Via Helen Mears, Keeper of World Art, Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton A conference hosted by Royal Pavilion & Museums, with the Sussex Africa Centre / University of Sussex, and the University of Brighton The Old Courtroom, 118 Church Street, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Wednesday 2 November 2016 Coinciding with theContinue Reading
The University of Alberta, Department of History and Classics, would like to share the following details of the Dressing Global Bodies Conference Call For Papers: Dressing Global Bodies: Clothing Cultures, Politics and Economies in Globalizing Eras, c. 1600s-1900s 7-9 July 2016, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Co-Organized with the PasoldContinue Reading
Luciana Martins, Director, Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies,Birkbeck College, London The completion in September of a four-year AHRC-funded research project into Andean textiles, Weaving Communities, creates a unique and innovative resource for archaeologists, anthropologists, museum curators, contemporary weavers and the fashion industry. Until now, researchers have had toContinue Reading
From the Pacific Islands Report: The museum is an imaginary place designed to showcase the historic and contemporary mats of the Marshalls. In this wondrous world, you can ’stroll’ through rooms full of historic mats in Britain or Germany, relax in the cinema as you watch a ‘Majuro Productions’ show,Continue Reading