CFA: Weaving Knowledge - Summer Workshop on Lanna Weaving and Dyeing

M.C. van den Haak Discussion

Dates: 6 – 23 July 2017

Application deadline: 1 December 2016; Venue: Ban Rai Jai Sook (Jai-Sook Studio), Chiang Mai, Thailand

The Summer Workshop
This two week workshop aims to engage both the theory and practice of craft knowledge by teaching participants the Lanna techniques of weaving alongside expert weavers, at the same time engaging with the scholarly challenge of making embodied craft knowledge explicit. As the students are trained in crafts by practitioners in a weaving workshop near Chiang Mai, they will discuss concepts such as tacit expertise and technological literacy, pedagogy in sensory and material knowledge, innovation and sustainability in traditional technological cultures, with the practitioners, as well as invited scholars and activists in history, anthropology, and sociology from around the world. We will accept up to 10 PhD students, whose scholarly work relates to these issues, who will learn Lanna techniques of weaving in a workshop near Chiang Mai while living in a basic setting near the workshop.

Application
We welcome applications from PhD students whose research deals with the themes of the Summer Workshop.  No previous experience of weaving is required.

For more information on the application procedure and the application form, please visit our website.

Application forms should be submitted by 1 December 2016.

The registration fee for participation at the Weaving Knowledge Summer Workshop is € 150. For more information on what is included in this fee, please see General Information.

(Partial) travel grants are available for selected participants. For more information, please see Financial Support.

Information
Please visit our website for more information on the Summer Workshop.

Conveners: 
Nussara Tiengkatetextile historian, weaver, and designer, Jai-Sook Studio, Chiang Mai Thailand

Pamela H. SmithSeth Low professor of History and founding Director of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University, USA

Annapurna MamidipudiUniversity of Maastricht, the Netherlands

For questions related to the Summer Workshop 2017, please contact Ms. Martina van den Haak at m.c.van.den.haak@iias.nl

[The Summer Workshop is sponsored by the Center for Science and Society, Columbia University; Chiang Mai University, International Institute for Asian Studies; the Dorothy Borg Research Program, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University]