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ALL
SUBMISSIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED
NO LATER THAN OCTOBER
1, 2007.
Faxes and e-mail will not be accepted. Send title
page, one-page resume, and 6 copies of abstract(s),
without staples, unfolded, in a large mailing envelope
to:
Tom Klobe, TSA Symposium Program Coordinator, University
of Hawai‘i Department of Art & Art History, 2535
McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822, USA
VISIT THE TSA WEBSITE FOR COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS
http://www.textilesociety.org
Contact: Janice Lessman-Moss, External
Relations Director, jlessman@kent.edu
THE ELEVENTH BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE TEXTILE SOCIETY OF
AMERICA will take place in Honolulu, Hawai'i, September
24-27, 2008. Textiles as Cultural Expressions, the
symposium theme, will serve as a springboard for
discussions across disciplines, as well as for in-depth
explorations of specific topics.
TSA encourages
presentations on textiles from all parts of the globe
and from textile-related disciplines including (but not
limited to): anthropology, archaeology, art, art history,
conservation, cultural geography, design, marketing,
mathematics, economics, history, indigenous traditions,
linguistics, theatre, and the physical and social
sciences. Scholars, artists, gallery and museum
professionals, educators, and lovers of textiles are
encouraged to submit proposals.
Textiles serve as a means
of communicating cultural values, as a
medium for social cohesion, and they link science and
technology, architecture and design, music and the
performing arts. We are particularly interested in
explorations of textiles as story-telling media, as
mythological objects, as “woven” archetypes,
and as evidence of a life lived, showing the
interconnectedness of culture(s) and between
generation(s).
Honolulu, the cosmopolitan
capital of the state of Hawai'i, has a
long history of cross-cultural expressions. Because of
its rich international diversity of peoples, cultures,
and institutions, Hawai’i is central to the
discourse of this symposium. The main sessions will take
place at the Sheraton-Waikiki, a hotel with outstanding
conference facilities. TSA has been granted an excellent
room rate extending from three days before the symposium
to three days after. Many local museums and galleries are
planning exciting exhibitions and site seminars.
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