FAHC Schedule 2025

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)

Georgieva & Takeyana Jini: Embodied revolt: Gender Perspectives on the Female Body in Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art
Maite Luengo-Aguirre: Reimagining the Female Body: Feminist Interventions in Painting and Photography in 1990s Spain
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)

Federica Arcorarci: Romana Loda's Legacy: Promoting Feminist Art in 1970s Italy 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)

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: Bloody Mary Tudor Revisited: Queen Mary I of England in the Prado Museum's Female Perspective

Day 2

Session 5: From the Margins (online)

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)

Session 6: Textiles I: Tradition and Subversion (online)

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

Session 7: Domestic Labor I (online)

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”

Session 8: State of the Field: Asia

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Session 9: Spectatorship in France (online)

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.

Session 10: Historic Feminist Art Exhibitions (online)

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
Emilie Martin-Neute: In the shadows: French Female artists groups exhibitions, the case of the Société des Femmes Artistes (1893-1908)

Session 11: Colonialism and Its Afterlives (online)

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
Sophia Merkin: Fanny van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson (1840-1914)

Session 12: Mother Nature (in-person)

Katia Myers: Brú na Bóinne 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

Session 13: Feminist Methodologies (in-person)

Nina Lubbren: Women's public sculpture in Weimar Germany's regions, or: Feminist art history and canon critique
Nancy Gebhart: Theorizing a Nonlinear Art Historical Timeline as Feminist Practice and Pedagogy
Karen Leader: Critical Contexts: Getting the Art History We Deserve

Session 14: Public Monuments: Feminist Protest and Canon Critique (in-person)

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

Session 15: Politics of Media (in-person)

Agnieszka Anna Ficek: (Un)Fragile Passions: Maria Amalia’s Porcelain Salottino and Queenly Patronage
Brittany Luberda: “Forces at the Forge: 18th Century Women Silversmiths in America”
Isabelle Bird: “People have no trust in glue”: Eve Babitz, Amateurism, and the Art of Collage

Session 16: 1930s Germany (Hybrid)

Annika Richter: “Queer-feminist utopias and deviant aesthetic practices in the artist album “Die Ringlpitis,” 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

Session 17: Images of the Female Body as Resistance II (in-person)

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”

Session 18: Assertions of Women Artists (Hybrid)

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

Session 19: Domestic Labor II (in-person)

Ashley McNelis: Mother Art’s Public Performances of Care
Oriana Mejias Martinez: "Art Revindicates Afro Latin American Households Run by Women "
Rebecca DeRoo: Reconsidering Motherhood and Labor in Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document

Day 3

Session 20: Interrogating Female Vices (in-person)

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: Michaelina Wautier, Judith Leyster, and Maria Schalcken

Session 21: Italy: Women Artists, Feminist Art and Their Promotion in the 20th Century II (in-person)

Greta Boldoroni: “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)

Session 22: Feminist Museum Initiative Today (in-person)

Bryn Schokmel: 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

Session 23: Women of a Certain Age: Looking at the Overlooked (Hybrid)

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 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 24: Crossing the Binary (Hybrid)

Robin O’Bryan: A Female Dwarf as a Warrior Maiden: Poetry and Performance in a Venetian Portrait
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

Session 25: Textiles II: Labors of Love (in-person)

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

Session 26: Lesbian Self-Fashioning in the 19th and 20th Centuries (in-person)

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

Session 27: 1970s Feminist Art Movement: New Contexts (in-person)

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