We engage with the research community and share our work on a wide range of external platforms. Papers, presentations, and other engagements will be listed here. If you would like us to contribute to your event, contact us.
9 June 2022
Paula Hohti (lecture): ‘Refashioning the Renaissance: Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550-1650’. University of Copenhagen, Saxo Institute, Centre for Textile Research.
31 March 2022
Victoria Bartels (paper): ‘Concealed Carrying: The Form and Function of Hidden Weapons in Early Modern Italy.’ The Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Dublin.
24 January 2022
Paula Hohti (lecture): ‘Early modern dress and fashion.’ Cambridge University, online.
30 November 2021
Victoria Bartels (paper): “Arms, Armor, and Masculinity in Renaissance Portraiture”. Bagnesi Live Lecture Series, Florida State University
15 October 2021
Anne Kristine Sindvald Larsen (paper): “Acquiring, Circulating and Mending Clothes from Artisans and Their Wives.”Workshop Patterns of Thought in Early Modern Material Culture, online.
11 September 2021
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘Reconstruction as a Methodology: The Mock-Velvet Doublet of a Florentine Seventeenth-Century Waterseller’. Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550–1650, Helsinki.
Maarit Kalmakurki (paper): ‘Animating Historical Garments: Digital Reconstruction of a Renaissance Doublet’. Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550–1650, Helsinki.
Piia Lempiäinen and Paula Hohti (paper): ‘Stitching History Together: Using Scientific Methods and Craft Knowledge to Understand Early Modern Knitting’. Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550–1650, Helsinki.
10 September 2021
Paula Hohti (paper): ‘Faded Shades or Fashionable Tints?: Colour and Novelty in Renaissance Everyday Dress’. Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550–1650, Helsinki.
Stefania Montemezzo (paper): ‘Artisans “à la mode”. The Availability of Fashion Items in Early Modern Venice, Florence, and Siena (16–17th c.)’. Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550–1650, Helsinki.
Victoria Bartles (paper): ‘Dressed to Kill: Weapons and Protective Materials in Artisan Renaissance Fashion’. Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550–1650, Helsinki.
Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen (paper): ‘Artisan Fashions in Early Modern Denmark: A Case-Study’. Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550–1650, Helsinki.
2 September 2021
Anne Kristine Sindvald Larsen (paper): “Tøj i en håndværkers liv”. Dragt-og Tekstilnetværkers seminar og Landsmøde, Copenhagen, Denmark.
June 2021
Paula Hohti (paper): Power, Black Clothing, and the Chromatic Politics of Textiles in Renaissance Europe. Burgundian Black Book Launch. Online.
10 May
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘A Dyeing Art: Reconstructing Rosetti’s Plictho‘. The Colour of Clothes in the Early Modern World. Online.
Paula Hohti (paper): ‘Innovations and Imitations of Fashion: Colour and Novelty in Early Modern Italian dress’. The Colour of Clothes in the Early Modern World. Online.
24 April 2020
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘Making Material: Refashioning the Clothing of Early Modern Artisans’. L’Histoire de l’expérience et l’expérience de l’historien: Étude critique des pratiques de reconstitution, Liège. Cancelled or postponed due to Covid-19
22 April 2021
Victoria Bartels (paper): “’Married to His Cuirass’: The Dangers of Looking Overly Militaristic in Renaissance Italy”. Renaissance Society of America 2021 Virtual Conference, Online.
14 April 2021
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘Making Material: Refashioning the Clothing of Early Modern Artisans’. Renaissance Society of America 2021 Virtual Conference, Online.
2 April 2020
Sophie Pitman (chair): ‘Neither good nor feigned nor fake: Counterfeits, Fabrication and Imitation in Early Modern Dress’. Renaissance Society of America 2020 Conference, Philadelphia. Cancelled or postponed due to Covid-19
Paula Hohti Erichsen (paper): ‘Faking Fashions: Colour Imitation and Dress in Sixteenth-Century Italy’. Renaissance Society of America 2020 Conference, Philadelphia. Cancelled or postponed due to Covid-19
Michele Robinson (paper): ‘Né vera né falsa: Non-Elite Ownership of Pearls in Early Modern Italy’. Renaissance Society of America 2020 Conference, Philadelphia. Cancelled or postponed due to Covid-19
Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen (paper): ‘A Grey Hat with a Fake Silver Ribbon: Artisans and Imitations in Danish Trading Towns’. Renaissance Society of America 2020 Conference, Philadelphia. Cancelled or postponed due to Covid-19
12 March 2021
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘Reconstructing a fashionable early modern body’. Cambridge Body and Food Histories Group, Cambridge.
8 February 2021
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘A Nasty Black Doublet: the material and digital reconstruction of Renaissance everyday fashion’. Digital Materialities webinar series.
3 February 2021
Paula Hohti (book launch): Artisans, Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy: The Material Culture of the Middling Class, Online.
21–21 January 2021
Sophie Pitman (keynote): ‘Apparel for Rain: Keeping Dry, Warm, Clean and Healthy in Early Modern London’. “Strange Habits” / Strange Habitats: Clothes, climes, and the environment in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Online International Conference.
26 November 2020
Paula Hohti Erichsen (keynote): ‘Bringing history to life: Archival research and historical reconstruction in early modern dress and fashion history’. University of Turku and Åbo Akademi Research Seminar.
16 November 2020
Paula Hohti (paper): “Bringing History to Life: Archival Research and Historical Reconstructions in Early Modern Dress and Fashion History”. Turku University
30 September 2020
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘The Structure and Geometry of Renaissance Clothing’. Microscopic Records: The New Interdisciplinarity of Early Modern Studies, c. 1400–1800, Online.
