Lorna Dillon

@londonfeminist please shrare! I'm selling bandanas at Open Studios in Cambridge for Memorarte a Chilean feminist collective next weekend. Hand embroidered, £50 each See Memorarte on Instagram

Get your Latin American feminist bandana next weekend! (13, 14, 27, 28th July) at Memorarte, Cambridge Open Studios 12 to 3pm July Open Studios 2024 - Cambridge Open Studios (camopenstudios.org) or pm to buy by post

If you are interested in issues surrounding provenance and the restitution of objects in museums, come to this talk by Aba Eyifa Dzidzienyo on Wednesday eventbrite.co.uk/e/african-obje…

@AldenBrien Wonderful little purses!

@IsabellaRosner ~Thank you! I've just discovered Cora's website and social media pages. What a jewel.

@Threadsofunity1 Cora Ginsburg has just posted a group of them on their Instagram account today!

@WWiertz Ooh thanks!

Fellow textile people! Has anyone seen any fabric like this before? I’m thinking it’s furnishing fabric inspired by 18th-century Spitalfields silks, made in the late 19th or 20th centuries. I would appreciate any thoughts or leads. Thank you!

I've been awarded an Alborada Fund grant to work with Aba Eyifa-Dzidzienyo, University of Ghana. We are interested to meet curators and academics to discuss textiles and history, social justice, gender, environmental issues, diaspora, Ghanian artefacts& provenance PM to meet us.

@CambridgeGender @maguiregeoff Hello, I'm looking forward to this. I thought it was in person but I've just received a Zoom link. Looking at my emails, I think this is a fully online event? Can you confirm please? If there is an in person element, I can pop along.

Our Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar series will recommence next Monday 9 October at 12.30pm with Dr Geoffrey Maguire @maguiregeoff on 'Un/Natural: Marine Sexualities and the Queer Ecological'. To register: bit.ly/46CWVfa

I'm really looking forward to this talk on Monday.

@amyEelkins I ordered this via inter-library loan! Would love my own copy.

DEADLINE EXTENDED Please submit your nomination by 29 May 2023. Reply with any questions about the open positions or our Section #LASA2023 @Threadsofunity1 @LASA2023 @LASACONGRESS @LASA_FILM

#NewBooks have arrived and are available from our CLAS collection, including works by @Threadsofunity1 @gdenyerwillis @UruguayFran @FedericoMRossi Discover our collection @TheSeeleyLib : latin-american.cam.ac.uk/facilities/lib…

Pamela Whitaker visited Murray Edwards College again this week and today she facilitated a restoring art therapy workshop for our students. Tomorrow we will discuss pedagogies that involve working with textiles and hope to build this into a co-written paper.

Looking forward to the discussion about participatory needlework in our panel at the AAH conference in London tomorrow.

Interested in arpilleras? Tune in to Chilean radio @RNuevoMundo 12 Apr 2023 4.40 UK time to hear me speak (in Spanish) about textile art with Erika Silva. play.radionuevomundo.cl ¿Te interesan las arpilleras? Sintonice @RNuevoMundo 12 de abr 11.40 hora chile para escucharme

La académica @Threadsofunity1 rescata en esta columna sobre la importancia de la tradición de las arpilleras en Chile, "un arma de paz en tiempos hostiles". Pase a leer! @patrimoniocl eldesconcierto.cl/opinion/2023/0…

@CambridgeGender Thank you for inviting me to speak. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Coming up in half an hour!!!!

On Monday I'll be speaking about Latin American textile art as part of the University of Cambridge Gender Studies Multi-disciplinary Seminar Series. My talk will be at lunchtime UK time and you can join virtually. Sign up here eventbrite.co.uk/e/embroidering…

Applications closing soon for several part-time Master’s programmes. Come join the 2023/25 student intake Closing 17th March: - MSt in History Closing 31st March: - MSt in AI Ethics & Society - MSt in Coaching - MSt in History of Art & Visual Culture bit.ly/3kJkcJP