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Lectures and conference presentations
In addition to the lectures listed below, Fiona has given talks for societies, associations, on university courses, for a variety of museums at home and abroad and on Swan Hellenic cruises.
· ‘Collecting change: Josef Šrogl in the Dutch East Indies 1894 - 1924’. Polish Academy of Sciences. Asia Pacific Museum, Warsaw, Poland. 4th October 2022.
• ‘The study of the textiles of maritime Southeast Asia’. Indonesian Studies department, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. 4th March 2019.
• ‘Dayak cultural heritage: The material legacy of early migrations, kingdoms and trade routes’. Study day: ‘Bornéo- Dernière Terra Incognita?’ organised by Museo delle Culture de Lugano and Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, held at Musée du Quai Branly. 8th September 2017.
• ‘Calligraphic batiks’ at ‘Islamic Occultism in Theory & Practice’. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. 6th to 8th January 2017.
• ‘Collecting experience: making memories material in the Dutch East-Indies between the wars’. Conference of the Association of South East Asian Studies UK. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 16th to 18th September 2016.
• ‘Colonialism or cultural collaboration? South Asian collections at the Horniman Museum, London. Lecture delivered at the National Museum, New Delhi, India, 4th March 2015.
• ‘South Asian Collections at the Horniman Museum: Looking forward, looking back.’ Conference on the Future of South Asian Collections. University of East Anglia. 30th April to 2nd May 2014.
• ‘Muara Jambi: shifting perspectives on past and present at a heritage site’ 7th Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Studies, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal 9-10th July 2013.
• ‘Japanese Buddhist collections at the Horniman Museum’ at International Symposium: ‘Japanese Buddhist Objects in European Collections and their impact on the European Image of Japan’. Institute of International Japanese Studies, The Hosei University, Tokyo; Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Zürich; Department of Oriental Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. Held at Pala Łochow, Poland, June 4th – 6th 2012.
• ‘Batiks of Java: origins, traditions and change’ at ‘Batik Sutra: Tagore, Travels and Textiles’, seminar held at the Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata, India. 11th – 25th November 2011.
• ‘Indonesian Batik: Looking forward, looking back.’ Paper presented at World Batik Summit, Jakarta Convention Centre, 28th September to October 2nd 2011.
• ‘Collections Management.’ Paper delivered at international seminar on ‘New Paradigms of Museum Management’ Museum Nasional Indonesia, held at Denpasar, 6 – 10 May 2010.
• ‘Patterns of Malay batik from Sumatra.’ Presented at ‘Cultures of Cloth in Sumatra’, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire USA. April 18th 2009.
• ‘Memory, materiality and the museum.’ Presented at the Fifth Annual Symposium of Jurnal Anthropologi Indonesia at Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarmasin, Indonesia, 22 -26 July 2008.
• ‘Sulaman Benang Emas: an embroidery tradition from Central Sumatra.’ Paper presented at Museum Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia. 21st to 22nd November 2007.
• ‘Malaysian Collections at the Horniman Museum’ Paper presented at the Royal Asiatic Society. May 2007.
• ‘Southeast Asian collections in the Horniman Museum 1891 – 1925’ Lecture delivered at the National University of Singapore. April 2007.
• ‘The batik of Malay Sumatra.’ Presented at international seminar on ‘The Spirit and Form of Malay Design’, National Museum, Kuala Lumpur, June 2005.
• ‘Jambi batiks: a Malay tradition?’ Lecture at the Brunei Gallery, University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, in conjunction with the exhibition Spirit of Wood, the Art of Malay Woodcarving, 28th January 2004.
• ‘Collecting South-East Asia: Emslie Horniman’s field collecting in the 1920s.’ Paper presented at the 21st Conference of the Association of South-East Asian Studies of the United Kingdom, University of Leeds, 17-19 October 2003.
• ‘New dimensions in Indonesian Batik’. Paper presented at the World Eco-Fibre Textile Forum, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 19th to 21st September 2003.
• ‘Presenting Change: Time and Exhibition in the Ethnographic Museum’. Paper presented at the Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, University of Manchester 14th to 18th July 2003.
• ‘Museums and the Kris: Power, alliance and the exchange of gifts.’ Paper presented at the 9th International conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Sigtuna (Sweden) 26th May – 1st June 2002.
• “Printed heirloom textiles from Indonesia.” Paper presented at the 8th International conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Sarteano (Siena) Italy 2nd – 6th October 2000.
• "Inclusion and Exclusion: Two-way traffic in Southeast Asian Textiles." Paper delivered at "Crossroads and Commodification", a Symposium on Southeast Asian Art, Department of History of Art, University of Michigan March 24-26, 2000.
• "Transformation and tradition: calligraphy batiks from Jambi." Paper delivered at "Textiles in Changing Times: Identity and the Remaking of Tradition", a symposium at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, The University of California, Los Angeles, May 15th 1999.
• "Importing identity: Indian textiles in Jambi, Sumatra." Paper delivered at "Textiles in the Indian Ocean", the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford, 19-20 March 1999.
• “Food and the Family: assimilation in a Malay village in Sumatra.” Paper delivered at the conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS), Hamburg, 2-6 September 1998.
• “Indonesian batik – new definitions.” Paper delivered at International Convention of Asia Scholars at Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, 25-28 June 1998.
• “Subjects and objects: photographic placement and the grammar of rule in Indonesia.” Paper delivered at the annual conference of the Association of South-East Asian Studies (UK) at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1st to 4th April 1998.
• “Textiles as a medium of communication in Malay communities in Sumatra.” Paper delivered at the annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists 1988 at the University of Kent at Canterbury, 30 March - 3 April 1998.
• “Classical Batiks of Jambi.”: Paper presented at the World Batik and Heritage Conference, Gajah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, November 1997.
• “Cultural change and the Jambi Seberang house.” Paper presented at the European Science Foundation workshop on “Transformation of Houses and settlements in Western Indonesia; changing values and meanings in built forms in history and in the process of modernization.” Leiden University, the Netherlands, June 1997.
• “The red batiks of Jambi: questions of provenance.” Paper presented at the International Symposium on Indonesian Textiles, National Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia, 6-9 November 1996.
• “Malay Meanings and Metaphors in the Jambi House.” Paper presented at the Nordic Symposium on “The House” in Southeast Asia: a changing social, economic and political domain.” University of Oslo, Norway, 6-8 September 1996.
• “Textiles, tradition and identity in Jambi, Sumatra.” Paper presented at the 4th Nordic-European Workshop in Advanced Asian Studies. “Cultural Studies in Southeast Asia,” NIAS, Copenhagen, 1995.