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Day 1Friday, September 26
- 10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
- Welcome Remarks - Auditorium
Keynote 1: Dorothy Price, Courtauld Institute (online)
Looking Awry: Gabriele Münter, Modernism, Race and Representation - 1:00 – 1:50 p.m.
- Session 1: Shifting Identities/Identity Shifts–online
- 2:00 – 2:50 p.m.
- Session 2: Images of the Female Body as Resistance I–online
- 3:00 – 3:50 p.m.
- Session 3: Italy: Women Artists, Feminist Art and
Their Promotion in the 20th Century I–online - 4:00 – 4:50 p.m.
- Session 4: Locating Agency–online
Day 2Saturday, September 27
- 9:00–9:50 a.m.
- Session 5
5a. From the Margins–online
5b. Textiles I: Tradition and Subversion–online
5c. Domestic Labor–online - 10:00–10:50 a.m.
- Session 6
6a. State of the Field: Asia–online (extended panel; runs until 11:50)
6b. Spectatorship in France—online
6c. Installing Feminist Practices and Methods–online
6d. Herstories across Asia–online - 11:00 a.m. – 12:30
- Lunch Break
- 12:30–1:45 p.m.
- Session 7
7a. Mother Nature—hybrid
7b. Public Monuments: Feminist Protest and Canon Critique—in-person
7c. Politics of Media—in-person - 1:45 – 1:55 p.m.
- Caffe Pause
- 2:00-3:15 PM
- Session 8
8a. 1930s Germany—hybrid
8b. Images of the Female Body as Resistance II—in-person
8c. Assertions of Women Artists–hybrid - 3:15 – 4:15 p.m.
- Katzen Museum Visit
Tour of Fabricated Boundaries with curator Tiffany Hunt - In-person meetings/free time
- 4:15 – 4:30 p.m.
- Keynote 2 Welcome Remarks
- 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
- Keynote 2: Joan Breton Connelly, NYU
Archaeologies of Ancient Greek Women: Evidence, Assumptions, and Questions Unasked - 5:45 – 7:00 p.m.
- Keynote Reception
light appetizers and refreshments served
Day 3Sunday, September 28
- 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
- Special Event: Curator-led Tour at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
- 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
- Lunch/Transportation to Katzen Art Center at American University
- 11:45 AM – 1:15 p.m.
- Session 9
9a. Interrogating Female Vices–hybrid
9b. Italy: Women Artists, Feminist Art and Their Promotion in the 20th Century II–in-person
9c. Feminist Museum Initiative Today–hybrid
9d. Women of a Certain Age: Looking at the Overlooked–in person - 1:15 – 1:25 p.m.
- Caffe Pause
- 1:25 – 2:55 p.m.
- Session 10
10a. Crossing the Binary–hybrid
10b. Textiles II: Labors of Love–in-person
10c. Lesbian Self-Fashioning in the 19th and 20th Centuries–in-person
10d. 1970s Feminist Art Movement: New Contexts–in-person
Day 1
Session 1: Shifting Identities/Identity Shifts (online)
Moderator: Angela Ho (George Mason University)
- Judith Rehermann: Hans Baldung Grien’s enigmatic painting Lot and his Daughters
- Anna Savchenkova: Beauties replacing popes and crosses: the phenomena of Renaissance niello medallions
- Pat Simons: The Amateur Woman Artist and the Myth of Irene di Spilimbergo
- Lauryn Smith: Transcending One’s Sex: Connoisseurial Displays in the Cabinets of Amalia van Solms-Braunfels
Session 2: Images of the Female Body as Resistance I (online)
Moderator: Bibiana Obler (Corcoran School of Arts & Design, George Washington University)
- Lyudmila Georgieva & Jini Takeyama: Jini: Embodied revolt: Gender Perspectives on the Female Body in Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art
- Maria Garth: Zenta Dzividzinska: Nude Photography and Self-Portraiture in the Soviet 1960s
- Gandotra Apeksha: Gender Analysis of Korean Drama Posters: Visual Representation and Stereotypes
Session 3: Italy: Women Artists, Feminist Art and Their Promotion in the 20th Century I (online)
Moderator: Caroline Schopp (Johns Hopkins University)
- Federica Arcorarci: Romana Loda's Legacy: Promoting Feminist Art in 1970s Italy
- No longer attending Q&A—Francesca della Ventura: "La lotta é FICA1!". Feminist practices of urban art and gender claims in contemporary Italy.
