Rice University

History of Art Department & Center for the Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

Graduate Student Conference

2023 Call for Papers

“Where are our women artists?: Linda Nochlin’s Question in the Age of Feminist Visual Culture”

Keynote: Julia Bryan-Wilson

 

Conference Date: April 14-15, 2023

Location: Rice University

 

Published in the January 1971 special issue of ARTnews, Linda Nochlin’s essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” opened the way for a feminist methodology into the discipline of art history. Following up on Nochlin’s question 21 years later, this conference seeks to generate conversations on feminist methodologies and interrogate feminist art history anew to consider the resonance of Nochlin’s question. We encourage submissions which expand upon and revisit Linda Nochlin’s essay now in relation to LGBTIA+ and BIPOC artists, across feminist and art historical methodologies, embracing both historical and contemporary practices. As such, we welcome submissions that engage with feminist practices as a framework for the study of visual and material culture across all time periods, regions, cultures, and mediums, as well as those approaching from a women, gender, and sexuality theory, method, and/or praxis.