FITP XXVIII Sessions by Time of Day

These are last year's sessions - this years will be posted Jan, 2018

9:00 - 10:20 am

• Climates of Change: Environmental History as Hands-On Pedagogy

10:30 - 11:20 am

• Anatomy of a steam engine through disaster and destruction
• Chainmail for Beginners # (Full - observers only)
• Introduction to Tablet Weaving  (hour 1 of 2) $# (7 of 8 spaces full)
• The Shosoin Repository
• Norse Practical Jokes
• The Mongol Art of War

11:30 - 12:20 pm

• Lunch in room BA101
• Experiment and Experience
• Introduction to Tablet Weaving  (hour 2 of 2) $# (7 of 8 spaces full)
• Feet firmly in the past - Shoes from the Viking Age 800 - 1050  (hour 1 of 2)
• Behind the Black Sails
• 50 Shades of History - a look at non-traditional sexual practices in history
• Introduction to Glass Bead Making $# (Full - observers only)

12:30 - 1:20 pm

• Lunch in room BA101
• Viking Submarine Navigation as a possible explanation for the Loch Ness Monster
• Introduction to Embroidery  (hour 1 of 2) #
• Feet firmly in the past - Shoes from the Viking Age 800 - 1050  (hour 2 of 2)
• Braiding and Cords
• Naalbinding 101 #
• Advanced Glass Bead Making $# (8 of 12 spaces full)
• Topics on Climate Change

1:30 - 2:20 pm

• Symmetry and asymmetry in Viking Age Dress
• Introduction to Embroidery  (hour 2 of 2) #
• Sword Dances
• Diagonal Braiding $# (5 of 10 spaces full)
• Beginner's Egg Tempera # (Full - observers only)
• First Experiments

2:30 - 3:20 pm

• <PS> The Viking Settlement of North America according to Ragnarr Njalsson
• Advanced Tablet Weaving
• Kumihimo - The Art of Japanese Cordmaking  (hour 1 of 2) $# (6 of 10 spaces full)
• Flint and Steel Fire Striking
• Let's talk food
• Morris Dancing  (hour 1 of 2)
• Beginner's Egg Tempera (session2) #

3:30 - 4:20 pm

• Blow Me Down - Further Investigations of Human Powered Air
• Chainmail - Beyond the Basics  (hour 1 of 2) # (5 of 10 spaces full)
• Advanced Embroidery  (hour 1 of 2)
• Kumihimo - The Art of Japanese Cordmaking  (hour 2 of 2) $# (6 of 10 spaces full)
• Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived
• King or Queen? Who really holds the power? An analysis of medieval chess
• Morris Dancing  (hour 2 of 2)

4:30 - 5:20 pm

• Chainmail - Beyond the Basics  (hour 2 of 2) # (5 of 10 spaces full)
• Food and ambience, translating the medieval feast to the modern table
• Why Ancient Greece Was Really Kind of Terrible
• Advanced Embroidery  (hour 2 of 2)
• Canadian History 1001: The Bloody Norse Arrive!
• Lost Wax Demonstration #
• <PS> Beowabbit: new light on an ancient poetic tradition

# - Session has attendance limits
$ - Session has a materials fee

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