[Usyd_Classics_Events] USYD Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Reminder: Aug 8, Palanca on Roman Textiles

[Ben Brown]

Dear Friends of Classics and Ancient History,

You are cordially invited to the first Classics and Ancient History research seminar of semester 2, 2024.

August 8, 4pm AEST (UTC+10)
(V. Gordon Childe Centre Boardroom, Level 4, Madsen Building and
Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/82326237855)

Fenella Palanca (University of Melbourne)

Reconsidering Republican Textiles: Production, Trade, and Consumption

Abstract:
Textile production must have comprised a significant portion of the Republican economy, but the actual scale and complexity of this industry is often unclear, owing to an ostensible lack of consistent evidence for textile manufacture in this period. The current paper focuses on the early and essential processes of combing, spinning, and weaving, and aims to produce a general framework for how we should understand the organisation and productivity of the Roman textile economy. We will begin by establishing a series of rough quantitative models for the scale of textile consumption in the Middle to Late Republic, before using the literary and archaeological evidence to consider what forms of production and trade could have been utilised to meet this demand. Overall, it will be argued that the Republican textile economy operated at a higher level of intensity and complexity than scholars have sometimes assumed, owing to the (often invisible) economic contributions of free and non-free women to this industry.
Biography:
Fenella Palanca is a MA candidate in Ancient History at the University of Melbourne and completed her undergraduate Bachelor of Psychology/Bachelor of Advanced Studies degrees at the University of Sydney in 2022.

Papers this semester will be presented on campus live streamed via Zoom (unless otherwise indicated). The on-campus location will either be the V. Gordon Childe Centre Boardroom, Level 4, Madsen Building, or the School of Humanities Common Room (Room 822, Mungo MacCallum Building).

The Zoom address for this and all sessions during semester 2 is: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/82326237855

For further information, email: benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au<mailto:benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au>

All best, Ben

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