© Cristina Robalo

INTRODUCTION

The editing of the Women and The Arts volume (Peter Lang, 2012) is currently in process.


The American Studies Group of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) organized "Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity in the U.S. and Beyond" (15-17 June 2011). The three-day international conference promoted a reflection on women's artistic production, contrasting the U.S. context with other cultures.

The conference in Lisbon covered multiple areas, including writing, the visual arts, music, and the performing arts. We debated women's aesthetic expression in the U.S. and elsewhere in these diversified fields, from modernity to the contemporary age, and reflected on the specific conditions of production, circulation, and reception of their works.

We engaged scholars from a wide range of areas, as well as artists, critics, and curators, fostering interdisciplinary debate.


PLENARY SPEAKERS :





The U.S. and Beyond - Comparative Approaches include:

  • The influence of American gender theory and politics
  • Women's Art and American Regionalism
  • Canonical dynamics and the transatlantic debate
  • Criteria for the definition of a specifically feminine cultural and artistic production
  • Critical revisions towards representative literary and art histories
  • Women artists' perspectives on traditions, categories, and the politics of art institutions
  • GLBT subjectivities and the arts
  • The outlook for women's art at the onset of the 21st century


CONFERENCE PROGRAM, SPEAKERS AND BIOS


The lists of abstracts, titles, and bios of speakers are available for download by clicking below:



Abstracts and Titles

Bios of Speakers

Conference Program


(Or request your copies to be sent by email: womenartslisbon@gmail.com)

CULTURAL PROGRAM

Featuring in the event:

  • An exhibition of the piece "Valquíria Enxoval" (2009) by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, Hall of the Faculty of Letters - UL. Joana Vasconcelos gave a talk about this piece and her art on the opening day of the conference.

  • A workshop mentored by acclaimed international storytellers Laura Simms and Muriel Bloch (limit: 20 participants; Cf. registration form), with a performance closing the conference.
  • A session with The Lisbon Players Antoinette Keogh, Amanda Booth and Jonathan Weightman, who will be reading American women poets.

  • A round table with contemporary Portuguese women artists discussing how American art has influenced their production

  • An exhibition of selected art works reimaging the Infanta Margarita in Velázquez's Las Meninas by students from Ginestal Machado Secondary School (Santarém) at the Library of the Faculty of Letters


  • "Enxoval - Bottom Drawer" one-hour documentary on Joana Vasconcelos' "Valquíria Enxoval " 2009 piece, by Pedro Macedo, Kitty Oliveira, and Isabel Freire. (Portuguese language, English Subtitles).

Celebrated Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral, also a scholar in American literature, was one of our invited speakers.

CONFERENCE RATES, ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM, CONTACT INFO

To register, please click below to fill our

EXCEPTION: FACULTY OF LETTERS STUDENTS (UNIVERSITY OF LISBON) REGISTER FOR FREE BY SIMPLY SENDING AN EMAIL TO womenartslisbon@gmail.com WITH FULL NAME AND CONTACT; DO NOT USE THE ONLINE FORM


Registration fees:

Standard 150 euros
;
Students (non-working / non-grantees) 50 euros

Students from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon: free admittance


Please send your queries to:


Diana Almeida and Paula Elyseu Mesquita at

ORGANIZATION AND MAIN VENUE

Conference Directors: Teresa Alves and Teresa Cid, ULICES

Organizing Committee: Diana Almeida and Paula Elyseu Mesquita, ULICES / Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

Executive Committee: Ana Aguilar Franco, Ana Daniela Coelho, Ana Luísa Valdeira,
Edgardo Medeiros Silva, Inês Morais, Madalena Palmeirim, Margarida Vale de Gato, Rui Vitorino Azevedo, Suzana Ramos (ULICES).

Location of Main Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon - Alameda da Universidade.

Metro Station: Cidade Universitária, yellow line.
Map of the Metro here: click on the Station to see the area (venue: building no. 15 on the map).


For further info on ULICES, please visit:


http://www.ulices.org/home.html

PUBLICATION: WOMEN AND THE ARTS INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION OF ESSAYS


A selection of papers delivered at the conference will be edited into a collection of essays to be published internationally.

PLEASE NOTE:
All authors interested in contributing to this volume must submit their texts / drafts by 15 May 2011.


Selection and announcement of papers to be published: by mid-August.

Submission of definitive version, upon acceptance: 30 days after acceptance.



Edition Guidelines available for download by clicking below:

WOMEN AND THE ARTS EDITION GUIDELINES

(or request your copy to be sent by email: womenartslisbon@gmail.com)