Visual Culture Seminar ‘Imaginary of contagion: What do fashion trends and pandemics have in common?’

Organised in partnership with the degree in Fashion Design and Marketing at the University of Minho, this CECS Visual Culture Seminar session will be dedicated to the theme ‘Imaginary of contagion: What do fashion trends and pandemics have in common?’
Our guest, Suellen Cristina Vieira, proposes to show, based on the theory of the imaginary developed by Gilbert Durand and Michel Maffesoli, that pandemics and fashion trends can be understood as a mediation between the biological and the social and that fashion can be compared to a pandemic.

Suellen Cristina Vieira has a PhD and a Master’s degree in Language Sciences, a postgraduate degree in MBA Business Management and a degree in Fashion Design from the Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina – UNISUL. She is currently a lecturer in Fashion Design, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Journalism and Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Southern Santa Catarina – UNISUL. She is a researcher associated with the Imaginary and Everyday Life research group in the Language and Culture Research Line. She studies and develops scientific projects in the areas of: Social Imaginary, Art, Culture, Fashion, Postmodernity and Social Phenomena. She works on extension projects with academics from different fields, on topics such as Branding and digital positioning of Personal Brands. Lecturer with honourable mention. Capes scholarship holder for the Sandwich Doctorate Abroad Programme. Visiting Researcher at CECS.

Link to online session here 

 

[Posted:10-10-2024]