Postcolonial Textiles: Negotiating Dialogue (plenary speaker)
Annual ASNEL Conference, Hanover, Germany, June 2011.
Lessons from a Texitle Reader
Design & Craft ICDHS Conference Brussles, Belgium, Sept, 2010.
Textile & Animation Theory: Who Needs It?
Animation Evolution Conference, Edinburgh, July 2010.
Spoken, Printed & Virtual: Zimbabwe's Non-Linear Narration of Memory
ISEA 2009: 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Belfast, August 2009.
Closing Remarks: Off Which Grid?
Surface Design Association Annual Conference, Kansas City, May 2009.
Depictions of Dress in southern African Fiction
Postcolonial Translocations Conference, University of Munster, Germany, May 2009.
The Ambi Generation: second skins in southern african fiction
The Inivia Institute, London, April 2009.
“Memory and Time: Contemporary Written and Woven Narratives”
TAPESTRY 2008: The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, May 2008.
“Postcolonial Literature’s Quilting Metaphors”
Du décousu au cousu méticuleux: from patchwork to quilt, University of Rouen, France, November 2007.
“The Future of Written Communication in Art and Design Education”
FLUX: Design Education in a Changing World Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, October 2007.
“Constructions of Dress in Southern African Fiction”
Dress and the African Diaspora: Tensions and Flows, V&A Museum, London, England, September 2007.
“Text, Textiles and the Disruption of Repetition”
REPEAT REPEAT Conference, University of Chester, Wales, April 2007.
“Speaking When No One Else Can: Textiles and Censorship”
Textile Narratives and Conversations: Textile Society Symposium, Toronto, Canada, October 2006.
“Questioning Technology: Pixilation in Contemporary Textile Art”
Fabricating Technology Symposium, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, March 2006.
“Second Skins: Pinar Yolacan, Tissue Culture and Art & the Ambi Generation”
Wearable Futures: Hybrid Culture in the Development of Soft Technology, Newport, Wales, September 2005.
“Lessons from ‘Writing on Making: The Literature and Theory of Contemporary Craft’”
Design Education: Tradition and Modernity, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, March 2005.
“Hybrid Sources: Depictions of Dress in Postcolonial Fibre Art”
The Space Between Conference, Perth, Australia, April 2004.
“Empowering Violence in Yvonne Vera’s Fiction”
Gender and Representation Workshop, Centre for Asian and African Literatures, London, England, February 2004.
“Texts on Textiles: The Weya Appliqué Project”
Fabric(ation)s of the Postcolonial Conference, University of Wollongong, Australia, December 2002.
“Reading Textiles Through Literature: Zimbabwe’s Craft Tradition”
Craft in the 21st Century Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, November 2002.
“Appropriated Threads: The Unpicking and Reweaving of Imported Textiles”
The Eighth Biennial Textile Society of America Symposium, Massachusetts, USA, September 2002.
“Altered Surfaces: Cloth and Skin Bleaching in Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name”
Versions and Subversions Conference on African Literatures, Berlin, Germany, May 2002.