This event was organised by Create/Feminisms at Middlesex: Katy Deepwell, Alexandra Kokoli and Elli Young.
There were 2 keynotes, Ghazel, and Oksana Bruikhovetska and a further 12 panels (presented here in 6 rooms) with a total of 36 speakers.
Speakers from this event came from and spoke about many countries where feminism is present: Iran, Ukraine, Austria, France, USA, Lebanon, Italy, Brazil, Bolivia, Spain, Poland, Latvia, Czech Republic, Germany, Cyprus, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Ireland, The Netherlands, China, South Africa, New Zealand and UK.
A book with chapters developed from this material is now planned for 2025.
All material is copyright to named author/presenter.
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Panel 1
Karen Keifer-Boyd ‘The Curve of the Blade: Problems of Vulnerability and Protection’.
Irene Bronner ‘A Re-evaluation of Mary Sibande’s Sophie’.
Sonja van Kerkhoff ‘Sidestepping (the object): case studies in the art of Tiakitanga (Taking Care)’.
Panel 2
Clara Zarza 'Rethinking omissions: from the life of the artist to the life of the work'.
Helena Reckitt 'After Gretchen Hupfel:
Mourning and Merging, Recovery and Return'
Anke Kempkes 'The Pre-Symbolic at the Constitution of a Protofeminist Avant-Garde: Maria Pinińska-Bereś and the Redefinition of Sculpture'.
Panel 3
Kimberly K Lamm 'Writing Imaginary Maps: Feminist Art Beyond the Centre'.
Amy Tobin ' Misalignments: Feminist Horizons and Epistemological Art'.
Suzana Milevska 'Feminist Microhistories and Macrohistories: Women Artists as Archivists of Solidarity and Intersectionality'.
Panel 4
Katy Deepwell 'Feminisms, contemporary art and world systems theories'.
Maria Kheirkhah 'Navigating Anotherness in Contemporary Western Visual Culture (Muslim Diaspora)'.
Qingyu Shen 'Challenges and Reconstructions: Femininity in Contemporary Chinese Art from the 1990s to the Present'.
Panel 5
Alessia Cargnelli ' Working together in forms of resistance: on women-led and feminist-informed artists groups'.
Laura Leuzzi 'Re-evaluating women’s video art: uncovering and reassessing marginalised histories of feminist pioneers'
Varvara Keidan Shavrova 'Feminism and Flight: how do women artists working today respond to global wars and conflicts by reimagining flight technologies?'
Panel 6
Ala Younis 'Plan (fem.) for Greater Baghdad: artist’s work'.
Sohaila Baluch 'Unsettling the Archives, Sohaila Baluch 2024: a performance lecture'.
Anne Robinson 'The telling is political: collectively speaking our collective story'.
Panel 9
Lisa Moravec 'Women’s Politics and Art: Feminist Animalities in Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn'.
Fran Cottell 'Conceptual Clothing revisited'.
Valeria Mari 'On speaking terms with Feminist Art Curating through a Global Perspective'.
Panel 10
Barbara Mahlknecht 'Re-evaluating Feminist Conceptions of Art Production: The Creative Refusal and Female Creativity in the Italian Wages for Housework Campaign'.
Pauline Barrie 'The Founding of Women Artists Slide Library: Re- evaluating a living archive dedicated to the work of women artists'.
Maria Photiou ' Rethinking the Legacies of War: Feminist Arts Activism in a Divided Country'
Panel 11
Pedro Merchán Mateos ' On the museum’s foundations. Feminist and queer practices in contemporary art in Spain'.
Karolina Majewska-Güde 'Exercises in Post-socialist Feminist Art History: Historicizing Collective Artistic Labour During Socialism'.
Ellen Suneson 'Re-evaluating disciplinary departures of feminist art history through 1970s feminist representations of subordination'.
Panel 12
Gabriela Traple Wieczorek 'Feminist Art and Social Practices in Latin America
from the 1990s to the present'.
Wiktoria Szczupacka 'The Broken Genealogy of Feminist Art History in Poland,
on the Example of the Gallery of Women’s League (1967-1980)'.
Angela Maderna 'The Separatist Issue into the Italian Art System in the 1980s'.