The Interdisciplinary Studies Institute is very excited to announce that Jonathan M. Square from Harvard University will give a talk entitled The Myth of the Tignon and the Invention of New Orleans. The talk will be on October 31st from 4:00-5:30pm in ILC S140. Jonathan M. Square is a writer, historian, and curator of Afro-Diasporic fashion and visual culture. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, and currently at Harvard University. He also runs the website Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom, which explores the intersection of fashion and slavery.