Histories and Materialities of Second-Hand Clothes
Fri 21 Nov
|University of Amsterdam, Room 0.16, BG1
The ASCA Global Africa Reading group is delighted to announce "Histories and Materialities of Second-Hand Clothes." This event will be held on Friday 21 November 2025 (3:00-4:30pm CEST) in BGI 0.16 (In Person) and online (via Zoom). Speaker: Mwangi Mwaura (University of Oxford) & Jiaying Tu (UvA)


Time & Location
21 Nov 2025, 15:00 – 16:30 CET
University of Amsterdam, Room 0.16, BG1, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT Amsterdam, Netherlands
About the event

Registration is not required.
Online attendance will be possible for this session. Please use the poster’s QR code or this Zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220
Histories and Materialities of Second-Hand Clothes
Speakers: Mwangi Mwaura (University of Oxford) and Jiaying Tu (UvA). The session will be moderated by Fairuzah Munaaya Atchulo (UvA).
Mwangi Mwaura will give a talk titled ‘Reading/Intuiting Cloth Tags: Second-hand Clothes