Thomaï Serdari to Present "Why Fashion Forward Institutions Need to Invest in Community Managers"

With a career of 15 years as Director of Research Collections at the Department of Art History, New York University, Thomaï Serdari is an expert in articulating new research questions and defining interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. Her research focuses on the intersection of fine arts and commerce, a field she calls “luxury arts” and which includes luxury goods in the areas of fashion, product design, and architecture. Her ideas developed into the core course for the Luxury Marketing specialization at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Additionally, Thomaï teaches “Cultures of Excess: Product and Fashion Design through Modernity,” “Research Methods,” and “Entrepreneurship in the Business of Art” also at NYU.

Thomaï is currently working on two books, the biography of Robert Rosenblum, American art historian, and a textbook on entrepreneurship in the arts. She maintains an independent practice as a USPAP qualified appraiser in fine and luxury arts. She is the founder of Ad Nobile, a think tank dedicated to the research of processes, products, and strategies in the luxury segment of the market. Thomaï holds a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

On Friday, October 19th and Saturday, October 20th professionals from the fashion industry, libraries, archives, academic institutions, publishers, and museums will gather at LIM College for Fashion: Now & Then, a conference on the past, present, and future uses of fashion information that will consist of lectures and panel discussions.

Read more about the Fashion: Now & Then conference.



Registration is closed at this time. If you would like to be placed on the wait list, please contact Lisa Ryan at library@limcollege.edu

DO DO THAT VOODOO!

The Ron Knoth Fashion: Now & Then Keynote Speaker

October 20, 2012

9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.   

DO DO THAT VOODOO! Sex, Sin, Snakes and "The Dusky Other" in 20th Century Popular Culture presented by Amanda Hallay, LIM College

From the turn of the 20th century onward, popular culture has fallen under the spell of Voodoo, its mysterious African origins having little to do with the West’s reinvention of the faith as an instantly recognizable signifier of all that is exotic, all that is sinful, all that is sexy. Professor Hallay’s lecture will trace the various interpretation of Voodoo through 20th popular culture, explaining why it was particularly embraced by certain eras, and finishing off with today’s obsession with Zombies, discussing the challenges she faced when writing her book on the subject, The Popular History of Voodoo (The History Press, 2013) in terms of sourcing material; whilst Voodoo as religion is well archived, its place in popular culture is harder to disinter. Is it the ‘taboo’ nature of Voodoo the reason for its lack of presence in pop culture archives, or was it seen as too silly, sexy, cheap and ‘sensationalist’ to be considered of any lasting cultural value?

Amanda Hallay, Assistant Clinical Professor at LIM College, is an author and cultural historian specializing in various aspects of 20th century popular culture and how each acts as a catalyst to another (as explored in her courses Cultural Connections to Fashion, Pop Century and Who Wore What When, created and taught exclusively at LIM College). The author of several books exploring 20th century pop culture, Professor Hallay’s book, The Popular History of Voodoo will be released by The History Press in 2013, and she will be presenting her research (and the challenges she met due to the lack of archiving of what many in the 20th century perceived as ‘lowbrow’) in her talk, DO DO THAT VOODO! Sex, Sin, Snakes and ‘The Dusky Other’ in 20th Century Popular Culture.

Amanda is the former International Fashion Editor of Couture and Men Mode magazines, and was at one time European Trend Analyst for the Doneger Group, a fashion forecasting service. She is a graduate of the American University of Paris and England’s Bath Spa University.

Read more about Fashion: Now & Then

Registration is closed at this time. If you would like to be placed on the wait list, please contact Lisa Ryan at library@limcollege.edu

Update on 2012 Fashion: Now & Then

Read about some of the presenters at the 2012 Fashion: Now & Then symposium to be held on Friday, October 19th and Saturday October 20th at LIM College.  Bios of more participants and information about registration will we added soon!

The event will take place in the LIM College Townhouse at 12 East 53^rd Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues.

Call for Presentations for October 2012 Symposium

Call for Presentations

Proposal Due Date: May 15, 2012

FASHION: Now & Then

LIM College, New York, NY

Friday, October 19th 2012 to Saturday, October 20th 2012

www.limcollege.edu/fashionnowandthen

LIM College invites participation in the second annual symposium Fashion: Now & Then, a three day symposium at LIM College in which participants will discuss the past, present, and future uses of fashion information.  The symposium consists of lectures and panel discussions, and participants will be drawn from the fashion industry, libraries, archives, academic institutions, publishers, and museums to represent a full range of expertise.

The 2012 Fashion: Now & Then symposium will include several themes about fashion and information including, but not limited to, discussion of the current models for dissemination of fashion information and the collection and preservation of fashion and related contextual information (a continuation of the 2011 Fashion: Now & Then theme).  

Additional areas of interest related to the subject of fashion and information include archives, art, blogs, books, collectors, collection development, designer archives, digital archives, digitization projects, rare books, fashion forecasting, fashion history, fashion studies, film, magazines, libraries, mapping & data visualization, merchandising, marketing, material culture, museums, new media, oral history, photography, preservation, print & non-print media, social media, retail, special collections, textiles, and trend reporting.
  

The event will take place in the LIM College Townhouse at 12 East 53^rd Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues.

Presentation Proposals and Notification

Proposals for presentations should include: the title, name, affiliation, and email address of the author and an abstract of the 15 minute paper/presentation (<500 words). E-mail the proposal to proposals@limcollege.edu . Please submit the text of the proposal in the body of the e-mail and as a PDF or Word attachment.  The proposal due date is May 15, 2012.

Notification of proposal acceptance will occur prior to July 1, 2012.  Proceedings of the symposium will be published.

About LIM College

LIM College is focused exclusively on the study of business and fashion. Housed in four buildings in midtown Manhattan, the College’s unique curriculum combines in-class instruction with required fashion industry internships. LIM College offers a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program with concentrations in Fashion Management and Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degrees in Fashion Merchandising, Visual Merchandising, Marketing and Management, as well as Bachelor of Professional Studies (BPS), Associate of Applied Science (AAS), and Associate in Occupational  Studies (AOS) degrees in Fashion Merchandising, and Professional Certificates. Founded in 1939, LIM College has been witness to every significant change in the retail and fashion industry for more than seven decades.

About the LIM College Library and Archives

The Adrian G. Marcuse Library houses a unique, specialized collection, focusing on the fashion industry and LIM College's major areas of study in a variety of formats (books, magazines, DVDs, e-books, electronic databases). The LIM College Archives consist of three major collections: LIM College Records, Special Collections, and Rare Books.  The mission of the LIM College Archives is to identify, collect, organize, describe, preserve and make accessible the enduring records of LIM College and materials related to the fashion industry.

If you have any questions please contact Lisa Ryan, Reference & Instruction Librarian at LIM College lisa.ryan@limcollege.edu

Fashion: Now & Then at LIM College www.limcollege.edu/fashionnowandthen

Fashion: Now & Then Blog: http://fashionnowandthen.blogspot.com/

2012 Fashion: Now & Then Dates

Fashion: Now & Then 2012 will be October 19th-21st.  Details to follow soon with information about the call for participation.

Thank you Fashion: Now & Then Attendees and Presenters!

Thank you to all of the organizers, presenters, and attendees! The photos from the Fashion: Now & Then symposium are now available on Flickr.

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