Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
SYMPOSIA OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS
WOMEN, MEN, AND GENDER STUDIES
THE ART OF GENDER IN EVERYDAY LIFE Vl
Held 2-3 April 2009. Annual. Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID. "The Conference Committee invites abstracts from university faculty and staff as well as from graduate and advanced undergraduate students." ABSTRACT POSTMARK DEADLINE was Monday, November 10, 2008. Please check the Website for more information.
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF
WOMEN AND MYTHOLOGY
23-25 April 2010. "near Scranton, PA." "The theme of the conference is "The Green Goddess: Ecofeminism and Women's Spirituality," to deal with spiritual aspects of the natural and built landscape, as well as mythic interpretations and interrogations of "the earth as goddess" paradigm...Presenters from all disciplines are welcome as are creative artists who engage mythic themes in their work; presenters must become members of ASWM prior to conference. Send 250-word abstract (for panels, 200 word abstract plus up to 150 words per paper) to (pmonagha@depaul.edu) by February 15, 2010. Include bio of up to 70 words for each presenter, as well as contact information including surface address and e-mail."
CREATIVITY AND INTIMATE PARTNERSHIP
7-10 October 2010. Oakland, California. Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. "Conventional definitions of artistic genius have framed the creative process as an individual male's solitary battle for creative self-expression. However, more recent scholarship, such as the work of Whitney Chadwick and Isabelle de Courtivron, has shown that partnership often spurred mutual creativity. We are interested in organizing a panel to offer new perspectives on how collaboration has enhanced the creative process by considering the roles filled by "significant others": lovers, partners, and friends. Furthermore, we hope to revisit how these partnerships have been portrayed by shifting the focus from the accomplishments of the individual male to a more nuanced appreciation of the ways that the creative output of both parties was shaped by mutual support and inspiration. We welcome papers from all disciplines of German history and the arts, particularly visual arts, architecture, theater, and music. Please e-mail abstracts of 200 words to Zoe Lang (zlang@arts.usf.edu) and Megan Brandow-Faller (mmf34@georgetown.edu) by February 1, 2010.
Megan Brandow-Faller Georgetown University Department of History Box 571305 ICC 600 Washington, DC 20057-1305 Phone (202) 687-6061/ (646) 286 5332 mmf34@georgetown.edu
CRITICAL ISLAMIC REFLECTIONS CONFERENCE:
10 April 2010. Yale University. "Theme: "The (Muslim) Woman Question": Competing Representations, Contested Futures...Please submit a 250-word abstract and author information to (yalecir@gmail.com) by January 25, 2010. Those selected to attend will be notified no later than March 1, 2010. YaleÕs Critical Islamic Reflections committee invites scholars and professionals from all fields to submit proposals for our 9th annual conference. This interdisciplinary forum will explore the politics of representation vis-ˆ-vis women and gender in Islam and interrogate how representations of and by Muslim women may influence political futures."
DESIRE, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "Sexuality and desire are notions that traditionally have provoked uneasiness to art historians. Even though many works are loaded with obvious sexual connotations, art historical interpretations often continue to be vague and evasive. Despite the abundance of records of sodomy, only relatively slowly works of art are being acknowledged to be homosexual in nature: either in terms of the author's identity or the connotations of their style and content. The purpose of this call is twofold. It invites the re-examination of Italian Renaissance art: specific works, artists, contexts, where sexuality has been overseen, as well the attitude of modern art historians: the way they have approached artists, particular works, or the period as whole. Methodological approaches, such as psychoanalysis and gender studies, are particularly welcome, as well as contributions which will enable us to clarify the notion of gender identity, and thus sexuality/homosexuality, as working tools for a more informed discussion of Renaissance art in Italy. Abstracts were due May 18, 2009 to:
- Dr. Berthold Hub, ETH Zurich, berthold.hub@gta.arch.ethz.ch, and Dr.
