Program

Friday, April 14, 2023

12:45 – 1:00 PM Opening Welcome
1:00 – 2:15 PM Panel 1 – National Identity & Self-Fashioning

Who is Mihri?: Finding Identity through Artistic Expression Under Islam and Transnational Feminism
Asli Kinsizer (she/her)

Recoding the Female Body: The Awakening and Artistic Expression of Chinese Female Artists in the Early 20th Century
Tianyi Zhang (she/her)

Chicana Sartoriality & Judith Baca
Sonia del Hierro (she/her)

2:15 – 2:30 PM Break
2:30 – 3:45 PM Representation and Visual Culture: A Faculty Roundtable

Moderator: Dr. Tesla Cariani
Panelists: Dr. Carly Boxer, Leslie Hewitt, Dr. Victoria Massie, and Dr. Olivia Young
(click here to read more about the faculty roundtable)

4:00 PM Opening Reception

Saturday, April 15, 2023

8:45 – 9:30 AM Coffee and Breakfast
9:30 AM Welcome for Day 2
9:45 – 11:00 AM Panel 2 – Women’s Labor

Bearing Weight: Caryatid Mirrors and Women’s Labor in Ancient Greek Art
Ella Gonzalez (she/her)

Ties That Bind: Hairwork, Family, and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century America
Victoria S. Kenyon (she/they)

The Needlework of Cassatt’s Women
Caroline Koch (she/her)

11:00 – 11:15 AM Break
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM Panel 3 – Queer & Feminist Resistance

“My Fields Were Planted”: Liminal Topography in Drawings by Nina Otero-Warren
Sophie Richard (she/her)

Conditions of Visibility: Revisiting the Joint Archive of Kenneth Kemble and Sylvia Torras
Clara Maria Apostolatos (she/her)

Archival Camp: A Queer Aesthetic Mode
Kathleen Quaintance (they/them)

Visualizing the Future Now: Kishimoto Sayako’s Art Activism
Daisuke Murata (he/him)

12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:15 PM Panel 4 – Institutional Critique & Barriers

Anna Banti, Author and Art Historian: Historical Fiction as a Method for Expanding the Canon
Francesca Bisi (she/her)

The Imposition of a Narrative Line: The Literary, Femme Artist in and around Los Angeles, 1990s to Present
Brianne Chapelle (she/her)

Token Female Contemporary Chinese Artist in Art History Writing: Self-Censorship, Institutional Neglect and Cultural Omissions
Shen Qu (she/her)

Electronic Music, Women Composers, Gender Difference, and Inclusiveness
Jie Chen (she/her) & Badie Khaleghian (he/him)

3:15 – 3:45 PM Break
4:00 – 5:30 PM Keynote Address 

“Everywhere. Literally.”

By Dr. Julia Bryan-Wilson
Professor of Art History and LGBTQ+ Studies, Columbia University
(click here to read more about the keynote speaker)

5:30 PM Closing Reception