Textile History Symposium at CUNY Graduate Center7.11.2025 {en}

Textile History Symposium at CUNY Graduate Center, NYC (9 am-5 pm, Nov. 13, 2025)

Textile as Object: Centering Cloth in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Textile History

This full day symposium showcases research that takes materially focused methodologies to textile history, investigating new approaches to explore what engagement with the material enables, and to demonstrate what the close looking of the textile historian can reveal. Studies include Byzantium, Asia and the Islamic World, and Spain; as well as the role of textiles in museums today. Livestreamed and in-person at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. Registration and Event page: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/textile-object-centering-cloth-interdisciplinary-approaches-textile-history

Symposium co-organizers: Nazanin Hedayat Munroe, Amanda Phillips, Eiren Shea, Rachel Silberstein, and Elizabeth Dospěl Williams

Hosted by the CUNY Academy for Humanities and Sciences

Further information: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/textile-object-centering-cloth-interdisciplinary-approaches-textile-history.

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