- Angeliki Pollali, The American College of Greece, apollali@acgmail.gr
GENDER AND CLASS IN BYZANTINE SOCIETY
16-18 April 2010. University of New England, NSW, Australia. "Contributors are invited to interpret the theme broadly and we welcome submissions from all fields. Both scholars with academic affiliation and working independently, as well as postgraduate students, are encouraged to apply. Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words for 30-minute papers (including 10 minutes of questions) by 1 April to:
Associate Professor Lynda Garland School of Humanities University of New England Armidale New South Wales 2351 tel +61 2 6773 3236 fax +61 2 6773 3520 headshum@une.edu.au
GENDER AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
Held 9-10 January 2009. Annual. King's College, London. Deadline for proposals was 1 September 2008.
GENDER AND TRANSGRESSION IN THE MIDDLE AGES
23-24 April 2010. St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Scotland. "Now in its third year, the conference aims to create a lively and welcoming forum for postgraduate students and academic staff to build contacts, present research and participate in creative discussion on the topics of gender and transgression in the Middle Ages. We are especially keen to explore the ways in which these topics, frequently studied in reference to points of rupture or breakdown, may also be discussed in their relation to growth and change in the past...Please send abstracts for papers of approximately 300 words to: (genderandtransgression@st-andrews.ac.uk). The deadline for submission is 14th February 2010. Pleasw see the Wrb site for more information.
GENDER STUDIES CONFERENCE
March 2010 [sic]. To be held in Pisa, Italy. "The topic will be "Homosexual Women in Italian Culture"
Possible fields: - Italian Literature - Italian History - Art History - Cinema StudiesThe conference will only be held in the Italian language, but contributions in English are also welcome and will be taken into account for a second edition Abstracts to (gender.conference.pisa@gmail.com) were due 1st December 2009.
Best regards, Marianna Orsi
GENDERING THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA, 1750-1850
25-27 February 2010. Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Charleston, SC. "(CRE) is a venue for the presentation of original research on not only the revolutionary history of Europe, but also the Atlantic World and beyond. We welcome proposals from allied disciplines and comparative studies; in short, the conference offers a platform for research into the revolutionary era broadly defined...A group of scholars who regularly attend the CRE is seeking to organize a series of four panels on gender during the Revolutionary Era and solicits papers for these panels. [Please see the Web site for more information] ...Proposals were due October 15, 2009. Send a one page abstract and a brief CV to:
Karen Hagemann University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill History Department Hamilton Hall, CB # 3195 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3195, USA E-mail: hagemann@unc.edu and Denise Z. Davidson Georgia State University History Department PO Box 4117 Atlanta, GA 30302-4117, USA E-mail: hisdzd@langate.gsu.edu
GRADUATE GENDER SYMPOSIUM
31 March-1 Aprol. University of Akron, Ohio. "The Graduate Committee for Research on Women/Gender (G-CROW) at The University of Akron is pleased to announce our Third Graduate Gender Symposium, showcasing graduate scholarship in all fields of womenÕs studies and research on gender. Our theme, ÒLocal to Global,Ó is purposively a broad and inclusive one, in order to provide opportunities for graduate students working on a variety of topics and within many disciplinary approaches in their exploration of the various and often contested meanings of gender, past and present. [there follows a long list of exciting activities included] "There is no participation fee, parking is free for participants, and several discounted hotel rooms ($70) have been set aside at the historic Quaker hotel for participants traveling from outside metropolitan Akron. (Also participants may apply for a grant that will offset hotel fees.) Some refreshments will be provided morning and afternoon on April 1st Ñ the day of panel sessions. Proposals due Feb 1, 2010. Proposals should be 300 words or less, and should include name, title of presentation, university and department affiliation, e-mail, phone number, and mailing address. Please be sure to note any AV requirements and to indicate whether you intend to apply for our hotel accommodations grant (if so, a grant application will be sent to you). E-mail proposals to: Katie Brown at (kmc75@zips.uakron.edu).
