Of potential interest to list members:

http://www.esf.org/activities/exploratory-workshops/humanities-sch/workshops-det\
ail.html?ew=8202

Many thanks to Ann Hedlund for sharing this.

Best, Ed

> Textile Terminology In The Ancient Near East And The
> Mediterranean
> Area In The 3rd And 2nd Millennia B.c.
> ESF Exploratory Workshop - SCH
>
> Convened by: Marie-Louise Bech Nosch (DK), Cécile Michel
> (FR)
>
> Location: 4-8 March 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
> This meeting is not open to the public
>
> Keywords: textile; terminology; philology; comparative
> studies; technology
>
> Summary
> In the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC, textile industries
> flourish along the
> trade routes, in the urbanised centres and in palaces and
> temples. The
> written sources contain rich terminologies describing the
> textiles.
> The exploratory workshop explores this terminology
> diachronically and
> investigates the parameters which influence semantic
> changes and the
> adoption of new terms. Through textile terminology, we
> perceive
> contacts, innovations, trade routes and economical
> structures of
> pre-monetary societies.
> Preliminary programme and Provisional list of participant
>
>
> Contacts
> Convenors:
> Marie-Louise Bech Nosch
> Department of History
> Faculty of the Humanities, SAXO Institute
> University of Copenhagen
> The Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for
> Textile Research
> Njalsgade 102
> 2300 Copenhagen, S
> Denmark
> Cécile Michel
> Paris X, Nanterre
> Nanterre
> France
>
> *PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME*
>
> *Wednesday 4 March 2009*
>
> Late afternoon /Arrival at Hotel Opera, Copenhagen/
>
>
>
> *Thursday 5 March 2009*
>
> 09.00-09.30 /Registration/
>
> 09.30-09.45 *Introduction*
>
> 09.45-10.00 *Presentation of the ESF*
>
> 10.00-10.40 *Synonymic variation in the field of textile
> terminology: a
> study in diachrony and synchrony*
>
> *Susanne Lervad *and *Pascaline Dury *(Centre de Recherche
> en
> Terminologie et Traduction, Université Lyon 2, FR)
>
> 10.40-11.00 /Coffee break/
>
> 11.00-11.30 *Textile terminology in the 3**rd** and 2**nd**
> millennia
> BC: what kind of classification could help connecting terms
> to textiles*
>
> *Sophie Desrosiers *(EHESS, Paris, FR)
>
> 11.30-12.00 *Results of the technological investigations of
> textile
> production via systematic tests of textile tools in
> experimental
> archaeology: limits and potentials of Aegean Bronze Age
> textile technology*
>
> *Eva Andersson *(CTR, Copenhagen, DK)
>
> 12.00-12.30 *Discussion*
>
> 12.30-13.30 /Lunch/
>
> 13.30-14.00 *Weaving in Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age:
> archaeology,
> techniques and iconography*
>
> *Catherine Breniquet *(Université Blaise-Pascal,
> Clermont-Ferrand II, FR)
>
> 14.30-14.40 *Discussion*
>
> * *
>
> *3rd MILLENNIUM*
>
> 14.40-15.10 *Ancient Egyptian Classification of Textiles in
> the Writing
> System*
>
> *Ole Herslund *(University of Copenhagen, DK)
>
> 15.10-15.40 *The Egyptian Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom
> 'linen lists':
> text and textile reconciled*
>
> *Jana Jones *(Macquarie University, Australia)
>
> 15.40-15.50 *Discussion*
>
> 15.50-16.00 /Coffee break/
>
> 16.00-16.30 *On garments in the Sargonic Period*
>
> *Benjamin Foster *(Yale University, USA)
>
> 16.30-17.00 *Coloured textiles in the Ebla documentation*
>
> *Maria Giovanna Biga *(Università di Roma "La
