Texts and Textiles draft programme UH = Upper Hall LC = Library Court Seminar Rm Rm CrR = Cranmer Rm CoR = Coleridge Rm AR = Alcock 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 altarcloth to text in writing of Gloria Anzaldúa’ 11.15-11.30 11.30-1 UH Coffee 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), ‘Seventeenthcentury 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 11-12.30 UH Coffee 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, 16801850’ 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, woodengraving 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’ 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’ 5.30-6.00 UH concluding remarks