2. The work performed during the fellowship was:
- The study of reports, politic correspondences for the years 1700-1715 found in the national archives and public libraries in Paris.
- Object research in museum collections was undertaken in order to connect texts, images and objects for the material culture study.
- The visual study of Casta paintings.
Implementation was very good at the University of Copenhagen. Thanks to Prof Marie-Louise Nosch I could manage my research with independence thinking and could enhance my creativity in learning and building up new research ideas within the research centre. I have received encouragements from Prof Nosch to perform my work and organize guest lectures and seminars at CTR and at the French Embassy in Denmark. Along with the research carried out, regular meetings were attended each month at the research centre as well as regular coaching sessions with the research mentor and CTR director at the university in Copenhagen, and brown bag lunch lectures with the other research and Marie Curie fellows at CTR. I received training in all sorts of ways from CTR with a focus on experimental lab, and got knowledge from CTR scholar community.
Training was also very well performed in Textile analysis and expertise in the Netherlands, Curatorial practice in London, Blog training in Paris, and Application writing in Copenhagen.
Networking activity was intense and very fruitful through membership such as ICOM, CIETA and Asiatic Society.
Teaching experience was gained through the organization of seminars (2016-2017) at the University of Copenhagen and for the CTR Summer School in 2017.
3. Actions of the research achieved are:
- Research Blog instalment (2015-17): Website DRESSING THE NEW WORLD
https://dressworld.hypotheses.org(si apre in una nuova finestra) - 24 Objects in Focus presenting context, text and images construct the list of fashionable goods available and consumed in 18th century-Mexico. These OIF build up the virtual exhibition on the “Dressing the New World” project Website, and reach a broad audience through the net (2015-17) with about 1000 visits each month.
- Glossary writing and draft for publication project.
- Conferences papers and attendees: ICOM-Costume committee and annual meetings (2015-17), and many international conferences.
- Publication in peer reviewed journal “Perspective” INHA-Paris special issue on Textile (2016).
- 4 Essays and Book chapters (2017).
- Proceedings of ICOM-Costume annual conference (2015 & 2017).
- Project DRESSING THE NEW WORLD Networking activities and final outreach activity (2017).
- Open up to a new research project about Rococo in Scandinavia (May 2017).
- A successful application for a visiting fellowship at the Bard Graduate Center in New York (USA) in the fall 2017.