> Sapienza", IT)
>
> 17.00-17.15 *Discussion*
>
> /Reception at the Danish National Research Foundation's
> Centre for
> Textile Research/
>
>
>
> *Friday 6 March 2009*
>
> 9.30-10.00 *The Textiles in the Neo-Sumerian documentation*
>
> *Franco Pomponio *(Università de Messina, IT – text read
> by L. Venderame)
>
> 10.00-10.30 *Textile Industry Terminology in the
> Neo-Sumerian Texts*
>
> *Hartmut Waetzoldt *(Ruprecht-Karls Universität
> Heidelberg, DE)
>
> 10.30-10.45 *Discussion*
>
> 10.45-11.00 /Coffee break/
>
> / /
>
> *2nd MILLENNIUM*
>
> 11.00-11.40 *Textiles or garments: what did the Assyrians
> trade in
> Anatolia?*
>
> *Cécile Michel *(CNRS, Maison de l'archéologie et de
> l'ethnologie,
> Nanterre, FR)
>
> and *Klaas R. Veenhof *(University Leiden, NL)
>
> 11.40-12.10 *Les fibres textiles dans le monde
> syro-anatolien: la laine
> (SÍG) et le lin (GU/GADA). Terminologies hittite, louvite,
> lycienne*
>
> *Agnès Degrève and René Lebrun *(Université Catholique
> de Louvain, BE)
>
> 12.10-12.30 *Discussion*
>
> 12.30-13.30 /Lunch/
>
> 14.00-14.30 *Ugaritic and Akkadian textile terminology in
> the archives
> of Ugaritic (Late Bronze Age)*
>
> *Juan-Pablo Vita *(CSIC - Instituto des Estudios Islámicos
> y del Oriente
> Próximo, Zaragoza, ES)
>
> 14.30-15.00 *Tools, procedures and professions – a review
> of the
> Akkadian textile terminology*
>
> *Agnete Wisti Lassen *(University of Copenhagen, DK)
>
> 15.00-15.15 *Discussion*
>
> 15.15-15.30 /Coffee break/
>
> 15.30-16.10 *The terminology of textiles in the Linear B
> tablets, with
> some considerations going back to Linear A ideograms*
>
> *Maurizio del Freo *(Università di Roma "La
> Sapienza", IT),
> * **Francoise Rougemont *(CNRS, Maison de
> l'archéologie et de
> l'ethnologie, Nanterre, FR), and *Marie-Louise B. Nosch
> *(CTR
> Copenhagen, DK)
>
> 16.10-16.40 *Mycenaean textile terminology and the
> organization of
> textile production: the case of the scribe 103.*
>
> *Eugenio Lujan *(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES)
>
> 16.40-17.30 *General Discussion (3rd-2nd Millennium)*
>
>
>
> *Saturday 7 March 2009*
>
> *1st MILLENNIUM AND AFTER*
>
> 10.00-10.30 *Textile Terminology in Babylonian Texts from
> the Ist
> Millennium BC*
>
> *Francis Joannès *(Université de Paris I Panthéon –
> Sorbonne, Maison de
> l'archéologie et de l'ethnologie, Nanterre, FR)
>
> 10.30-11.00 *Garments in Non-Cultic Context (Neo-Babylonian
> Period)*
>
> *Stefan Zawadzki *(Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, PL)
>
> 11.00-11.15 *Discussion*
>
> 11.15-11.30 /Coffee break/
>
> 11.30-12.00 *Some considerations about Vedic, Avestan and
> Indo-Iranian
> textile terminology*
>
> *Miguel Angel Andres *(University Salamanca, ES)
>
> 12.00-12.15 *Discussion*
>
> 12.15-14.00 /Lunch/
>
> *14.00-14.30 *
>
> 14.30-15.00 As part of the discussion:
>
> *Neo-Sumerian Textile Wrappings. Revisiting some foundation
> figurines
> from Nippur*
>
> *Agnès Garcia Ventura *(Barcelona, ES)
>
> 15.00-16.30 *Final discussion, plans for follow-up research
> activities
> and other joint collaborative actions of the group of
> researcher*
>
> evening /Closing Conference dinner/
>
> List of Participants:
> <http://www.esf.org/index.php?
> eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=0&file=fileadmin/be_user/ew_docs/08-
> 266_Programme.pdf&t=1235496603&hash=c659784e5adad40f6b595b8b69561210>.
>
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