We are delighted that Professor Steeve Buckridge (Grand Valley State University, Michigan) will give the keynote lecture "Beyond the Classical Archives: Dress as Embodied Histories, Memory, and Orality in and from the Caribbean".

How did dress as a visual language and expressive form of culture articulate differences in slave society? Or how did dress empower or disempower slave women within the colonial plantocracy? The talk aims to demonstrate how dress is parallel to written archival materials and is a source for historical analysis.

Find the full abstract below.