Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity in the U.S. and Beyond

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INTRODUCTION

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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 :

Sandra M. Gilbert, Professor Emerita, University of California Davis (USA), groundbreaking American critic, theorist, and poet. Co-author with Susan Gubar of The Female Imagination and the Modernist Aesthetic; The Madwoman in the Attic: the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, and the three volumes of No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century.

Christine Battersby, Reader Emerita in Philosophy, Associate Fellow of the Centre for Philosophy, Literature & the Arts at the University of Warwick and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK. Her thought-provoking interdisciplinary research spans feminist aesthetics, feminist metaphysics, natality; philosophies of embodiment; philosophy of race; the sublime; women and 'genius' in philosophy, literature and the visual arts. Her many publications include The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity and Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics.

Edward Lucie-Smith, internationally renowned art critic, poet, photographer, curator, and broadcaster. A notably prolific author, his titles include Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Art: The Rise of Minority Culture, and Women and Art: Contested Territory, co-authored with Judy Chicago.

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

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Abstracts and Titles

Bios of Speakers

Conference Program

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CULTURAL PROGRAM

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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 commemorative session marking Elizabeth Bishop's centennial

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

"The Voice of the Word (Retelling Scheherazade)": improvisation session closing the conference, with the storytellers Laura Simms and Muriel Bloch accompanied by musician/composer Luísa Gonçalves and dancer/coreographer Iris Lican. Venue: Cinema São Jorge (City Center; Avenida metro station, blue line. Address [click for map]: Avenida da Liberdade, number 175. 1250-141 Lisboa). This session will feature in the Festival Silêncio! program (Lisbon, 15-25 June). €6 for non-conference members.

"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

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To register, please click below to fill our

ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM

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

womenartslisbon@gmail.com

ORGANIZATION AND MAIN VENUE

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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

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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

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