From: owner-anenews-digest@ (ANEnews Digest) To: anenews-digest Subject: ANEnews Digest V2001 #186 Reply-To: Sender: owner-anenews-digest@ Errors-To: owner-anenews-digest@ Precedence: bulk ANEnews Digest Friday, October 26 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 186 anenews Call for papers: ANCIENT TEXTILES: PRODUCTION, CRAFT AND SOCIETY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:05:19 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Call for papers: ANCIENT TEXTILES: PRODUCTION, CRAFT AND SOCIETY From: carole gillis with apologies for cross-posting First circular Call for papers ANCIENT TEXTILES: PRODUCTION, CRAFT AND SOCIETY Copenhagen, Denmark/Lund, Sweden, March, 2003. Textiles were a very important aspect of the ancient world, a fact that is becoming more and more apparent in present-day research. However, there are very different traditions in what is studied today, why and how. What is lacking in modern study is a common forum that combines researchers from many diverse disciplines who work with textiles from different time periods and geographic areas, and from different theoretical orientations such as gender, economic history, craft specialization, and social structure, to name a few. Such a forum would allow people to meet, compare traditions, learn from each other and create a larger, common fund of knowledge and of understanding of textiles regionally and globally, as objects, as a craft and as a social agent. It is hoped that pre-historians and classical archaeologists, historians, art historians, philologists, and people from the natural sciences can meet with modern weavers and craftsmen, exchange information and together create a greater understanding of the production, consumption and importance of ancient textiles during the four days of the conference. The two major themes will be A. Textiles in Practice, 1. techniques, technologies and tools 2. other cross-disciplinary studies including scientific analyses 3. experimental archaeology and practical demonstrations B. Textiles in Society 1. craftsmen and craftsmanship 2. production and its role in society 3. written evidence and economic factors Broad, general perspectives are preferred. Posters and practical demonstration are considered an essential part of the conference and are encouraged. Abstracts (minimum half a page) by Dec. 15th to Eva Andersson, Dept. of Archaeology, Sandg., Lund, Sweden eva.andersson@ark.lu.se or Carole Gillis, Dept of Classical Studies, Solveg. 2, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden carole.gillis@klass.lu.se . Please indicate all relevant personal information, preference (participation, paper, poster, demonstration) and which theme and session you are interested in participating in. The number of speakers is limited. Organizers: Eva Andersson. Dept. of Archaeology, Lund; Brendan Burke, American School of Classical Studies, Athens; Carole Gillis. Dept. of Classical Studies, Lund; Ulla Mannering, Dept of Archaeology and Ethnology, Copenhagen; Marie-Louise Nosch, INSTAP, Munich ------------------------------ End of ANEnews Digest V2001 #186 ******************************** Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html