ICOC Stockholm 16-19 June 2011 includes an extensive and exciting academic program. Some forty speakers are selected by the ICOC Academic Committee and will present their lectures in two parallel sessions during the conference. Alberto Boralevi, Chair of ICOC Academic Committee, will hold the opening lecture ” Table Carpets; a Bridge between East and West; a Link between Carpets and Textiles” during the opening ceremony 16 June.
The speakers come from all ower the world and of course the host country Sweden, is well represented. The speakers and lectures 17-18 June include:
Central Asia sessions I & II
Christine Martens: Quilts and Patchwork of Central Asia
Clive Rogers: Broadcloth Trade to Asia
Elena Tsareva: Carpets of Arabs of Central Asia
Irina Bogoslovskaya: Nomadic Cloth Bags from Central Asia (19th-20th Centuries)
Elmira Gyul: Samarkand Suzani Embroidery: Notes on Ornamental Decore Genesis and Semantics
Jeffrey B. Spurr: Style and Identity, People or Place: the Case for Lakai Suzanis
Carpets in Paintings session
Ali Riza Tuna: Back to the Future; A Reconstruction Study of Anatolian Carpets from Renaissance Paintings
Csenge Rozsa-Jäger: The History of the Oriental Carpets in the Works of William Larkin
Sarah Haberkern: Carpets in Paintings of the Followers of Caravaggio
Scandinavia sessions I & II
Margareta Nockert: The Soumak Technique in Scandinavia from the 5th Century to the End of the 13th Century
Marina Zasetckaia: Ryiji Carpets of Finland in the Collections of the Russian Ethnographic Museum
Desiree Koslin: Duodji on the Warp-weighted Loom: Ratnu Flatweaves of the Sami People
Gunnar Nilsson: A presentation and some comparisons of Scania textiles made in the tecniques of dove-tail tapestry and interlocked tapestry
Wendel Swan: Swedish Folk Weavings; Similarities to and Differences from Their Middle Eastern Counterparts
Silk Road session
Helen Persson: Pile Carpets and Flat-weaves From the Silk Road
Haakan Wahlquist: The Archaeological/Ethnographic Collections of Sven Hedin’s and their Textile Contents
Balkan
Sasha Lozanova: The Traditional Bulgarian Rugs and The Orient (18th – 19th Century)
Nairy Vrouyr: Scoartze; Folk Kilims From Romania
Miscellaneous I & II
Koos De Jong: Chinese Saddle Rugs
Roya Tagheiyeva: Concentric Symbolism in Islam and Azerbaijani Medallion Carpets
Hülya Tezcan: Blue & White Flatwoven Floor Coverings From Fustat
Sumru Krody: Legacy of Holbein Gul on Embroidered Textiles
Collectors and collections
Ulla-Karin Warberg: Fredrik Robert Martin (1868-1933), Art historian, Orientalist, Collector, Diplomat
Anette Granlund: The Carpet Collection in the Hallwyl Museum and its History
Tatiana Lekhovich: Collecting of Tapestries in Russia in 17-20 cent. – Some National Features
Sidney Goldstein: James Franklin Ballard. Some Thoughts on One of the Most Important Early Twentieth Century Oriental Carpet Collectors
Michael Buddeberg: The Collection of a Gentleman – A Homage to Martin Volkmann
Andrea Klobucar: Oriental Carpets and Kilims in the Zagreb Interiors between 1880 and 1940
Turkey
Suzan Bayraktaroglu: Two Ottoman Carpets in Vakiflar Administration of Cyprus
Adrian Stefan Ionescu: The Lotto Rugs from Bistritza, a Gem of the Transylvanian Textile Heritage
Vedat Karadaq: New, Technically Sophisticated, and Deceptive Reproductions of Early Anatolian Weavings
Persia I & II
Jessica Hallett: Three ‘Salting’ Carpets Discovered in the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza, Portugal
Hadi Maktabi: Royal Qajar Carpets
Peter Willborg: The Bakhtiari Province Including the Feridan District – a Re Evaluation of it´s Carpet and Textile Production
Afsaneh Ghani: The Designs of Tribal Bakhtiari Kilims
India I & II
Steven Cohen: Prayer Rugs and Safs of the Indian Deccan
Rosemary Crill: Imported Textiles at the Mughal Court
Raoul Tschebull: An Examination of Mughal Textiles, Warp-Faced Weavings and Mosaic Felts as Design Influences on 19th Century Caucasian Pile-Woven Village Rugs
Roger Leong: A Hidden Treasure? The National Gallery of Victoria’s Trinitarias Carpet
Frank Ames: The Boteh’s Rise to Knotted Power
Location and more information: The International Conference on Oriental Carpets 16-19 June 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden