2022 Questions of interraciality in Lewis Wickes Hine’s photograph of WW1 craft therapy, keynote lecture, Crafting Identities. Handicraft Programmes in Times of War, Genocide and their Aftermaths, c. 1890-1950, University of Huddersfield, UK
2022 Rehabilitating veterans at MoMA, 1944-1948: craft fabrication and normative masculine ableism, March 1, 2022. Session: Therapeutic Aesthetics. Seminar series:“New new approaches to Medical Care, Humanitarianism and Violence during the ‘long’ Second World War, 1931-1953.” As part of the AHRC-funded project, Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance (AH/T006382/1). Organisers: Raphaële Balu, Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Laure Humbert, and Bertrand Taithe.
2021 Gendered and gendering frameworks of the American-led Free World: diplomacy, art school, and representations of Vietnamese women art students in a USIA film, ca 1957. Feminist Art History Conference, American University, Washington, DC
2021 The Industry of Occupational Subjects: Craft as a Therapeutic Modality, Embodied and socially constructed?: Dis/ability in media, law, and history, Symposium, Suffolk University, Boston
2021 Craft and War. Chair of session, Association of Art Historians, annual conference, Newcastle, UK This session investigates relationships of craft and war and considers how they compel a reappraisal of central themes in craft history.
2021 From objects to subjects in process: recovering the work of craft caregivers, College Art Association, annual conference
2020 Craft Kits and Art Kits as Therapeutic Modalities, College Art Association, Chicago
2020 Making Craft and War: Covid-19 and the war-related, craft therapies of Americans since ca. 1914, Pandemic, Crisis, and Modern Studies Twitter Conference, Countervoices, The Center for Modern Studies at the University of York UK
Jennifer Way, PhD