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Fast fashion is often understood as a recent business model defined by speed, low cost, and disposability. Yet many of its challenges—labor exploitation, environmental harm, and the normalization of overconsumption—have much deeper historical roots. This talk traces the emergence of “fast fashion” through the lens of nineteenth- and twentieth-century shifts in media, merchandising, and consumer culture at large, showing how notions of “progress” and “prosperity” helped obscure the human and environmental costs of mass-produced clothing

As a society, we talk about fashion – a lot! What we do to and put on our bodies, the social and economic value of those products and processes, and the identities into which we might step by participating in fashion/style/dress are constantly being reconstituted through the text and images published at a near constant rate into the contemporary media landscape. In this talk I will share what I have learned from more than a

Part of the BCTR's Talks at Twelve series.

What does it mean to extend a university into the largest, most complex city in the country?

Cornell University Cooperative Extension—New York City (CUCE-NYC) has been answering that question for more than 60 years. Working across all five boroughs, CUCE-NYC translates Cornell’s research into practical programs that reach more than 30,000 New Yorkers each year—in nutrition and health, family and youth development, and STEM and urban agriculture

Dr. Mehta is a physician with training and expertise in nutrition, epidemiology, infectious disease, and diagnostics. He is currently the Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University and serves on its executive leadership team. He is also the Founding Director of the Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health and co-director of the NIH-funded Center for Point of Care Diagnostics for Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer

This is part of the Talks at Twelve series from the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.

Systems transformation efforts grounded in deep engagement with stakeholders, rigorous analysis of data, and a nuanced understanding of the complexity of policy and practice can maximize the impact of changes and improve outcomes among youth and families involved with public human service systems. Using examples from her work in Illinois and across the country, Dana Weiner ’92 will describe

Dr. Claes is a management scholar (Ph.D., INSEAD) who investigates the socio-cultural construction of worth in markets—how different audiences evaluate producers and their outputs. In fashion and luxury, he studies how evaluative schemas, status cues, and design choices are read by critics, buyers, and media, and how those interpretations translate into visibility, placements, price premia, and talent mobility. Extending the same lens to financial markets, he examines how AI intermediaries, social similarity, and the use of