Past events

• 30 June - 4 July 2025

  Textiles and dress in ancient times. Exploring sources, theories, methods and hands-on approaches

  Summer school.

• 25 June 2025, 14:00-14:45

  Weaving Worlds: A Social History of Odense Weavers’ Guild 1600-1850

  Lecture by Morten Grymer-Hansen.

• 28 May 2025, 14:00-14:45

  Mending Maladies: Agnes’s jacket and her kinds

  Lecture by Subhasree Biswas.

• 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

  Wrapped in Silk and Written in Stone. Aesthetics of illusion and authenticity in Ottonianum legal documents

  Lecture by Professor Nino Zchomelidse, Novo Nordisk Foundation Visiting Scholar in Art and Art History at the Saxo Institute (UCPH) and Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University.

• 30 Apr. 2025, 14:00-14:45

  Textile Production and Sheep Husbandry in Early Iron Age Rogaland

  Lecture by Sigrid Vinje-Christensen

• 2 Apr. 2025, 14:00-14:45

  Textile production

  Lecture by Jose V. Avila Fernandez.

• 19 Mar. 2025, 15:00-16:00

  Dress, Consumption, and Fashionable Change: Evidence from Probate Inventories in Southern Sweden, 1760-1880

  Lecture by Christina Dackling.

• 13 Mar. - 14 Mar. 2025

  Advances in the Analysis of Archaeological Textiles and Skins

  Join us in Copenhagen to learn more about the different approaches and methods that can be harnessed to study archaeological textiles and skins, from leading experts in this multi-faceted field of research.

• 5 Mar. 2025, 14:00-14:45

  A rich textile assemblage of an Ancient Egyptian mummy at the National Museum of Denmark – the Lives of a Mummy project

  Lecture by Chiara Spinazzi-Lucchesi.

• 19 Feb. 2025, 14:00-14:45

  'Quite a work of art': the votive animal mummies’ bandage weaves

  Lecture by Diletta Publico.

• 5 Feb. 2025, 14:00-14:45

  DocZow. Intergenerational transmission of silk weaving through the intangible cultural heritage of Zoroastrian women

  Lecture by Azadeh Pashootanizadeh.

• 22 Jan. 2025, 14:00-14:45

  Handwoven Street Fashion – Bhutanese traditional wear as cultural expression

  Lecture by Karma Tshering Wangchuk, fashion designer.

• 18 Dec. 2024, 14:00-15:00

  Sea silk studies

  Lecture by Maja Lund.

• 4 Dec. 2024, 14:00-15:00

  Lost and found: textile materialities in conflict Cambodia (1970-80s)

  Lecture by Magali An Berthon.

• 20 Nov. 2024, 14:00-15:00

  Save the loom

  Lecture by Katrine Brandstrup.

• 13 Nov. 2024, 10:00-12:00

  Patterns knitted up on women

  Lecture by Katrina í Geil, Designer MD, Faroe Islands.

• 8 Nov. 2024, 9:00-19:00

  Hørproduktion gennem tiden

  Seminar.

• 6 Nov. 2024, 15:00-16:00

  Kejserens nye klæder: Life and Adventures of a MSC Fellow at CTR, UCPH

  Lecture by Rachele Pierini.

• 23 Oct. 2024, 14:00-15:00

  Female clothing, female speech

  Lecture by Mark Janse.

• 9 Oct. 2024, 14:00-15:00

  Textile and animal skin research on the et-Tereif mummies. Three cases out of one thousands

  This lecture will present the interdisciplinary research that is currently conducted in collaboration with the British Museum at the University of Copenhagen – Centre for Textile Research, by the team of the Fashioning…

• 27 Sept. 2024, 13:30-16:30

  Expressions through Style: The Significance of Technique and Shape in Early Medieval Egyptian Tunics

  Public digital defence of PhD thesis by Anne Kwaspen.

• 18 Sept. 2024, 14:00-15:00

  Sailing textiles

  Lecture by Eva Andersson Strand.

• 4 Sept. 2024, 14:00-15:00

  How did the Greek gods dress?

  Lecture by Alberto Bernabé.

• 26 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

  Envisioning perishable material cultures from prehistoric Levantine worked bone industries

  Lecture by Asta Salicath Halvorsen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen on bone tools for textile production in prehistoric Levant.

• 12 June 2024, 14:00-14:45

  Textile Research in the Pre-digital Age and Vindolanda, Berenike, Qasr Ibrim: Securing Textile Records for the Future

  Lectures by Lise Bender Jørgensen, Emeritus Professor of Nordic Archaeology at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Dept. of Historical Studies and John-Peter and Felicity Wild.

