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2025 Biennial Feminist Art History Conference

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Feminist Art History ConferenceAmerican University, Washington, DC
September 26 – September 28, 2025

Conference Schedule  Register now

Keynote Speakers

Joan Breton Connelly
Professor of Classics, New York University
Archaeologies of Ancient Greek Women: Evidence, Assumptions, and Questions Unasked
Dorothy Price, FBA
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art
Looking Awry: Gabriele Münter, Modernism, Race and Representation

Registration

The conference comprises 10 in-person panels, 12 online panels, and 5 hybrid panels. Keynotes will be hosted in-person with a livestream feed. All online videos will be available for streaming starting on Monday, September 1, 2025.
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Frequently Asked Questions

All videos will be on the pre-recorded presentations page (link to come). Registered participants will enter the password to open the player. 

Each panel title at the top of the schedule page will have a Zoom link. Registered participants will enter the password to join the Zoom room.

Yes! When watching a video, you can select the language of the closed captioning. 

Each keynote will be simulcast via Zoom. The link will be added to the talk title on the conference homepage. Registered participants will enter the password to join the Zoom link.

Yes! Questions will be taken in the chat box and shared with the moderator. We will do our best to address every question. 
 

Unfortunately, we are not capable of livestreaming the in-person sessions online. 
 

Due to intellectual property rights, access to the pre-recorded videos will expire on Monday, September 29, 2025. 
 

Due to intellectual property rights, downloading conference presentations and/or Zoom content is not permissible.

Yes! We have created a document with some options that you can view here.

Mission Statement

The Feminist Art History Conference fosters intersectional and interdisciplinary scholarship on the ways in which gender and sexuality have shaped the visual arts and their study–with a conference program designed to advance new research on topics from the ancient past through the present and across the globe. It provides a forum for participants to examine the roles that art and its agents have played in informing and resisting historical and contemporary inequities. Through this forum, the Conference aims to model a more inclusive art history and scholarly community.

The Feminist Art History Conference was established in 2010 to celebrate and build on the feminist art-historical scholarship and pedagogy of Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, Professors Emeriti at American University. It is sponsored by the Art History Program in the Art Department, College of Arts and Sciences, at American University, with the generous support of Robin D’Alessandro and Dr. Jane Fortune.