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KeynoteTextile & Place, Manchester (April 23, 2020) Cultural Threads LectureCentre for Circular Design, Chelsea College of Art (Oct. 16, 2019) One Decade of Wordslecture April 8 Konsthantverkarna, Stockholm The Textile Art of Tomorrowlecture Reykjavík, Iceland March 30, 2019 What is NOT tapestry today?Cordis Symposium lecture Edinburgh March 16, 2019 Tracing Migration Through Textiles symposiumTilburg, the Netherlands, March 7, 2019 Zeitz, Cape Town, South Africa'Five Bhobh' panel discussion Dec. 2, 2018 Moholy-Nagy University doctoral school, Budapest, Hungarylecture Nov. 21, 2018 craft in Yvonne Vera’s fictionRhodes University, South Africa 27-29.09.2018 Drama Boreale 2018podcast Undone SymposiumRoyal College of Art / 03.08.2018 Challenging KnittingIn the Loop conference keynote 19-20.07.2018 Textile Art in 2028 lectureFashion & Textile Museum, London (April 19, 2018) Where Theory and Practice Meet… or notThe Agents of Design/Design as Agency symposium Montreal, Canada (March 9-10, 2018) Navigating FailureKonstfack Research week lecture 2018 Writing Textiles lecture01.12.17 Bergen, Norway Craft & EthicsNovember 24-25, 2017 HDK Gothenburg Who Speaks Now?PARSE conference Nov. 16, 2017 Barometer Gallery, SydneyWeaving Labour talk w/ Emelie Röndahl Oct. 7, 2017 Intersections KeynoteLoughborough University (London) 13.09.17 Homo Faber Part II1 September 2017, Konsthallen Blå Stället Travelling Textiles: Tourism Souvenirs & National Identitieslecture May 17 Udayana University, Indonesia Craft & Labour lectureMarch 17 Reykjavik School of Visual Arts, Iceland Craft & Labour seminarFeb. 10, 2017 @ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Making Meaning lectureNov. 14 Wellington / Nov. 17 Auckland / Nov. 21 Dunedin, New Zealand / Nov. 24 Sydney Migrations exhibitionvideo introduction & interviews The Matter of MethodsOctober 24 Oslo School of Architecture & Design Migrations exhibition talkHuddersfield Art Gallery 2pm October 22 Floppy Cloth lectureZhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China September 26, 2016 Korea Bojagi Forum lectureCARRYING CLOTH September 4 @ 10am Craft & Labour lectureOriel Myrddin Wales 2pm July 2 Making Meaning: craft/labourlecture at Gothenburg University 2pm May 20 Trøndelag Senter lectureFranz Petter Schmidt and I will be speaking about his exhibition at the TSSK, Trondheim, Norway Cultural Threads lectureFriday April 8th at Barreira Arte + Diseño, Valencia, Spain Australian Design Centre, Sydney 18.12.15-27.02.16 weaving: thread/word/thoughtRietveld Academie Amsterdam lecture 15.09.15 Thinking KnittingKnitting Map symposium lecture 14.05.2015 Cultural Threads @ KANEKOlecture March 5, 2015 Cultural Threads: transnational textiles today Cultural Threads symposium CSM London 07.02.15 Cultural Threads Thinking Knitting lecture 28.11.14 Optical Illusions lectureOctober 30 lecture with Toril Johannessen at the Bergen Academy of Art & Design, Norway Irish Linen Memorial radio interview The Tales Materials Tell Cultural Production lectureKHiB, Bergen, Norway (2014) From a Textile Perspective talk with Alice Kettle Cultural Threads lecture at INHA Paris 2014 Lectures on The Textile Reader Textile Fictions lecture at U. of Gothenburg Making Writing lecture at Iaspis, Stockholm DHS Conference Towards Global Histories of Design: postcolonial perspectives The Biennale for Crafts & Design 2013 Copenhagen Writing about Practice: Material Words Writing on Making: bridging the theory/practice divide Crafting Words lecture Taste & Site: surveying the new senses of textile art Introversion and Knitting: Rethinking Solitary Production What does post-disciplinarity mean for curation today? Introversion & Knitting: rethinking solitary production (keynote) Textile & Animation Theory: who needs it? Pairings: smart writing about textiles lecture Postcolonial Textiles seminar, U. of Bremen, Germany In Conversation with Eleri Mills, Ruthin, Wales Postcolonial Textiles: Negotiating Dialogue (keynote speaker) Knowing Needlework lecture Warp & Weft symposium Lessons from the Textile Reader Spoken, Printed & Virtual: Zimbabwe's Non-Linear Narration of Memory Depictions of Dress in southern African Fiction Closing Remarks: Off Which Grid? Ambi Generation: second skins Memory and Time: Contemporary Written and Woven Narratives Postcolonial Literature's Quilting Metaphors The Future of Written Communication in Art & Design Education Constructions of Dress in southern African Fiction Speaking When No One Else Can: Textiles and Censorship Second Skins: Pinar Yolacan, Tissue Culture and Art & the Ambi Generation Lessons from 'Writing on Making: the literature and theory of contemporary craft' Hybrid Sources: Depictions of Dress in Postcolonial Fibre Art Texts on Textiles: The Weya Applique Project Reading Textiles Through Literature: Zimbabwe's Craft Tradition Appropriated Threads: The Unpicking and Reweaving of Imported Textiles Altered Surfaces: Cloth and Skin Bleaching in Yvonne Vera's Without a Name & Butterfly Burning Loading... KeynoteTextile & Place, Manchester (April 23, 2020) Cultural Threads LectureCentre for Circular Design, Chelsea College of Art (Oct. 16, 2019) One Decade of Wordslecture April 8 Konsthantverkarna, Stockholm The Textile Art of Tomorrowlecture Reykjavík, Iceland March 30, 2019 What is NOT tapestry today?Cordis Symposium lecture Edinburgh March 16, 2019 Tracing Migration Through Textiles symposiumTilburg, the Netherlands, March 7, 2019 Zeitz, Cape Town, South Africa'Five Bhobh' panel discussion Dec. 2, 2018 Moholy-Nagy University doctoral school, Budapest, Hungarylecture Nov. 21, 2018 craft in Yvonne Vera’s fictionRhodes University, South Africa 27-29.09.2018 Drama Boreale 2018podcast Undone SymposiumRoyal College of Art / 03.08.2018 Challenging KnittingIn the Loop conference keynote 19-20.07.2018 Textile Art in 2028 lectureFashion & Textile Museum, London (April 19, 2018) Where Theory and Practice Meet… or notThe Agents of Design/Design as Agency symposium Montreal, Canada (March 9-10, 2018) Navigating FailureKonstfack Research week lecture 2018 Writing Textiles lecture01.12.17 Bergen, Norway Craft & EthicsNovember 24-25, 2017 HDK Gothenburg Who Speaks Now?PARSE conference Nov. 16, 2017 Barometer Gallery, SydneyWeaving Labour talk w/ Emelie Röndahl Oct. 7, 2017 Intersections KeynoteLoughborough University (London) 13.09.17 Homo Faber Part II1 September 2017, Konsthallen Blå Stället Travelling Textiles: Tourism Souvenirs & National Identitieslecture May 17 Udayana University, Indonesia Craft & Labour lectureMarch 17 Reykjavik School of Visual Arts, Iceland Craft & Labour seminarFeb. 10, 2017 @ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Making Meaning lectureNov. 14 Wellington / Nov. 17 Auckland / Nov. 21 Dunedin, New Zealand / Nov. 24 Sydney Migrations exhibitionvideo introduction & interviews The Matter of MethodsOctober 24 Oslo School of Architecture & Design Migrations exhibition talkHuddersfield Art Gallery 2pm October 22 Floppy Cloth lectureZhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China September 26, 2016 Korea Bojagi Forum lectureCARRYING CLOTH September 4 @ 10am Craft & Labour lectureOriel Myrddin Wales 2pm July 2 Making Meaning: craft/labourlecture at Gothenburg University 2pm May 20 Trøndelag Senter lectureFranz Petter Schmidt and I will be speaking about his exhibition at the TSSK, Trondheim, Norway Cultural Threads lectureFriday April 8th at Barreira Arte + Diseño, Valencia, Spain Australian Design Centre, Sydney 18.12.15-27.02.16 weaving: thread/word/thoughtRietveld Academie Amsterdam lecture 15.09.15 Thinking KnittingKnitting Map symposium lecture 14.05.2015 Cultural Threads @ KANEKOlecture March 5, 2015 Cultural Threads: transnational textiles today Cultural Threads symposium CSM London 07.02.15 Cultural Threads Thinking Knitting lecture 28.11.14 Optical Illusions lectureOctober 30 lecture with Toril Johannessen at the Bergen Academy of Art & Design, Norway Irish Linen Memorial radio interview