The Costumes & Customs Lecture Series, sponsored by the Office of Arts Integration and organized in collaboration with the University Library, the Department of Theatre, the Department of Classics, the Spurlock Museum, and the Krannert Art Museum, explores the history and cultural significance of clothing across time and place. Organized by Elias Petrou (University Library) and Olga Maslova (Department of Theatre), the series will feature four distinguished speakers: Dr. Bernice Jones - Minoan Era (Wednesday, September 17, 5:00 p.m. CT), Dr. Ulla Mannering - Viking Age (Thursday, October 23, 5:00 p.m. CT), Dr. Susan Whitfield - Middle Ages (Wednesday, November 5, 5:00 p.m. CT), and Dr. Jenny Tiramani - Elizabethan Era (Friday, December 5, 12:00 p.m. CT). All lectures will be held via Zoom and are free and open to the public: https://go.library.illinois.edu/costumes
Research Professor Ulla Mannering and Senior Researcher Charlotte Rimstad are Danish textile archaeologists specialized in prehistoric textile production, clothing and cloth cultures, employed at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.
Prof. Mannering and Dr. Rimstad are currently engaged in the project Textile Colors of the Viking Age, which examines how colors in textiles, jewelry and beads were produced, perceived and used in the Nordic Late Iron Age society.