- Camilla Paolino: Feminist escapes from the domestic through art making in 1970s Italy: On the work of Clemen Parrocchetti and Lydia Sansoni
Session 4: Locating Agency (online)
Moderator: Diva Zumaya (Huntington Museum)
- Carmen Ruiz Vivas: Women and peace in ancient Roman art: from symbols to agents
- Lydia McKelvie: Ghiberti’s Story of Rebecca: Women’s Agency in the Gates of Paradise
- Monica Zavala Cabello: “Practices, rituals and agency of the ‘warrior woman’ in the ancient Mexican tradition: a gender perspective approach to Bernardino de Sahagún’s images in the Florentine Codex”
- Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón:
From the Real Alcázar to the Museo Nacional del Prado. The Power of Displaying Mary Tudor, Queen of England by Anthonis Mor.
Day 2
Session 5
Panel 5a: From the Margins (online)
Moderator: Alicia Volk (University of Maryland)
- Mey-yen Moriuchi: “A Reconsideration of las señoritas pintoras from Nineteenth-century Mexico”
- Yuniya Kawamura: Female Ukiyo-e Artists in the Male-dominated Japanese Art World during the Edo period
- Nadine Nour el-Din: Inventing the Modern: Women Who Shaped Collecting and Patronage in Egypt: Émilienne Hector Luce and Huda Shaarawi
- Georgina Gluzman: Decorative, useful, national and very feminine: discourses and practices around the “impure” arts (Argentina, 1920-1940)
Panel 5b: Textiles I: Tradition and Subversion (online)
Moderator: Shelley Burian (George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum)
- Irene Bronner: ‘Eroticism as gender critique in textile art by South Africans Ilené Bothma, Kimathi Mafafo and Talia Ramkilawan’
- Marina Vinnik: Otti Berger and Anni Albers — Bauhaus weaving workshop and architecture.
- Smaranda Ciubotaru: Crafting Subversion: Intermediality and Artisanal Knowledge Among the Female Fiber Artists of the Ceaușescu Regime
- Elizabeth Hawley: Intertwined: Ancestral Lands, Women’s Work, and Indigenous Sovereignty in the Photographic Weavings of Sarah Sense and Darby Raymond-Overstreet
Panel 5c: Domestic Labor (online)
Moderator: Raino Isto (American University; University of Maryland, College Park)
- Sarah Evans: Twinned Mothers Set to Work? Bharti Kher’s Mother and Child Joins the Debate About Remunerated Gestational Surrogacy in India
- Bálint Juház: Gender and Motherhood on Eszter Mattioni’s female portraits in the 1930s. The contradictions of a Hungarian woman artist
- Elizabeth Hamilton: “Troubled Domesticities”
- Ashley McNelis: Mother Art’s Public Performances of Care
Session 6
Panel 6a: State of the Field: Asia (Online)
Moderator: Ying-Chen Peng (American University)
- Naoko Seki: Women artists in the transwar period in Japan
- Yoonjung Seo: Unveiling Desire and Disrupting Norms: Gender, Sexuality, and Female Subjectivity in 19th-Century Korean Erotic Painting
- Soyeon Kim: Colonial Gaze and Gendered Landscape: The Feminization of Inner Geumgang (Diamond Mountain) under Japanese Rule
- Yutong Li: Gender Studies in Premodern Chinese Art: Current Scholarship and Critical Perspectives
Panel 6b: Spectatorship in France (online)
Moderator: Juliet Bellow (American University)
- Dani Sensabaugh: Virtue and Viewership in Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s Julie Le Brun as a Bather (1792)
- Heather Belnap: Homme Fatal: Female Spectators and the Male Nude in the Musée Napoléon
- Mathilde Leichle: Looking for the male gaze in 19th century France : Armand Silvestre and Le Nu au Salon
- Viktoriia Bazyk: The hypermasculine male nude in student works at the Académie de France à Rome viewed through a queer-feminist lens.