The Tales Materials Tell Cultural Production lectureKHiB, Bergen, Norway (2014) From a Textile Perspective talk with Alice Kettle Cultural Threads lecture at INHA Paris 2014 Lectures on The Textile Reader Textile Fictions lecture at U. of Gothenburg Making Writing lecture at Iaspis, Stockholm DHS Conference Towards Global Histories of Design: postcolonial perspectives The Biennale for Crafts & Design 2013 Copenhagen Writing about Practice: Material Words Writing on Making: bridging the theory/practice divide Crafting Words lecture Taste & Site: surveying the new senses of textile art Introversion and Knitting: Rethinking Solitary Production What does post-disciplinarity mean for curation today? Introversion & Knitting: rethinking solitary production (keynote) Textile & Animation Theory: who needs it? Pairings: smart writing about textiles lecture Postcolonial Textiles seminar, U. of Bremen, Germany In Conversation with Eleri Mills, Ruthin, Wales Postcolonial Textiles: Negotiating Dialogue (keynote speaker) Knowing Needlework lecture Warp & Weft symposium Lessons from the Textile Reader Spoken, Printed & Virtual: Zimbabwe's Non-Linear Narration of Memory Depictions of Dress in southern African Fiction Closing Remarks: Off Which Grid? Ambi Generation: second skins Memory and Time: Contemporary Written and Woven Narratives Postcolonial Literature's Quilting Metaphors The Future of Written Communication in Art & Design Education Constructions of Dress in southern African Fiction Speaking When No One Else Can: Textiles and Censorship Second Skins: Pinar Yolacan, Tissue Culture and Art & the Ambi Generation Lessons from 'Writing on Making: the literature and theory of contemporary craft' Hybrid Sources: Depictions of Dress in Postcolonial Fibre Art Texts on Textiles: The Weya Applique Project Reading Textiles Through Literature: Zimbabwe's Craft Tradition Appropriated Threads: The Unpicking and Reweaving of Imported Textiles Altered Surfaces: Cloth and Skin Bleaching in Yvonne Vera's Without a Name & Butterfly Burning KeynoteTextile & Place, Manchester (April 23, 2020) Cultural Threads LectureCentre for Circular Design, Chelsea College of Art (Oct. 16, 2019) One Decade of Wordslecture April 8 Konsthantverkarna, Stockholm The Textile Art of Tomorrowlecture Reykjavík, Iceland March 30, 2019 What is NOT tapestry today?Cordis Symposium lecture Edinburgh March 16, 2019 Tracing Migration Through Textiles symposiumTilburg, the Netherlands, March 7, 2019 Zeitz, Cape Town, South Africa'Five Bhobh' panel discussion Dec. 2, 2018 Moholy-Nagy University doctoral school, Budapest, Hungarylecture Nov. 21, 2018 craft in Yvonne Vera’s fictionRhodes University, South Africa 27-29.09.2018 Drama Boreale 2018podcast Undone SymposiumRoyal College of Art / 03.08.2018 Challenging KnittingIn the Loop conference keynote 19-20.07.2018 Textile Art in 2028 lectureFashion & Textile Museum, London (April 19, 2018) Where Theory and Practice Meet… or notThe Agents of Design/Design as Agency symposium Montreal, Canada (March 9-10, 2018) Navigating FailureKonstfack Research week lecture 2018 Writing Textiles lecture01.12.17 Bergen, Norway Craft & EthicsNovember 24-25, 2017 HDK Gothenburg Who Speaks Now?PARSE conference Nov. 16, 2017 Barometer Gallery, SydneyWeaving Labour talk w/ Emelie Röndahl Oct. 7, 2017 Intersections KeynoteLoughborough University (London) 13.09.17 Homo Faber Part II1 September 2017, Konsthallen Blå Stället Travelling Textiles: Tourism Souvenirs & National Identitieslecture May 17 Udayana University, Indonesia Craft & Labour lectureMarch 17 Reykjavik School of Visual Arts, Iceland Craft & Labour seminarFeb. 10, 2017 @ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Making Meaning lectureNov. 