Inaugural lecture: Stitches of Care: Practising Solidarity through Fashion

Thursday 20 March 2025 Danielle Bruggeman delivers her inaugural lecture Stitches of Care: Practising Solidarity through Fashion at Radboud University in Nijmegen. This lecture follows her appointment as professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Radboud, in April 2024. This appointment allows ArtEZ University of the Arts and Radboud University to approach the topic of sustainability from the perspective of art and science.

Prior to this public inaugural address, there will be an equally public programme: Conversations. The presentations, lectures and conversations are related to the central themes of Bruggeman’s inaugural address and include interesting contributions from:

Kate Fletcher (Professor of Sustainability, Design and Fashion Systems, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Tanveer Ahmed (Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Race, Central Saint Martins)
Anneke Smelik (Professor Emerita of Visual Culture, Radboud University)
Femke de Vries (Fashion practitioner, senior lecturer at ArtEZ University of the Arts, and PhD student at RMIT Melbourne)
Zinzi de Brouwer (Founder Studio Palha and ArtEZ alumna)
Alexis Mersmann (Current participant MA Critical Fashion Practices at ArtEZ University of the Arts)

“I look forward to bringing art and science and practice and theory closer together.”
Danielle Bruggeman

More about Danielle Bruggeman
Danielle Bruggeman studied General Cultural Studies at Radboud University. She obtained her PhD – also in Nijmegen – in 2014 for a thesis entitled More Than Meets the Eye: Dutch Fashion, Identity and New Materialism, on the relationship between fashion and identity. She then worked as a lecturer and researcher, including at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Since 2017, Bruggeman is lecturer Fashion at ArtEZ University of the Arts, where she leads the fashion research programme and teaches within the master’s programme Critical Fashion Practices. Bruggeman is part of the core team NewTexEco.

Practical information:
Location: Aula Radboud University, Comeniuslaan 2, 6525HP Nijmegen.
Date: Thursday 20 March
Start: 12.30 pm (doors open)

The Conversations and Inaugural lecture require separate registration.
Start Conversations: 1.00 to 3.00 pm
Register for the Conversations section before 6 March
Start Inaugural lecture: 3.45 pm to 4.30 pm
Please register before 6 March for the inaugural lecture: Stitches of Care: Practising Solidarity through Fashion

From 3 to 3.45 pm there will be a break with tea and coffee.
We will have drinks after from 4.30 to 6 pm.

You will receive a confirmation and additional information in March.

Watch the speech via a livestream