AIWAC – Annual International Women in the Arts Conference

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AIWAC 2022

19 - 22 Oct 2022

Rome

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Day One

19.10.2022

Opening Remarks

Morning Session

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Day Two

20.10.2022

Morning Session

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Day Three

21.10.2022

Morning Session

Keynote Speaker

Afternoon Session

Closing Remarks & AIWAC Prize

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Program

This conference run through all 3 days
from 19 to 21 October 2022.

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Day 1

19 Oct 2022

Day 2

20 Oct 2022

Day 3

21 Oct 2022

Jirki Thibaut

Opening Remarks

09:00

Jirki Thibaut

Adelina Modesti

Consuelo Lollobrigida

Francesco Bedeschi

MORNING SESSION – A Gendered Nature

10:00

Teodoro De Giorgio

The «lux vivens» and Hildegard’s new senses: tools for knowledge of God and nature

10.00 - 10:20

Teodoro De Giorgio

Patricia Simons

Why Have There Been So Many Women Pioneers in Still-Life?

10:20-10:40

Patricia Simons

Patricia Rocco

A gendered nature: women and naturalism in early modern Bologna

10:40-11:00

Patricia Rocco

11:15-11:45

MORNING COFFEE BREAK DAY 1

Stefania Biancani

“I hear too much, I see too much, and I notice everything”: Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, an Artist’s Ailment

11:45-12:05

Stefania Biancani

Haizea Barcenilla

Unearthing colonialism: botanic criticism in the work of Jenny Yurshansky

12:05-13:25

Haizea Barcenilla

Marie Vymazalova

Women-founders of Prague Loreto in the context of iconographic motive miraculous Nativity according to St. Bridget of Sweden

13:25-13:45

Marie Vymazalova

Vera Fortunati

Fede Galizia pittrice di nature morte tra sentimento religioso e spiritualità teatina

14:00-14:20

Vera Fortunati

AFTERNOON SESSION – Still Life

15:00

Catherine Powell-Warren

The Illustration of Nature as a Collaborative Enterprise: Examining the Artistic Practices of Maria Sibylla Merian and the Women Artists in her Network

15:00-15:20

Catherine Powell-Warren

16:30-17:00

AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK DAY 1

Clio Rom

On Being Planted and Portrayed: Horticulture and Floral Imagery in Seicento Rome through the works of Anna Maria Vaiani

17:00-17:20

Clio Rom

19:00

DINNER AT HILDEGARD’S TABLE

MORNING SESSION – Botanical Studies and History of Naturalism

09:00

Simona Trifogli

Properzia de’ Rossi schultora e la natura: una relazione di valori

09:00-09:20

Simona Trifogli

Leah Tharpe

Elizabeth Gould, “The Queen of All Naturalists”

09:20-09:40

Leah Tharpe

Tori Champion

On Women and Colour: Catherine Perrot and the Practical Guides to Art-Making by Early Modern Women Artists

09:40-10:00

Tori Champion

11:15-11:45

MORNING COFFEE BREAK DAY 2

Alessia Muroni Ramus

A Lifetime’s Work: Mary Delany and Her Paper Garden

11:45-12:05

Alessia Muroni Ramus

Loretta Vandi

“Uccellami e Fiorami” for History and Poetry in Grand Ducal Florence. The naturalistic drawings of Suor Maria Benigna Cavalcanti (Convent of Le Murate) and Suor Caterina Angelica della Vacchia (Convent of St. Chiara)

12:05-12:25

Loretta Vandi

Katie Sagal

The Repudiation of Originality & the Embrace of Vegetality in the Botanical Artwork of Henrietta Maria Moriarty

12:25-12:45

Katie Sagal

Jeanette Hoorn

From The Kimberley to Cape York: The emergence of ﬂora in the art of female artists working in remote First Nations communities in Australia

12:45-13:05

Jeanette Hoorn

Martina Sitt

Reflected illustrations of knowledge instead of lifeless flowers – some remarks on still life female artists

13:05-13:25

Martina Sitt

Bruce Edelstein

Eleonora di Toledo and the Creation of the Boboli Gardens

13:25-13:45

Bruce Edelstein

AFTERNOON SESSION – Domesticities and Entrepreneurship

15:00

Carolina Naya

From prophylaxis to luxury. Tradition passed down and glossed by women in the domestic environment: recipe books and pomes in modern Europe

