Textile Art in the Graeco-Roman World, CARC Annual Workshop held 26th-27th September, 2019

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Poster Session
Textile Finds from the Rhineland, First to Fourth Centuries AD: Roman Customs and Fashion in the North of the Empire - Dr Petra Linscheid (University of Bonn)26th September 2019Session OneDr Peter Stewart (Director, Classical Art Research Centre)Welcome and IntroductionDr Susanna Harris (University of Glasgow)Textile Wealth of the Archaic Greek Goddesses: A Textile Technology Approach to RepresentationSession TwoDr Stella Spantidaki (Director, ARTEX, Athens)Poikila Himatia: Textile Embellishment in Classical GreeceSession ThreeDr Dimitra Andrianou (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens)Furniture Textiles in Classical and Hellenistic Interiors of the Mediterranean World Dr Audrey Gouy (Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Copenhagen/University of Oxford)Figure-Decorated Textiles in Classical Etruscan Art Session FourDr Jónatan Ortiz-Carcía (University of Alcalá)Painting Eternity: Decorated Shrouds from Roman Egypt27th September 2019Session FiveDr Amandine Mérat (Independent Egyptologist and textile specialist)When Graeco-Roman Allegories Meet So-Called Coptic Weavers: The Representation of Gaia and the Four Seasons on 1st Millennium AD Egyptian TextilesSession SixDr Elsa Yvanez (University of Copenhagen)Textile Dimensions: Art, Iconography and Crafts in Late Antique NubiaSession SevenJennifer Moldenhauer (Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin)Woven Adventures: Depictions of Heroes on Egyptian Textiles from Late Antiquity and the First Centuries of Muslim Rule (This presentation is not available as a podcast.)Dr Regula Schorta (Abegg Foundation, Riggisberg)Late Antique’ Textiles from Central AsiaSession EightDr Peter Stewart (CARC, Oxford)An Extensible Art: Yingpan Man’s Tunic and its Roman Connections