Events
Race, Religion, and the Corporation: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
OnlineWatch the event Two Supreme Court decisions issued on June 29, 2023, promise to fundamentally reshape the relationship between employers and employees. These decisions will make it easier for employees to obtain religious accommodations, and harder for employers to promote diversity. In Groff v. DeJoy, the Court held that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act […]
Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History – with Richard Thompson Ford
OnlineRecorded on March 10th, 2021. Features Professor Richard Thompson Ford and Professor Naomi Mezey Author and Law professor Richard Thompson Ford discussed his latest book, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History (2021). An insightful book that explores dress codes and the history of the laws of fashion from the middle ages to […]
Speaking Volumes: Richard Thompson Ford and Vanessa Friedman
OnlineFor the first Speaking Volumes event of 2021, the Authors Guild Foundation hosted an intimate conversation with Richard Thompson Ford, author of Dress Codes and Rights Gone Wrong, and Vanessa Friedman, Chief Fashion Editor of the New York Times, as they discussed the social perceptions and norms behind dress codes and their relation to the […]
American Inspiration Series: Dress Codes Book Talk
OnlineLive Broadcast: February 18, 2021 Presented by Richard Thompson Ford Moderated by Petra Slinkard, Curator of Fashion and Textiles at the Peabody Essex Museum The American Inspiration author series welcomes author Richard Thompson Ford and guest moderator Petra Slinkard, curator of fashion and textiles at Peabody Essex Museum, for a lively discussion about Ford’s new […]
Parnassus Books: Richard Ford in Conversation with Dan Sharfstein
OnlineParnassus Books is happy to welcome Richard Thompson Ford, author of Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History, in conversation with Dan Sharfstein. This is a virtual event which will take place on the Parnassus Books Facebook page. Watch Now Join us Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 6:00PM Central Time. After the live […]
Richard Thompson Ford discusses "Dress Codes" with Jeannie Suk Gersen
OnlineHarvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes RICHARD THOMPSON FORD—George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and author of the acclaimed book Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality—for a discussion of his latest book, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History. He will be joined in […]
Richard Thompson Ford, in conversation with Ariela Gross, discusses Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
OnlineDress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. Merchants who dressed like princes and butchers' wives wearing gem-encrusted crowns were public enemies in medieval societies structured by social hierarchy […]