This full day symposium showcases research that takes materially focused methodologies to textile history, investigating new approaches to explore what engagement with the material enables, and to demonstrate what the close looking of the textile historian can reveal. Studies include studies from the medieval to early modern periods in Byzantium, Asia and the Islamic World, and Spain. Symposium co-organizers: Nazanin Hedayat Munroe, Amanda Phillips, Eiren Shea, Rachel Silberstein, and Elizabeth Dospěl Williams.
This free event will be livestreamed and in-person at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. Registration is required. Hosted by the CUNY Academy for Humanities and Sciences.
Photo caption and credit: Textile (Spain), 12th–13th century; silk; Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, 1902-1-221-a,b
To learn more and register, visit: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/textile-object-centering-cloth-interdisciplinary-approaches-textile-history
