Fashion and Philosophy: Diversity, modesty and self-fashioning identity

fri07feb8:00 pm10:00 pmFashion and Philosophy: Diversity, modesty and self-fashioning identityFriday Programme8:00 pm - 10:00 pm(GMT+00:00) Mahfil Ali, 39 Gloucester Road, North Harrow

Event Details

Salaat, then Qur’an recitation, followed by the main talk by Dr Shahidha Bari entitled ‘Fashion and Philosophy: Diversity, modesty and self-fashioning identity’.

Time

February 7, 2020 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm(GMT+00:00)

Location

Mahfil Ali

39 Gloucester Road, North Harrow

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Dr Bari‘s work spans across the fields of culture, poetry, politics and philosophy, but she started her studies with a BA in English at King’s College Cambridge in 1999. After completing studies at the universities of Cambridge, London and Cornell, she became a Lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary in 2011 and now teaches across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules.

Her primary interests are in Fashion and philosophy, cultural history of clothes, Romantic Poetics, Islam and Arab Culture in relation to the West: 18thC to the present, Contemporary Philosophy, Architecture and Modern Art.