On April 26, 2023, the International Interdisciplinary Online Seminar “Language of Fashion: Exploring Research Method”, organized by Nataliya Rozhin, a leading lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media of Birmingham City University (United Kingdom), was held.
The event was attended by the teachers and students of bachelor's and master's degree programs of the Department of Art and Fashion Design of the Faculty of Design and the Department of Modeling and Artistic Decoration of Clothes of the Faculty of Art and Fashion (educational programs "Fashion Design", "Styling, Design and Artistic Finishing of Fashion Industry Products") and postgraduate students of the Faculty of Design (educational program "Design").
Listeners of the International Interdisciplinary Seminar "Language of Fashion: Exploring Research Method"
The seminar consisted of several lectures by the experts in fashion design and linguistics. The presentation “Public discourses about experimental fashion, based on Rick Owens case study” by lecturer Natalia Rozhin aroused considerable interest.
Episodes of Nataliya Rozhin’s presentation “Public discourses about experimental fashion, based on Rick Owens case study”
Serhii Fokin, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Practice of Translation from Romance Languages named after Mykola Zerov, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, spoke about the experience of creating a bilingual fashion and design dictionary “Towards building a bilingual Fashion and Design dictionary: Case of Ukrainian as a target language”.
Episodes of Serhiі Fokin’s report on the creation of a bilingual dictionary of fashion and design
The current topic "Fashion discourse and war: axiological compromise" was raised in the report by Hanna Chernenko, Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Ukrainian and Russian as Foreign Languages of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Episodes of Hanna Chernenko's report "Fashion discourse and war: axiological compromise"
Also, the report "Paradoxes of the mask: communicating via face covering" by Iryna Alyekseyeva, Associate Professor of the Department of English Philology and Intercultural Communication of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, was heard.
Slides of Iryna Alyekseyeva’s presentation “Paradoxes of the mask: communicating via face covering”
Master of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Victoria Romanchuk, who is currently studying at Birmingham City University under the academic mobility program, spoke about the corpus-assisted analysis of the language around Ukrainian sustainable fashion using the example of the works of modern Ukrainian designer brands "Corpus assisted analysis of the sustainable fashion".
Pieces of Victoria Romanchuk's presentation
The results of the linguistic study “Clothing Nomination Tendencies in Ukrainian (Text Corpus Studies)” were shared by Solomiya Buk, Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of General Linguistics of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
Pieces of Solomiya Buk's report
The teachers, undergraduate and postgraduate students of KNUTD are sincerely grateful to Birmingham City University lecturer Nataliya Rozhin for the opportunity to participate in the scientific seminar and gain relevant knowledge in fashion design.
The seminar was held in English, which allowed the teachers and students to improve their foreign language skills and learn the interpretation of various terms in fashion design.
03.05.2023
