NOUVELLES
Precolumbian textiles publications CTR 2020. Review by Susanne Lervad
28.09.2020Lena Bjerregaard published a catalogue of preColumbian textiles in the Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim at Zeabooks https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/ (free download), ISBN 978-1-60962-166-7 , 2020. She is a visiting scholar at The Centre for Textile Research where I am the terminologist, and I have followed Lena Bjerregaard’samazing work and cataloguing of preColumbian textiles for years now. She has been employed for many years as a conservator at the Ethographic Museum of Berlin and published a catalogue of this very important collection in 2017 [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook and the proceedings from preColumbian Textiles Conferences (in Copenhagen at CTR in 2016 and in Brussels in 2018) . All the publications are available online at Zea books, Lincoln Nebraska and downloaded especially by a high number from the Southamerican people for whom the items have been less accessible for many years in museum collections all over the world. Read more here.
Virtual European Language Grid (ELG) Workshop of Baltic Countries
04.09.2020Virtual European Language Grid (ELG) Workshop of Baltic Countries will be held from 1 to 4.30 p. m. on September 21st, 2020. The workshop is organised under the umbrella of EU-funded project European Language Grid (2019–2021) (https://www.european-language-grid.eu). Registration is available here until September 11th. On September 18th (EET). For more information about ELG and the workshop, please visit https://www.european-language-grid.eu, http://lki.lt/europos-kalbu-tinklo-baltijos-saliu-seminaras/ and https://klc.vdu.lt/hlt/elg-seminar.
