Fashioning Sudan

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Fashioning Sudan

Archaeology of dress along the Middle Nile. Project funded by hosted by Københavns Univ

14/08/2026

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS – REMINDER

There’s still time to submit your paper for the Fashioning Sudan and Nubia International Conference 2027!

We welcome contributions exploring dress and the material culture of the self along the Nile Valley – from clothing and jewellery to hairstyles, cosmetics, tattooing, and other forms of bodily adornment.

📅 Don’t miss the submission deadline!

Full details and submission information via the link in our bio.

13/08/2026

Blue was more than just a colour in ancient Sudan and Nubia — it was an important part of dress and adornment. 💙🔵🔷

From blue textiles and leather to faience and stones, blue appears again and again in the material culture of dress along the Nile Valley.

The newly published Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Colour Blue in Ancient Egypt and Sudan brings together new research on the many uses and meanings of blue, including contributions from members of the Fashioning Sudan team and our colleagues.

Edited by our PI Elsa Yvanez () and Cecilie Brøns (Cecilie ) and published by Brepols 📚

30/06/2026

🎙️ For our French-speaking followers!

Our PI, Elsa Yvanez, was recently interviewed on France Culture‘s L’Entretien archéologique to discuss the Fashioning Sudan project.

For a long time, dress and textiles were largely overlooked in archaeological excavations in the Nile Valley. In this interview, Elsa explores how textile fragments recovered from funerary contexts are helping us reconstruct the remarkably diverse wardrobes of ancient Nubia and Sudan—thread by thread—and what they reveal about identity, craftsmanship, and everyday life.

The interview is in French, and we’re happy to share it with our francophone community. If you speak French and are interested in archaeology, textiles, and the ancient Nile Valley, we hope you’ll enjoy listening!

🎧 Listen via the link in our bio (or stories).

22/06/2026

Our sensory box travelled to Paris 🧳 ✨

Recently, our PI Elsa Yvanez () brought the Fashioning Sudan sensory box to the seminar Sensory Spaces in the Nile Valley at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art. Designed as a hands-on way of thinking about ancient dress and adornment, the box invites participants to engage with the materials, textures, and sensory qualities that shaped bodily appearance in the Nile Valley in the past.

By handling and discussing different materials, the sensory box opens up questions about how dress was not only seen, but also touched, worn, heard, and experienced. It offers one way of approaching the material culture of dress beyond the visual alone.

Many thanks to the doctoral candidates of EPHE and Sorbonne Université, the Kandaka Association, and especially Lisa Caltagirone for the invitation, the thoughtful feedback, and the excellent organisation 👌

05/06/2026

Preparing a conference talk about the sensory experience of garments in ancient Sudan, testing our hand woven cotton skirt with the typical Meroitic border with open work and tasseled fringes (woven by Ulrikka Mokdad).

04/06/2026

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS

How did people living along the Nile Valley express identity through dress, adornment, and the body?

The Fashioning Sudan and Nubia International Conference 2027 invites papers exploring clothing, jewellery, hairstyles, cosmetics, tattooing, and other forms of bodily adornment in Sudan and Nubia across time.

Bringing together archaeological, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives, the conference will explore how dress and body practices shaped personal and collective identities across the region.

The programme will include presentations, discussions, a keynote lecture, hands-on demonstrations, and an exhibition celebrating the rich cultural heritage of Sudan and Nubia.

More information and submission details coming soon. For details please see the link in our bio.

27/04/2026

A few moments from our seminar on visualising garments from fragmentary archaeological evidence, held on 15 April at the Centre for Textile Research.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in person and online, and to all who contributed to such engaging discussions throughout the afternoon. It was a pleasure to see so many people from different fields come together around questions of archaeological reconstruction, dress practices, and material experimentation.

07/04/2026

In case you missed it — we’re looking forward to welcoming you on 15 April for our upcoming seminar on visualising garments from fragmentary archaeological evidence.

Bringing together archaeologists, textile specialists, illustrators, and designers, the session explores how fragmentary evidence can be translated into informed visual and material reconstructions—from excavation contexts to experimental practice.

🕒 15:00–17:00 CET
📍 In person at CTR (room 11b-1-05) + online via Zoom

We hope to see you there.

Adresse

Karen Blixens Plads 8
Copenhagen
DK-2300

Internet side

https://fashioningsudan.ku.dk/

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