During the workshop, the INFS editors and various panel speakers will exchange ideas on the journal's upcoming Special Issue (mid-2024) that aims to reimagine a world of fashion studies where scholars are sensitive to the merits of divergent ways of producing fashion knowledge and exercise critical awareness of their own methodological limits. Such a shift in methodological thinking allows novel, inductive approaches to thrive and enrich the interplay between theory and methodology in fashion scholarship. 

Panel speakers: INFS Editors (Rosie Findlay, Tommy Tse and Paolo Volonté), Marie-Aude Baronian, Daniel de las Heras Romano, Mary Hanlon, Misha Kavka, Vésma Kontere McQuillan, Diego Semerene, Johanna Pezold, Sophie Wood, and more.  
 
We invite fashion scholars and ASCA members with a multiplicity of methodological backgrounds and conceptual orientations to participate. If you have any questions, please contact Tommy Tse (h.l.t.tse@uva.nl). Please spread the word, and see you there!  
 
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13:00  
Introduction: B(l)ending Research Methods in Fashion Scholarship 
INFS Editors, Diego Semerene (University of Amsterdam) and Tommy Tse (University of Amsterdam)
 
13:20 
On wardrobe study and patchwork ethnography in fashion studies 
Johanna von Pezold (University of Amsterdam) and Sophie Wood (Regent's University London)

13:50 
Panel Discussions / Q&A 
Rosie Findlay (City, University of London), Johanna von Pezold, and Sophie Wood

14:10 
Researching fashion space, digital archives, and the body 
Mary Hanlon (Okanagan College, BC, Canada), Vésma Kontere McQuillan (Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway), and Daniel de las Heras Romano (Pratt Institute, New York City, USA)
 
14:50 
Panel Discussions / Q&A 
Mary Hanlon, Vésma Kontere McQuillan, Daniel de las Heras Romano, and Tommy Tse 
 
15:20 
Break
 
15:35 
Tracing the theoretical turn(s) of studying fashion: Lacanian psychoanalysis, Cultural analysis, and affect theory 
Marie-Aude Baronian (University of Amsterdam), Misha Kavka (University of Amsterdam), and Diego Semerene 

16:15 
Panel Discussions / Q&A 
Marie-Aude Baronian, Misha Kavka, Diego Semerene, and Paolo Volonté (Politecnico di Milano)

16:45 
Snacks and drinks

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The event is sponsored by: UvA Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) / European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant 2021 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 101044619). Snacks and drinks will be provided at the end of the event.  
Photography by: Paul Cox  
Poster design by: Qidi Feng