'Making Meaning in Ceramics'
European Ceramics 2006 Conference, Bornholm, Denmark
21st Century Ceramics
Ceramic Art London,
‘Inventing Tradition:The Origins of British Studio Ceramics’
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
‘Hamada in the West’ American Ceramic Circle Conference,
Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachussets
‘Through the Porcelain Ceiling: Ceramics and Display’,
Third World Ceramics Biennale, Korea
‘Cultured Living’ Arts& Crafts Conference, Victoria& Albert Museum, London
‘Surviving Mingei’, Harvard Symposium on Japanese/European ceramics, USA
‘Renewing Ceramics’, Europaisches Industriemuseum fur Porzellan, Germany
Convenor, International Symposium on Cultural Identity,
International Ceramic Centre, Denmark
‘Imagining the Sung: The Afterlife of Bernard Leach’;
Orientalism amd Modernism Conference, Cambridge
‘Installation and Ceramics’, SOFA Chicago
‘David Leach : An European potter?’, David Leach symposium, Dartington Hall, Devon
‘Rethinking Twentieth Century Ceramics’ , Copenhagen, Denmark
‘The Persistence of Leach’, Burning point conference, Bergen, Norway
The Peter Dormer Lecture, Royal College of Art
The Dartington Trust Lecture
‘Material Things’, a British Museum/Arts Council conference held at the British Museum
‘Narratives’:A conversation with Richard Wentworth, Royal College of Art
‘Dislocations: the roles of theory in contemporary practice’, Royal College of Art
‘On Being Collected’, Museums Association conference, London
‘Ghosts in the kiln: historicism in contemporary ceramics’, Earth and Fire conference,
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
‘Radical Pots’,ceramics conference at Camberwell College of Art
‘Interpreting Ceramics’, conference to launch the journal ‘Interpreting Ceramics’,
Victoria and Albert Museum