Abstract

It is with great pleasure that I introduce the second informal lunchtime seminar of Michaelmas term. Caroline Stone is a Senior Research Associate for the Civilizations in Contact project, under the auspices of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The project has offices in Sir Vivian Fuchs House in Wolfson College, and is funded by the Golden Web Foundation. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Caroline spent three years at the Jimbun Kagashu Kenkyusho Research Institute at Kyoto University, and then worked at the British School at Rome, researching in the Vatican Archives. Since then she has written and translated on a variety of topics including one of her specialities, textiles.