Dress accessories displayed at Jorvik Viking Centre, York
Quaker Meeting House, Friargate, York YO1 9RL
We are excited to be holding our next in-person conference, not in London, but in York! On Saturday, 9 November from 10:00-5:00 MEDATS will host a day of talks and displays at the Quaker Meeting House, Friargate, York, YO1 9RL.
Register to attend in person now closed. Contact treasurer@medats.org.uk to enquire about the waiting list.
Register to view the recording
Schedule
10:00 Registration
Tea and coffee will be available
10:30 Session One
- The Idea of Trousers: Development and change in male clothing during the first millennium CE
Sarah Thursfield, Independent Researcher, author of The Medieval Tailor’s Assistant - Tenth Century Norse Dress: The woman’s Smokkr
Professor Heather A. D. Mbaye, University of West Georgia - “So I see you are from Gotland!”: Regional variation in Viking women’s dress
Rebecca Wendelken, Retired Professor of History, Methodist University, Fayetteville, North Carolina - Norse Glass Beads Production, Chronology and Geography
Lykania, Historical Bead Maker
Lunch
A sandwich buffet will be provided and participants will have a chance to view speakers’ displays
Session Two
- Shears & Frontiers: Wool shears in Viking-age graves & their Implications
Samantha Rose, Independent Researcher - Second Look at the Early Medieval Scandinavian Checked Linen
Kat Stasinska, AOC Archaeology - Across the North Sea: A comparison of garments from female burials between England and Norway in the 5th – 6th centuries CE
Georgia Gould, University College London
Break
Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available
Session Three
- Local Varieties of Gold-foil Threads and Gold Braids in the Context of Accompanying Textiles in Early-medieval Burial Contexts
Olga Magoula-Bamford, Research Associate, Department of Archaeology, University of York - From Central Asia to Valsgärde Sweden
Ingela Wahlberg, Textile Studies Uppsala University - “The Loom Used by Women”: Gender, looms and the cloth industry in early medieval Europe
Laurel Ann Wilson, Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University
Registration
Early Bird discounts are available for registrations received by the end of Friday 20 September. Registration for in-person attendance closes at the end of the day on Thursday 24 October. All in-person attendees will also be granted access to the recording afterward.
In-person attendance, early bird member price: £50
In-person attendance, early bird non-member price: £55
In-person attendance, member price: £55
In-person attendance, non-member price: £60
In-person registration is now closed. Contact treasurer@medats.org.uk to enquire about the waiting list.
The full day’s events, including papers, question and answer sessions, and displays will be professionally recorded. We regret that live-streaming is not a viable option for this conference, but will strive to edit the video and make it available as soon as possible following the event.
Online access, member price: £20
Online access, non-member price: £25
Online registration is now open online here. Members may buy discounted tickets by clicking the blue ‘Buy Tickets’ button on the right of the screen, then entering the code emailed in the event announcement into the box that appears when you click the text that says ‘use ticket access code’.
A full refund will be given if a cancellation is made 30 days or more before the event. Refunds for cancellations made at shorter notice will be given on a discretionary basis dependent on whether the ticket can be resold or not. The final decision will be made by the treasurer.
