[PAST EVENT] "Fashion Industry in the Philippines Under American Colonial Occupation" by Dr. Genevieve Clutario

April 19, 2019
10am - 10:50am
Location
Boswell Hall (formerly Morton Hall), Room 20
100 Ukrop Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
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  • Open to the public
Harvard University's Dr. Genevieve Clutario will lecture on US Occupied Philippines.
Harvard University's Dr. Genevieve Clutario will lecture on US Occupied Philippines.

Dr. Clutario investigates the making of a transnational embroidery industry known as “Philippine Lingerie” during U.S. colonial occupation, exposing the Filipina labor production in private homes and workshops, U.S. colonial industrial schools and prisons. Dr. Clutario’s research demonstrates beauty’s power and how it functions as a structuring force that determines individual and cultural practices as well as national and transnational politics and policy formation under US empire.


An Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University, Dr. Clutario is the author of the forthcoming Beauty Regimes: Disciplining Modernity in the Transimperial Philippines from Duke University Press. Dr. Clutario’s interests include Asian/American histories in global perspectives; comparative histories of modern empire; transnational feminisms; gender, race, and the politics of fashion and beauty. She is on the board of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

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