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DESCRIPTION:Paula Hohti\, Eva Andersson Strand\, Luise Ørsted Brandt\, and
 \nMiguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo will be giving a Brown Bag Lunch presentation
  on\nWednesday\, November 19\, 2014\, from 12 to 1:30pm\, at the Bard Grad
 uate Center in\nNew York City.  Their talk is entitled “From Ancient to Mo
 dern\,\nInterdisciplinary Approaches to Textile Research.” \n\nPaula Hohti
  is a British-educated art historian\, with\nextensive experience in mater
 ial culture studies. She has previously worked on\nartisan cultures in Ren
 aissance Italy and is currently finishing her book on\nthe topic. Her new 
 research project\, titled “Global Encounters: Fashion\,\nculture and forei
 gn textile trade in Scandinavia\, 1550-1650\,” focuses on\nScandinavian dr
 ess and textile trade. Hohti has held research positions at the\nHelsinki 
 Collegium for Advanced Studies and the European University in\nFlorence\, 
 and she has been a principal investigator in two major international\nproj
 ects\, the Material Renaissance and Fashioning the Early Modern\, led by\n
 Prof. Evelyn Welch. She is currently an Associate Professor and a Marie Cu
 rie\nresearch fellow at the Centre for Textile Research\, University of Co
 penhagen\,\nwhere she is developing new cross-disciplinary methods in text
 ile and fashion\nhistory and directing a research program on early modern 
 clothing cultures\n(CCCC).Eva Andersson Strand is an archaeologist. Her pr
 imary area\nof research is textile production\, craft organization\, and t
 rade in Iron Age\nand Viking Age Scandinavia. She also specializes in in t
 he Bronze Age Aegean\nand Eastern Mediterranean. In her textile research\,
  she focuses on the study of\ntextile tools and their find contexts. Furth
 ermore\, in her research she has\ndeveloped methods in experimental archae
 ology and collaborates with textile\ntechnicians. Anderssonn Strand receiv
 ed her PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology from\nLund University\, Sweden\, and
  finished her habilitation in 2012 and\nwas promoted docent at Lund Univer
 sity. She is one of the initiators of The\nDanish National Research Founda
 tion’s Centre for Textile Research (CTR) where\nshe holds the position of 
 associate professor. Andersson Strand manages\nseveral international resea
 rch projects\, among others\, Invisible Craft\, the\nLandscape of Textile 
 Production and Tools and Textiles – Texts and Contexts\ntextile production
  in Bronze Age Mediterranean (together with Marie-Louise\nNosch).Trained a
 s a prehistoric archaeologist\, Luise Ørsted Brandt\nspecialized and was t
 rained in the analysis of DNA from archaeological material. During her M.A
 . In her thesis\, she proved that DNA from archaeological textiles\ncan be
  extracted and sequenced. In her PhD project\, she is using bio molecular
 \nmethods to (a) study the development of wool in ancient Danish sheep and
  (b)\nspecies-identify skins from Danish bogs. Her profile is strongly\nin
 terdisciplinary\, and her strength as an archaeologist is that she can ask
 \narchaeological questions and know what methods can be applied to yield a
 nswers\nto these. Also\, she is very interested in the discussion of prese
 rvation\nconditions and sampling strategies of cultural heritage items.Aft
 er having finished his studies of Classical Philology at\nthe University o
 f Valencia (Spain)\, Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo worked as a\nResearch and 
 Teaching Assistant at the Department of Classical Philology and\nIndo-Euro
 pean Studies of the University of Salamanca\, where he got his Ph.D. in\n2
 009\, and as a Research Assistant at the Institut für Iranistik of the Fre
 ie\nUniversität in Berlin (2010-2013). His academic profile is focused in 
 Old and\nMiddle Iranian languages and literatures and Zoroastrianism\, wit
 h special\nattention to the Avestan and Pahlavi written transmission and t
 he critical\nedition of normative texts. Currently he is a Marie Curie Fel
 low at the CTR of\nthe University of Copenhagen\, where he works on the pr
 oject “Zoroastrian\nText(ile)s: Regulations\, Symbolism\, Identity.”\n\nTh
 eir presentations at the BGC will provide an overview of\nthe new cross-di
 sciplinary methods and approaches to the study of ancient\ntextiles\, deve
 loped at the Centre for Textile Research\, Copenhagen. By\npresenting thre
 e case studies from the point of view of archaeology\, philology\nand natu
 ral sciences\, the aim is to demonstrate how historical research in\ntexti
 les and raw materials can benefit from methods such as experimental\narcha
 eology and DNA analysis. The first case study\, presented by the\narchaeol
 ogist Eva Andersson Strand\, shows how traditional craft knowledge\nof tex
 tile techniques and tools can be combined with experimental textile\narcha
 eology\, in dialogue with ethnographical investigations. The second one\,
 \npresented by the scientist Luise Ørsted Brandt\, focuses on the extracti
 on and\nsequencing of ancient DNA and proteins\, providing us with the opp
 ortunity to\ncharacterize the ancient sheep that provided wool for wool te
 xtile production\nand the animals species that yielded skins for skin clot
 hing. The final case\nstudy\, based on the study of the philologist Miguel
  Ángel Andres Toledo\,\nexplores the vivid descriptions of the luxurious a
 dornments and dress of a\ngoddess in the Zoroastrian literature\, explorin
 g some of the religious and\nmoral dilemmas that are associated with the m
 aterial of her garments. All three\npresentations\, in one way or the othe
 r\, reflect the Centre’s long-standing\nambition to combine the Northern E
 uropean scientific and experimental research\nin textiles and tools\, and 
 the Southern European historical\, iconographical and\nepigraphic approach
 es\, in order to produce new perspectives into academic\nwork. \n\nCoffee 
 and tea will be served\; attendees are welcome to\nbring their own lunch.R
 SVP is required.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141119T120000
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: From Ancient to Modern\, Interdisciplinary Ap
 proaches to Textile Research
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