One-day conference hosted by the Department of Art History, University of Sussex, UK

Saturday, 16 September 2006

Invited Speaker: Professor Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds

This one-day conference interrogates traditions of feminist art history, theory, and practice from contemporary feminist and other critical perspectives, by asking questions including but not limited to: What is the place of feminism in art history and the study of visual culture today? Is feminist analysis possible without theory? Why (still) write on women artists? Whither feminism and psychoanalysis? Whither gender in and beyond postmodernity? Is there (and/or should there be) an extant or emergent feminist canon? How has the content and deployment of key theoretical concepts changed since the 1970s? How do we address the fact that theory has its own history?

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

9.00-9.30: REGISTRATION

9.30-11.00: SESSION ONE
9.30-10.00: Jennifer G. Germann (University of Washington), "Do we need another feminist heroine? Reconsidering the historical legacies of Madame de Pompadour and Marie Leszczinska"
10.00-10.30: Ruth Hemus (University of Edinburgh), "Why have there been no great women Dadaists?"
10.30-11.00: Joanne Heath (University of Leeds), "Women artists with and without feminism: The case of Frida Kahlo"

11.00-11.30: COFFEE BREAK

11.30-13.00: SESSION TWO 11.30-12.00: Alisia Chase (State University of New York at Brockport), "'Draws Like a Girl': The Necessity of Old School Feminist Interventions in the World of Comics and Graphic Novels"
12.00-12.30: Catherine Grant (Courtauld Institute of Art), "The Uncertain Spectator: Theories of female spectatorship and the work of Anna Gaskell"
12.30-13.00: Rachel Zerihan (Nottingham Trent University), "Feminine Features: Re-evaluating Intimacy and Intuition as Political Strategies for Performance"

13.00-14.00: LUNCH

14.00-15.30: SESSION THREE
14.00-14.30: Alexandra Kokoli (University of Sussex), "Fetishism and the Stories of Feminist Art"
14.30-15.00: Karen Roulstone (University of Plymouth), "Rethinking Absence: Feminist Legacies, Critical Possibilities"
15.00-15.30: Anthea Behm (University of New South Wales), "The Chrissy Diaries"

15.30-16.00: COFFEE BREAK

16.00-17.30: SESSION FOUR
16.00-16.30: Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds), "Differencing Difference: What is it that feminist interventions do?"
16.30-17.30: Roundtable discussion with the panellists
[17.30: Conference ends]

For further information, contact the conference organiser, Dr. Alexandra Kokoli, at a.kokoli@sussex.ac.uk Booking forms available on-line: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/arthistory/ All bookings must be received by 8th September 2006.

Acknowledgements
The organiser would like to thank the Department of Art History, the School of Humanities and the Graduate Research Centre for the Humanities at the University of Sussex, as well as the AHRC, for their generous financial assistance.

I would also like to acknowledge the kind help of Dr. Michele O'Malley with conference organisation and the administrative support of Ms. Lindzey Mullard. Last but not least, I would like to thank Professor Nigel Llewellyn and Dr. Liz James of the Department of Art History at the University of Sussex for their enthusiasm, encouragement and practical support.