AIWAC 2024
Fourth Edition November 13-15, 2024
Love, Marriage, Desire. The Civic and Juridic Status of Women from Antiquity to Modernity: Acquiescence, Resistance, Destabilization
AIWAC - Annual International Women in the Arts Conference
hosted by UARK University of Arkansas Rome center
Program under review
9-10 am Greetings and opening remarks
10-11 am Women in/and power
- Brianna Cooney – A Feast for the Senses, A Feast for the Intellect: The Maiolica Patronage of Eleonora Gonzaga
- Laura Mercader Amigò – Margarita of Navarre in the Amie’s Quarrel
- Ilaria Sferrazza – Being a wife: the role of the Duchessa in the Caetani family between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries in Rome.
11-11.30 am Coffee break
11.30 -12 am Women’s patronage (matronage)
- Isabel Ruiz – Women in Action: Female Agency in the Community of the Crown of Aragon in Rome (1350-1525)
- Rita Randolfi – Marie Anne de la Trémoille: a model of a progressive woman between the 17th and 18th centuries
12-2pm Free range for lunch
2-3 pm Keynote Speaker
- Chiara Mercuri – “Un’esegesi riparativa per la storia delle donne”
3-3.45 Female desire, power, and motherhood
- Noelia García Pérez
- Melania Soler Moratón – Art and Portraits- Medal in the Modern Age: Motherhood as an Image of Power
Esther Theiler – Paula Modersohn-Becker and Gabriele Münter: People, Places and Passion
3.45 – 5 pm Queer reflections, lesbian identities
- David Fredrick – The Pictrix and Priapus: Queer Agency on Pompeian Walls
Thomas Fischbacher – Queer Queens. Observations on the visual representation of lesbian love in Early Modern Times
- Abbey Rees-Hales – The Shadow Lesbian? Interwar Feminine Lesbian Identities in Mariette Lydis’s print folio Lesbiennes (1926)
Erika Almenara – The Monstruous Subjectivity of the Trans and Travesti Body as a New Female Possibility in Las malas by Camila Sosa Villada
5.-5.30 Q&A
7.00 pm Dinner at the Rome Center AT JANE AUSTIN’S TABLE
9-9.30 Greetings
9.30-10.30 -Keynote Speaker
- Daniel Unger – Who are you St. Martha? On Housewives, Housekeepers and Female cooks in Early Modern Paintings”
10.30-11 am – Coffee break
11- 12.30 – Family alliances and professional life: husband/wife
- Alessandra Masu – “Life and Career of the Roman miniaturist painter Bianca Boni (Rome, 1786 – 1857): family, marriage and a secret love affair of a successful woman artist in the Rome of the Grand Tour”.
- Cecilia Paolini – Caterina Marchetti: the importance of Italian wives for the network of foreign artists in early 17th century Rome.
- Juliet Simpson – The Desiring Eye – Elizabeth Eastlake’s (née Rigby) Art as Cultural Agency beyond a ‘Fortunate Marriage’ in Victorian Britain
- Saeedeh Setayesh – Between Canvas and Family: The Choices of Sophie Hess-von Wyss
- Irene Caravita – A perfect loving and intellectual alliance? Fernanda Pivano and le belle ragazze di Ettore Sottsass
- Catherine Hall van den Elsen, Keeping up appearances: the (early) modern woman artist in Spain.
12.30-2.30 pm Free range for lunch
2.30 – 3.30 pm Family alliances and professional life: fathers/daughters, brothers/sisters
- Liana Cheney – Chiara Varotari and Alessandro Varotari: A Sister Muse
- Sara Buoso – A Visual Rhetoric: Anachronisms and Ekphrasis in Marietta Patricia Leis’s painting
- Ludovica Carlini – The professionalisation of Laura Grisi in 1972 through paternal and marital relationship
3.45-4.45 Single women and professionalization
- Elin Manker – A Work of One’s Own – Professionalism, self-government and the single-women artist in nineteenth-century Sweden
- Paula Gauß – “Love is hard work” – A field analysis of the challenges faced by Corita Ken
5.-5.30 Q&A
Mourning and Memory
- Johnatan Saso – Staging the Royal Mourning: the self-fashioning of Louise of Lorraine, Dowager Queen of France
- Patricia Rocco – Women, Desire, and Death: The Disappearance of Beatrice Cenci
- Lindsay Maldari – Agency in Mourning: The Role of Women as Stewards of Memory in Postwar Commemoration of the Fosse Ardeatine Massacre
Film, Theatre, and Opera
- Katrina Xuereb, Social corsets: motif of confinement in Victorian cinema.
- Sonia Arribas, Irene Valle Corpas, ‘Something completely mad and extraordinary’ Love, and Artistic Creation in Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre?
- Ina Jessen, Polyvalent inequality: Monica Bonvicini’s costume and stage design for Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot.
Round table
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