The Robert Pinner Lectures at The HALI Fair 2006, Olympia Exhibition Centre London, will start on Saturday 10 June and conclude on Wednesday 14 June. The lectures include:
Saturday 10 June: Classical Carpets, Textiles and Islamic Art introduced by Bruce Baganz
1pm Geraldine Norman: Between East and West, Islamic Art from the Hermitage Museum
2pm John Mills: Carpets, Their Story in Painting
3pm Daniel Walker: George Hewitt Myers, Collector and Connoisseur
4pm Tom Farnham: Lord Duveen’s Carpets
5pm Alberto Boralevi: Renaissance Italy and the Oriental Carpet
Sunday 11 June: Textiles and Tribal Art introduced by Daniel Shaffer
1pm Judith Miller: Collecting Tribal Art
2pm Ricardo Paz: Textiles from Santiago del Estero
3pm Thomas Murray: From Anatolia to Borneo, the migration of a design group through trade
4pm Rosemary Crill: The Kashmir Shawl in the West
5pm Robert Chenciner: Body Language, Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan
Tuesday 13 June: China and Central Asia introduced by Roderick Whitfield
1pm Antony Wynn: The Travels of Sir Percy Sykes, British Consul in Kashgar 1916
2pm Gary Dickinson: Use and Re-Use of Textiles in Tibetan Art
3pm Zhao Feng: The Origins of the Rank Badge, 7th-15th Century
4pm Jacqueline Simcox: The Mactaggart Collection of Chinese Textiles
5pm Michael Franses: Imperial Ming Carpets
Wednesday 14 June: Meet the Authors introduced by John Scott
1pm Matthew Bourne will chair an open discussion on: The Rise of the Modern Carpet
2pm Jason Goodwin: Readings from The Janissary Tree, his new detective novel set in 1830s Istanbul
3pm Jeremy James: Readings from The Byerly Turk
4pm Patricia Daunt: From Kula to the Black Sea, Ottoman Vernacular Architecture
5pm John Gillow: African Textiles
Jozan Magazine 18 May 2006