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Early Modern Dress and Textiles Research Network Conference 2009
Understanding Dress History in the 21st century
An investigation of approaches to dress and textiles
Friday 30 January, 10am – 5pm
Lecture Theatre, V&A Museum, London
SESSION 1 -
EARLY MODERN DRESS & TEXTILES THROUGH DOCUMENTS
Chair Dr. Lesley Miller, V&A 10.45 Performing Dress: A Multidisciplinary Approach Prof. Evelyn Welch, Queen Mary, University of London
Project Director 11.05 The Curator’s Perspective
Susan North, V&A
11.20 Tartan Yarns
Dr. Viccy Coltman, University of Edinburgh
11.50 BREAK
NEW DOCTORAL WORK IN DRESS HISTORY
12.00 “L'égalité des queues": Trains, Status and the Bourbon Court
Giora Sternberg, New College Oxford/ IHR London
12.30 Seventeenth Century Print and Dress: Ballads of the Samuel Pepys Collection
Clare Backhouse, Courtauld Institute, London
12.45 Discussion & Questions
2
1.15 LUNCH / TEA & COFFEE
Provided on stairs outside lecture theatre 1.15 - 2.30
SESSION 2
EARLY MODERN DRESS & TEXTILES THROUGH OBJECTS
Chair – Prof. Evelyn Welch, Queen Mary, University of London 2.30 Comparing Curatorial Practice – Spanish Perpective
Silvia Ventosa, Museu Tèxtil i d'Indumentària, Barcelona
2.45 Conservation Revelations, Revealing Conservation Mary M. Brooks, Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton 3.15 Women’s Dress of the 1590s: An Experimental Reconstruction
Prof. Jenny Tiramani, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent
University/Costume Designer
3.45 Tea & Coffee
4.15 Response
Prof. Beverley Lemire, University of Alberta
4.30 Discussion & Questions
4.45 Round table discussion – Dress & Textile History for the 21st Century
5.30 Close
Opportunity to visit Magnificence of the Tsars exhibition (free with conference ticket)
The final performance by Ed Hogg in full seventeenth-century female attire reading, John Donne's poem, 'On his mistress going to bed' under Jenny Tiramani's direction was the spectacular finale to the day. It involved Hogg’s reading of the poem while Jenny explained how the garments would have been removed.