14 Wellington / Nov. 17 Auckland / Nov. 21 Dunedin, New Zealand / Nov. 24 Sydney Migrations exhibitionvideo introduction & interviews The Matter of MethodsOctober 24 Oslo School of Architecture & Design Migrations exhibition talkHuddersfield Art Gallery 2pm October 22 Floppy Cloth lectureZhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China September 26, 2016 Korea Bojagi Forum lectureCARRYING CLOTH September 4 @ 10am Craft & Labour lectureOriel Myrddin Wales 2pm July 2 Making Meaning: craft/labourlecture at Gothenburg University 2pm May 20 Trøndelag Senter lectureFranz Petter Schmidt and I will be speaking about his exhibition at the TSSK, Trondheim, Norway Cultural Threads lectureFriday April 8th at Barreira Arte + Diseño, Valencia, Spain Australian Design Centre, Sydney 18.12.15-27.02.16 weaving: thread/word/thoughtRietveld Academie Amsterdam lecture 15.09.15 Thinking KnittingKnitting Map symposium lecture 14.05.2015 Cultural Threads @ KANEKOlecture March 5, 2015 Cultural Threads: transnational textiles today Cultural Threads symposium CSM London 07.02.15 Cultural Threads Thinking Knitting lecture 28.11.14 Optical Illusions lectureOctober 30 lecture with Toril Johannessen at the Bergen Academy of Art & Design, Norway Irish Linen Memorial radio interview The Tales Materials Tell Cultural Production lectureKHiB, Bergen, Norway (2014) From a Textile Perspective talk with Alice Kettle Cultural Threads lecture at INHA Paris 2014 Lectures on The Textile Reader Textile Fictions lecture at U. of Gothenburg Making Writing lecture at Iaspis, Stockholm DHS Conference Towards Global Histories of Design: postcolonial perspectives The Biennale for Crafts & Design 2013 Copenhagen Writing about Practice: Material Words Writing on Making: bridging the theory/practice divide Crafting Words lecture Taste & Site: surveying the new senses of textile art Introversion and Knitting: Rethinking Solitary Production What does post-disciplinarity mean for curation today? Introversion & Knitting: rethinking solitary production (keynote) Textile & Animation Theory: who needs it? Pairings: smart writing about textiles lecture Postcolonial Textiles seminar, U. of Bremen, Germany In Conversation with Eleri Mills, Ruthin, Wales Postcolonial Textiles: Negotiating Dialogue (keynote speaker) Knowing Needlework lecture Warp & Weft symposium Lessons from the Textile Reader Spoken, Printed & Virtual: Zimbabwe's Non-Linear Narration of Memory Depictions of Dress in southern African Fiction Closing Remarks: Off Which Grid? Ambi Generation: second skins Memory and Time: Contemporary Written and Woven Narratives Postcolonial Literature's Quilting Metaphors The Future of Written Communication in Art & Design Education Constructions of Dress in southern African Fiction Speaking When No One Else Can: Textiles and Censorship Second Skins: Pinar Yolacan, Tissue Culture and Art & the Ambi Generation Lessons from 'Writing on Making: the literature and theory of contemporary craft' Hybrid Sources: Depictions of Dress in Postcolonial Fibre Art Texts on Textiles: The Weya Applique Project Reading Textiles Through Literature: Zimbabwe's Craft Tradition Appropriated Threads: The Unpicking and Reweaving of Imported Textiles Altered Surfaces: Cloth and Skin Bleaching in Yvonne Vera's Without a Name & Butterfly Burning KeynoteTextile & Place, Manchester (April 23, 2020) Cultural Threads LectureCentre for Circular Design, Chelsea College of Art (Oct. 16, 2019) One Decade of Wordslecture April 8 Konsthantverkarna, Stockholm The Textile Art of Tomorrowlecture Reykjavík, Iceland March 30, 2019 What is NOT tapestry today?Cordis Symposium lecture Edinburgh March 16, 2019 Tracing Migration Through Textiles symposiumTilburg, the Netherlands, March 7, 2019 Zeitz, Cape Town, South Africa'Five Bhobh' panel discussion Dec. 2, 2018 Moholy-Nagy University doctoral school, Budapest, Hungarylecture Nov. 21, 2018 craft in Yvonne Vera’s fictionRhodes University, South Africa 27-29.09.2018 Drama Boreale 2018podcast Undone SymposiumRoyal College of Art / 03.08.2018 Challenging KnittingIn the Loop conference keynote 19-20.07.2018 Textile Art in 2028 lectureFashion & Textile Museum, London (April 19, 2018) Where Theory and Practice Meet… or notThe Agents of Design/Design as Agency symposium Montreal, Canada (March 