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE--UCLA
5 February 2010. The UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN is sponsoring a conference Thinking Gender, "highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels. This year we are particularly interested in research on labor, social justice, public policy, the global and globalization, race and ethnicity in the Americas, and the "new" economy (austerity) and its effects on women and people of color. Additionally, because this year is the Center for the Study of Women's 25th anniversary, we are especially interested in topics relating to feminism's past and present, such as the state of feminism, changing notions of feminism, post-feminism or third-wave feminism, feminist community/ies both off and online, and feminist icons and leaders. Deadline for Submissions was Monday, October 19, 2009. Please send submissions to: (thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu)
HISTORY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Held 18-19 September 2009. Bar Convent, York, England. Please contact Dr Carmen M. Mangion at c.mangion@history.bbk.ac.uk or Dr Caroline Bowden at c.bowden@rhul.ac.uk with any contributions, comments or queries. (Held faithfully every year--location changes)
NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN HISTORIANS
Held 4-6 June 2009. Deadline for proposals was August 1, 2008. Check the Web site for more information.
SYMPOSIUM
ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOLARSHIP IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY
9-10 April 2010. A Symposium hosted by the WomenÕs Studies Department at The Ohio State University. "Graduate students interested in participating should submit a 250-500 word abstract of a 15 minute paper presentation that fits the parameters of the above guidelines to Melanie Beaudette (beaudette.2@osu.edu) or Skylar Brez (brez.1@osu.edu) by January 15, 2009." See the Web site formore information.
UPSTATE NEW YORK WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION
Held March 2009. Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. "We invite proposals covering any aspect of women's and gender history, defined broadly to include all nations/continents, time periods, and related disciplines, and we encourage scholars from across New York State and around the region to participate. The keynote speaker will be Professor Leigh Ann Wheeler, Binghamton University. Please send an abstract of the paper or panel and a short CV for each participant to Carol Faulkner at (cfaulkne@maxwell.syr.edu). Proposals were due October 1, 2008. Annual? Who knows!
VEILED CONSTELLATIONS
3-5 June 2010. York University, Toronto, Canada. See Web site for more details. Proposals were due 1 October 2009.
WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS
20-23 May 2010 . University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Paper and panel submissions
were due October 15, 2009. Please see the WAWH website for submission details.
WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS' GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE PAPER PRIZE
"...an annual $100 prize that recognizes the outstanding paper presented by a graduate student
at the annual WAWH conference. The committee will judge the presented paper, normally
10-12 pages. The presenter must also still submit a copy to the commentator of their panel.
All fields of history will be considered, and articles must be submitted with full scholarly
apparatus. Contact the committee chair with any questions about the prize: Paivi
Hoikkala, phoikkala@csupomona.edu (mailto:phoikkala@csupomona.edu). Contact the executive director
with questions about the organization: Amy Essington, amyessington@wawh.org (mailto:amyessington@wawh.org)
Women In/And/On Books
13-16 May 2010. Special session sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, International
Medieval Congress. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. "We invite papers considering the relationship of women to
books during any era or region in the Middle Ages. Possible papers might consider ways in which women have participated in
the production and dissemination of books, whether as authors, scribes, patrons, or owners. Alternatively, papers might
consider commentaries on women reading (both good and bad), the ways in which women are represented in books, or how the
culture of the book helped to shape women's lived experience. We are particularly interested in developing an inter- or
multi-disciplinary session. Abstracts were due by 15 September 2009.
- Virginia Blanton
- Associate Chair, Department of English
- Associate Professor, English & Religious Studies
- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Kansas City, MO 64110 Voice: 816-235-2766
- Fax: 816-235-1308
- BlantonV@umkc.edu
WOMEN'S AND GENDER HISTORY SYMPOSIUM
Held 5-7 MARCH 2009. The Tenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. "To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite
submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual
papers on any topic in the field of women's and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged
individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium." Submission
Deadline was November 1, 2008.
WOMEN'S HISTORY NETWORK
Held 11-13 September 2009. St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK. Theme: Women, Gender and Political Spaces:
Historical Perspectives.
Publication Opportunities
ASPASIA
"ASPASIA is an international and peer-reviewed yearbook that seeks to bring out the best scholarship in the field of
interdisciplinary women's and gender history focusing on, and especially produced in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern
Europe." See the Web site for more information.
CRITICAL MATRIX: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture
See Web site for more information and latest CFPs.
EARLY MODERN WOMEN: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL
See the Web site for more information.
