Women and Museum Collections Conference Programme

 

Women and Museum Collections

Leiden University - March 17-18 2022 

Programme

 

Thursday 17th 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 Housefield - Life During Wartime: Women's Patronage of Surrealism circa 1942

End of day.

 

19.30pm Dinner in Leiden

 

 

Friday 18th March

9am

o   Welcome

9.30 – 11.00

o   Emma Gleadhill - Taking travel home: The souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-1830

o   Emmet Jackson - Collecting Ancient Egypt - Lady Harriet Kavanagh on the Nile

o   Lucy Wray - Women, photography and the North of Ireland: exposing archives, developing understanding.

11.00

o   Tea break

11.30 – 13.30

o   Yasmine Nachabe Taan - Marie al-Khazen (1899-1983) a Lebanese female photographer.

o   Fatima Abbadi and Holly O’Farrell – Cataloguing women’s dress collections in Jordan

o   Anne Griffith - The Hortus Siccus of Mary Delany

o   Garazi Ansa and Haizea Barcenilla - Not another “Women’s art exhibition”. Baginen Bagara, feminist installation and collection logics.

13.30

o   Lunch

15.00 – 17.00

o   Lorena Zomer - Memories of women in the organization of the Dutch Immigrant Museum of Arapoti

o   Ian Trumble - From Bolton to Brussels and Beyond: Two women’s passion for museums and collecting

o   Fiona Maxwell - Site of Feminist Activism, or Home of “Godly Women”? Opposing Interpretive Visions for the Frances Willard House Museum

o   Juilee Decker - Re-Inscribing Women: Telling the Stories of Women & Museums, Archives, and Collecting Institutions in the 21st -Century

Closing remarks


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