Both in-person and online tickets are on sale for ‘Textiles: Conservation and Community’ the ICON Textile and Ethnography groups joint symposium on May 10th 2024 taking place at The Art Worker’s Guild Hall, London. https://t.co/2gMiNnybi2

In-person tickets for the Icon Textile and Ethnography groups' joint symposium 'Textiles: Conservation and Community' to be held in London, 10th May 2024, are now available at an early bird rate until 1st March 2024! For more information:

For a more complete description of the book, including a proposed table of contents, please click on this link:

Potential editors and contributors may send a letter of interest or request further information to Lara Kaplan at plantmcbook@gmail.com by March 1.

All voices and expertise are welcomed, and we are actively pursuing funding to support honoraria.

Chapter editors will have oversight of one or more chapters and will be responsible for providing, soliciting, and organizing content as needed. Content can include entire chapters or shorter submissions, such as case studies or interviews.

Editors Lara Kaplan, Caitlin Mahony, and Ellen Carrlee seek chapter editors and content contributors for a new handbook on the care and conservation of plant-based material culture to be published by Routledge.

Call for Chapter Editors and Contributors for: Caring for Plant-Based Material Culture: A Conservation Handbook.

Looking forward to this event - ICON Ethnography group will be presenting ‘What’s in a name?’ the results of the survey conducted by the group to assess members’ views of the term ‘ethnography’ and potential suitable alternatives. #conservation

Every day, the #MAAStoresMove team work with objects which most people inside the museum have never seen, let alone anyone outside it. Now they've chosen the objects closest to their hearts for a mini exhibition @MAACambridge and online. Find out more: https://t.co/l98MvHQahH

🇪🇸 The enormous Spanish ensign captured at the Battle of Trafalgar is on display in the National Maritime Museum! Due to its fragility, it will only be on display for a few days, so make sure to see this historic object before it’s stored away on Friday: https://t.co/Vjj6sSTOY8

Still time to sign up for our next free online event this Saturday 26th March on Chilkat Weaving and Material Sovereignty of Alaska's Northwest Coast by Lily Hope, renowned Chilkat weaver, artist and teacher. Sign up here: https://t.co/v2GXkYDd5R

The British Museum is hosting a one-day online summit to celebrate ten years of Heritage Fund Skills for the Future programming, which includes Museum Futures as well as dozens of traineeships across the UK. Register for free here: https://t.co/4HCj4IaQdy

This talk is jointly organised by the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford and ICON Ethnography Group, with support from Goldbelt Heritage and Native Arts and Culture Foundation (NACF)

Chilkat Weaving and Material Sovereignty of Alaska's Northwest Coast. Join us for a talk by Lily Hope, renowned Chilkat weaver, artist, and teacher Free 26th March 2022 6.30-7.30pm Sign up below: https://t.co/ZlrfJdhhfU...

ICON Ethnography is pleased to announce our next online talk: Human remains in Tibetan material religion: Conservation as research methodology Dr Ayesha Fuentes, Tuesday 15 March , 7-8pm For more information and to sign up follow this link: https://t.co/Rk2h1B2222

Still time to join us this evening for our next online event: Ethnography: A re-sounding success? Can you 3D print sound? Andrew Hughes and Reed Hudson 26 January 7-8pm https://t.co/45PvEJI5wT

Still a few days left to sign up to our next free webinar on wednesday!

New event by Wafa Ghnaim on Regional Distinctions of Traditional Palestinian Embroidered Dress, 1850-1948. January 21, 2022 - 11.00am https://t.co/UWpzRsw94P

Please join us for our next webinar: Ethnography: A re-sounding success? Can you 3D print sound? Seeking 3D scanning technology that can offer an alternative to playing historic musical instruments. Andrew Hughes and Reed Hudson 26 January 7-8pm https://t.co/hsqZmxzZTr