Conferences, Talks and Symposia
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2023
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'Invisible pasts, invisible people? Gypsy, Roma, Traveller collections and heritage in British museums', The Museums Association Conference, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.
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Reaching Out, The Traveller Movement, Youth Futures Foundation, London. (Speaker).
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2022
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'Exclusionary Estates: Travellers in the Thomas Bewick Archive', Sites of Inclusion Conference: Roma and Traveller Participation in the Arts Sector, Romani Cultural & Arts Company, Art Central, The Riverfront, Wales. (Speaker).
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Inequality Emergency Panel, Newcastle Poetry Festival & Poetry Book Society Emergency Poetry Summit.
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The Romani: Transhistorical Encounters as Dislocations Colloquium, Kings College London. (Keynote Speaker).
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Gypsy Maker 5 Exhibition Launch, Romani Cultural & Arts Company, Art Central, Wales. (Speaker). Featured on ITV News Cymru Wales.
2021
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Creative Keynote: 'Imagination in the Field: Our Right to Roam', Earth(ly) Matters Conference, Sheffield Hallam University. (Keynote Speaker).
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'Romani Literature: A Keystone of the New Romanipen' by Dr. Delia Grigore, European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture. (Panel).
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Holocaust Memorial Day, Newcastle City Council and A Living Tradition, (Panel).
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Northern Writer's Awards Roadshow, New Writing North, (Panel).
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2020
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Writing in Collaboration, The Stay at Home Literary Festival. (Panel).
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference, Newcastle University. (Speaker).
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Whose Heritage? Symposium: A (Multi)Cultural Perspective, Northumbria University. With David Olusoga and Dawn Walton. (Speaker).
2019
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FUSION: Interdisciplinary Symposium, Newcastle University. (Organiser).
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2018
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'Birds of Passage: Spotting Travellers in Thomas Bewick’s British Birds’, Literary Birds Conference, Durham Book Festival, Durham University. (Speaker).
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Interdisciplinarity Masterclass Event, Durham University Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Mining Institute, Newcastle. (Speaker).
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Hate Crime Conference: Changing the Culture, Newcastle University. (Participant).
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2017
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Creative Practice Completion Symposium, Hospitalfield Arts Centre, Arbroath. Residential symposium. Funded by AHRC Student Innovation Fund. (Organiser).
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Paper: ‘The Gypsy in the Archive’ and exhibition, ‘Telling Tales: Gypsy, Roma and Travellers in Thomas Bewick’s tail-pieces’, Hospitalfield Arts Centre.
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'Poetry of Witness and Tyneside Refugees', English: Shared Futures Conference, Newcastle University. (Speaker).
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Archival Skills Symposium, Queens University Belfast. (Participant).
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‘Poetry of Witness: Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Diaspora’, Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts: Poetry Festival, Newcastle University. (Speaker).
2016
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Texts and Contexts Conference, Durham University. (Participant).
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2015
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‘GRT: A Witness in the Archive’, Identity: Practices, Perspectives and Possibilities, Newcastle University. (Speaker).
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‘Ekphrasis in the Bewick Archive', Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts: First Thursday, Newcastle University, (Speaker).
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Working with Archives, Residential Symposium, The Wordsworth Trust. (Participant).
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Mourning and Morbidity, British Art Research School, York University. (Participant).
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Voices and Books, Newcastle University. (Conference Assistant).
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‘Polished: Ekphrastic Poetry’, AHRC Northern Bridge DTP Summer School, Great North Museum. (Co-organiser). (Speaker and poem-film screening.)