Sophie Pitman, Maarit Kalmakurki (masterclass): ‘3D Animation and Reconstruction of Early Modern Textiles’. Microscopic Records: The New Interdisciplinarity of Early Modern Studies, c. 1400–1800, Online.
25 February 2020
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘Making Material: Refashioning the Clothing of Early Modern Artisans’. Reconstruction: Methods and Practices in Research, Exhibitions, and Conservation, Cambridge.
29 January 2020
Paula Hohti Erichsen (talk): ‘Re-making as a methodology in textile and fashion history’. Aalto University’s Tenured Professors’ Installation Talks, Espoo.
27 November 2019
Paula Hohti Erichsen (talk): ‘Puvut ja Pukeutuminen Lucas Cranachin aikaan’. Sinebrychoffin taidemuseo, Helsinki.
12–13 September 2019
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘From microscope to archive and back again: how microscopes, social media, and collaboration can lead to new findings in dress history’. Dress under the Microscope: Contributions of Science and Technology to the Study of Early Modern Dress, Lisbon.
Piia Lempiäinen: ‘Stitching together history—Using scientific methods and citizen science to understand early modern stockings’. Dress under the Microscope: Contributions of Science and Technology to the Study of Early Modern Dress, Lisbon.
15–17 August 2019
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘Mock velvet and fake gold: Renaissance fashion among the lower classes, 1550-1650’. Faking it – Forgery and Fabrication in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Gothenburg.
27–28 June 2019
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘Innovation and imitation: urban fashion among the lower classes, 1550–1650’. Everyday Fashion: Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Clothes, University of Huddersfield and University of Leeds.
24 May 2019
Michele Robinson (paper): ‘Books of Secrets and Artisans’ Dress in Italy, 1550–1650’. The New Research in Dress History Conference, Edinburgh.
30 April 2019
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘Reconstructing Renaissance Clothing’. Alumni Spotlight Lecture, Bard Graduate Center, New York.
18 April 2019
Paula Hohti (teaching demonstration): ‘New Approaches in History of Art and Culture’, Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Espoo.
17 March 2019
Paula Hohti (paper): ‘Tailoring Fashions: Clothing commissions by ordinary people in sixteenth and early seventeenth century Italy’. Renaissance Society of America 2019 Conference, Toronto.
Paula Hohti (chair): Lower-Class Dress, Fashion, and Identity in Europe, 1450–1650 II: Imitation or Invention? Renaissance Society of America 2019 Conference, Toronto.
Michele Robinson (paper): ‘Angelia’s gilded Turkish shoes: Cross-cultural exchange and lower-class dress in early modern Italy’. Renaissance Society of America 2019 Conference, Toronto.
Michele Robinson (chair): Lower-Class Dress, Fashion, and Identity in Europe, 1450–1650 I: Accounting for Dress. Renaissance Society of America 2019 Conference, Toronto.
Sophie Pitman (paper): ‘Everyone is permitted to flaunt it out”: Urban Fashion among the Lower Classes’. Renaissance Society of America 2019 Conference, Toronto.
Stefania Montemezzo (paper): ‘Spreading Fashion. The Role of Peddlers in the Diffusion of Trends in Early Modern Italy’. Renaissance Society of America 2019 Conference, Toronto.
Stefania Montemezzo (chair): Lower-Class Dress, Fashion, and Identity in Europe, 1450–1650 III: Representing Dress. Renaissance Society of America 2019 Conference, Toronto.
Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen (paper): ‘Artisans and Dress in Renaissance Denmark’. Renaissance Society of America 2019 Conference, Toronto.
9 March 2019
Paula Hohti (paper): ‘Did ordinary Italians had a Renaissance?’ Sense & Matter in Early Modern Europe. A Conference in Honour of Evelyn Welch, London.
15 January 2019
Paula Hohti (paper): ‘Black and Black dyes in Renaissance Italian clothing’. Burgundian Blacks Collaboratory workshop, Netherlands.
7 November 2018
Paula Hohti (paper): ‘Colours in Renaissance Clothing’. Experience Colour! A cross-disciplinary event of the Aalto Experience Platform, Espoo.
28 September 2018
Michele Robinson (paper): ‘Popular Print, Near East Fashion, and Artisans’ Wardrobes in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy’. A Taste for the Exotic: Cross-Cultural Influences in Early Modern Dress and Textiles, Riggisberg.
15 June 2018
Paula Hohti (paper): ‘The art of artisan fashions. Moroni’s Tailor and the changing culture of clothing in sixteenth-century Italy’. The Art of the Poor in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, London.
Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen (paper): ‘Dressing the poor. Artisans and fashion in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Scandinavia’. The Art of the Poor in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, London.
17 May 2018
Stefania Montemezzo (paper): ‘All roads lead to Venice. The role of public navigation in the Renaissance’. Reti marittime come fattori dell’integrazione europea – Maritime Networks as a Factor in European Integration, Prato.
4 May 2018
Paula Hohti (paper): ‘Dressing the early modern: New approaches in fashion and culture history’. Aalto University Department of Art Research Seminar.
2-3 March 2018
Jane-Malcom Davies (paper): ‘Knitting virtual tribes together: new chapters in object biographies’. Object Biographies, Helsinki.
Paula Hohti (chair): ‘Collective and forged biographies’, ‘Costumes and reconstructions’, and ‘Textile biographies’ sessions. Object Biographies, Helsinki.
2 November 2017
Paula Hohti (talk): ‘Beyond the palace: How did ordinary men and women live in renaissance Italy?’ Public lecture at Villa Lante, Rome.
15 September 2017
Paula Hohti (chair): ‘Case studies of specific garments’ Panel. “All That Glitters…”:Visual Representations of Dress in the Early Modern and the Boundaries of Reliability, Berlin.