• "Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry"
with Professor Anthony Tuck, Classics Department University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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 • "Turkic Influences on Mamluk Carpets and Octagonal Medallions"
with Dr. Sumiyo Okumura, Istanbul
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• “Small South Persian Tribal Weavings”
with Ann Nicholas and Richard Blumenthal,  Boston
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 • "Li Textiles of Hainan: Seeking the Source of Austronesian Iconography"
with Thomas Murray of Asiatica Ethnographica, San Francisco
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• A Day of Japanese Textiles in San Diego: A field trip from Los Angeles to San Diego including exhibitions of "Kimono as Art: the Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota "at the San Diego Museum of Art and the Timken Museum of Art.  Also including "Shibui-the Subtle Beauty of Japanese Art" at the Mingei International Museum. Including lectures by Dale Carolyn Gluckman  on "Kimonos as Art:  The Landscapes of Kubota," Hollis Goodall on "Kimono as Landscape/Landscape as Kimono " and Terry Satsuki Milhaupt on "Idealizing a Textile Tradition: Itchiku Kubota's Kimono Designs"

 • “Nomads in Anatolia: Their Life and Their Textiles--Encounters with a Vanishing Culture”. With Dr. Harold Bohmer, Istanbul  Click for more information

 • "The Shining Cloth:  Materials and Meanings" with Victoria Z. Rivers, Professor of Design
University of California, Davis  Click here for more Information
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• "Colonial Andean Tapestries: Tradition and Transformation in the Inca Heartland" with Elena Phipps, Senior Conservator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

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• “Embroidered Textiles of the Sindh Desert (South Pakistan)” John Gillow, UK

• “Architectural Textiles: Tent Bands of Central Asia” Richard Isaacson, Washington, D.C.

• “Armenian Rugs, Kazak Rugs, Bordjalu Rugs: Who Wove Them?” Barry O’Connell, Williamsport, PA

• “Yarns from the Aegean Islands: Embroidery from the Greek Islands and Epirus Region” Sumru Krody,
   The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.

• “Green Rugs: The New Environmentally-Friendly Rugs of the Qashq’ai” Khosrow Sobhe, TMA/SC

• “Ottoman Influences on Islamic Batik from Indonesia” Thomas Murray, Asiatica-Ethnographica

• “Oriental Rug Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries”  Dr.Ahmet Birbilir, Ankara

• “Drugs, Thugs and Rugs” Louise Shelley, Washington, D.C.

• “The Perfect Red: The Story of Cochineal” Amy Greenfield, Boston

• “Textile Adventures in South India” Cheri Hunter, TMA/SC

• “The Splendor of Burmese Textiles” Sylvia Lu, Bethesda

• “Kurdish Weavings” Michael Wendorf, Ann Arbor

• “Appraising Your Textiles and Rugs” Val Arbab, TMA/SC

• “The Chintamani Motif in Ottoman Textiles and Carpets” Sumiyo Okumura, Istanbul

• “Trappings of the Middle Amu-Darya/Ersari-Beshir” Erik Risman, Indianapolis

• “Mantles of Merit: Chin Tribal Textiles from Mandalay to Chittagong” David and Barbara Fraser,
   Philadelphia

• “A Noah’s Ark: Birds and Animals in Textiles and Rugs” Ed Gomperts and Tom Rutherford, TMA/SC

• “Great Textiles and Carpets in the Textile Museum” Daniel Walker, Director, Textile Museum,
   Washington, D.C.