15:00-15:20

Carolina Naya

Ana Ágreda

Michelle Moseley

The Rise of Household Manuals and Early Modern Dutch Dollhouse: The Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Home as Laboratory and Site of Knowledge Production

15:20-15:40

Michelle Moseley

16:30-17:00

AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK DAY 2

Alba Carballeira

Neroli, the essence of Princess des Ursins’ legacy: the blooming of a legend

17:00-17:20

Alba Carballeira

Margaret (Greta) Barnes

Madonna of the Svezzamento

17:20-17:40

Margaret (Greta) Barnes

Anna Kopócsy

Modern Madonnas. The Image of Motherhood as Depicted by Hungarian Female Painters in Interwar Art

17:40-18:00

Anna Kopócsy

Emilio Del Gesso

Medicine and Health in Hildegard of Bingen: new outlooks

18:00-18:20

Emilio Del Gesso

MORNING SESSION – Folly and Hysteria

09:00

Laura Sardone

Woman… the transformation of an archetype from witch to fatal Woman, crossing feminism at the beginning of the twentieth century

09:00-09:20

Laura Sardone

Giovanni del Missier

Fools, witches, and hysterics

09:20-09:40

Giovanni del Missier

Veronica Parise

Folly and witchcraft in anthropological studies

09:40-10:00

Veronica Parise

11:15-11:45

MORNING COFFEE BREAK DAY 3

Luana Testa

Stung by oistros, the divine goad: Female bodies in motion from hysterical dancing to art performance

11:45-12:05

Luana Testa

Laura D’Angelo

Francesca Valentini

Francesca Alinovi, critique as performance: a source for art history

12:05-12:25

Francesca Valentini

Liana Cheney

Josefa de Ayala D’Obidos’s Physical and Spiritual Realms of Nature: Flora and Fauna Symbolism

14:00-14:20

Liana Cheney

AFTERNOON SESSION – A Gaze Over Contemporaneity

15:00

Juliet Simpson

Unseen Modernities: Re-imagining the Visionary “Real” in the Art of Marianne Stokes, 1900-1910s

15:00-15:20

Juliet Simpson

Lara Demori

Sneaky Peeks: Women in the Bedroom

15:20-15:40

Lara Demori

Francesca Riccardo

A marriage between nature and architecture: feminine biophilic

15:40-16:00

Francesca Riccardo

16:30-17:00

AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK DAY 3

Fran Hagstrom

Will a Woman Transform the World through Art and Medicine? Alice Walton circa 2005-2031 and beyond

17:00-17:20

Fran Hagstrom

Speakers

Francesca Riccardo
University of Arkansas Rome Program
Lara Demori
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Plack Institut für Kunstgeschichte
Juliet Simpson
Coventry University
Francesca Valentini
Istituto Centrale per il Restauro
Luana Testa
Psychiatrist Psychotherapist
Laura D’Angelo
Adjunct Professor of History of Architecture at Uark, Rome
Veronica Parise
Anthropologist
Giovanni del Missier
Psychiatrist
Laura Sardone
Psy Onlus Association
Emilio Del Gesso
University of Arkansas Rome Program
Anna Kopócsy
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Margaret (Greta) Barnes
University of Pittsburgh
Alba Carballeira
Michelle Moseley
School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech
Carolina Naya
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Ana Ágreda
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Martina Sitt
University of Kassel
Jeanette Hoorn
University of Melbourne
Katie Sagal
Loretta Vandi
Alessia Muroni Ramus
Independent Researcher
Tori Champion
University of St Andrews
Leah Tharpe
University of York
Simona Trifogli
Clio Rom
Arts One Presents
Catherine Powell-Warren
Ghent University
Marie Vymazalova
Charles University, Prague
Haizea Barcenilla
University of the Basque Country (EHU/UPV), Spain
Stefania Biancani
Centro di documentazione sulla storia delle donne artiste attive in Europa dal Medioevo al Novecento, Città Metropolitana di Bologna
Patricia Rocco
Adjunct Professor of Art History at Hunter College, Manhattan School of Music
Patricia Simons
University of Melbourne
Teodoro De Giorgio
Università del Salento, Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali (dBC)