FRONTIERS:
A Journal of Women Studies
"Frontiers is one of the oldest and most respected academic feminist journals in the United
States. Founded in 1975, it is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary journal of
scholarship, creative work, and personal essays...This special issue of Frontiers will explore
reciprocal relationships between gender and the city. For many decades feminist scholars in numerous
and diverse fields have studied the importance of gender in constituting cities and the role of urban
places in constructing gender. We want to develop a vigorous cross and inter-disciplinary conversation
about these relationships of gender and the city...Submissions should be sent to Frontiers as
e-mail attachments to (frontiers@asu.edu) or on disc according to submission guidelines [on the Web
site, above]."
GENDER & HISTORY
SPECIAL ISSUE: Historicizing Sexuality and Gender. "This special issue of Gender & History examines the
historical relationship between sexuality and gender writ large. We solicit work that explicitly examines the
possibilities and limitations of these categories for analyzing the past. We especially encourage comparative
analysis, scholarship that focuses on the nonwestern world, and work that contributes to the theorization of
these categories and their relationship to one another. We welcome the submission of historical work produced
within related disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. [VERY long posting; write below to get more verbiage]
...By January 15, 2009, please submit a 1-2 page abstract as an attachment to gendhist@umn.edu with "Issue
22:3 abstract submission" in the subject line. (Abstracts must be in English. However, limited funds for the
translation of articles written in other languages may be available). By February 15, 2009 authors will be
notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for complete
articles is June 15, 2009. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be
included in issue Gender & History 22:3 , scheduled to appear in November 2010.
ISLAM AND GENDER IN ASIA AND THE DIASP0RA
See the Web site for more information.
MEDIEVAL FEMINIST FORUM
See the Web site for more information.
n. pardoxa
"n.paradoxa invites feminist scholars working on contemporary art by women
to contribute to future issues of its bi-annual publication." See Web site for more information.
NATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION JOURNAL
See the Web site for more information.
WOMEN, BOURGEOIS FEMININITY, AND PUBLIC SPACE IN 19th-CENTURY EUROPEAN CULTURE
"We invite proposals for a collection that considers representations of bourgeois women in public
spaces/roles over the long nineteenth century in Europe. It is tantamount to scripture that nineteenth-century
women, particularly of the middle and upper classes, were associated with the interior spaces of the home.
Art historical accounts of such women have codified the notion of the "Angel in the House" and focused
on the visual culture representing domesticity and private life. While the recent volume The Invisible
Flaneuse: Gender, Public Space and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-century Paris (Manchester 2006) has gone
some way toward challenging such conventional assumptions, our volume is premised on the notion that
the descriptor "flaneuse" does not adequately capture the myriad positions available to European women
vis-a-vis the public sphere. There remains much to be said on the topic.
This project is spurred by Janet Wolff's admonition that rather than theorizing the "impossible" flaneuse,
scholars should instead focus on researching women's actual lives in the city, along with revisionist
scholarship that challenges traditional assumptions regarding the public/private divide. To that end, the
editors seek submissions that engage with the concrete details of bourgeois womenÕs activities outside
the home across the spectrum of nineteenth-century European culture and as registered in visual culture.
What venues and mechanisms facilitated women's participation in the shaping of public culture? In what
ways do their activities help to alter longstanding conventional notions of public space? Of modernity?
Of femininity? Of masculinity? From a historiographic standpoint, what is the continued lure of the
separate spheres ideology for art historians feminist or otherwise? We encourage and wish to present multiple
theoretical frameworks and perspectives. Please send a 400-word proposal and a CV as electronic
attachments in MS-word to Editors:
Temma Balducci (tbalducci@astate.edu) and
Heather Belnap Jensen (heather_jensen@byu.edu)
by January 31, 2010. The deadline for completed essays will be August 31, 2010.
DISSERTATION SUPPORT
Woodrow Wilson
Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowships. These "support the final year of dissertation
writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses
issues of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways. Awards of up to $3,000
each are applicable to research/travel costs. Applications are available online only
and applications will open the first week of September. To learn more, and to apply,
visit (http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies). Potential applicants who have questions
after a full review of the WomenÕs Studies Fellowship Web site may e-mail (billmaier@woodrow.org).
