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Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
Talk 6: Tying up loose threads: the Textiles in Libraries project so far	Join the Bodleian Conservation and Collection Care team to find out more about what the Textiles in Libraries project has involved so far.	Alice Evans, Nicole Gilroy, Henrike Lähnemann, Katica Laza	19 July, 2022
Talk 5: Textiles and text: A collaborative approach to conserving textile-covered manuscripts	Conservators Jane Eagan and Maria Hayward describe their work treating seven manuscripts re-covered in velvet for Henry VIII, part of a small corpus of royal books still in their textile bindings in the Queens College Library	Jane Eagan, Maria Hayworth, Alice Evans	5 April, 2022
Talk 4: Textiles from East to West: case studies from the Leiden collections	Building on earlier talks in the series that explored the uses of textiles in library collections, this talk focuses on examples of textiles in manuscript bindings in the Oriental collections of Leiden University Library.	Karin Scheper, Alice Evans	24 January, 2022
Talk 3: Stitches, leaves and smelly old books: in conversation with textile artist Alice Fox	Textile based artwork is well aligned with stitched or folded book structures. Giving book-related examples from her practice, artist Alice Fox describes how an experimental approach to materials can lead to a variety of creative outcomes.	Alice Fox, Alice Evans, Andrew Honey	9 December, 2021
Talk 2: Beyond the velvet cover: textiles and craft in Byzantine bookbinding	Georgios Boudalis explores the subject of textiles and craft in Byzantine bookbinding, sharing techniques little known not only in the context of Byzantine bookbinding but also more generally in the context of Byzantine material culture.	Georgios Boudalis, Alice Evans	6 December, 2021
Talk 1: Textiles in Libraries: glimpses from the Bodleian	The first talk in the Textiles in Libraries: Context and Conservation series brings together three colleagues from across the Bodleian Library to explore the wide variety and sometimes surprising uses of textiles found in our collections.	Jo Maddocks, Andrew Honey, Martin Kauffmann, Alice Evans	11 November, 2021
Folktales' for an Elite Audience	Discussing the text and images of MS. Ouseley Add. 1	Nasrin Askari	29 July, 2021
Making Manuscripts for a Prince of the Black Sheep	Overview of Bahari Fellowship examining the codicology and context of the Bodleian Library’s collection of manuscripts made for the 15th century Turkman patron Prince Pir Budaq	Anita Chowdry	29 July, 2021
Books, Bags and Boxes	Islamic manuscripts were often kept in protective bags and other enclosures, which are an integrated, though understudied part of their physical and historic appearance.	Karin Scheper	29 July, 2021
Poetry (and Prose) in Motion: Illuminated Manuscripts from Late Fourteenth-Century Shiraz	A short talk about illuminated manuscripts produced in late fourteenth-century Shiraz, including several in the Bodleian Collections and elsewhere	Cailah Jackson	29 July, 2021
The Future of the Past: poetry, portraiture, and the reception of antiquity in a Timurid Shahnama	This talk focuses on fifteenth-century paintings and poetry inserted into the Shahnama of Ibrahim Sultan (Bodleian Library MS. Ouseley Add. 176) in order to explore the correlation between portraiture and historical self-awareness	Peyvand Firouzeh	29 July, 2021
Studying the Pādshāhnāmas (Books of the Emperor) Manuscripts in the Special Collection of the Bodleian Library	The talk presents overviews of the three Persian Manuscripts of the Padshahnama MS Elliot 368, MS Caps ORD 1-3 & MS Fraser 138, preserved in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Library ,Oxford	Gulfishan Khan	29 July, 2021
The Bodleian’s Akhbār-i Barmakiyān: Tales on Super Heroes from Afghanistan and Iraq	A short talk given at the Persian Art of the Book conference	Arezou Azad	29 July, 2021
Illustrated Manuscript of Persian Translation of One Thousand and One Nights	A discussion of the Persian translations of the Thousand and One Nights in the World, focusing on the illustrated version kept in the Golestān Palace (Tehran) and the image-less version kept in the Bodleian Library (Oxford).	Ali Boozari	29 July, 2021
Lost and found in the map library: changes in early map librarianship	Georgia Brown, UW-Milwaukee Libraries, WI, USA, gives the third talk in session 3B of the seminar.	Georgia Brown	12 May, 2021
Beyond “clerical cartography”: gender and the production of Sanborn fire insurance maps in the 1920s	Jack Swab, University of Kentucky, USA, gives the second talk in session 3B in the seminar.	Jack Swab	12 May, 2021
Where are all the women? The case of the Halls	Debbie Hall, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, gives the first talk in session 3B in the seminar.	Debbie Hall	12 May, 2021
The political cartographies of Marthe Rajchman	Mike Heffernan and Benjamin Thorpe, University of Nottingham, give the first talk of session 3A in the seminar.	Mike Heffernan, Benjamin Thorpe	12 May, 2021
From body as territory to feminicides mapping: discourses and mapping languages by Latin American feminist cartographies	Manuela Silveira, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, gives the third talk in the second session of the seminar.	Manuela Silveira	12 May, 2021
Mapping toward equitable solutions in public transit planning	Suzie Birdsell, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting, Boston, USA, gives the second presentation, in the second session of the seminar.	Suzie Birdsell	12 May, 2021
‘Octavia always enjoyed a map’: Octavia Hill, maps, and Victorian social reform	Elizabeth Baigent, University of Oxford, gives the first talk in the second session of the seminar.	Elizabeth Baigent	12 May, 2021
Women and children first: gender, flood and victimhood in Dutch eighteenth-century maps of dike-breaks	Anne-Rieke van Schaik, University of Amsterdam, gives the third in the first session of the seminar.	Anne-Rieke van Schaik	12 May, 2021
The rise, persistence and surprising end of female personifications of the continents on maps	Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester, NY, USA, gives the second presentation in the first session of the seminar.	Chet Van Duzer	12 May, 2021
Where are the women on sixteenth-century French World maps?	Camille Serchuk, Southern Connecticut State University, USA, gives the first talk in the first session of the seminar.	Camille Serchuk	12 May, 2021
Welcome and Introduction	Catríona Cannon, Deputy Librarian, Bodleian Libraries, introduces the seminar.	Catriona Cannon	12 May, 2021