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05.2025 Carceral Craft
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03.2025 Subjective and Ephemeral: the olfactory properties of cloth
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12.2024 Threads of Dissent
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10.2024 The Labour of Craft
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11.2023 Testing Textile Texts
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07.2023 Textile: witness to the world
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03.2023 Rehearsing Our Futures: textile labour in speculative/science fiction (keynote)
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12.2022 In My Experience: the personal in academic research
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09.2022 Old Materialism
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09.2022 Curating Textiles Today
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05.2021 Lost in Translation (keynote)
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05.2021 PONTO: Textile Art in Perspective
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05.2021 Textile Art & the Global South
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03.2021 Textiles Travel
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03.2021 Warping Tradition: Faig Ahmed in Conversation
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01.2021 Hands Mind Craft
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10.2020 Possibilities/Posibilidades
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09.2020 Dan Halter dialogue
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08.2020 Human-Material seminar
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08.2020 Meaningful Craft
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01.2020 Institut Teknologi Bandung
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12.2019 Crafting Culture
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10.2019 Cultural Threads
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05.2019 Exhibition Making
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03.2019 One Decade of Words
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12.2018 The Textile Art of Tomorrow
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12.2018 What is NOT tapestry today?
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12.2018 Tracing Migration Through Textiles symposium
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11.2018 Zeitz, Cape Town, South Africa
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11.2018 Moholy-Nagy University Doctoral School
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09.2018 Tacit Knowledge
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08.2018 Craft in Yvonne Vera’s fiction
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07.2018 Undone Symposium
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05.2018 Challenging Knitting
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03.2018 Textile Art in 2028
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01.2018 Where Theory and Practice Meet... or not
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01.2018 Navigating Failure
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10.2017 Writing Textiles
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10.2017 Craft & Ethics
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10.2017 Who Speaks Now?
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10.2017 Barometer Gallery, Sydney
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10.2017 Lessons in Tacit Knowledge
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08.2017 Intersections Keynote
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08.2017 Homo Faber Part II
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05.2017 Travelling Textiles: Tourism Souvenirs & National Identities
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03.2017 Craft & Labour lecture
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02.2017 Craft & Labour seminar
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11.2016 Making Meaning
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10.2016 Migrations exhibition
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10.2016 The Matter of Methods
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10.2016 Migrations exhibition talk
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09.2016 Floppy Cloth lecture
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08.2016 Korea Bojagi Forum
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06.2016 Craft & Labour lecture
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05.2016 Making Meaning: craft/labour
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04.2016 Trøndelag Senter lecture
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03.2016 Cultural Threads lecture
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10.2015 Migrations Exhibition
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09.2015 weaving: thread/word/thought
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05.2015 Thinking Knitting
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03.2015 Cultural Threads
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03.2015 Cultural Threads: transnational textiles today
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02.2015 Cultural Threads symposium
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11.2014 Thinking Knitting
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10.2014 Optical Illusions lecture
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09.2014 Irish Linen Memorial radio interview
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08.2014 The Tales Materials Tell
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03.2014 Cultural Production lecture
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02.2014 From a Textile Perspective talk with Alice Kettle
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12.2013 Cultural Threads lecture at INHA
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11.2013 Lectures on The Textile Reader
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11.2013 Textile Fictions lecture
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10.2013 Making Writing lecture
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07.2013 DHS Conference Towards Global Histories of Design
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06.2013 The Biennale for Crafts & Design
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02.2013 Writing about Practice: Material Words
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02.2013 Writing on Making: bridging the theory/practice divide
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11.2012 Crafting Words
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11.2012 Taste & Site: surveying the new senses of textile art
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10.2012 Introversion and Knitting: Rethinking Solitary Production
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10.2012 What does post-disciplinarity mean for curation today?
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09.2012 Introversion & Knitting: rethinking solitary production (keynote)
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07.2012 Textile & Animation Theory: who needs it?
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05.2012 Pairings: smart writing about textiles lecture
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12.2011 Postcolonial Textiles seminar
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09.2011 In Conversation with Eleri Mills
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06.2011 Postcolonial Textiles: Negotiating Dialogue (keynote speaker)
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05.2011 Knowing Needlework lecture
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09.2010 Warp & Weft symposium
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09.2010 Lessons from the Textile Reader
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08.2009 Spoken, Printed & Virtual: Zimbabwe's Non-Linear Narration of Memory
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05.2009 Depictions of Dress in southern African Fiction
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05.2009 Closing Remarks: Off Which Grid?
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04.2009 Ambi Generation: second skins
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05.2008 Memory and Time: Contemporary Written and Woven Narratives
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11.2007 Postcolonial Literature's Quilting Metaphors
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10.2007 The Future of Written Communication in Art & Design Education
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09.2007 Constructions of Dress in southern African Fiction
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10.2006 Speaking When No One Else Can: Textiles and Censorship
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09.2005 Second Skins: Pinar Yolacan, Tissue Culture and Art & the Ambi Generation
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05.2005 Altered Surfaces: Cloth and Skin Bleaching in Yvonne Vera's Without a Name & Butterfly Burning
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03.2005 Lessons from 'Writing on Making: the literature and theory of contemporary craft'
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04.2004 Hybrid Sources: Depictions of Dress in Postcolonial Fibre Art
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12.2002 Texts on Textiles: The Weya Applique Project
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11.2002 Reading Textiles Through Literature: Zimbabwe's Craft Tradition
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09.2002 Appropriated Threads: The Unpicking and Reweaving of Imported Textiles