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DESCRIPTION:Marie-Louise Nosch will deliver The Iris Foundation Awards Lect
 ure on Tuesday\, April 4\, at 5:30 pm. Her talk is entitled 'Texts and Tex
 tiles.'Textiles accompany us throughout life\, from swaddling clothes to f
 unerary shrouds\, a flexible and accessible material through which we expr
 ess gender\, age\, and status. As a techno-complex\, textile crafts predat
 e metallurgy and even pottery. Our history and identity have been shaped b
 y their materiality and technology\, as their manifestations in language\,
  iconography\, and symbolism make clear. It is by no means a coincidence t
 hat the Industrial Revolution was sparked off by the textile industries\, 
 dramatically speeding up the production times of this extremely time-consu
 ming craft and changing the global landscape. Consequently textiles became
  one of the universal mediums of communication\, exchange\, and identity\,
  crossing and linking different cultures\, social classes\, technologies\,
  markets\, and genders. The materiality of textiles is central to these pr
 ocesses: wherever they are produced and consumed\, they bring people\, bod
 ies\, and things together\, more than any other medium or material. The to
 pic is universal and its study comprises theoretical approaches as well as
  technical material investigations and scientific analyses. In this lectur
 e\, Nosch will focus on the intersection of texts and textiles\, drawing o
 n examples from both history and archaeology.\n\nMarie-Louise Nosch is the
  recipient of the 2017\nIris Foundation Award for Outstanding Mid-Career S
 cholar. She is an historian\nand founder and Director of the Danish Nation
 al Research Foundation’s Centre\nfor Textile Research (CTR) at the Univers
 ity of Copenhagen and the National\nMuseum of Denmark. Since 2009\, she ha
 s also been Professor of Ancient History\nat the University of Copenhagen.
  She received her PhD from the University of\nSalzburg in 2000 with a thes
 is on Mycenaean textile administration in Linear B\nand has subsequently m
 erged Linear B studies with experimental archaeology and\nthe study of tex
 tile tools. As Director of CTR\, she has launched research\nprograms that 
 combine archaeology\, history\, philology\, and the natural\nsciences. She
  is author and co-author of works on Aegean Late Bronze Age\ntextile produ
 ction in the Mycenaean palace economies\, and editor of numerous\nbooks on
  textile history and archaeology.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Texts and Textiles
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