Past events

• 29 Aug. 2023, 15:15

  Sacred textiles in the late plays of Euripides

  Lecture by Professor Judith Fletcher, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo Ontario.

• 14 June 2023, 9:00-16:00

  Global Fashioning Systems

  Seminar co-organised by Elsa Ivanez and Magali An Berthon.

• 7 June 2023, 15:15-16:00

  Material culture. A shared heritage: The origin and use of textile patterns in Himalaya and on the Tibetan Plateau

  Presentation by Ellen Bangsbo.

• 24 May 2023, 15:15-16:00

  Textiles tools, fabrics, and craftspeople in Wielbark culture

  Presentation by Magdalena Przymorska.

• 10 May 2023, 15:15-16:00

  Joyce Lussu and Giovanna Serri: literature, weaving and politics in the female legacy of Casa Lussu

  Presentation by Claudia Crabuzza.

• 26 Apr. 2023, 15:15-16:00

  Ancient Greek girls' clothing in multidisciplinarity: a study between images, texts and materiality

  Presentation by Elodie Bauer.

• 12 Apr. 2023, 15:15-16:00

  Old Danish looms: on registration of looms in Danish museums collections

  Presentation by Katrine Brandstrup.

• 29 Mar. 2023, 15:15-16:00

  On the Origin of Silk-ma Combined Textiles

  Presentation by Xiyao Zhang, PhD student at College of Textiles, Donghua University, China, Visiting PhD student at CTR.

• 15 Mar. 2023, 15:15-16:00

  'Archeological puzzles in a museum'

  Presentation by Dr. Maria Joanna Mossakowska.

• 1 Mar. 2023, 15:15-16:00

  'It is better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right’

  Presentation by Professor Kate Fletcher, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen.

• 15 Feb. 2023, 15:15-16:00

  EgYarn: Textile production in New Kingdom Egypt. Results and conclusions

  Presentation by Chiara Spinazzi-Lucchesi.

• 1 Feb. 2023, 15:15-16:00

  CTR trip to Cambodia, January 2023

  Presentation by Susanne Lervad, Eva Andersson Strand & Ulrikka Mokdad.

• 9 Dec. 2022, 14:15

  (Re?)Building Textile Archaeology in the Nile Valley

  Inaugural lecture by Associate professor Elsa Yvanez, University of Copenhagen.

• 7 Dec. 2022, 15:15-16:00

  All The Goods of The Earth

  Final Presentation of the Marie Curie Skłodowska project by Corinne Mühlemann.

• 5 Dec. - 6 Dec. 2022

  International Workshop on Current Research in Textile Archaeology along the Nile - second edition

  The main topic of this workshop will be the investigation of resources and processing of fibres in textile production in Ancient Egypt and Sudan.

• 9 Nov. 2022, 15:15-16:00

  Historical Parchment

  Presentation by Laura Cristina Viñas Caron.

• 26 Oct. 2022, 15:15-16:00

  The Stuff of Agency

  Ane Kirstine Preisler Skovgaard talks about her PhD research on the power, capabilities and impact of textiles.

• 12 Oct. 2022, 15:15-16:00

  The weavers Kirsten and John Becker into the light

  Social anthropologist & weaving teacher, Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen, guest scholar at CTR.

• 28 Sept. 2022, 15:15-16:00

  Textile Manufacture in Viking-Age Ribe

  Presentation by Sarah Croix, Institute for Culture and Society - Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University.

• 14 Sept. 2022, 13:30-15:00

  Robert M. Armstrong – Title TBA

  Mycenologist, Professor Thomas G. Palaima, Department of Classics at the University of Texas (Austin).

• 9 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

  Refashioning the Renaissance: Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550-1650

  Presentation by Paula Hohti.

• 8 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

  Presenting "Fashioning Sudan": research aims, methods, and future activities

  Presentation by Elsa Yvanez.

• 11 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

  Dressed in Rebellion, Adorned in Resistance. Towards a Model of a Peaceful Protest Expressed through Clothing in Ancient Rome

  Presentation by Zofia Kaczmarek.

• 6 May 2022

  Open House at the Centre for Textile Research

  We are having an Open House at the Centre for Textile Research, and everyone is invited!

• 4 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

  CANCELLED: Textile manufacture in Viking-Age Ribe: between réseau opératoire, gig economy, and household industry

  Presentation by Sarah Croix.

