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Lecture by Southeast Asian textile scholar, Dr. Jill Forshee, on April 10

Enfolding Life, Death, History, and Flux: Sumba Textiles through Time

Lecture by Southeast Asian textile scholar, Dr. Jill Forshee

Wednesday April 10 2019 at 6:30pm

Crown Center, Room 210, Lakeshore Campus

 Vibrantly pictorial textiles from the island of Sumba, Indonesia have long marked social rank through impressive motifs and rich colors. These prestigious fabrics offer meaning and stability in their skillful and symbolic expressions, retelling stories of existence. They also visibly reveal influences from outsiders, such as Dutch colonial powers across Indonesia. In recent decades, Sumba textiles have entered the commodity flow of a global "ethnic arts" market. Forshee will present something of local culture along with shifts and changes in fabrics in past and present times.

Sponsors

Gerald Hoffman

Department of Anthropology

Asian Studies Program