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  Haizea Barcenilla – Art History professor at the University of the Basque Country (Spain)   Haizea Barcenilla (MFA Curating, Goldsmiths College, London; PhD in Art History, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz) is an Art History professor at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). She lectures in Antique Art, Museum Studies and Contemporary Art. Her research areas revolve around Museum Studies, Curating and Contemporary Art from a gender perspective; she focuses on the creation of discourses through the encounter of art and the public, and on the construction of gaze. She has analysed the role of exhibitions when historisizing women artists ("Incluir o replantear: cómo exponer e historizar a las mujeres artistas", Boletín de Arte, 2014); she has reflected upon the gaze and the representation of the vulnerable through the concept of translucent strategies ("Rompe la ventana. Exposición y ocultación en Exhibition 19 de Señora Polaroiska" in La imagen translúcida en l

Conference Programme

Women and Museum Collections Leiden University - March 17-18 2022  Programme   Thursday 17 th March – Spectrumroom, Plexus Building 10am o    Welcome remarks o      Keynote address by Haizea Barcenilla – Art History professor at  the University of the Basque Country (Spain) ‘Not another “Women’s art exhibition”. Baginen Bagara, feminist installation and collection logics’   11am o    Godwin Kornes – Research Associate, Museum Natur und Mensch, Freiburg ‘The collector, ethnographer, and colonial women’s league activist Antonie Brandeis: Making sense of an ambivalent legacy’ o    Cassie Davis Stroder - Collaborative PhD Student and former V&A curator (V&A and UAL) ‘Women, Wardrobes and Museums’   12.30         o    Lunch   14.00 – 15.30 o    Alice Twemlow - Associate Professor PhDArts, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University ‘Troubling Taste: Popular Art in the Museum in 1950s Britain’ o    Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth

Women and Museum Collections Conference Programme

  Women and Museum Collections Leiden University - March 17-18 2022  Programme   Thursday 17 th March 10am o    Welcome remarks   Keynote address by Haizea Barcenilla and Garazi Ansa 11am o    Godwin Kornes - The collector, ethnographer, and colonial women’s league activist Antonie Brandeis: Making sense of an ambivalent legacy o    Elisa Garrido - Strange flowers: women and natural history collections o    Larysa Buriak - Louise Arner Boyd’s photography collection as the crossing of American and Ukrainian worlds. 12.30        o    Lunch 14.00 – 15.30 o    Cassie Davis Stroder - Women, Wardrobes and Museums o    Alice Twemlow - Troubling Taste: Popular Art in the Museum in 1950s Britain. o    Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth - China-Hunting: The Pioneering Ceramics Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber 15.30 o    Tea break 16.00 – 17.00 o    Laura Scherling - Women in the “Crypto World”: Blockchain Technologies in the Art Market o    James Housef