Susan Billmaier
Assistant Program Director
WomenÕs Studies Fellowships
5 Vaughn Drive Suite 300
Princeton, NJ 08540-6313
Office: 609-452-7007 (310)
STUDY ABROAD [sic]
MATILDA: joint European Master in Women's and Gender History
"MATILDA is a two-year MA program designed for students wishing to develop expertise in womenÕs and gender history, as
well as in European history, and who are interested in intercultural exchange. The universities involved are: Vienna
University (coordinating institution), the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, the Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, the
Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, and the University of Nottingham.
ACCREDITION:
The degree has now been accredited in four of the five partner universities, which means that the program can officially
start. The process of accreditation for the fifth partner is under way.
See the Web site for more information.
Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007
performed by Yo-Yo Ma
...with a view of half of the history of art.
(above left) Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Self-Portrait with amber necklace. 1906.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland.
Return to the Main Symposia Page
Return to the Main Resources Page
On Artemisia Gentileschi.
This Web Page created, owned and updated by: Adrienne DeAngelis
3-5 June 2010. York University, Toronto, Canada. See Web site for more details. Proposals were due 1 October 2009.
20-23 May 2010 . University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Paper and panel submissions were due October 15, 2009. Please see the WAWH website for submission details.
"...an annual $100 prize that recognizes the outstanding paper presented by a graduate student at the annual WAWH conference. The committee will judge the presented paper, normally 10-12 pages. The presenter must also still submit a copy to the commentator of their panel. All fields of history will be considered, and articles must be submitted with full scholarly apparatus. Contact the committee chair with any questions about the prize: Paivi Hoikkala, phoikkala@csupomona.edu (mailto:phoikkala@csupomona.edu). Contact the executive director with questions about the organization: Amy Essington, amyessington@wawh.org (mailto:amyessington@wawh.org)
13-16 May 2010. Special session sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, International Medieval Congress. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. "We invite papers considering the relationship of women to books during any era or region in the Middle Ages. Possible papers might consider ways in which women have participated in the production and dissemination of books, whether as authors, scribes, patrons, or owners. Alternatively, papers might consider commentaries on women reading (both good and bad), the ways in which women are represented in books, or how the culture of the book helped to shape women's lived experience. We are particularly interested in developing an inter- or multi-disciplinary session. Abstracts were due by 15 September 2009.
- Virginia Blanton
- Associate Chair, Department of English
- Associate Professor, English & Religious Studies
- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Kansas City, MO 64110 Voice: 816-235-2766
- Fax: 816-235-1308
- BlantonV@umkc.edu
Held 5-7 MARCH 2009. The Tenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women's and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium." Submission Deadline was November 1, 2008.
WOMEN'S HISTORY NETWORKHeld 11-13 September 2009. St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK. Theme: Women, Gender and Political Spaces: Historical Perspectives.
ASPASIA
"ASPASIA is an international and peer-reviewed yearbook that seeks to bring out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and gender history focusing on, and especially produced in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe." See the Web site for more information.
CRITICAL MATRIX: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture
See Web site for more information and latest CFPs.
EARLY MODERN WOMEN: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL
See the Web site for more information.
FRONTIERS: A Journal of Women Studies
"Frontiers is one of the oldest and most respected academic feminist journals in the United States. Founded in 1975, it is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary journal of scholarship, creative work, and personal essays...This special issue of Frontiers will explore reciprocal relationships between gender and the city. For many decades feminist scholars in numerous and diverse fields have studied the importance of gender in constituting cities and the role of urban places in constructing gender. We want to develop a vigorous cross and inter-disciplinary conversation about these relationships of gender and the city...Submissions should be sent to Frontiers as e-mail attachments to (frontiers@asu.edu) or on disc according to submission guidelines [on the Web site, above]."