Panel 6c: Installing Feminist Practices and Methods (online)
Moderator: Kirstin Ringelberg (Elon University)
- Joanna Gardner-Huggett: Beijing and Beyond: The Women’s Caucus for Art and the Fourth U.N. World Conference on Women (1995)
- Maggie Hire: VALIE EXPORT and MAGNA FEMINISM
- Nina Lubbren: Women's public sculpture in Weimar Germany's regions, or: Feminist art history and canon critique
Panel 6d: Herstories across Asia
- Lily Filson: From Rada’a to Rome: Elite Women of Tahirid Yemen in the Codex Casanatense
- SaeHim Park: The Little Girl Commemorative Coin: Art, Memory, and Commodification
- Chinghsin Wu: Womanhood and Ethnicity: Chen Jin’s Paintings of Women in Modern Japan and Taiwan
Session 7
Panel 7a: Mother Nature (hybrid)
Moderator: Thaïsa Way (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections)
- Katia Myers: Irish Neolithic Monuments: The Female Body in Architecture, Myth and Landscape
- Jessica Weiss: Be Fruitful and Multiply: Vegetal Decoration and Dynastic Aspirations in Isabel of Castile’s Breviary
- Tobah Auckland-Peck: The Mine, “Mother Nature,” and the Woman Artist: Gender and Industry in Modern British Art
Panel 7b: Public Monuments: Feminist Protest and Canon Critique (in-person)
Moderator: Tess Korobkin (University of Maryland)
- Sierra Rooney: On the Pedestal: Gender, Representation, and Violence in Monuments to Hannah Duston (19th-Century America)
- Francesca Gregori: The Feminist Antimonumenta Movement in Mexico: the case of “Antimonumenta - Vivas Nos Queremos”
- Brenda Schmahmann: Between a Torch and a Wing: Liberating Women in Two Public Sculptures in Johannesburg
Panel 7c: Politics of Media (in-person)
Moderator: Nika Elder (American University)
- Agnieszka Anna Ficek: (Un)Fragile Passions: Maria Amalia’s Porcelain Salottino and Queenly Patronage
- Brittany Severt: “Forces at the Forge: 18th Century Women Silversmiths in America”
- Isabel Bird: “People have no trust in glue”: Eve Babitz, Amateurism, and the Art of Collage
- Oriana Mejias Martinez: Art Revindicates Afro Latin American Households Run by Women
Session 8
Panel 8a: 1930s Germany (Hybrid)
Moderator: Sam Sadow (American University)
- Annika Richter: “Superman and the Flying Something - Queer-feminist utopias and deviant aesthetic practices in the artist album “Die Ringlpitis” by Ringl + Pit (1931)"
- Elizabeth Otto: Designing Home: Bauhaus Designers and the Nazi Everyday
- Shalon Parker: Two in One: Doubling of the Self in Lotte Jacobi’s Interwar-Period Portraiture
Panel 8b: Images of the Female Body as Resistance II (in-person)
Moderator: Bibi Obler (Corcoran School of Arts & Design, George Washington University)
- Theo. Triandos: Crossing: Feminist Interventions at the Intersection of Critical and Aesthetic Practice (Lynda Benglis)
- Rachel Middleman: Revisiting “Female Imagery”: Abstract Painting and the Central Image, c. 1963-1973
- Marissa Vigneault: “Hannah Wilke: Nice Piece of Art”
Panel 8c: Assertions of Women Artists (Hybrid)
Moderator: Andaleeb Banta (Baltimore Museum of Art)
- Ann Pleiss-Morris: “[E]embroiderers in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen” : The Reclamation of Feminine Spirituality in the Embroidered Cabinets of Early Modern Women
- Emma Thompson: "Authorship, Agency, and Inventive Input: Claudine Bouzonnet Stella and Professional Self-Fashioning"
- Mirja Beck: Aimée-Zoë Lizinka de Mirbel and her Networks – European Women Miniature Painters around 1800
Day 3
Session 9
Panel 9a: Interrogating Female Vices (in-person)
Moderator: Aneta Georgievska-Shine (University of Maryland)
- Michelle Moseley-Christian: Eve as Glutton: Appetite & Sensory Embodiment in Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Imagery
- Stephen Speiss: Representing Whoredom in the Early Modern Visual Arts
- Maria Maurer: Imagining the Mistress: Renaissance Portraits and Modern Fantasies
- Annelies Verellen: The Pictorial History of Women and Mirrors and its Effects on Women Artists’ Self-Portraiture in the Early Modern Low Countries
