Public Engagement

Public Engagement: Conference Organisation

Feminist Representations Workshop 2: Feminist Activisms, Representation, and Ethics: Amplifying Voices in the Asylum Process. Friday 25th June, 2021. Online, 13:00-16:00.

‘Avant-Garde Aesthetics, and the Politics of Disidentification’, Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar, IES, 28 October 2020

‘The Small Press, Avant-Garde Aesthetics, and the Politics of Disidentification’, ACLA, 09 April, 2021

Feminist Representations Workshop 1: Asylum, Translation, Voice and Testimony, Université Paris 8, 6-7 September, 2018.

‘Sexual Violence Against Women: Voice and Representation’. June 17th, 2016, Kings Place, London. A one-day symposium. Speakers included Keir Starmer, MP, Professor Jacqueline Rose, and Debora Singer, MBE.

The Contemporary Small Press: Reading and Being Read. The British Library, 20 February, 2016. A one-day symposium.

The Contemporary Small Press Symposium and Book Fair. Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 20 February, 2015. A one-day symposium followed by an evening book fair with readings, music, and small press stalls.

Print Screen: Writing and the Moving image. The Photographers’ Gallery, 17 December, 2014. A one-day symposium.

Public Engagement: Invited Talks and Guest Lectures

‘The Small Press, Avant-Garde Aesthetics and the Politics of Disidentification’. Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar, Senate House, London, 26 October, 2020. Forthcoming.

‘Feminist Solidarity and Experiment in Kathy Acker’s Early Writings’. American Studies ResearchSeminar Series, University of Sussex, 19 November 2019

‘We’re not nothing; we’re our stories’: Non-Identity in Kathy Acker’s In Memoriam to Identity. The Labyrinth: A Convening on the Work of Kathy Acker’. ICA, London, 03 August, 2019.

‘Feminist Solidarity and Experiment in Kathy Acker’s Early Writings’. Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series. Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced. Senate House, London. 26 June, 2019.

‘Publishing Practice-Based Research and Research Based Practice’. Techné Symposium: ‘Environments of Research’, Royal Holloway, University of London, 11 January, 2019.

‘Forms of Solidarity.’ Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture Research Seminar Series, University of Westminster, 07 February 2018.

‘The Avant-Garde and the Avant-Texte: Kathy Acker’s Manuscript Practice’. Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning. Badischer Kunstverein Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany. 23 November, 2018.

‘Writing-Through: Kathy Acker’s Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream.’ Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture Research Seminars Series, University of Westminster, 03 February, 2016.

‘Engaged Disengagement: Reframing as Feminist Critique in Vanessa Place’s Tragodía’. Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar, Senate House, London. 25 March, 2015.

Roundtable on ‘The Found’, Conceptual Gestures Series, Birkbeck, University of London, February, 2012.

Roundtable on the work of Vanessa Place, Conceptual Gestures Series, Birkbeck, University of London, September, 2011.

‘New Subcultural Aesthetics: New York Photographers of the 1970s’, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, February 2010.

‘Feminist Appropriations: Kathy Acker and Laura Parnes’, Alma Enterprises Gallery, London, September 2006.

Public Engagement: Event Organisation

S A L O N – London presents ‘On Repertoires and lists: Kate Fagan and Sam McBean’. The Yurt, St Benet’s Chaplaincy, London. 11th December, 2018.

S A L O N – London presents Carla Harryman in Conversation with Redell Olsen. Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster. 03 November, 2018.

S A L O N – London presents ‘Unknowability and Collaborative Creative / Critical Practice: Ilya Parkins and Lara Harworth. October 10, 2018.

S A L O N – London presents Sophie Seita and Amy Tobin. Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster. 17 August, 2018.

S A L O N – SUNDAY with Erín Moure and So Mayer. Brunswick Centre Tenants’ Room. 8 April, 2018.

S A L O N – London presents Laynie Browne in Conversation with Andrea Brady. Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 13 March, 2018.

Women Writing: Press for Progress – An International Women’s Day Panel Discussion. University of Westminster, 07 March, 2018, 6-9pm.

S A L O N – London launch. Redell Olsen in conversation with Caroline Pedwell. Parasol Unit for Contemporary Art, London, November 3, 2017.

The Contemporary Small Press: Reading and Being Read. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 27th June, 2017, 6-9pm.

The Contemporary Small Press: Reading and Being Read. Newcastle City Library. Saturday 18th February, 2017.

The Contemporary Small Press: Reading and Being Read. Manchester Central Library. Saturday 12 November, 2016.

‘A Glove Covered in Lime’. Kreider and O’Leary in Conversation with Maria Fusco. 18 March, 2016.

‘Dawn Poetics: Caroline Bergvall in Conversation with Marina Warner’. Wednesday September 14,, 2016.

Simon Perril, ‘The Idea of Cinema in the Mind of a Painting’, ICA Studio, 19 June, 2014. Part of the Print Screen: Writing and the Moving Image series.

Kreider + O’Leary, ‘Ways to Cut the Earth Open’. The Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 17 January, 2014. Part of the Print Screen: Writing and the Moving Image series.

David Herd, ‘The View From Dover.’ The Regent Street Cinema, University of Westminster. Part of the Print Screen: Writing and the Moving Image series. 12 November, 2013.

‘Death, Aesthetics, and Representation.’ The Photographers’ Gallery, London. 11 September, 2013.

‘Death and Trauma’. The Swedenborg Hall, London, 20 December, 2012.

‘Death and Space.’ The Deadhouse, Somerset House, London. This event was part of the Inside/Out Festival 2012.

Selected Conference Papers

‘Récriture Feminine: Kathy Acker’ Blood and Guts in High School. Contemporary Experimental Women’s Writing Conference, University of Manchester, 12 October 2013.

‘Radical Interiors: Cindy Sherman’s ‘Sex Series’ and Kathy Acker’s My Mother: Demonology’. Representing the Contentious: A Symposium. Co-organised by The Wellcome Trust, Queen Mary University, and University of Cambridge. London, August 2011.

‘Reflection, Self, Death: Subcultural Aesthetics in John Ashbery’s “Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror” and Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life and Death’. American Image/Text Conference, University of East Anglia, June 2011.

‘The Politics of Violence and Contemporary Literature’, Second Annual Critical Theory Conference. University of Exeter, September 2010.