Workshops and Public Speaking

Contact me (Sarabphd at gmail dot com) if you’d like to discuss workshops or other speaking opportunities.

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Workshops

Enrolling Now! Making the Personal Political: A generative 6-week online course will explore ways to find the political stakes in personal experiences. Or conversely, how to use your personal experiences to make a larger point about power.

The next session begins on March 23rd, 2023.

Your Public Voice: An online workshop aimed at scholars and professionals who want to turn their research and expertise into compelling stories for a general audience.

Your Public Voice is co-taught with Dismantle editor and co-founder, Elise Chatelain.

We’ve also done condensed one-day and 2-hour versions for the Dallas Writers’ Workshop, the Feminist Research Institute at UC Davis and the MA in Critical Studies program at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

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Public Speaking and Media Appearances

Panel Moderator: Sustainable Solutions: A Candid Conversation Between Female Entrepreneurs. Webinar sponsored by the UN Fashion Pact, World Economic Forum, and Hecho Por Nosotros  (June 2020)

Panelist: Textiles Now: Continuity & Disruption. Part of the Textile Connections Symposium as part of Portland Textile Month October 2019

Radio Interview: “​So long and thanks for all the blisters: A bittersweet eulogy for PayLess​”, CBC News (March 2019)

Guest Speaker: “The Recurring Appeal of Prairie Style,” Textiles and Clothing Dept. UC Davis, (February 2019)

Guest Speaker: “Grease Was the Way Were Feeling” Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Dept., UC Davis (February 2019)

Panelist: Scholar’s Roundtable on Fashion and Labor. Costume Society of America National Conference. Williamsburg, VA (March 2018)

Podcast Guest: Imagine Otherwise: Sara Bernstein on Critical Public Scholarship (March 2018)

Interviewer: “Beauty Talk: a conversation about the meaning of beauty in contemporary culture.” With journalist and author Autumn Whitefield-Madrano, Powell’s Books, Portland, OR (August 2016)

Guest Lecture: “Counter Narratives:​ Brooklyn, Carol,​ and an unfashionable genre’s makeover.” Presentation in conjunction with opening of “The Biggest Little (Fashion) City: Silver Screen Style in Ithaca, 1914-1924.” Cornell University Costume and Textile Collection. (April 2016)