October 22, 2010
University of Zurich, Hauptgebäude, KOL-F-30

Program

10:00 - 10:15 Welcoming Remarks

10:15 - 12:00 Session I: Textile Identities: Byzantium, Islam, and
Eurasian Borderlands

Branislav Cvetkovic (Regional Museum, Jagodina, Serbia), Textiles and
Their Usage in Medieval Balkans: The Royal Context

Warren Woodfin (University of Zurich), Mediterranean Symbols of Power in
the Costume of a Steppe Leader

12:00 - 13:30 Break for Lunch

13:30 - 16:00 Session II: Western Medieval Textiles and their
Representations

Barbara Baert (Catholic University of Leuven), The 13th-century
Embroidered Antependium of Wernigerode (Germany)

Anna Bücheler (University of Toronto), Cladding the Invisible: Textile
Ornament as Visual Metaphor in Early Medieval German Manuscripts

Tristan Weddigen (University of Zurich), The Vera Icon as a Textile Image

16:00 - 16:30 Concluding Remarks

Institutional Partners

Prof. Dr. Barbara Baert, Catholic University of Leuven, Iconology Research
Group
Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen, University of Zurich, An Iconology of the
Textile

Contact: Dr. Warren Theriot Woodfin
Website: http://www.khist.uzh.ch/neuzeit/res/conf/zurich10.html