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 7
Jana Kukaine 'Latvian Feminist Art and (Post)socialist Food Practices'.
paula roush 'Technobiographic Interventions: Feminist Narratives and AI in Academic Capitalism'.
Barbora Komarová 'Can I label your work as feminist? Questionnaire as a method for verifying the possibility of a feminist interpretation of an artwork'.
Panel 8
Sabine Gebhardt Fink 'The Revolving Histories Project Revisited'.
Virginia Marano '(Re)-Evaluating Artistic Norms and Temporalities: Feminist and Disability Perspectives in Contemporary Practice'.
Alexandra Kokoli 'It was easier to act than to consider: The role of activism in Laura Mulvey’s iconoclasm'.
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'