• 27 Apr. 2022, 15:00-16:00

  Looking at Fashion Through the Lens of Theory

  Presentation by Michael Alexander Langkjær.

• 22 Apr. 2022, 8:30-17:00

  Magrethe Hald and the Nordic History of Textile Research, seminar

  Centre for Textile Research has carried out a research project on Danish textile researcher Margrethe Hald from 2020-2022 and now invites to a seminar on the pioneering effort of Hald and the Nordic roots of textile…

• 13 Apr. 2022, 15:00-16:00

  Acquiring uniformity: dress codes and practices in the Roman Army and early Monastic Cultures

  Presentation by Sofia Torallas Tovar.

• 26 Mar. 2022, 11:00

  Workshop: Reconstructing textiles and their history

  The workshop will present the results of the research carried out in the framework of the project RECONTEXT: Reconstructing the history of Egyptian textiles from the 1st Millennium AD at the National Museum of Denmark.

• 16 Mar. 2022, 15:00-16:00

  Modeling public buyer behaviour towards circular textile products and services

  Presentation by Jeanne Svensky Ligte.

• 2 Mar. 2022, 15:00-16:00

  Practices of practice – weaving with body and mind

  Presentation by Sofie Louise Grue Husted Andersen, Anne Kilgour Viuf, Marie Wallenberg, Ulrikka Mokdad, Mark Schram Christensen, Eva Andersson Strand.

• 24 Nov. 2021, 15:15

  Europa Nostra Award ceremony

  In the spring, Dr Christina Margariti, former Marie Sklodowska Curie scholar with Marie Louise Nosch at CTR, Saxo Institute, received the prestigious Europa Nostra Prize for European Cultural Heritage.

• 14 June - 18 June 2021

  Old Textiles - More Possibilities

  CTR's anniversary conference.

• 3 Mar. - 4 Mar. 2020

  The colour blue in ancient Egypt and Sudan

  Interdisciplinary workshop 3-4 March 2020

• 21 Jan. 2019, 9:00-18:00

  Current Research in Textile Archaeology along the Nile

  We invite young scholars and researchers to discuss current research in textile archaeology along the Nile, from Alexandria to Khartoum.

• 30 Oct. 2018, 10:15-12:00

  The Analysis of Colored Textiles from the Ancient Andes

  Lecture by Dr. Hans Barnard, Associate Researcher at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology & Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, both at UCLA.

• 22 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

  Fabric of Life - Textiles Arts in Bhutan: Culture, Tradition and Trans­formation

  The Austrian artist and academic presents her book: Fabric of Life - Textiles Arts in Bhutan: Culture, Tradition and Transformation, De Gruyter (2016).

• 8 Mar. - 9 Mar. 2018

  Textile Production in Kültepe Bronze Age Anatolia

  A hands-on experimental workshop 8-9-March 2018

• 6 Dec. 2017, 15:00-17:00

  Experiental and Experimental Hand-on Textile Workshops 6

  The fourth workshop will take place 6 December

• 24 Nov. 2017, 9:00-18:30

  Egyptian Textiles and their Production

  International conference 24 November at University of Copenhagen

• 22 Nov. 2017, 15:00-17:00

  Experiental and Experimental Hand-on Textile Workshops 5

  The fourth workshop will take place 22 November

• 17 Nov. 2017, 10:15-11:15

  Cécile Michel

  Textiles and Gender in Cuneiform Texts. Open lecture, 17 November.

• 8 Nov. 2017, 15:00-17:00

  Experiental and Experimental Hand-on Textile Workshops 4

  The fourth workshop will take place 8 November

• 7 Nov. 2017, 16:00-17:30

  Servants, cotton, and Clothing

  in Denmark-Norway in the eigteenth century – a history of consumption. Guest lecture 7 November at CTR

• 25 Oct. 2017, 15:00-17:00

  Experiental and Experimental Hand-on Textile Workshops 3

  The third workshop will take place 25 October

• 4 Oct. 2017, 15:00-17:00

  Experiental and Experimental Hand-on Textile Workshops 2

  The second workshop will take place 4 October

• 20 Sept. 2017, 15:00-17:00

  Experiental and Experimental Hand-on Textile Workshops 1

  The first workshop will take place 20 September.