ENSURING THE FUTURE OF HISTORIC TEXTILES: THE CASE OF A JAPANESE EMPRESS’S COURT GOWN

THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2022, 4:00 PM (PST)

Presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and East Asia Center.

Monica Bethe, Director of the Medieval Japanese Studies institute in Kyoto, Japan, will discuss textile conservation as a process that involves learning and preserving lost techniques combined with cutting-edge scientific solutions.

This event is set to take place in UCSB’s McCune Conferance Room. The event format is subject to change based on campus COVID policies.