Conference Programme
Women and Museum Collections
Leiden University - March 17-18
2022
Programme
Thursday 17th March – Spectrumroom,
Plexus Building
10am
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Welcome remarks
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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
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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’
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Cassie Davis
Stroder - Collaborative PhD Student and former V&A curator (V&A and
UAL)
‘Women,
Wardrobes and Museums’
12.30
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Lunch
14.00 – 15.30
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Alice Twemlow - Associate
Professor PhDArts, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden
University
‘Troubling
Taste: Popular Art in the Museum in 1950s Britain’
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Caroline
McCaffrey-Howarth - Curator, 17th and 18th
Century Ceramics and Glass, Department of
Decorative Art and Sculpture, V&A
South Kensington
‘China-Hunting: The Pioneering Ceramics Collection of Lady
Charlotte Schreiber’
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Sanne Rossel – MA, Leiden
University
‘The Field Diary of Mabel Bent:
studying agency through qualitative coding’
15.30
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Tea break
16.00 – 17.00
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Laura Scherling -
Adjunct Associate Faculty and Instructor,
Columbia University SPS and Teachers College
‘Women
in the “Crypto World”: Blockchain Technologies in the Art Market’
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James E.
Housefield - Associate Professor, Department
of Design
Affiliated Faculty, Art History Program,
University of California
‘Life During
Wartime: Women's Patronage of Surrealism circa 1942’
End of day.
19.30pm Dinner in Leiden
Friday 18th March – 206, Lipsius
Building
9am
– 11.00
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Emma Gleadhill - National Research Assessments Coordinator, Research Services,
Macquarie University
‘Taking travel home:
The souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-1830’
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Emmet Jackson – PhD
Candidate, Exeter University
‘Collecting Ancient
Egypt - Lady Harriet Kavanagh on the Nile’
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Lucy Wray - PhD Candidate, School of HAPP,
Queen's University, Belfast.
‘Women,
photography and the North of Ireland: exposing archives, developing
understanding’
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Anne Griffiths – PhD Candidate, Oxford Brookes University
‘The
Hortus Siccus of Mary Delany (1700-1788)’
11.00
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Tea break
11.30 – 12.30
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Yasmine Nachabe Taan - Associate Professor, Lebanese American
University, currently Visiting Professor at Bilkent University
‘Marie al-Khazen (1899-1983) a Lebanese female
photographer’
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Ian Trumble - Curator of Archaeology,
Egyptology and World Cultures, Bolton Library & Museum Services
‘From Bolton
to Brussels and Beyond: Two women’s passion for museums and collecting’
12.30 – 14.00
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Lunch
14.00 – 17.00
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Lorena Zomer - Arapoti, Brazil
Memories
of women in the organization of the Dutch Immigrant Museum of Arapoti
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Leore Joanne
Green - PhD candidate, Department of History and
Philosophy of Science, University of
Cambridge
‘Entomological Networking: Emily Mary
Bowdler Sharpe and her Work with Entomological Collections’
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Fatima Abbadi –
Textile Research Centre, Leiden; Postdoctoral researcher, Leiden University
‘Cataloguing
women’s dress collections in Jordan’
15.30
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Tea break
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Fiona Maxwell - University
of Chicago
‘Site
of Feminist Activism, or Home of “Godly Women”? Opposing Interpretive Visions
for the Frances Willard House Museum’
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Juilee Decker - Professor
of History, Director of Museum Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology
‘Re-Inscribing
Women: Telling the Stories of Women & Museums, Archives, and Collecting Institutions
in the 21st -Century’
Closing remarks
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