What a fascinating sounding workshop - oh to be free this weekend. What a shame it wasn't publicised by them more widely.
Do let us have more details when you return. Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:27:40 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [lace] Lace conference on 30 September in Oxford> To: [email protected]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dear All> > I've only just received details of what looks like a fascinating conference on the folklore side of lacemaking; Mr Hopkin has said that the interested public are more than welcome, so here they are, with his contact details.> > [EMAIL PROTECTED], busy rearranging my weekend to fit this in!> > One-day workshop on> > THE CULTURE OF LACEMAKING> WORK, GENDER, RELIGION & SONG> > Saturday 29 September 2007> Hertford College> Catte Street> Oxford OX1 3BW> > Programme starts at 10:00 am.> > Speakers include> > Isabelle PEERE Kommission für Volksdichtung Narrative Songs of the Bruges Lacemakers (Nineteenth-Century)> > Marguerite COPPENS Musées royaux dArt et dHistoire à Bruxelles Female Domestic Labour in the Twentieth-Century Belgian Lace Industry> > Bruno YTHIER Musee des manufactures de dentelles (Retournac) Lacemakers and the Virgin Mary, Upper Loire c.1830-c.1930> > Alexandra MACCULLOCH Buckinghamshire County Museum The Romance of the Lace Pillow: Mythologising the Lives of Buckinghamshire Lacemakers> > David HOPKIN Hertford College, Oxford The Aesthetics of Poverty in Lacemakers Songs from the Upper Loire> > Olwen HUFTON Merton College, Oxford Livestock And Lace. The Social And Cultural World Of The Rural Lacemaker In France And Ireland, 18-19th Centuries> > The work culture of lacemakers is particularly well documented in the form of song collections, religious rituals and material culture. This one-day workshop, supported by the Folklore Society, brings together folklorists, historians and museum curators from France, Belgium and the UK, to investigate this work culture. Some papers will be in French.> All are welcome and entry is free, though if you wish to attend, please contact David Hopkin at Hertford College, Oxford OX1 3BW, on 01865 279 459, or email [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ___________________________________________________________> Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it> now.> http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ > > -> To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:> unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to> [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Feel like a local wherever you go. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
