WSA Staff Seminar Series - Linda Newington Seminar
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- Time:
- 16:00 - 18:00
- Date:
- 12 March 2014
- Venue:
- MA Common Room, Room Number 3032, Level 3, Eastside Building, WSA
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Dr Victoria Walters at v.m.walters@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Exploring Knitting: bandages, poodles and guerrillas
In this seminar, Linda Newington will give a visual presentation of her work with the Knitting Collections held by the University Library. She will outline her work through In the Loop, a series of international, inter-disciplinary conferences that have challenged and disrupted the stereotypes of knitting. The first conference took place at WSA in 2008 and a fifth one is planned with the University of Glasgow, possibly in 2015. In between there have been many related projects, some academic, some public and some fun…