Dr. Moïra Dato

Aktivitäten

Teaching activities

01/2023-06/2023 – Seminar “Cultures matérielles : Histoire transnationale et globale” (Material culture: transnational and global history), Transnational History Master program, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

09/2022-01/2023 - Course “Art et histoire des tissus, XVIe-XXe siècle” (Textile history and art history, 16^th-20^th century), CPES multidisciplinary undergraduate program, Université Paris Sciences & Lettres.

09/2022-06/2023 - Introductory course "Histoire du monde” (World history), CPES multidisciplinary undergraduate program, Université Paris Sciences & Lettres.

02/2022 – Lecture “France: Ceremonial Robes and Fashionable Fripperies” for the online course program Silk: From Cocoon to Catwalk, The Victoria & Albert Museum Academy.

Talks

11 May 2021: “Lyonnais Silks «ad uttimo gusto»: Fashion and Commercial Strategies between France and Italy in the 18^th Century. The Case of the Male Waistcoat“, with Pascale Gorguet-Ballesteros (Palais Galliera) – LII Study Week “Fashion as an Economic Engine: process and product innovation, commercial strategies, consumer behavior”, online conference organised by the Istituto di Storia Economica F. Datini, Prato.

25 June 2020: “Le marché des soieries lyonnaises et italiennes au XVIIIe siècle : des stratégies de développement entre concurrence et adaptation” – Online doctoral conference part of the seminar “Entreprises, marchés et régulations”, organised by the TRIANGLE and LARHRA research centres.

18 October 2019: “Les soieries de la Couronne au XVIIIe siècle : entre prestige de l’Etiquette et goût de la mode. Le cas lyonnais” – International conference “L’Histoire du Garde-Meuble en Europe (XVIe-XXIe)”, organised by the Mobilier National, Paris.

9 October 2019: “La mode de la couleur et des fils métalliques dans l’habillement entre 1740 et 1750 – enseignements d’une étude pluridisciplinaire“, with Pascale Gorguet-Ballesteros – 28th CIETA Congress, “Dyestuffs and Colours in Textiles – Materiality and Significance”, Krefeld.

5 April 2019: “La nature au service de la mode : la fleur et les soieries lyonnaises au XVIIIe siècle” – International conference “L’Industrie au royaume de Flore. Cultiver et créer des fleurs du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours”, Mulhouse, organised by the Centre de Recherches sur les Economies, les Sociétés, les Arts et les Techniques (CRESAT) of the Université de Haute-Alsace.

21 March 2019: “Trade, Competition and Espionage: Silks Between France and Italy in the 18^th Century” – Joint EUI-SAGAS-SNS Annual Seminar of the “Translating Cultures” International Workshop, Florence.

30 November 2018: “Etat des lieux sur la question des rapports entre l’école de dessin et la Grande Fabrique de Lyon : les dessinateurs et marchands fabricants en étoffe d’or, d’argent et de soie” – Conference “Académies d’art et mondes sociaux (1740-1805)”, Rouen, organised by the ACA-RES research programme.

16 May 2018: “The Lyonnais Silks as Objects of Conspicuous Consumption in 18^th-Century French Court” – Conference “Fashioning the Early Modern Courtier”, St John’s College, University of Cambridge.

2 March 2018: “The Commerce of Lyonnais Silks in Italy in the 18^th Century: a Question of Methodology” – Joint Uppsala University-EUI Workshop, European University Institute, Florence.

11 December 2015: “Joubert’s Manual: A Path to Textiles Comprehension” – Workshop “Design in Translation: Joubert de l’Hiberderie and Le Dessinateur pour les Etoffes d’Or, d’Argent et de Soie”, London, organised by the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Organisation of events and other academic activities

2021: Organisation of the conference “Scandalous Feasts and Holy Meals: Food in Medieval and Early Modern Societies”, held via Zoom on 25^th-26^th May in the framework of the Visual and Material History Working Group (European University Institute, Florence).

2020: Organisation of the workshop “A Discussion on Fashion: Material and Visual Approaches”, held via Zoom on 16^th June 2020 in the framework of the Visual and Material History Working Group (European University Institute, Florence) and in collaboration with Prof. Giorgio Riello.

2018-2021: Co-founder and coordinator of the Visual and Material History Working Group at the European University Institute, Florence.

2014-2017 and 2021-present: Co-founder and Member of the Board of the Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de l’Art Moderne (GRHAM).

Publikationen

Moïra Dato, “Quality, Novelty and Price: The Holy Trinity of the Lyonnais Silk Fabrics in the 18^th Century”. RiSES (forthcoming).

Moïra Dato, “Habiller les demeures de la Couronne : les soieries lyonnaises et le Garde-Meuble au XVIII^e siècle”. In Arts en cour. Les Garde-Meubles en Europe (XVIe-XXIe siècles), ed. by Muriel Barbier, Marc Bayard, Paolo Cornaglia, Andrea Merlotti and Catharina Scheich. Paris: Mare & Martin, 2023.

Moïra Dato and Pascale Gorguet-Ballesteros, “Lyonnais Silks «ad uttimo gusto»: The Trade in Fashionable Waistcoats between France and Italy in the Second Half of the 18^th Century”. In Fashion as an Economic Engine: Process and Product Innovation, Commercial Strategies, Consumer Behavior, Datini Studies in Economic History, ed. Giampiero Nigro. Florence: Florence University Press, 2022, p. 173-200.

Moïra Dato, “État des lieux sur la question des rapports entre l’école de dessin de la Grande Fabrique à Lyon : les dessinateurs et marchands fabricants en étoffe d’or, d’argent et de soie”, in Les papiers d’ACA-RES, Actes des journées d’étude, 29-30 novembre 2018, Rouen, Hôtel des Sociétés Savantes, published online June 2019.

Lebenslauf

From August 2023	Postdoctoral research assistant in the History of Textile Arts, Institute of Art History, University of Bern.
2022-2023	Teaching position in history and art history at Université Paris Sciences & Lettres and École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
June-August 2019	Internship in the Clothworker’s Centre for the Study and Conservation of Textiles and Fashion and in the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
2017-2022	Ph.D. from the Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, with the thesis “Selling Fashionable Fabrics: The Market for Lyonnais Silks in 18^th-Century Italy”, under the supervision of Prof. Stéphane Van Damme, Prof. Giorgio Riello and co-supervision of Prof. Natacha Coquery.
2015-2016	Master of Research (1 year) in Dress and Textile History, School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, with the dissertation “Silks for the Crown: Five Partnerships of Merchant Manufacturers in Eighteenth-Century Lyon”, under the supervision of Prof. Lesley Miller.
11/2014-04/2015	Internship in the Documentation Department of the Palace of Versailles.
2013- 2015	Master of Research (2 years) in History of Art, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, with the dissertations “Les fabricants Jean Charton père et fils : des soyeux lyonnais héritiers du privilège au XVIIIe siècle” (first year) and “Les soieries d’ameublement au sein des demeures royales françaises au XVIIIe siècle” (second year), under the supervision of Stéphane Laurent.
June-July 2013	Internship in the Documentation Department of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
August 2012	Internship in the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris.
2010-2013	Bachelor in History of Art, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

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