Due to some last minute unexpected events, we had to make some changes to the program of the conference. Please find below the updated version.
Additionally, we are pleased to announce that the dinner on Thursday evening will take place at the restaurant Curtea Berarilor in the Old City Centre of Bucharest (Șelari Str. 9-11). The participants who are taking part in the visit to the George Severeanu Museum can opt to take a walk of 30 minutes from the museum to the restaurant where they will be guided through the most iconic monuments of Bucharest along the Calea Victoriei Street. Otherwise, the closest metro station to the restaurant is the Unirii station.
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PROGRAM
Textiles and War in Europe and the Mediterranean
from Prehistory to Late Antiquity
Bucharest, 17 – 19 May 2023
DAY 1 (Wednesday, 17 May 2023)
09.00 – 09.30: Registration
09.30 – 10.00: Opening speeches
10.00 – 11.00: Keynote lecture
Textiles for war: archaeological evidence and approaches
Margarita Gleba (Padua, Italy)
11.00 – 11.30: Coffee break
Panel 1. From garments and armor to ropes and sails: the use of military textile items and the effects of military campaigns over the acquisition and consumption of textiles
11.30-12.00:
The Sling – an Overlooked Example of a ‘Weaponized Textile’ in Action
Emil Nankov (Sofia, Bulgaria)
12.00-12.30:
Memories of War. The linen cuirass of Lars Tolumnius and the military use of linen in Italic equipment and armour
Gianluca Tagliamonte (Lecce, Italy)
12.30-13.00:
Protecting the legionary’s head: analysis of the evidence of lining in Roman helmets from the Imperial age
Fabio Spagiari, Elisabetta Malaman (Padua, Italy)
13.00-13.30: Visit to the permanent exhibition of The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization: Modern and ancient artefacts from the Emil Constantinescu collection (former president of Romania, 1996-2000)
13.30-15.00: Lunch break
Panel 2. Elite cloaks and standard uniforms: the iconography of Greek and Carthaginian military textile items and dress
15.00-15.30:
Iconographic representations of sails and ropes of Greek warships depicted on ancient ceramics
Paulina Lebiedowicz (Toruń, Poland)
15.30-16.00:
A Few War-Related Representations on Ancient Textile Tools
Alina Iancu (Bucharest, Romania)
16.00-16.30: A technical description of the Carthaginian military dress
Amine Hadj Taieb (Sfax. Tunisia)
17.00-18.00: Visit to The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant: objects from the Romanian folk costume and the interior textiles collections in the Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș exhibition
DAY 2 (Thursday, 18 May 2023)
09.30-10.30: Keynote lecture
Craft, design and ergonomics: on decorations, reinforcements and protections for Mediterranean panoplies
Raimon Graells i Fabregat (Alicante, Spain)
10.30-11.00: Coffee break
Panel 3. Taxes, tributes, contracts or specialized workers? Systems of production and acquisition of garments and other textile items for the armies
11.00-11.30
Quod satis in usum fuit sublato. Booty and tribute as textile supply sources for the ancient Greek and Roman armies
Liviu Mihail Iancu (Bucharest, Romania)
11.30-12.00
Textiles on the March: Textile Activities in Roman Republican Military Contexts of Western Iberia (1st century BCE)
Francisco B. Gomes, Teresa Rita Pereira, Carlos Pereira, João Pimenta (Lisbon, Portugal / Madrid, Spain)
12.00-12.30
Dressed for (Military) Success: Official and Private Suppliers for the Roman Army during the Empire
Iulia Dumitrache (Iași, Romania)
12.30-13.00
Private textile supply and personal appearance of Roman soldiers in Imperial times
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe (Bochum / Kassel, Germany)
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break
Panel 4. Elite cloaks and standard uniforms: the iconography of Italic military textile items and dress
14.30-15.00
Woven and engraved military dress from Daunia
Francesco Meo (Lecce, Italy)
15.00-15.30
Mantles, drapes and other textiles: echoes of military hierarchy on the proto-Lucanian Hydria from tomb 2 of Gravina di Puglia – Botromagno?
Carlo Lualdi (Warwick, United Kingdom)
15.30-15.45: Official group photo
16.30-17.45: Visit to the George Severeanu Museum: the Classical collection
19.00: Official dinner
DAY 3 (Friday, 19 May 2023)
10.00-11.00: Keynote Event
Official Launch of The EuroWeb Digital Atlas of European Textile Heritage
Poster:
The EuroWeb Digital Atlas of European Textile Heritage: An overview with the occasion of its official launching
Catarina Costeira, Alina Iancu (Lisbon, Portugal / Bucharest, Romania)
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
Panel 5. Elite cloaks and standard uniforms: the iconography of Imperial Roman military textile items and dress
11.30-12.00
Roman military textile garments on the sarcophagi in Cilicia (southern Turkey)
Ergün Laflı, Maurizio Buora (Izmir, Turkey / Udine, Italy)
12.00-12.30
Roman soldiers, miners or others: who were the people depicted on the funerary stelae from the Middle Strymon valley?
Philip Kolev (Sofia, Bulgaria)
12.30-13.00
From milites to Augusti: The adoption of military clothing in Roman emperors’ depictions during the Third Century AD
Adrián Gordón-Zan (Zaragoza, Spain)
13.00-13.30: Concluding remarks
13.30-15.30: Lunch break (for the members of the Management Committee of Euroweb)
15.30-17.30: Meeting of the Management Committee of Euroweb
EXCURSION IN DOBRUDJA (optional)
Week-end - 20-21 May 2023
Saturday: Visit to the ancient Greek cities of Histria and Orgame
Saturday evening: Traditional fish dinner in the Lipovan/Old Believer village of Jurilovca, near the mouths of the Danube
Sunday: Visit to Constanța, the ancient Greek city of Tomis
The participants willing to take part in the excursion should register by 20 March 2023.
VENUE
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization 2A Boulevard Mareșal Constantin Prezan, 011452
Bucharest, ROMANIA
CONTACT INFORMATION
Liviu Iancu, Francesco Meo
textilesandwar@gmail.com
CONFERENCE WEBSITE
https://institutlevant.ro/en/textilesandwar
WARM THANKS TO THE PARTNERS AND SPONSORS OF THE EVENT:
The Association Eurocentrica, Trident Pharma Ltd., The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration Bucharest (SNSPA), The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant Bucharest (MNȚR), The George Severeanu Museum Bucharest, The Museum of National History and Archaeology Constanța (MINAC)
This conference is based upon work from COST Action CA19131 - Europe Through Textiles: Network for an integrated and interdisciplinary Humanities (EuroWeb) supported by COST. COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation.