• 29 May 2024, 14:00-14:45

  Imported fur in Viking Age Denmark and its importance as visual marker

  Lecture by Luise Ørsted Brandt, Assoc. Prof. at the Globe institute, UCPH.

• 15 May - 17 May 2024

  Branch out: Rethinking the branching order of the Indoeuropean language

  International workshop on indoeuropean linguistics.

• 3 May 2024, 14:15

  First Textiles

  Seminar with Professor emerita Lise Bender Jørgensen from Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

• 17 Apr. 2024, 14:00-15:00

  First approach on the textile production at Mleiha (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates c. 250 CE)

  Lecture by Chloé Nolibois, Museum of Natural History, Paris.

• 3 Apr. 2024, 14:00-14:45

  Scanning textiles

  Lecture by Bjarke Jørgensen.

• 25 Mar. 2024, 9:00-16:30

  CONFLICT: Archives, Collections and Heritage research workshop

  Workshop (in-person and online) exploring the topic of cultural heritage, archives and museum collections in conflict and post-conflict times.

• 21 Mar. 2024, 13:00

  The sensory archaeology of garments. New approaches to the body in ancient Sudan and Nubia

  Talk with Associate professor in archaeology Elsa Yvanez.

• 20 Mar. 2024, 14:00-15:00

  Field mission at Deir el Medina

  Lecture by Chiara Spinazzi-Lucchesi, CTR.

• 8 Mar. 2024, 14:00

  Tangible and Intangible Craft within archaeological research

  Inaugural Lecture by Professor Eva Andersson Strand, University of Copenhagen

• 22 Feb. 2024, 15:00-17:30

  The Art of Ikat: A Cambodian Renaissance

  Exhibition at Copenhagen University Library, South Campus.

• 21 Feb. 2024, 14:00-15:00

  The textiles from Lyø (Southern coast of Denmark - 18th – 19th century)

  Lecture by Tissel Lund Jacobsen, curator at Øhavsmuseet in Faaborg.

• 7 Feb. 2024, 14:00-15:00

  Linen textiles from the Kjøng Factory 1774-1924 – new perspectives on long lost

  Lecture by Karis Rasmussen, Køng Museum.

• 29 Jan. 2024, 13:00-16:30

  Pastoral practices in ancient Sudan

  Seminar.

• 5 Dec. 2023, 15:15-16:00

  Silk Ribbons in Museum Amager: A Window to Europe c. 1780-1920

  Presentation by Morten Grymer-Hansen (CTR) and Camilla Cziffery Nielsen (Museum Amager).

• 7 Nov. 2023, 15:15-16:00

  The art of displaying textiles in museums

  Talk by Filiz Çakır Phillip, Art historian, curator and member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Art Museum Curators and the Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation

• 31 Oct. - 3 Nov. 2023

  Dyes in History and Archaeology

  Dyes in History and Archaeology (DHA) is an annual international conference that focuses on the academic discussion of dyes and organic pigments used in the past.

• 24 Oct. 2023, 15:15

  Mummy braces and sacred gazelle skins: Investigating animal provenance, skin selection and leather processing in Ancient Egypt

  Lecture by Lucy Skinner, Postdoc, Center for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen.

• 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!

• 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

• 27 Nov. 2019, 16

  Textile Research in Egypt and Sudan

  CTR Lecture about Ongoing Projects at Centre for Textile Research.

• 21 Nov. 2019, 13

  Bronze Age Wool Economy: The case of the Terramare site of Montale, Italy

  CTR Lecture.

• 23 Oct. 2019, 16

  Social networks as a driver of integration

  Lecture in the CTR lecture series. This time about the THREAD project.

• 25 Sept. 2019, 16:00-17:00

  Fashioning the Viking Age – One year after

  Centre for Textile Research marks its 15th Anniversary by presenting three research areas to our students, research colleagues - and to everyone else sharing an interest in our works.

• 14 May 2019, 16:00

  Knowing the complex Neolithic societies: ‘La Marmotta’ a village on the shores of Lake Bracciano (Roma, Italy)

  Lecture on the lakeshore settlement "La Marmotta"

• 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.

• 21 Jan. 2019, 8:40-19:00

  Seminar on Current Research in Textile Archaeology along the Nile

  8:40 – 9:00 Registration, coffee, tea, and welcome Session 1. Methods and Techniques: Renewed Interest in Ancient Textiles from Egypt and Sudan and Interdisciplinary Approaches Chairs: Anne Drewsen & Ulrikka…

• 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

  Experiential and Experimental Textile Workshop

  Workshop

• 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.