Panel 9b: Italy: Women Artists, Feminist Art and Their Promotion in the 20th Century II (in-person)
Moderator: Caroline Schopp (Johns Hopkins University)
- Greta Boldorini: “Ashes to Ashes”: An intimate work by Adrian Piper from US to Italy
- Allison Belzer: Shared Origins, Distinct Paths: The Nathan and Modigliani Sisters in Post-Risorgimento Italian Art
- Jennifer Griffiths: Adriana Bisi Fabbri: Caricatures and Cartoons of the Feminist Avant-garde
- Giulia Colombo/Zompa: Photography in the journals by Milanese feminist collectives (1972-1978)
Panel 9c: Feminist Museum Initiative Today (hybrid)
Moderator: Lisa Strong (Georgetown University)
- Bryn Schockmel: A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond, on view at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York (from October 25, 2025 to March 8, 2026)
- Élenore Besse: AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions proposes to present its missions, history and research
- Maria Holtrop & Charles Kang: Point of view, Gender at the Rijksmuseum
- Carolyn Russo: Art, Space, and Gender: The Evolution of Women Artists in the NASA Art Program
Panel 9d: Women of a Certain Age: Looking at the Overlooked (in person)
Moderator: Frima Fox Hofrichter (Pratt Institute)
- Jessica Fripp: The “Critical Age” during a Critical Time: Older Women and the French Revolution
- Alissa Adams: “From Telling to Reading Stories: Older Women and the Disembodiment of Knowledge in 19th-Century Art”
- Ruth E. Iskin: Mary Cassatt’s “Splendid Old Woman”: Aging as a Feminist Issue in Cassatt’s Art and Time
- Alice Price: Aging Bodies, Mature Careers: Intersectionality of Modernism, Gender, and Aging
Session 10
Panel 10a: Crossing the Binary (Hybrid)
Moderator: Maja Dujakovic (American University)
- Robin O’Bryan: A Female Dwarf as a Warrior Maiden: Poetry and Performance in a Venetian Portrait
- No longer attending Q&A—Consuelo Lollobrigida: Amaryllis and Mirtillo: did women have in 17th century Europe their same sexual love affair code of representation?
- Yukina Zhang: Vogue Chang’an: Fashion, Gender, and New Female Beauty in Tang China, 618-907 C.E.
- Kathrine Kiltzanidou: Women as Patrons of Ecclesiastical Institutions in the Balkans and Cyprus during the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Panel 10b: Textiles II: Labors of Love (in-person)
Moderator: Mary Savig (Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Amy Rahn: Affiliative Threads: Made-to-Measure Clothes as Circuits of Care
- Stephanie Strother: Jeanne Goehring, Agnès Jallat, Gabrielle Rousselin, Alice Rutty
- Diletta Haberl: Herta Wedekind zur Horst / Herta Ottolenghi Wedekind
- Margot Yale: At the Seams: The Labor Politics of Sewing in Elizabeth Catlett’s Prints
- Sophia Merkin: A Footnote to History: Fanny van de Grift Stevenson's Collection of Tapa in Samoa and Beyond
Panel 10c: Lesbian Self-Fashioning in the 19th and 20th Centuries (in-person)
Moderator: Marina Isgro (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden)
- Justine De Young: Public Selves, Private Lives: Lesbian Self-Fashioning in Louise Abbéma’s Portraiture
- Toni Armstrong: Beauty Contest: Florine Stettheimer and Queer Modernism
- Julie Cole: Lesbian Collaboration as Subterfuge in the Works of Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun.
- Rachel Silveri: Sapphic Surrealism: Valentine Penrose’s Dons des féminines
Panel 10d: 1970s Feminist Art Movement: New Contexts (in-person)
Moderator: Kanitra Fletcher (National Gallery of Art)
- Susana Pomba: Smoke & Dust Bodies: Judy Chicago’s Atmospheres and Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point
- Jennifer Kruglinski: Eleanor Antin’s Exiled King in Solana Beach
- Stephanie Seidel: Temporary Constellations: The Installations of Betye Saar
- Lesley Shipley: “Making Whiteness Visible: The Protest Paintings of Vivian Browne, Faith Ringgold, and May Stevens