TRINITY HOUSE CHAPEL, DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY, LEICESTER (UK)
15 & 16 JUNE 2022
DAY 1 – 15 JUNE 2022
9.45 – Welcome. Siobhan Keenan (Associate Dean Research and Innovation, Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities, DMU) and Carolyn Hardaker (Head, School of Fashion and Textiles, DMU)
PANEL I – THE STATE OF THE FIELD – A VIEW FROM DRESS HISTORY
10.00 am – 12.30 pm
Chair: Kelley Wilder, Director Photographic History Research Center, De Montfort University
Keynote: Jenny Tiramani (Principal, School of Historical Dress, London)– Reconstruction at the School of Historical Dress. The first attempt is an experiment, the second is from experience
Jane Malcolm-Davies (Associate Professor of Textile Analysis, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen) Good recreative practice: An interdisciplinary approach to reconstructing the early modern apron
Short break
Futures of the Field: A Roundtable Discussion
Sara Dominici in conversation with Deborah McGuire (PhD candidate Oxford Brookes University), Jordan Mitchell-King (PhD candidate DMU), Rachel Neal (PhD candidate DMU), and Selene States (PhD candidate Bauhaus University (Weimar) and Teacher, Fine Art, Loughborough University)
LUNCH 12.30-2.00 PM
PANEL 2 – COPIES, ORIGINALS AND THE WORK OF MUSEUMS
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Chair: Richard Hudson-Miles, De Montfort University
Keynote: Julian Stallabrass (Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art) – Actually Existing Sculpture: Replication, Mass Culture and the Art Market
Suzanne Freeman (Conservator andPhD Student, National University of Ireland) – Reading Materials (online)
Jo Gane (Artist and PhD candidate at Birmingham School of Art (BCU) and De Montfort University) – Calotype recreations in the landscape – re-treading, exploring an entanglement of process, place and materials
Toni Rutherford (Maker, Educator, Researcher, Historian) – Material Lessons, working with Plaster-of-Paris
DAY 2 – 16 JUNE 2022
PANEL 3 – ETHICS, LABOUR AND THE PAST
10.00 am – 1.00 pm
Chair: Elizabeth Lambourn, De Montfort University
Keynote: Nuria Garcia Masip (Calligrapher, PhD candidate Sorbonne University) – Forgotten Scripts and Recreative Practices in Calligraphy: The Case of Bihari
Paul Wheeler (University for the Creative Arts, Farnham) – Recreating Medieval Pottery Using Low-cost Scanning and 3D Printing in Clay
Jennifer Dranttel (Textile designer, PhD candidate DMU) – Recreating Traditional and Documenting Contemporary Feltmaking Practice in Mongolia as a Tool for Decolonizing Institutions and Future Design
Short break
Emily Pott (The Prince’s Foundation, School of Traditional Arts, London) – Living traditions: contemporary Orthodox icon painting
Neil Brownsword (Staffordshire University) – Resurrecting the Obsolete (online)
LUNCH 1.00-2.30 PM
Optional: Tour of DMU Workshops (advance sign-up, further details to follow)
PANEL 4 – TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATIONS
2.30 pm – 4.30 pm
Chair: Sara Dominici, Westminster University
Keynote (online): – Mike Robinson (Century Darkroom) – The Daguerreotype: Replication, Revelations and Revisions
Lin Gardner (Research Assistant, University of Glasgow) – Modelling the Sewing Machine: Simplifying and Communicating Technological Development
Peter Domankiewicz (Director and screenwriter, PhD Candidate DMU) – Clickety-Click, Kerclunk Kerclunk, Wudump Wudump: The Sound of Pictures Moving (online)