FASHION, PHOTOGRAPHY, STORYTELLING, AND TEXTILES
A Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
July 9th-10th, 2022
Athens, Greece
Conference Programme
Saturday 9th July 2022
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome to Event and Opening Words: Event Leaders
09:30 – 11:00 Session 1: Feeling Textiles
Chair: Lesley Millar
Extraordinary Worlds: ‘Excavating’ Poetic Narratives from Garments
Henrica Langh
Poetry Workshop
Henrica Langh
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee, Tea and Refreshments
PARALLEL SESSIONS
11:30 – 13:00 Session 2: Performing Textile
Chair: Mona Craven
Textiles in Text: Text in Textiles
Loucia Manopoulou
Knitting and Everyday Meaning-Making
Susan Jones
‘We banquet with King William’s Ghost’: Protestant Appropriation of Linen Damask in Eighteenth Century Ireland
Deborah M. White
11:30 – 13:00 Session 2: Fashion and Digital Transformation
Chair: Luca Lo Sicco
No Ball Games: Embellishing Hidden Homophobia in Football Through Fashioned Poetry
Christopher Hodge
The First Male Influencers. Stars Born Under the Camera Lens
Leonardo Iuffrida
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
PARALLEL SESSIONS
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Unravelling Textile
Chair: Ariane Fourquier
Love-Clothes: A Sensory Exploration of Clothing as Objects of Love
Isabel Mundigo-Moore
Reading the Thread: Cloth and Eroticism
Lesley Millar
The Great Unravelling: An Exploration of the Ways in Which Fine Art Textile Artists are Telling Stories of Climate Breakdown
Emma Yorke
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Image and Message
Chair: Leonardo Iuffrida
Slay to the Rhythm: Queer-Diva Collaboration in Grace Jones’ “I’m Not Perfect (But I’m Perfect for You)”
Elio Iannacci
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee, Tea and Refreshments
16:00 – 17:30 Session 4: Excavating Textile
Chair: Beverly Ayling Smith
The Hidden Histories Of Women; Researching, Reflecting and Responding to our Grandmothers Histories
Alison Baxter
Interactive exhibition
Alison Baxter
17:30 – 18:00 End of Opening Day Cross Session Discussion and Consolidation
18:00 Wine and Drinks Reception
Sunday 10th July 2022
PARALLEL SESSIONS
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Biography/autobiography and textiles
Chair: Henrica Langh
Threads of Innovation, Resilience and Destiny: Narrating Otti Berger’s Life and Work using Words, Imagery and Sensory Connections
Alexandra Matz
Sewing (for) Sylvia Likens
Anne Bettina Pedersen
“she touches herself in and of herself without any mediation”, Irigaray 1997: a reflection on the silent knowledge of trauma.
Ariane Fourquier
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Fashion as Educational Tool
Chair: Luca Lo Sicco
Sustainability is not a Moral Choice: Addressing Issues of Sustainability and ‘Fashion Violence’ amongst Marginalised Teens
Gayle Cantrell and Victoria Coutts
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee, Tea and Refreshments
PARALLEL SESSIONS
11:00 – 12:30 Session 6: Testament and Textile
Chair: Loucia Manopoulou
The Materialisation of Testament: An Embroidered Response to Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Australia
Kerry Martin
Introducing the TEX-KR Project: Exploring Cambodia’s Textile Material Culture of Conflict
Magali An Berthon
Trauma, Textiles and Technologies: Towards a “continuum” of Reparative Praxis
Faye Green
11:00 – 12:30 Session 6: Ideas of Fashion in Different Countries
Chair: Elio Iannacci
The Seamstresses of Asia Minor in Limassol, Cyprus
Nolly Moyssi
Fashion to Survive: Russian Influences on French Haute Couture after the 1917 Revolution
Luca Lo Sicco
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 7: Dialogue and Textiles
Chair: Emma Yorke
Weaving Transnational Dialogues on Gender-Based Violence through Textiles: A Comparative Study of Ireland and Mexico
Brenda Mondragón-Toledo
The Culturally Dislocated Ccloth – Elusive, Resistant or Interruptive?
Mona Craven
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee, Tea and Refreshments
16:00 – 17:30 Session 8: Identity and Textile
Chair: Susan Jones
The English Shroud: From Winding Sheet to Art Gallery
Beverly Ayling-Smith
“Man of the Cloth”: Expressions of Creativity, Ritual and Protest in Jamaica’s Revival.
Kirt Henry
Legendary Textiles and their Stories of Continuity
Sareekah Agarwaal
17:30 – 18:00 Project Development Workshop
18:00 – 18:15 End of Day Discussion, Closing Thoughts, Goodbyes
EXCURSIONS
Saturday:
Visit to the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum
Sunday:
Benaki Museum of Greek Culture
Opening Hours on Sunday: 10:00 – 16:00
Discover the Greek Costume and the sartorial repertoire of the people of continental Greece and its islands.