2009 Symposium Program
The Global Quilt: Cultural Contexts featured invited speakers, juried papers, thematic sessions, and panel discussions. Two days of presentations were supplemented by pre-conference and post-conference tours, including a behind-the-scenes tour of the International Quilt Study Center's new museum, its state-of-the-art storage facility, guided tours of exhibitions, and special exhibitions at other venues in the Lincoln area.
Keynote speakers for the symposium were Jacqueline Atkins, the Kate Fowler Merle-Smith Curator of Textiles at the Allentown Art Museum (Allentown, PA) and Jennifer Harris, Deputy Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester (Manchester, UK).
Abstracts of the papers presented at the symposium may be viewed. Also, a number of complete papers have been posted on the University of Nebraska Digital Commons, at the link below titled "Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Symposium of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum". Full papers are published with the consent of the authors.
- Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Symposium of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum
- 2009 Symposium Paper Abstracts
