Fiber Optics x Environmental Humanities: Cotton Technologies

We would like to warmly invite you to Cotton Technologies, a Fiber Optics and Environmental Humanities Workshop, where you will learn about different practices, knowledges, and aesthetics developed in and around cotton. Take this opportunity to explore how cotton fosters human and non-human relations, present and past. Please feel free to share the event invitation with your friends and colleagues. 

Meet us at the O'Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm and learn from students' and faculty's lightning presentations on their research and coursework on cotton. We’ll have a special visit by Tameka Peoples, founder of the apparel and organic cotton company Seed2Shirt. Take a tour with Edi Dai (Fiber Optics & Office of the Vice President for the Arts) and see the colored cotton plants at the Farm. Join the interactive workshop guided by Fiber Optics on the processing of cotton: ginning, carding, and weaving. Take home a small bookmark made by you! Meanwhile, enjoy some empanadas from La Maja.

Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and made possible by support from an anonymous donor honoring the Directorship of former SHC Director John Bender, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities