Woven Communities 2
Symposium Programme 2017
Day 1 Thursday 19th January 2017
9.00 amRegistration and coffee in Room 50
9.15 Practical Introduction in School 1 Twining, circles, rope making with diverse materials
9.45 Welcome by Professor Nigel Rapport, Head of School of Philosophy, Anthropology, Film Studies and Music
10-10.30Introduction to the project by Stephanie Bunn, Julie Gurr, Liz Balfour, and Dawn Susan
10.30-11.00Coffee - Departmental Coffee Room and Room 50
Session 1 Materials and skills11.00-1.15pm
11.00-11.30Dr Linda Hurcombe, University of Exeter.Perishable Materials and Perishable Skills: Exploring Archaeological Finds via Practical Experimentation
11.30-12.00 Dr Sue Healy, University of St Andrews.Nest Building by Weaverbirds: Evidence for Material Choice and Individual Signatures
12.00-12.30Joanne Kaar, freelance artist. On Learning to be a Weaver of Grass
12.30-1.00 Dr Lois Walpole, freelance artist.Weaving Ghosts
1.00-1.15Final discussion
1.15-2.15 Lunch - Departmental Coffee Room
Session 2 Baskets, memory and reminiscence 2.15-5.00
2.15-2.45 Jon Macleod and Paula Brown (An Lanntair, Stornoway):‘Peats don’t fall from empty baskets / Cha tuitcaoran à cliabhfalamh'
2.45-3.15 Dr Catherine Degnen, University of Newcastle.Memories in the Mind, Memories in the Motions
3.15-3.45 Tea - Room 50
3.45-4.15 ProfessorCara Krmpotich, University of Toronto and Susan Hunter, Cree Elder.Crafting the Social: Past, Present and Future
4.15-4.45 Dr Lissant Bolton, British Museum.Both Back and Forward: History and Innovation in Indigenous Australian Basket and Fibre work.
4.45-5.00 Final discussion
Day 2 Friday 20th January 2017
Session 3 Basketry and Maths 9.00-1.15pm
9.00 -9.30 Basketry and Maths Practical Session. Geraldine Jones, Basketry and Beyond, freelance basketmaker.
10.00-10.30 Dr Ian Ewart, University of Reading, Friction: an Engineer’s Perspective on Weaving Grass Bridges
10.00-10.30Mary Crabb, Freelance basketmaker.Intertwined – Maths and Making
10.30-11.00 Lucie Hazelgrove-Planel, University of St Andrews.Plaited Literacy in Vanuatu
11.00-11.30 Coffee - Departmental Coffee Room
Session 4 Basket Cases – therapeutic uses of basketry and other craft
11.30-12.00 Hilary Burns, Basketry and Beyond.Basketry – the healing craft?
12.00-12.30 Professor Cathrine Hasse, University of Aarhus. Learning Culture Loss
12.30-1.00 Florence Cannavacciuolo, basketmaker and occupational therapist.Basketry as Therapy. Skype questions to written lecture
1.00-1.15 Final discussion for morning
1.15-2.15 Lunch - Departmental Coffee Room
Session 5 The knowledge in knots andin baskets – “he just has to see a basket to know how to make it” – intangible knowledge
2.15-2.45 Round table on Reconstructions, Skill and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Dr Tim Palmer, John Cowan, Stephanie Bunn, Linda Fitzpatrick, Charlie Treciak Scottish Fisheries Museum…….
2.45-3.15 Des Pawson MBE, The Museum of Knots and Sailors’ Ropework, Ipswich. Nearly Lost
3.15-3.45Tea - Departmental Coffee Room
3.45-4.15 Dr Sabine Hyland, University of St Andrews.Fibre Writing in Three Dimensions: the Khipu Cords of the Central Andes
4.15- 4.45 Dr Victoria Mitchell, Norwich University of the Arts. Bent, Twisted and Loopy: embodied activity, material agency and the making of knots
4.45-5.00 Final discussion
Saturday 21st January
Final session: Education and Innovation, revitalization: new from old
9.30-10 Paulina Adamska,Serfenta. On Intangible Knowledge inBasket-work in Poland
10.30-11 Dr Ian Tait, Shetland Museum. The Cultural Wastepaper Basket
10-10.30 Julia Bennett Craft Council UK. Craft in Innovation
11-11.30 Coffee - Departmental Coffee Room
12.00- 12.30 Prof Tim Ingold University of Aberdeen Summing up
Thanks to the AHRC for funding this symposium, and to the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and the KFI Project, Department of Social Anthropology, at the University of Aberdeen for supporting the Project
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