9-10, 2018) Navigating FailureKonstfack Research week lecture 2018 Writing Textiles lecture01.12.17 Bergen, Norway Craft & EthicsNovember 24-25, 2017 HDK Gothenburg Who Speaks Now?PARSE conference Nov. 16, 2017 Barometer Gallery, SydneyWeaving Labour talk w/ Emelie Röndahl Oct. 7, 2017 Intersections KeynoteLoughborough University (London) 13.09.17 Homo Faber Part II1 September 2017, Konsthallen Blå Stället Travelling Textiles: Tourism Souvenirs & National Identitieslecture May 17 Udayana University, Indonesia Craft & Labour lectureMarch 17 Reykjavik School of Visual Arts, Iceland Craft & Labour seminarFeb. 10, 2017 @ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Making Meaning lectureNov. 14 Wellington / Nov. 17 Auckland / Nov. 21 Dunedin, New Zealand / Nov. 24 Sydney Migrations exhibitionvideo introduction & interviews The Matter of MethodsOctober 24 Oslo School of Architecture & Design Migrations exhibition talkHuddersfield Art Gallery 2pm October 22 Floppy Cloth lectureZhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China September 26, 2016 Korea Bojagi Forum lectureCARRYING CLOTH September 4 @ 10am Craft & Labour lectureOriel Myrddin Wales 2pm July 2 Making Meaning: craft/labourlecture at Gothenburg University 2pm May 20 Trøndelag Senter lectureFranz Petter Schmidt and I will be speaking about his exhibition at the TSSK, Trondheim, Norway Cultural Threads lectureFriday April 8th at Barreira Arte + Diseño, Valencia, Spain Australian Design Centre, Sydney 18.12.15-27.02.16 weaving: thread/word/thoughtRietveld Academie Amsterdam lecture 15.09.15 Thinking KnittingKnitting Map symposium lecture 14.05.2015 Cultural Threads @ KANEKOlecture March 5, 2015 Cultural Threads: transnational textiles today Cultural Threads symposium CSM London 07.02.15 Cultural Threads Thinking Knitting lecture 28.11.14 Optical Illusions lectureOctober 30 lecture with Toril Johannessen at the Bergen Academy of Art & Design, Norway Irish Linen Memorial radio interview The Tales Materials Tell Cultural Production lectureKHiB, Bergen, Norway (2014) From a Textile Perspective talk with Alice Kettle Cultural Threads lecture at INHA Paris 2014 Lectures on The Textile Reader Textile Fictions lecture at U. of Gothenburg Making Writing lecture at Iaspis, Stockholm DHS Conference Towards Global Histories of Design: postcolonial perspectives The Biennale for Crafts & Design 2013 Copenhagen Writing about Practice: Material Words Writing on Making: bridging the theory/practice divide Crafting Words lecture Taste & Site: surveying the new senses of textile art Introversion and Knitting: Rethinking Solitary Production What does post-disciplinarity mean for curation today? Introversion & Knitting: rethinking solitary production (keynote) Textile & Animation Theory: who needs it? Pairings: smart writing about textiles lecture Postcolonial Textiles seminar, U. of Bremen, Germany In Conversation with Eleri Mills, Ruthin, Wales Postcolonial Textiles: Negotiating Dialogue (keynote speaker) Knowing Needlework lecture Warp & Weft symposium Lessons from the Textile Reader Spoken, Printed & Virtual: Zimbabwe's Non-Linear Narration of Memory Depictions of Dress in southern African Fiction Closing Remarks: Off Which Grid? Ambi Generation: second skins Memory and Time: Contemporary Written and Woven Narratives Postcolonial Literature's Quilting Metaphors The Future of Written Communication in Art & Design Education Constructions of Dress in southern African Fiction Speaking When No One Else Can: Textiles and Censorship Second Skins: Pinar Yolacan, Tissue Culture and Art & the Ambi Generation Lessons from 'Writing on Making: the literature and theory of contemporary craft' Hybrid Sources: Depictions of Dress in Postcolonial Fibre Art Texts on Textiles: The Weya Applique Project Reading Textiles Through Literature: Zimbabwe's Craft Tradition Appropriated Threads: The Unpicking and Reweaving of Imported Textiles Altered Surfaces: Cloth and Skin Bleaching in Yvonne Vera's Without a Name & Butterfly Burning
