September 10th
15:00 - 15:30 Participant registration
15:30 – 15:45 Official Opening
15:45 – 16:00 Introductory remarks:
Anna Maria CIMITILE, University of Naples L’Orientale
and
Laurent CURELLY, Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse
16:00 – 18:00: Session 1
Travelling patterns
Chair: Anna Maria Cimitile
Sabrina JUILLET GARZÓN
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, PLEIADE/ILCEA4
The tartan pattern, from the Scottish Highlands to the British colony in Madras and to the Caribbeans. 17th-18th centuries
Beatrice BEHLEN
Senior curator of Fashion & Decorative Arts, London Museum
and
Anne MALCOLM-DAVIES
University of Uppsala, Sweden
The texture of ideas in early modern knitting: Methods and motifs for a 17th century silk waistcoat
Q&A
18:00 Welcome Aperitif
September 11th
9:00 – 11:00: Session 2
Needleworks
Chair: Lellida Marinelli - Carmela Esposito
Clare KEMMERER
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
“It was done by these maidens”: Embroidery techniques and the fashioning of vocation in the case of the North Netherlandish kloppen
Paweł RUTKOWSKI
University of Warsaw
Secret needlework: Uses of Catholic embroidery in 17th-century England
Q&A
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:30 Session 3
Textiles and the literary imagination
Chair: Anna Maria Cimitile
Isabella CAMPAGNOL
Istituto Marangoni, Milan
Fabrics in focus: The role of textiles in Carlo Goldoni’s plays
Lellida Vittoria MARINELLI
University of Naples L’Orientale
Fruits of the loom, figments of the imagination? The medieval tapestry in Vernon Lee’s story “Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady”
Carmela ESPOSITO
University of Naples L’Orientale
From early modernity to early modernism: The texture of fiction and non-fiction in Giacomo Joyce
Q&A
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch buffet
15:00 – 17:00 Session 4
Textiles and cultural history of early modernity
Chair: Laurent Curelly
Anna Maria CIMITILE
University of Naples L’Orientale
Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modernity: Material culture and intellectual life
Lizzy VIAN
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Museum of Design, US
Making modernity: An analysis of temporal agency in early modern Alsatian regional dress production
Davide CASTAGNOLA
University of Firenze
De oro y seda: Genoese textile manufacturing in the siglo de oro. Economic influence, trade and uses
Q&A
20:00 Social Dinner
September 12th
9:30 – 12:00 Special Session
Per una storia culturale della produzione della seta in Campania: l'utopia del Real Borgo di San Leucio (18° sec.) e le tradizioni pagane sull'isola di Procida (20° sec.)
For a cultural history of the production of silk in Campania: The utopian project of Real borgo di San Leucio (18th C.) and pagan traditions in Procida (20th C.)
Chair: Anna Maria Cimtile
9.30 – 10.00 Coffee
Luca IMPOSIMATO
Lawyer, Caserta
L’utopia socialista e illuminista di Ferdinandopoli a metà tra Polis ideale platonica e modello di business etico: dagli statuti di San Leucio del 1789 al borgo attuale / The socialist and enlightened utopia of Ferdinandopoli halfway between Plato's ideal polis and an ethical business model: From the 1789 statutes to the present-day San Leucio complex
(In Italian with consecutive translation in English)
Giovanni ROMEO
University of Naples Federico II
L'arte della seta a Procida nel Novecento: uno spazio femminile importante tra modernità e tradizioni pagane / The art of silk in Procida in the 20th century: An important female space between modernity and pagan traditions
(In Italian with consecutive translation in English)
Q&A
12:00: Video session
Anat STEINDLER
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Patterns, grids, and early binary logic in printed textile pattern books, 1500–1630 – Video essay
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch buffet
Cultural programme
14:45 meetup for Vivara
15:00-17:30 Visit to Vivara
September 13th
Cultural programme
10:30
Departure from Naples to Caserta
Visit to Real Borgo di San Leucio and Reggia di Caserta