Full programme of the EuroWeb Digital Atlas hackathon – Southern Europe edition available here.

EuroWeb, in collaboration with the Ecole française d’Athènes, the University of Florence and the INSTAP SCEC, is organising a one-week training school on hands-on approach to textile tools. The objective of the course is to familiarise trainees with the textile technology and, specifically, with the functionality of textile tools. The abundant archaeological evidence for textile production from the Bronze Age site of Malia on Crete is our case study. The training school offers short introductory lectures, hands-on learning, and experimental/experiential activities. The trainees will study and recreate Minoan textile tools, and will learn to spin and weave using them and how to document them.

Malia TS short programme

Online from Warsaw, on 7th of June 2023, 9:30–13:30 AM, CEST (with a break at 11:15–11:45).

The purpose of this mini-training school is to offer basic training in the use of Dino-Lite-type digital microscopes, as well as to establish a common protocol for analysing excavated textiles, textile imprints on clay and use-wear marks on textile tools, based on the best practices and knowledge of both participating trainers and trainees. Please see the link for the programme and registration details:

Mini-Training School in the Use of Dino-Lite_Type Digital Microscopes for Textile Analysis

All users of Dino-Lite microscopes are also kindly requested to complete the poll by 22nd May 2023: https://forms.gle/okFNrRj5sBbSE9qh9

We look forward to seeing you online!

The Organisers: Agata Ulanowska, Bela Dimova, Christina Margariti, and Magdalena Woźniak

Bucharest, 17 – 19 May 2023

“War is the father of all things”, proclaimed Heraclitus of Ephesus in the late 6th century BC.

The main aim of this conference is to explore how appropriate this sentence is in the field of prehistoric and ancient textiles. While no definite answer should be expected in such a new interdisciplinary branch of study, the examination of a few key questions could lead us to a better general approximation of the influence that war had on the production, acquisition and consumption of textiles throughout millennia: what effects had the military needs on the social and economic systems of production and acquisition of textiles items? Did military developments trigger technical innovation in the field of textiles production? Did wars and conquests change textiles consumption habits?

While the answers to these questions should shed a new light on the history and archaeology of textiles in Europe and the Mediterranean, they will also contribute to one of the most neglected aspects of military logistics and technology in the prehistoric and ancient studies, which still lags behind the study of foodstuffs, metal items and payment in the military field.

Thus, we hope to bring together scholars with expertise on textiles, as well as on war and warfare in order to deepen the understanding on both fields through a joint endeavor.

We encourage the submission of abstracts of no more than 300 words, by the 31^st of December 2022, at textilesandwar@gmail.com, on the following indicative topics:

– From sails and ropes to tents and metal armor linings: written and unwritten evidence for textile items used by the military;

– Taxes, tributes, contracts or specialized workers? Systems of production and acquisition of garments and other textile items for the armies;

– Elite cloaks and standard uniforms: the military rank and status expressed through textile items;

– Economic and cultural effects of military campaigns in the field of textile acquisition and consumption.

ORGANISERS

Liviu Iancu (The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, Bucharest)

Francesco Meo (The University of Salento)

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE

English

FEES

No fee is required for participation

VENUE

The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization

2A Boulevard Mareșal Constantin Prezan, 011452

Bucharest, ROMANIA

CONTACT INFORMATION

Liviu Iancu, Francesco Meo

textilesandwar@gmail.com

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

https://institutlevant.ro/en/textilesandwar

Building the Euroweb online platform for textiles and clothing terminologies

Organised by Susanne Lervad, Louise Quillien and Joana Sequeira

9th May 2022
Seminar Room 1 – Max Weber Building, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Mondes, 21 allée de l’Université, 92000 Nanterre and by zoom (CET)

10h00 : welcoming of the participants on site

10h30-12h30 : morning Zoom session
Zoom link : https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/99923158505?pwd=dFRHVmw4TktvYXM5Z2p6Unk2Mk41UT09
ID: 999 2315 8505 / Code: DcU2Hs

10h30 – 11h00 : Define the scope of the project
* Which public ?
* What are the ambitions of this project and what limits ?
* Gathering a team of contributors

11h00 – 12h00 : Define the objectives of the platform
* Sharing ressources (links to websites, bibliographies)
* Publishing corpus of terminologies : ancient/modern, diachronic/synchronic, both ?
* Spreading news about WG3 scientific events, recent publications related to terminologies, reading notes…
* Promoting the WG3 members : list of contributors, credits
* Provide links to the Atlas and Euroweb Website

12h00 – 12h30 : Presentation of the possibilities offered by an Hypothèses website
* Presentation of this type of website
* Website identity : url, title, main picture
* Global architecture

12h30 – 14h00 : Lunch break

14h00 – 16h00 : input of test data (only on site)

16h00-17h30 : afternoon Zoom session
Zoom link : https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/99475248956?pwd=dUo3M2dkVlVsU0FrNVNlcmszbVVudz09
ID: 994 7524 8956 / Code: xB34ru

16h00 – 17h00 : results of the test
* Presentation of the work done during the test session
* Feedback and improvements by the online participants

17h00 -17h30 : Strategies for feeding the website during the grant period 2022

Full programme can be downloaded here.

What is a “visual code”?

How do textiles contribute to identity?

In which contexts can we observe these processes?

Visual codes, which vary with and within different societies, comprise aspects of the external appearance of people that are communicated non-verbally. This includes clothing (also shoes and headgear) as well as hairstyles and various accessories.

Are there rules within a specific society that prescribe or even prohibit certain items of clothing, colours, raw materials (e.g., fur, silk), costume components, accessories for certain social groups, for men and women or for certain age groups?

In this workshop, we will work on theoretical concepts: different perspectives — such as cultural anthropology, material culture studies, social psychology, evolutionary anthropology and modern fashion studies. The discussions include theories on visual coding, body language, fashion theory, gender & age and social hierarchies. The
participants will:

– Receive a reader with 5 selected articles, with which we will discuss the theories;

– Present short statements with case studies from their own research;

– Set the case studies into a context with the theoretical approaches and form ideas on how to include theories in their own work.

For more information on the program, the readings and how to register, check the full call here:

Workshop Call: Theoretical concepts on dress and identity, visual codes in prehistoric and historic societies

We look forward to hearing from you!

A total of 47 speakers took part in this meeting, hailing from different disciplinary fields, from Archaeology and History to Conservation Sciences, and also including Anthropology, Ethnobotanics and Art History. These included the keynote speakers, Marie Louise Nosch, Karina Grömer, Zvi Koren, Eva Andersson Strand, Agata Ulanowska, and the team of the Digital Atlas of European Textile Heritage (Angela Huang, Catarina Costeira, Alina Iancu, Mikkel Nørtoft e Piotr Kasprzyk).

The interventions, 23 in total, were organized in three panels: Panel 1 focused on archaeological data and their interpretation; Panel 2 dealt mostly with the study of natural dyes in textile production; and finally, Panel 3 explored the role of textiles, textile production and costume in the Medieval and Modern Periods.

Thanks to the commitment of all the speakers, the results of this meeting were very positive. It was in fact possible to form a clearer picture both of those fields in which the Portuguese team can contribute to the global goals of the Action – with archaeological and anthropological data, innovative methods for the study of natural dyes, and an extensive know-how on the interpretation of different sources for the study of medieval and early modern textiles – but also to map the areas which are worth further exploration and a renewed strategic investment in the framework of EuroWeb.