Title

Globally Connected: The Joy of Modern Life: Things to Avoid during the Pandemic, Prof. Kyunghee Pyun

Contributor Names

Pyun, Kyunghee

Date

2020-10-22

Date Digitized

2021

Description

In a beautifully illustrated talk, Professor Kyunghee Pyun discusses joyous spectacles of modern life such as the night life, emergence of restaurants and cafes, strolls in department stores, and musical performances in theaters at the turn of the twentieth century in New York City and in other large cities. Ironically, we have learned that these are types of activities we should avoid and curtail during the pandemic. In this talk, we will appreciate a cosmopolitan lifestyle with reflections on public health and technology.

This year's Globally Connected program is a series of 45-minute virtual discussions led by students, faculty, and alumni to advance global education at FIT in our new world with limited mobility. The major themes will be fashion, art, sustainability, racial equity, and life during the pandemic around the world.

Kyunghee Pyun is an Associate Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Her scholarship focuses on history of collecting, reception of Asian art, diaspora of Asian artists, and Asian American visual culture. She was a Leon Levy fellow in the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Collection. Fashion, Identity, Power in Modern Asia surveyed modernized dresses in the early twentieth century. She is working on a new book on school uniforms in East Asia.

Type

Moving Image

Lectures

Subject

COVID-19 (Disease)

Social aspects

Cosmopolitanism

City and town life

New York (State)

New York (State)--New York

Twenty-twenties

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000661