

Dr Camila Alday
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@Camialday
Postdoc @UCamArchaeology Archaebotany of Textile Plants| all things South America's cotton l Fellow @Newnham_College | Convenor @textile_digit |Astanga & Dance




📣 Register now for 'Digitisation and fingerwork' 5 May, St John's College crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/46444 Join Tim Ingold (Aberdeen) and the Textile-Digital network for a discussion about preserving millenia-old manual skills for future generations in the light of raising digitisation







Joy for discussing my research on #khipu at the @textile_digit network by @CRASSHlive led by @camialday and @tristan_dot at @UCamArchaeology @Cambridge_Uni w/ Calogero Santoro @UTarapaca, Camila Alday, Margot Serra @CamGLAMresearch @StAndrewsAnthro @univofstandrews @UStAResearch

Please join us for our next session @CRASSHlive, next Monday 11th Nov at 5pm (in person and online), with, @Lucrezia_Mi, presenting on her research on Khipus . Info & registration 👉👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/not-just-kno…..

Please join us for our next session @CRASSHlive, next Monday, at 5pm (in person and online), with @v_de_lorenzo, who will present the @connectthreads project – exploring south-to-south textile histories for a digital public. Info & registration: crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/43731/



18. How you love, how you give, and how you suffer is just about the sum of who you are. Everything in life is a subset of one or a combinatorial function of all three. Seek people who love and give generously, who have the strength to suffer without causing damage. Seek to be such a person. ...and 17 other things I have learned about life in the course of writing The Marginalian, born 18 years ago today: themarginalian.org/2024/10/22/mar…

"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it." Ursula K. Le Guin, born 95 years ago today, on the magic of real human communication: themarginalian.org/2015/10/21/tel…