Flyer for Keynote Speaker, 'Surviving the Fantasies of Modernization'
Ha Noi Ad Hoc and RMIT Vietnam, with support from UNESCO, Ha
Noi, VietnamJennifer discussed her ongoing project, Garment Girl, which investigates women's labor in the global textile industry.
Her co-presenter was Mila Rosenthal, a human rights educator and professor at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. She spoke about the March 8 Textile Factory, a significant site for the Vietnamese Communist Party's efforts in the 1960s and 1970s to manufacture a modern socialist society, economy, city, and family.
Michal Teague, Design Studies Lecturer at RMIT Hanoi City campus, moderated the discussion.
July 27, 2021
November 18, 2021
April 8, 2022
Flyer for Symposium Creating Thriving Post-Industrial Cities, Festival of Debate, Sheffield, UK
Jennifer and Dr. Lizzy Craig-Atkins, from the University of Sheffield, co-organized this event.
The symposium evolved from Jennifer Vanderpool's ongoing social practice art exhibitions, Untold Stories, a series of community-specific and site-responsive exhibitions that have occurred in the Deindustrialized Midwest Region of the U.S.A. and the Industrial North of England. Panellists offered multivocal perspectives, including workers, activists, artists, and scholars from Liverpool, UK; Sheffield, UK; Akron, Ohio; and Youngstown, Ohio.
May 22, 2023
Flyer for Artist Talk and Craftivism Workshop at Open Door Charity.
Birkenhead, UK.
May 31, 2023
Flyer for Lecture, Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time, Summer Institute, Queen Mary’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Jennifer co-taught the Graduate Workshop Integrating Arts-Based and Community-Based Approaches in Post-Industrial Memory Research with Dr. Guilherme Pozzer from the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
June 2024
Flyer for Artist Talk
Empowering Communities through Creative Writing, Visual Narratives, Memory, and Place-Making, The University of Sheffield.
June 29, 2024
Flyer for Workshops, Sheffield Crafting the Past Online Workshops, Council for British Archaeology.
Dr. Gui Posser and Dr. Jennifer Vanderpool offered online workshops on creative writing and visual storytelling to address challenges faced by post-industrial communities.
July 27, 2024, and August 2, 2024
Flyer for Artist Talk, Connecting Art and Law for Liberation, UCLA Law School
Visionary artists, activists, attorneys, advocates, legal scholars, and community members shared innovative, cutting-edge collaborations at the intersection of ART and LAW - aimed at imagining a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance.
Presented with Los Angeles-based curator Rachel Schmid.
April 19, 2025
Flyer for Artist Talk, CivicLAB Annual Conference, University of Derby
Neighbourhood Assembly: Arts-led, co-productive research & practice for comfortable, energy-efficient homes, green skills and quality jobs, and thriving places.
Presented with Dr Rachel Macrorie, Nottingham Trent University.
June 25, 2025