GENDER & HISTORY
SPECIAL ISSUE: Historicizing Sexuality and Gender. "This special issue of Gender & History examines the historical relationship between sexuality and gender writ large. We solicit work that explicitly examines the possibilities and limitations of these categories for analyzing the past. We especially encourage comparative analysis, scholarship that focuses on the nonwestern world, and work that contributes to the theorization of these categories and their relationship to one another. We welcome the submission of historical work produced within related disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. [VERY long posting; write below to get more verbiage] ...By January 15, 2009, please submit a 1-2 page abstract as an attachment to gendhist@umn.edu with "Issue 22:3 abstract submission" in the subject line. (Abstracts must be in English. However, limited funds for the translation of articles written in other languages may be available). By February 15, 2009 authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for complete articles is June 15, 2009. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue Gender & History 22:3 , scheduled to appear in November 2010.
ISLAM AND GENDER IN ASIA AND THE DIASP0RA
See the Web site for more information.
MEDIEVAL FEMINIST FORUM
See the Web site for more information.
n. pardoxa
"n.paradoxa invites feminist scholars working on contemporary art by women to contribute to future issues of its bi-annual publication." See Web site for more information.
NATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION JOURNAL
See the Web site for more information.
WOMEN, BOURGEOIS FEMININITY, AND PUBLIC SPACE IN 19th-CENTURY EUROPEAN CULTURE
"We invite proposals for a collection that considers representations of bourgeois women in public spaces/roles over the long nineteenth century in Europe. It is tantamount to scripture that nineteenth-century women, particularly of the middle and upper classes, were associated with the interior spaces of the home. Art historical accounts of such women have codified the notion of the "Angel in the House" and focused on the visual culture representing domesticity and private life. While the recent volume The Invisible Flaneuse: Gender, Public Space and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-century Paris (Manchester 2006) has gone some way toward challenging such conventional assumptions, our volume is premised on the notion that the descriptor "flaneuse" does not adequately capture the myriad positions available to European women vis-a-vis the public sphere. There remains much to be said on the topic. This project is spurred by Janet Wolff's admonition that rather than theorizing the "impossible" flaneuse, scholars should instead focus on researching women's actual lives in the city, along with revisionist scholarship that challenges traditional assumptions regarding the public/private divide. To that end, the editors seek submissions that engage with the concrete details of bourgeois womenÕs activities outside the home across the spectrum of nineteenth-century European culture and as registered in visual culture. What venues and mechanisms facilitated women's participation in the shaping of public culture? In what ways do their activities help to alter longstanding conventional notions of public space? Of modernity? Of femininity? Of masculinity? From a historiographic standpoint, what is the continued lure of the separate spheres ideology for art historians feminist or otherwise? We encourage and wish to present multiple theoretical frameworks and perspectives. Please send a 400-word proposal and a CV as electronic attachments in MS-word to Editors: Temma Balducci (tbalducci@astate.edu) and Heather Belnap Jensen (heather_jensen@byu.edu) by January 31, 2010. The deadline for completed essays will be August 31, 2010.
DISSERTATION SUPPORT
Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowships. These "support the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses issues of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways. Awards of up to $3,000 each are applicable to research/travel costs. Applications are available online only and applications will open the first week of September. To learn more, and to apply, visit (http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies). Potential applicants who have questions after a full review of the WomenÕs Studies Fellowship Web site may e-mail (billmaier@woodrow.org).
Susan Billmaier Assistant Program Director WomenÕs Studies Fellowships 5 Vaughn Drive Suite 300 Princeton, NJ 08540-6313 Office: 609-452-7007 (310)STUDY ABROAD [sic]
MATILDA: joint European Master in Women's and Gender History
"MATILDA is a two-year MA program designed for students wishing to develop expertise in womenÕs and gender history, as well as in European history, and who are interested in intercultural exchange. The universities involved are: Vienna University (coordinating institution), the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, the Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, and the University of Nottingham.
ACCREDITION:
The degree has now been accredited in four of the five partner universities, which means that the program can officially start. The process of accreditation for the fifth partner is under way.
See the Web site for more information.Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma
...with a view of half of the history of art.
(above left) Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Self-Portrait with amber necklace. 1906.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland.Return to the Main Symposia Page Return to the Main Resources Page On Artemisia Gentileschi. This Web Page created, owned and updated by: Adrienne DeAngelis