May 9, 2014
14:30
Visit of the textile collection, Museo Nazionale del Bargello
(speakers and moderators only)
17:30
Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Via dei Servi 51 (open to the public)
Welcome and Introduction: The Site- and Non-Site Specificity of Textiles: Transcultural and Transmaterial Approaches to Textiles in Tuscany and Florence (Vera-Simone Schulz, Berlin/Florence)
Presentation of the outline and the scopes of the research projects:
Tristan Weddigen (Zurich): An Iconology of the Textile in Art and Architecture
Gerhard Wolf (Florence/Berlin): Networks: Textile Arts and Textility in a Transcultural Perspective (4th-17th Cent.)
18:00
Evening Lecture:
Birgit Schneider (Potsdam): Floral Codes. Elements of a History of Punchcard Weaving
Moderation: Gerhard Wolf
May 10, 2014
10:00
Visit of the Museo del Tessuto, Prato
(speakers and moderators only)
14:30
Casa Zuccari, Via Gino Capponi 22 (Closed session, registration for participation via email: vera-simone.schulz@khi.fi.it)
Short presentations of individual research projects
Moderation: Tristan Weddigen (Zurich)
Mateusz Kapustka (Zurich): Textiles and Memory
Kyoko Nomoto (Oxford/Berlin): Chinese Silk in the Context of Eurasia, AD 1-600
Sylvia Houghteling (Yale/Berlin): The Figural Language of Textiles in South Asia, ca. 1600-1650
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Moderation: Olga Bush (New York/Florence)
Nynne Just Christoffersen (Berlin): Textile Trade in Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century Northern Europe. The Patterns of Modern Visual Culture
Anika Reineke (Zurich): Textile Spaces and the Conception of Interior in 18th-Century France
Anne Röhl (Zurich): Gendering Textiles in Post-war and Contemporary Art
18:00
Casa Zuccari, Via Gino Capponi 22
Evening Lecture (open to the public, registration for participation via email: vera-simone.schulz@khi.fi.it):
Barbara Karl (Vienna): Propaganda in Silk – Ottoman Flags and the Relief of Vienna 1683
Moderation: Sean Nelson (Los Angeles/Florence)