Embroidery and Storytelling / broder et raconter

Rouen, France

December 10 and 11, 2009

Programme

Thursday December 10

Full Session
9.15 a.m Opening of the conference

Parallel Sessions

From Female Achievement to Female Expression
Chair: Nicole Terrien (CORPUS, Université de Rouen)

- 9.45 Emily Banis (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA)
« School Day Schedule »: A la carte Education in Colonial Boston

-10.15. Wanda Balzano (Wake Forest University, USA)
Embroidery and Cultural Memory of Southern Italian Women.

-10.45 Moira Thunder (Victoria and Albert Museum London,UK)
« Span your heart alike a pure cloth »: A Discourse about Women Continued in the Forewords of Eighteenth century German Pattern Books for Embroidery.

-11.15 Ba Harrington (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Virtue Embodied: A Polite and Dutiful Worktable.

-11.45 Émilie Corvisy (Université Stendhal; Grenoble III, France)
Embroidery: A High Status Activity for Women.

-12.15 Lunch


Thursday December 10

Morning Parallel Sessions

The Embroidered Stitch of History
Chair: Charlotte Gould (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle)

-9.45 Christine Brandner (Universität Wien, Austria)
The Vestment of the Order of the Golden Fleece as an Instrument of Political Propaganda.

-10.15 Yuhang Li (University of Chicago, USA)
Hair Embroidery in the late Imperial China.

-10.45 Dagmar Neuland-Kiltzerow (Museum of European Cultures, Berlin, Germany)
Inlaid patchwork in Europe from 1500 to the Present.

-11.15 Géraldine Chouard (Université Paris Dauphine, France)
American Rhapsody: an Embroidered History.

-11.45 Stéphanie Bernard (IUFM Rouen)
From "the [K]nitting [M]achine" to Embroidery: Joseph Conrad 's World and Art (1897-1904)

-12.15 Lunch


Thursday December 10

Afternoon Parallel Sessions

Challenging the Codes
Chair: Mireille Quivy (CORPUS, Université de Rouen)

-2 p.m. Stefanie Rentsch (DFKG, Paris, France/Germany)
Stiches of pain: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Work of Sophie Calle.

-2.30 Suzanne Fraysse (Université Aix-Marseilles, France)
"Pens and Needles in The Scarlet Letter"

-3 p.m Iris Mickein (Princeton University, USA)
Chance and Design: The role of Embroidery in the Work of Hannah Hoech.

-3.30 Charlotte Gould (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
Embroidery as New Technology.

-4 p.m Pause/Coffee Break


Thursday December 10
Afternoon Parallel Sessions

Embroidered Patterns
Chair: Nathalie Saudo (CORPUS, Université d'Amiens)

-2 p.m Claire Vial (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
Fate's Golden Threads: the Literary Motif of the Embroidered mantle.

-2.30 Christiane Müller (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany)
"[They] manufacture the most exquisite linen in Portugal". On the Metafictional connection between textile and storytelling in Isak Dinesen's "The blank page".

-3 p.m Anna Lehninger (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Teresa Ottavo's Lettre Brodée from the Maison des Folles.

-3.30 Rose Marie François (Université de Liège, Belgium)
"Out flew the web and floated wide" : Tennyson mal entendu par ceux qui ne font pas tapisserie.

-4 p.m Pause/Coffee Break


Thursday December 10
Afternoon Full Session

Crossing Lines/Fils entrecroisés
Chair: Camille Fort (CORPUS, Université d'Amiens)

-4. 15 Céline Le Belz (Brodeuse, France)
Tableaux et Broderie.

-4.45 Cecilia Braschi (Fondation Giacometti, France)
Trames, toiles et filets: imaginaires féminins dans l'art contemporain.

-5.15 Paul Balbous (Brodeur, France)
Evolution des Modes traditionnelles de Bretagne, coiffes et costumes.

-5.45 Romuald Hervé (Brodeur, France)
La broderie chez un designer contemporain.

-6.15 Sushant Grupta and Ritupama Mullick (Saffron Designs, India)
The Kantha Story.




