FITP XXVIII Sessions by Type of Session

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

Lecture

• Experiment and Experience
• <PS> The Viking Settlement of North America according to Ragnarr Njalsson
• Blow Me Down - Further Investigations of Human Powered Air
• Anatomy of a steam engine through disaster and destruction
• Symmetry and asymmetry in Viking Age Dress
• Viking Submarine Navigation as a possible explanation for the Loch Ness Monster
• Food and ambience, translating the medieval feast to the modern table
• Climates of Change: Environmental History as Hands-On Pedagogy
• Why Ancient Greece Was Really Kind of Terrible
• The Shosoin Repository
• Canadian History 1001: The Bloody Norse Arrive!
• Norse Practical Jokes
• Sword Dances
• Braiding and Cords
• Diagonal Braiding $# (5 of 10 spaces full)
• Behind the Black Sails
• 50 Shades of History - a look at non-traditional sexual practices in history
• Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived
• The Mongol Art of War
• Let's talk food
• <PS> Beowabbit: new light on an ancient poetic tradition
• Topics on Climate Change

Single Paper

• <None yet>

Multiple Papers

• First Experiments

Demonstration

• Feet firmly in the past - Shoes from the Viking Age 800 - 1050
• Lost Wax Demonstration #

Hands On Workshop

• Chainmail - Beyond the Basics # (5 of 10 spaces full)
• Chainmail for Beginners # (Full - observers only)
• Introduction to Tablet Weaving $# (7 of 8 spaces full)
• Advanced Tablet Weaving
• Introduction to Embroidery #
• Advanced Embroidery
• Kumihimo - The Art of Japanese Cordmaking $# (6 of 10 spaces full)
• Naalbinding 101 #
• Flint and Steel Fire Striking
• Beginner's Egg Tempera # (Full - observers only)
• Introduction to Glass Bead Making $# (Full - observers only)
• Advanced Glass Bead Making $# (8 of 12 spaces full)
• King or Queen? Who really holds the power? An analysis of medieval chess
• Morris Dancing
• Beginner's Egg Tempera (session2) #

Panel Discussion

• <None yet>

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