Lace: the transgressive thread
Sponsor:  The Lace Research Network
Date: Friday, May 16, 2014
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Place: University for the Creative Arts
Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey  GU9 7DS
Email:  http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/laceresearchnetwork

Provisional Agenda: LRNC provisional programme
10:00  Registration, Tea& Coffee
10:30  Welcome, Lace Research Network, Gail Baxter & Carol Quarini
10:35   Introduction, Simon Ofield-Kerr
10:40  Piper Shepard, To be confirmed
10:40  Carol Quarini, “Twisted threads: subversive domestic lace”
12:00  Angela Davies, “Golau: Light Networks”
12:30-1:30   Lunch
1:30    Lesley Millar “High definition and Low definition – lace a mise-en-scène
2:25    Dorie Millerson  “Lace Time Continuum
3:15     Tea & Coffee
3:40    Gail Baxter, “The hidden hand”
4:00    Beth Walsh, “Lace, danger and death in seventeenth-century England”
4:20    Emma Ferry, “A Concomitant Orgy of Destruction: The Political Lace Designs of
W H Pegg
4:55    Closing Remarks

This post will be updated as more information becomes available.  This is the inaugural conference for the Lace Research Network, and I am doing an interview with the conference organizers. To be posted soon.