LCF Cultural & Historical Studies Digital Symposium 2021.

My paper addresses the dialectic relationship between fashion, feminism and radical feminist protest, and proposes fashion – and fashion education – as a critical site for feminist consciousness and activism, and for the formation of a praxis of joyful militancy as theorized by Silvia Federici.

Fashion in Crisis: Mapping Sites of Transformation

11 May 2021, Ithaca

Guest lecture at the Department of Fibre Science & Apparel Design's graduate research seminar, Cornell University

Fashion in Crisis Reading Group (on zoom)

22 April, 6 May, 20 May, 3 June and 17 June 2020

The open reading group is an invitation to pause and reflect on the fashion system as we know it. Now is the time to ask critical questions, to envision alternatives and to discuss new possibilities! Find the program and information about the texts here!

Fashion and Postcolonial Critique

7 December 2019, Paris

Talk as part of the “Fashioning Theory” research seminar at Parsons Paris MA Fashion Studies and the exhibition “A Fashion Issue: Identities in Translation” of Parsons Paris MA Fashion Studies. Glassbox Espace d’Art, 4 Rue Moret, Paris.

The Hidden Fashion Library

26-29 April 2017, Vienna

Exhibition co-curated with Elke Gaugele, as part of the TAKE Festival for Independent Fashion and Arts, organized by the Austrian Fashion Association. Alte Post, Dominikanerbastei Vienna.

Collective Narratives of Self
and Identity in
Digital Fashion Media

19 May 2021, Dortmund

Guest lecture at the seminar “Fashion Cities”, Technical University Dortmund

Fashion Criticism and Independent Fashion Media

19 November 2019, Milano

Guest lecture at the Design Department, Politecnico, Milano.

Theory as Practice: Notes on the Sociology of a Practice-Based Fashion Theory

22 October 2019, Vienna

Talk as part of the symposium “Talkshow: The Politics of Practice-Based Fashion Research”, organized by the Austrian Center for Fashion Research, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna.

On (life) design - Talk and Social Constructs

12 September 2017, Moscow

Panel discussion with Jakob Lena Knebl and Natalia Smolianskaia, as part of the exhibition “V-A-C Live: Tino Seghal”, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Blogging the Female Self

15 May 2019, Barcelona

Talk as part of the Fashion Design Symposium “How Digital Technology is Disrupting the Fashion System”, Escuela de Diseño - LCI Barcelona.

Fashion and Masks: A Visual Journey through the History of Fashion and Identity

6 April 2016, Helsinki

Guest lecture at the Department of Film, Television and Scenography, Aalto University, Helsinki.