Silk Unravelled Symposium 22nd Nov

We’re delighted that Steve Shaw’s Silk River film is being shown as part of Silk Unravelled Symposium

A Transdisciplinary Symposium

http://www.textilesociety.org.uk/events/event-details.php?textile-event=938

When: Wed 22nd November 2017, 10am-6pm

Where: Room 102, Senate House,University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7H

Free entry – booking required, please email silkunravelled@gmail.com

Silk Unravelled is a multidisciplinary event that explores exciting perspectives on the fascinating material that is silk: from insect to fibre, scientific innovation to theory, history to heritage, craftsmanship to industry, local to global production.

We hope to explore new avenues of thinking, to look into connections between this material’s rich history and vital present, considering it’s philosophical, scientific, cultural, and historical fields alongside one another.

Keynote speakers:

Helen Wang, ‘Silk as a Currency’
Curator of East Asian Money Coins and Banknotes of East Asia, British Museum
Dr. Brenda King, ‘Taming the Wild: Thomas Wardle’s Pioneering Research into the Wild Silks of India’
Textile Historian, Chair of the Textile Society

Screening of the documentary film Silk River
Q&A with the film director Steve Shaw

Full programme

9:30AM
Opening, registration and coffee

10:00-11:00AM
Keynote
Helen Wang, ‘Silk as a Currency’
Curator of East Asian Money Coins and Banknotes of East Asia, British Museum

11:00-11:15AM Coffee break

11:15AM-1:00PM
Panel discussion Silk Fiction: Pushing Materiality Forward
Veronica Ranner (Designer and Lecturer, Royal College of Art)
Polyphonic futurs
Elizabeth Atkinson (Writer, Royal College of Art)
Derrida’s Silkworm
Panelists tba

1:00-2:00PM Lunch break

2:00-3:00PM
Keynote
Dr. Brenda King, ‘Taming the Wild: Thomas Wardle’s Pioneering Research into the Wild Silks of India’
Textile Historian, Chair of the Textile Society

3:00-3:15PM Coffee break

3:15-5:00PM
Panel discussion Silk: Global and Local Narratives
Mark Nesbitt (Curator and Researcher at Kew Gardens)
Silk Collection from the British Empire
Magali An Berthon (Textile Historian and Documentarist, Royal College of Art)
Silk Production in Contemporary Cambodia
Marta Velasco (Textile Designer, Royal College of Art)
Pulau Banda Textile Collection
Lisa Gale (Visitor Experience Manager, Whitchurch Silk Mill)
Whitchurch Silk Mill: Preserving the Fabric

5:00-5:15PM Coffee break

5:15PM
Screening of the documentary film Silk River
Q&A with film director Steve Shaw

6:00PM Closing