Schedule of events
 
10:30–10:45am: Welcome and introductory remarks
Georgina Rayner, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Science, Harvard Art Museums
 
10:45–11:35am: “Mentored by Textiles”
Mary Schoeser, Honorary President, The Textile Society, United Kingdom
 
11:35am–12:25pm: “Textiles Matter: Theory through Practice”
Dinah Eastop, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
 
12:25–1:50pm: Break for lunch on one’s own
 
1:50–2:40pm: “My Materials: Clothing, Fabric & Belonging”
Shinique Smith, Contemporary Artist
 
2:40–3:30pm: “Fashion in the Museum”
Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator, The Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology)
 
3:30–4:00pm: Break
 
4:00–4:50pm: “Textile Future: What Is a Textile?”
Matilda McQuaid, Deputy Director of Curatorial and Head of Textiles, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
 
4:50–5:00pm: Closing remarks
Narayan Khandekar, Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies and Senior Conservation Scientist, Harvard Art Museums
 
Support for this symposium is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.

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