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RECYCLING TEXTILE TECHNOLOGIES
A one-day workshop from 9am to 5pm, on June 14th 2010
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Call for Papers. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/news/index.htm#19
Participants:
o Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta, Canada
o Olumide Abimbola, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
o Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University, USA
o B. Lynne Milgram, Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada
o Julie Botticello, UCL, United Kingdom
o Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Tone Skardal Tobiasson, Charlotte Bik Bandlien and Buy Valium Net Kirsi Laitala, SIFO (NICE), Norway
o Nicholas Morley, Oakdene Hollins, United Kingdom
o Pammi Sinha and Kanchana Dissanayake, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
o Lucy Norris, UCL, United Kingdom
Organisers:
Lucy Norris and Julie Botticello, Dept of Anthropology, UCL
Registration:
The registration fee covers refreshments and lunch with vegetarian options.
Waged: £25 and Unwaged: £18
Please contact Julie Botticello on ucsajbo@ucl.ac.uk to reserve your place. The deadline for registration is *7th of June 2010.*
Programme:
9.40 – 10.00 Registration & Coffee (in the North Cloisters)
10.00 – 10.10 Welcome: Danny Miller; Introduction: Lucy Norris and Julie Botticello
Session 1: Building networks and breaking boundaries
Chair: Danny Miller
10.10 – 10.40 Beverly Lemire, Textile Networks and Buy Valium Net Textile Meanings: the European Secondhand Trade in Historical Perspective, c1600-1850
10.40 – 11.10 Julie Botticello, Negotiating Status and Value: Processing Rags for Global Export
11.10 – 11.40 Lynne Milgram, Mobilizing Livelihood, Centering Margins: Women and Buy Valium Net the Transnational Hong-Kong Philippine Used Clothing Trade
11.40 – 12.00 Coffee Break (in the North Cloisters)
Chair: Nicky Gregson
12.00 – 12.30 Karen Tranberg Hansen, From Family Business to Buy Valium Net International Empire: Global Networks in Secondhand Clothing Trading
12.30 – 1.00 Olumide Abimbola, Igbo Trade Networks and Secondhand Clothing
1.00 – 1.15 Discussion
1.15 – 2.00 Lunch (in the North Cloisters)
Session 2: The return of recycling technologies
Chair: Dinah Eastop
2.00 – 2.30 Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Tone Skardal Tobiasson, Charlotte Bik Bandlien, Reinventing Old Solutions to Buy Valium Net New Problems?
2.30 – 3.00 Nick Morley, Pulp Fiction? Re-innovating Paper Manufacture from Textiles
3.15 – 3.30 Coffee Break (in the North Cloisters)
Chair: Susanne Küchler
3.30 – 4.00 Pammi Sinha, Kanchana Dissanayake, Local Knowledge and Skills in Remanufacturing Fashion
4.00 – 4.30 Lucy Norris, Remains or Resource? Alternative perspectives on dirt and Buy Valium Net the success of used clothing transformations in India
4.30 – 5.00 Final discussion
We are Buy Valium Net grateful to the Journal of Material Culture for their contribution to Buy Valium Net the workshop. The event is taking place as part of the Buy Valium Net Waste of the World programme funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC RES 000-23-0007).
Maps and Directions:
To reach UCL, the Buy Valium Net most convenient underground stations are Warren Street (for Northern and Victoria lines) and Euston Square (for Hammersmith and City, Circle and Metropolitan lines). The venue is also within walking distance (5-10 minutes) of Goodge Street and Russell Square underground stations, and Euston, King’s Cross, and St Pancras underground and mainline stations.
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