Volunteer at the Symposium
TSA is a volunteer organization and the Symposium relies on the participation of our global textile community. Join us in helping to shape the Symposium!
There are multiple ways to participate and help support the Symposium.
Be a Session Chair
Sessions feature three or four individual presentations, grouped together in a 90-minute session.
What does a session chair do?
The chair:
- welcomes attendees to the session
- briefly introduces the speakers
- keeps the speakers to their allotted times
- facilitates attendee questions for the presenters
Chairs will be assigned a session (or multiple sessions if desired) according to their subject preferences and areas of expertise.
TSA will provide training and detailed guidelines for our volunteer chairs.
Chairs are not responsible for any technical aspects of Zoom. Every session will have a technical moderator who will assist the chair and monitor the Zoom chat.
Chairs who are not registered for the Symposium can attend their session(s) for free.
Chairs should have some prior experience with presenting at a conference, or having previously chaired a conference session. Past participation at a TSA Symposium is not necessary.
Interested in chairing a session? Please complete the form below by August 25th, 2024:
Be a Mentor
Be a mentor to help emerging or first-time presenters develop their papers. Please fill out the form below to be connected with a mentee.
Be a Technical Moderator
Help run the Symposium behind the scenes! Information forthcoming later in August.
The Lab
Do you feel like you’re on the fringes and looking to make your way into an international textile community? Are you fringe-textile and looking to make your way into an international textile community? Join the Lab!
The lab is an online space for artists, curators, writers, learners, educators, textile-curious folx, and others to connect across geographic borders and talk textiles. Attendees are encouraged to participate by starting their own conversation. In a 1-min. pitch, participants can address creative projects, techniques and discoveries, research, seek feedback and brainstorm, discuss new ideas, or ask questions about conferences or other scholarship preparation. All threads will be followed up with group feedback; all tangles sorted into satisfying (dis)order!
Led by: Kira Dominguez Hultgren, Emily Oertling, and Linsey Labson
We meet on Zoom. Subscribe using the form below to find out about our next meeting!
A Note on Membership
TSA is a volunteer-run organization and thrives on the energy of its current membership! Please consider joining today! It’s a sliding scale and looks great on a resume! ☺
