Texts and Textiles
draft programme
UH = Upper Hall
LC = Library Court Seminar Rm
CoR = Coleridge Rm AR = Alcock Rm CrR = Cranmer Rm
Tuesday 11th September 2012
8.30-9.30
UH
Registration and coffee
9.30-9.45
UH
Welcome
9.45-11.15
UH
poetry-making
Giovanni Fanfani and Ellen Harlizius-Klück (Copenhagen), ‘Weaving hymns:
textile metaphors and the poetics of ancient Greek epics and lyric’
Benjamin Cartwright (Cambridge), ‘Delight in Disorder: “Singing Along To
The Song of the Loom”’
LC
encounters
Billie Lythberg (Auckland), ‘A Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth
Collected in the Three Voyages of Captain Cook: textile, text and
texere’
Marianna Franzosi (independent scholar), ‘Textiles as texts: Ancient Andean
textiles and Anni Albers’ artistic analysis’
Angela Carr (Montreal), ‘Gathering materials: from altar-cloth to text in
writing of Gloria Anzaldúa’
11.15-11.30
UH
Coffee
11.30-1
UH
the craft/texture of poetry
Megan Cavell (Toronto), ‘Cræft-work: textile metaphors and the materiality
of language in Old English poetry’
Alison Knight (Cambridge), ‘“In another make me understood”: Scripture,
quotations, and contexture in George Herbert’s The Temple’
Christopher Burlinson (Cambridge), ‘Finest Gossamore’
LC
sacred texts
Clemence Schultze (Durham), ‘Linen leaves: early written records in ancient
Rome’
Ralph Isaacs OBE (independent scholar), ‘Sazigyo—textile texts’
Katya Oichermann (Goldsmiths): ‘Binding auto/biographies’
1-2.15
UH
Lunch
2.15-4.15
UH
fine strands
Georgianna Ziegler (Folger Shakespeare Library), ‘The Textualities of Lace’
Joy Boutrup (Kolding School of Design), ‘Seventeenth-century Letter Braids’
Janice Sibthorpe (Royal College of Art), ‘Texts and textiles: women reading,
writing and making in seventeenth-century England’
Maura Tarnoff (Saint Louis), ‘Psalm Couture: Fashion, bookbinding, and the
book of Psalms in early modern England’
LC
writing with a needle
Sara Impey (artist), ‘Text and textile: a maker’s viewpoint’
Alison Stewart (artist), ‘newsfabric’
Rosalind Wyatt (artist), ‘Writing with a needle: an artist’s approach’
Lindsey Holmes (artist), ‘The needle is always at hand’
AR
materializing the book
Linda Newington (Winchester School of Art), ‘From rags to riches’
Leah Knight (Brock, Ontario), ‘“... and her Maids to pin them up”: working on
Anne Clifford’s reading’
Cynthia L. Hallen (Brigham Young), ‘Hemi-Stitches and Running Stitches:
Syntax and Dashes in Emily Dickinson’s Poems’
4.15-5
UH
Coffee
5-6
UH
Keynote address
Professor Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
6-7
tbc
Drinks reception
Wednesday 12th September
9-10.30
UH
staging textiles
Athena Bellas (Melbourne): ‘Twilight, texture, tactility: teen film’s sensuous
pleasures’
Mimi Yiu (Georgetown): ‘True stitch and false loves: blackwork as texts of
feminine desire’
Hester Lees-Jeffries (Cambridge), ‘Shakespeare in folds’
9.30-10.30
CoR
textile thinking
Maria Damon (Minnesota), ‘Slow poetry and the needle arts: a qualified
critique’
Anne Rippin (Bristol), ‘Textiles and scholarship: using contemporary textile
practice as a model for organizational research’
10.30-11
UH
Coffee
11-12.30
UH
textile teaching
Beth Williamson (Tate), ‘Yarns and tales in the art school: from embroidery to
rag-bag to digital studio’
Naomi Tarrant (Museums for Scotland), ‘Scottish girls and samplers, 17001850’
Georgina Gajewski (North Carolina at Chapel Hill), ‘Private schools as public
spaces: exhibitions of needlework in female academies of the American
South’
CoR
digital textiles
Daniela Rosner (Berkeley), ‘Modern craft: locating the material in a digital
age’
Jennifer Burek Pierce (Iowa), ‘What we talk about when we talk about
knitting: Blogs and Convergence Culture’
Kandy Diamond (Manchester), ‘dec.ode—the language of knitting’
12.30-2
UH
Lunch
2-3.30
UH
recycling
Patricia Pires Boulhosa (Cambridge), ‘The survival of an Icelandic manuscript
as a sewing pattern’
Bridget Long (Hertfordshire), ‘“Patchwork is the Fashion of this Age”: the
eighteenth-century language of patchwork’
Rebecca Varley-Winter (Cambridge), ‘Collage love affairs: Mina Loy’s “Song
to Joannes” and Marianne Moore’s “Marriage”’
CoR
textile artefacts
Elaine Treharne (Florida State), ‘The mystery of the hand-held book’
Claire Canavan (York), ‘How to judge a book by its cover: text and textile in
an early modern embroidered bookbinding’
Sally Holloway (Royal Holloway), ‘Textile Transformations: Women’s
Creation of Courtship and Birth Tokens, 1680-1850’
CrR
terminologies
Allison Jai O’Dell (Corcoran College), ‘The description and categorization of
sewing structures in historical bindings with textile terminology’
Georgios Boudalis (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki), ‘From
basketry and weaving to bookbinding: the technological background of
the codex structure’
Olivia Will (West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust), ‘All stitched up?: the
deceptive language of operative surgery’
3.30-4.00
UH
Coffee
4-5.30
UH
textual fabric
Orietta Da Rold (Leicester), ‘The cultural life of medieval paper’
Jonathan Senchyne (Wisconsin-Madison), ‘Early American women poets and
the material memory of paper’
Sophie Aymes-Stokes (Bourgogne): ‘Illustration, wood-engraving and the
textual fabric’
CoR
the only true book
Victoria Mitchell (Norwich), ‘“The only true book”: patterns of exchange
between text and textile in catalogues of samples from eighteenthcentury Norwich’
Kelvin Knight (UEA), ‘“The only true book”: writing and weaving in W.G.
Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn’
Katie McGettigan (Keele), ‘Tailoring the tale: the material text in Herman
Melville’s Pierre’
5.30-6.00
CrR
stitched texts
Andrew Zurcher (Cambridge), title tba
Lori Humphrey Newcomb (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), ‘Lost Textiles and
Ephemeral Texts: Philomela and Lavinia’
Deborah Rosario (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford), ‘Embroidery in Eve’s bower
in Milton’s Paradise Lost’
UH
concluding remarks