Event Calendar

online and on location

Jewellery Talks

Upcoming jewellery talks! Interested in booking a talk? Contact me to discuss possibilities – I’d love to speak for your audience.

2027

Oct 28 Something Wicked This Way Comes: Amulets & Magic in Antiquity in National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (on location, in Dutch)

Feb 27 topic TBA for The Bead Society of Orange County (private event, online, in English)

Feb 25 An evening of Mourning Jewellery in National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (on location, in Dutch)

2026

Dec 5 Frankincense, Myrrh, and Gold: The Art of Perfume Jewels for The Winter Salon, The Hague (live event, in English: see more here for details and tickets)

Nov 25 Ancient Jewellery, Modern Assumptions. The many afterlives of adornment from the Near East in the Ancient World Lunch Talks series at Leiden University (private event, on location, in English)

Oct 31 Gemaakt in Europa, wereldwijd hergebruikt. Sieraden en imitatiematerialen in Afrika, Amerika en Oceanie for Tribal Art Fair, Amsterdam (on location, in Dutch) 

Sept 9 Cataloguing your Jewellery, for GemX (online event in English)

April 14 5,000 years History of Jewellery, for Sociëteit de Hereeniging in Deventer (on location, in Dutch, private event)

2025

Sept 27 Topic TBA, at the Tribal Textiles & Jewelry Fair, Amsterdam (on location, in Dutch)

Sept 21 Power Objects in Motion: the many lives of Egyptian zār jewellery, at the Sachsensymposium in Oldenburg

June 19th 4000 years of body adornment in North Africa, a duo-talk with Fatima Oulad Thami in National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (in Dutch)

May 23 Amulets & charms in jewellery of North Africa & Southwest Asia, for HOVO Leiden (on location, in Dutch, see more info here)

May 16 Jewellery of Empowerment for HOVO Leiden (on location, in Dutch, see more info here)

May 9, Jewellery of Ancient Egypt, for HOVO Leiden (on location, in Dutch, see more info here)

May 2 Jewellery History of North Africa & Southwest Asia, for HOVO Leiden (on location, in Dutch, see more info here)

March 23, The Power of Jewels, for The Bead Society of Orange County

Jan. 15 Decoding jewellery: magic, amulets & rituals, for Al Raqs Conference (in English, see more info here)

Jan. 7 Zar jewellery in the collection of the Landesmuseum, (private curatorial meeting in Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch, Oldenburg)