Conference Programme

Women and Museum Collections

Leiden University - March 17-18 2022 

Programme

 

Thursday 17th 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 - 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’

o   Sanne Rossel – MA, Leiden University

The Field Diary of Mabel Bent: studying agency through qualitative coding’

15.30

o   Tea break

16.00 – 17.00

o   Laura Scherling - Adjunct Associate Faculty and Instructor, Columbia University SPS and Teachers College

‘Women in the “Crypto World”: Blockchain Technologies in the Art Market’

o   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

o   Emma Gleadhill - National Research Assessments Coordinator, Research Services, Macquarie University

‘Taking travel home: The souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-1830’

o   Emmet Jackson – PhD Candidate, Exeter University

‘Collecting Ancient Egypt - Lady Harriet Kavanagh on the Nile’

o   Lucy Wray - PhD Candidate, School of HAPP, Queen's University, Belfast.

‘Women, photography and the North of Ireland: exposing archives, developing understanding’

o   Anne Griffiths – PhD Candidate, Oxford Brookes University

The Hortus Siccus of Mary Delany (1700-1788)’

 

11.00

o   Tea break

11.30 – 12.30

o   Yasmine Nachabe Taan - Associate Professor, Lebanese American University, currently Visiting Professor at Bilkent University

‘Marie al-Khazen (1899-1983) a Lebanese female photographer’

o   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

o   Lunch

 

14.00 – 17.00

o   Lorena Zomer - Arapoti, Brazil

Memories of women in the organization of the Dutch Immigrant Museum of Arapoti

o   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’

o   Fatima Abbadi – Textile Research Centre, Leiden; Postdoctoral researcher, Leiden University

‘Cataloguing women’s dress collections in Jordan’

15.30

o   Tea break

 

o   Fiona Maxwell - University of Chicago

‘Site of Feminist Activism, or Home of “Godly Women”? Opposing Interpretive Visions for the Frances Willard House Museum’

o   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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