Friday, December 11

Full Session

Embroidery as a Narrative
Chair: Antoine Capet (CORPUS, Université de Rouen)

-9 a.m Sandra Lawrence (Artist, UK)
Designing the Overlord Embroidery.

-9.30 Andrew Whitmarsh (Portsmouth Museums and Records Service, UK)
Displaying the Overlord Embroidery.

-10 a.m Ann Griffin Bernstorff (Artist, Ireland)
"The Living Heritage": The Ros Tapestry.

-10.30 Pause

Friday December 11
Morning Parallel Sessions

New Narratives
Chair: Françoise Bort (Université de Bourgogne)

-10.45 Brenda Schmahmann (Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa)
Representing HIV/AIDs in South Africa via Embroidery: The Keikamma Altarpiece.

-11.15 Shirley Ann Brown (York University, Toronto, Canada)
The "French Shore Tapestry" of Conche, Newfoundland.

-11.45 Marie-Hélène Desjardins (Musée de Fécamp, France )
"La Broderie de Fécamp" (1909-1926) : Analyse des motivations

-12.15 Lunch


Friday December 11

Morning parallel sessions

Extended Metaphors
Chair: Suzanne Fraysse (Université d'Aix-Marseille)

-10.45 Elizabeth Oliver (McGill University, Canada)
Marianne Moore's Poetic Text-Styles.

-11.15 Mireille Quivy (Université de Rouen, France)
Jane Eyre: De-signing Landscape Embroidery in Style.

-11.45 Elisabeth Bouzonviller (Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France )
"[H]ealing garment[s]" and "crazy quilt[s]": the Needlework Metaphor in Louise Erdrich's Fiction.

-12.15 Lunch


Friday December 11

Afternoon parallel sessions

An Alternative Reading of History
Chair: Géraldine Chouard (Université Paris 9- Dauphine)

-2.15 Chakè Matossian (Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium)
Michelet tisserand : la "tapisserie" de Bayeux et le portrait du Peuple.

-2.45 Victoria Rovine (University of Florida, USA)
Embroidered Cultures in West Africa: Viewing Travel, Text, and Tradition through Malian Garments.

-3.15 Antoine Capet (Université de Rouen).
Winstonus: The Representation of Amphibious Conquest from the Bayeux Tapestry to the Portsmouth Embroidery.

-3.45 Matthijs Ilsink (Radboud University Nijmepegen, Netherlands) and Monica Marchesi (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
An Embroidery by Philips van den Bossche: A Contribution to the Story of Early Seventeenth-Century Needle Painting.

-4.15 Pause/Coffee Break


Friday December 11
Afternoon Parallel Sessions

Intersections
Chair: Claire Vial (Université Paris 3- Sorbonne Nouvelle)

-2.15 Amélie Junqua (Université de Picardie - Jules Verne, France)
Embroidering the "loose Dress of the Spartan Maids" - Sex, Text and textile in Addisonian Prose.

-2.45 Sophie Aymes (Université de Bourgogne, France)
Writing, weaving and Engraving: the Art of Scratch.

-3.15 Marybeth Stalp (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
Reading the Stitches: Weaving Tales through Embroidered Textiles.

-3.45 Pause/Coffee Break

Full Session

Behind and Beyond the Narrative
Chair: Nicole Terrien (CORPUS, Université de Rouen)

-4 p.m Elizabeth Carson Pastan (Emory University, USA)
Look Again: The Architectural Rendering of the Bayeux Embroidery.

-4.30 Sue Prichard (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK)
Stitched Up - Misinterpreting Text(iles).

-5 p.m Emer Fahy (University College, Cork, Ireland )
A Web of Quilted Community.

-5.45 Final Knot


Saturday December 12

8.30 a.m Trip to Bayeux, guided tour of the Bayeux Tapestry with commentaries by Madame Lemagnen, Curator of the Bayeux Museum.

Registration : free
Contact :
Professor Nicole TERRIEN
nicole.terrien@free.fr