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Thursday, October 17, 7:00 p.m.

Introductory remarks

• Steve Hoch Associate Provost of Academic Programs and Dean of International Programs
• Christopher Roy Associate Dean of International Programs and Professor of Art History
• Jay Semel Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies

  Keynote Address
  Joanne Eicher, University of Minnesota
  "The Body and Dress: The Cultured Body in Africa"

  Reception following

Friday, October 18

9:00 – 11:30
Reexamining the Traditional: Adornment and Communication

• Karen Milbourne, University of Kentucky. "More than a Man of Style: King Lewinika and His Incorporative Strategies of Barotseland"
   
• Sylvester Ogbechie, UC Santa Barbara. "Bodies of Evidence: Title Regalia of the Igbo Ozo Organization"
   
• Sandra Klopper, University of Capetown. "The Power of Respect: An Historical Perspective on Beaded Capes and Blankets from the Southern African Region"
   
• Peri Klemm, Art Institute of California. "Dressing the Spirit/Shielding the Gaze: Body Arts and Possession among Oromo Women"
   
•  Hazel Lutz, University of Minnesota. "Designing Kalabari Zari-Embroidered Velvets: Indian Participation in Construction of a West African Feminine Ideal"
   
• Discussant: Rudi Colleredo-Mansfeld, University of Iowa, Anthropology Department

Friday 1:00 – 3:30

Welcome: Howard C. Collinson, Director, University of Iowa Museum of Art

Inside/Outside Africa: The Travels of People and Adornments

• Victoria Rovine, UI Museum of Art. "Tradition into Fashion: Representing Africa through Clothing"
  
• Enid Schildkrout, American Museum of Natural History. "Iconic Africa: The Image of the Mangbetu Woman in the West"
   
• Leslie Rabine, University of California-Davis. "Fact, Fabrication, or Material Misreading: The Geneology of 'Authentic African Print Fabric'"
  
• Kristyne Loughran Bini, Indept. Scholar-Florence. "The "Idea" of Africa in European High Fashion: Global Dialogues"
   
• Discussant: Florence Babb, University of Iowa, Anthropology and Women's Studies Department

Friday 4:00 – 6:30
Contemporary Studio Arts and the Body 

• Sarah Adams, University of Iowa."In My Garment There is Nothing But God": Bodies, Trees and Prayer in Ibrahim el Salahi's Work
   
• Chika Okeke, Emory University. "Repulsive/Attraction: Revisiting the body in Candice Breitz's Rainbow Series."
   
• Gary van Wyck, Axis Gallery-NYC. "Berni Searle: South African art and the Body"
  
• Discussant: Isabel Barbuzza, University of Iowa, Sculpture Department
   

Saturday, October 19

9:00 – 12:00
Fashion and Invention: Weaving Identities

• Suzanne Gott, Kansas City Art Institute."Fashionable Dress and Conflicting Ideals: Asante 'High-timers' in Contemporary Ghana"
   
• Kathleen Bickford-Berzock, Art Institute of Chicago. "Fashioning Womanhood: Factory Printed Textiles in Côte d'Ivoire"
    
• Joanna Grabski, Denison University. "At the Crossroads of Fashion: A Case Study of Tailors and Designers in Downtown Dakar"
   
• Rebecca Green, Bowling Green State University. "Design and Tradition in Madagascar"
   
• Heather Marie Akou, University of Minnesota. "Fashion in West Africa: Connections between Hand-made and Factory-made Cloth"
   
• Discussant: Jacki Rand, University of Iowa, History Department

Saturday 1:00 – 4:00
Beads, Hair, Jewelry, and Identity

• Carol Boram-Hays, Ohio State University. "The Political Body: Beads and Political Identity Among Zulu-Speaking People of South Africa"
   
• Labelle Prussin, Indept. Scholar-NYC. "What's in a Name? Gold, Judaism and Trans-Saharan Trade"
   
• Christine Mullen Kreamer, National Museum of African Art. "Exhibiting Jewelry: Definitions and Strategies"
   
• Daniel Mato, University of Calgary. "Dressing the Part: Coiffure and Color as Markers of Rank and Status Among the Akan"
   
• Discussant: Laura Graham, University of Iowa, Anthropology Department
   

Sunday, October 19 - Art Building, Room E109

The Cultured Body: Global Perspectives: A series of papers by University of Iowa graduate students.

9:00 ­ 10:30
Studio Arts Through the Lens of the body

• Almut Haboeck, Art History. "'Art and Revolution' Vienna, June 7, 1968: Viennese Actionism and Body Politics"
   
• Kimberly Cleveland, Art History "Mario Cravo Neto: Questions of History, Culture, and Identity through Sculptural Photography" (Brazilian)
   
• Sarah Clunis, Art History "Susan Dayal: She Structures, More About the Void"

11:00 – 12:30
Performing the Body: Gender, Race and Identity

• Gitti Salami, Art History "Ibalibali and Eblami Body Adornment: Acts and Outcomes"
   
• Jessica Share, Women’s Studies "Natural Women: Performing the Queer Body in Outdoor Sport and Space"
   
• Kelli Beer, Anthropology "The Snake That Bit Medusa: One (Phenotypically) White Woman’s Dread(s)"

For questions or more information on The Cultured Body please e-mail Sarah-Adams@uiowa.edu or Victoria-Rovine@uiowa.edu.