Silk
Roads, Other Roads
Eighth Biennial
Symposium
Smith College Campus, Northampton, Massachusetts
September 26-28, 2002
Smith College and Northampton, Massachusetts,
hosted the Textile Society of America Eighth Biennial Symposium,
Silk Roads, Other Roads. Concurrent with the symposium, Northampton
has begun a year-long celebration of the region's history of sericulture
and silk manufacturing. While the main theme of the symposium follows
this same thread, other topics were covered as well, including pre-Colombian
textiles and sustainable development as well as the American silk
industry, contemporary Japanese silk design, silks in Southeast
Asia, and archaeological textiles found along the Silk Road.
Smith College Campus, Northampton, Massachusetts
September 26-28, 2002
Symposium Proceedings: Table of Contents
and Abstract links
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Plenary Session
- Keynote Address: Womanly
Work: Ideals and Realities of Textile Production in Imperial China,
Francesca Bray, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 Individual Papers-Archaeology and
the Silk Road
Session 2 Textile
Artisans, Global Markets, and Sustainable Development in Africa
and Asia
Session chairs, Mary A. Littrell and Elisha Renne Discussant, Hazel A. Lutz
Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 Individual papers-Silk, the Middle
East and Africa
Session 2 Individual Papers-Acculturation
Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 Individual Papers-Silk in
Medieval Europe
Session 2 Individual Papers (Included
in this session are a number of 10/10 papers. The presentation
will be 10 minutes in length, with the remaining 10 minutes available
for discussion.)
Friday, September 27, 2002
Plenary Session
- Keynote Address: Women, Cloth
& Politics in Lyon's Eighteenth-Century Silk Industry Daryl Hafter,
Professor of History, Eastern Michigan University
Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 Common
Threads: Unwinding the History of Silk Production in Mainland
Southeast Asia, Session chair, Linda S. McIntosh
Session 2 New
Perspectives on the American Silk Industry: Silk Products and
Silk Manufacture in America Session chair, Jacqueline Field
Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 High
Roads/Low Roads, North Roads/South Roads: Regional and Cultural ˆPersonalities in
Central and Southern Andean Textiles, part 1 Session
chair, Anne Paul Discussant, Margaret Young-Sanchez
Session 2 Individual Papers-The American
Textile Industry
Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 High
Roads/Low Roads, North Roads/South Roads: Regional and Cultural ˆPersonalities in
Central and Southern Andean Textiles, part 2 Session chair,
Anne Paul Discussant, Margaret Young-Sanchez
Session 2 Individual Papers-The American
Textile Industry, cont.
Session 3 Individual Papers-Silk Traditions
in Japan
Saturday, September 28, 2002
Concurrent sessions
Session 1 Dichotomies
in Silk: Crisp and Soft, Shrinking and Stretching, Sheer and
Opaque, Past and Future Session chair, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada
Session 2 Individual Papers-Trade in Asia
Session 3 Individual Papers
Plenary Session
Northampton Silk Project panel
Marjorie Senechal, Project Director; Kiki Smith; Alena Shumway, Curator of
spring 2003 exhibition on the Northampton silk industry, Historic Northampton;
and Kerry Buckley, Director, Historic Northampton.
Updated: March 7, 2003 |
