Update 11/13: THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED. We regret any inconvenience this may cause. Please look out for a new launch of the series in the Spring! Stay tuned!
Coffee, Cookies and Conversation is a new CLLC-sponsored series held in the Crane Café that invites the entire campus and public-at-large to engage in conversations with renowned Ohio State faculty from our foreign language departments.
Professor Sarah-Grace Heller (Department of French and Italian) kicks off the first event on Tuesday, November 17th at 4pm with “Books, Bones and Faded Images: An Illustrated History of Early Medieval Fashion.” Heller traces the history of a fashion period often overlooked–the early Middle Ages. With advances in archeology a richer picture has developed, with texts suggesting avid desires for bright colors, rich fabrics and splendid headgear. Over coffee and cookies, she’ll illuminate some of the challenges of analyzing and comparing the fragment remains found in furnished burials, poetic texts, manuscript images, and crumbling wall paintings to better understand the deep roots of the modern fashion system.
Coffee and Cookies will be served.
Professor Sarah-Grace Heller (Ph.D. University of Minnesota) specializes in French and Occitan medieval literature. She has published a book, Fashion in Medieval France (Boydell & Brewer, 2007), and articles on the Roman de la Rose, sumptuary laws, and the popular literature of the crusades. She is currently working on an Illustrated History of Medieval Fashion. Outside the hallowed halls of academia, Heller likes to travel, try new foods, and visit Romanesque churches in France. True to her Minnesota roots, she also enjoys ice skating and canoeing.
