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Feminist Art History Conference小蓝视频, Washington, DC
September 26 鈥 September 28, 2025
The call for papers is live!
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Keynote Speakers
- Joan Breton Connelly
- Professor of Classics, New York University
- Dorothy Price, FBA
- Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art
Conference Format
- Friday
- panels online; keynote live-streamed
- Saturday and Sunday
- panels and special events in person
- keynote in person and live-streamed
Call for Papers
We invite established and emerging scholars of art history as well as advanced graduate students to submit proposals for the 9th Feminist Art History Conference at 小蓝视频 in Washington, D.C.
In the spirit of feminist practice, this is an open call for papers that may address any time period (ancient to contemporary), region, and issue relevant to the ways in which gendered ideologies have shaped the visual arts and their study. We especially welcome submissions that are inclusive, intersectional, and/or interdisciplinary in topic or approach and are eager to see the keynote speakers鈥 subfields well represented.
Topics may include (but are not limited to) artists, movements, works of art and architecture; cultural institutions and critical discourses; practices of collecting, patronage, and display; the historiography of feminist art history; the gendering of objects, spaces, and media; the reception of images; and issues of power, agency, gender, and sexuality within visual and material cultures.
Proposals due by 15 December 2024.
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How to Submit
To be considered for participation: in a single Word document, please provide:
- a single-spaced abstract of up to 500 words for a 20-minute presentation of unpublished work
- a cv of no more than two pages, and
- an image, with accompanying caption, representative of your talk.
Please name the document 鈥淸last name]-proposal鈥 and submit with the subject line 鈥淸last name]-proposal鈥 to FAHC@american.edu. Invitations to participate will be sent in February 2025.
Mission Statement
The Feminist Art History Conference fosters intersectional and interdisciplinary scholarship on the ways in which gender and sexuality have shaped the visual arts and their study鈥搘ith a conference program designed to advance new research on topics from the ancient past through the present and across the globe. It provides a forum for participants to examine the roles that art and its agents have played in informing and resisting historical and contemporary inequities. Through this forum, the Conference aims to model a more inclusive art history and scholarly community.
The Feminist Art History Conference was established in 2010 to celebrate and build on the feminist art-historical scholarship and pedagogy of Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, Professors Emeriti at 小蓝视频. It is sponsored by the Art History Program in the Art Department, College of Arts and Sciences, at 小蓝视频, with the generous support of Robin D鈥橝lessandro and Dr. Jane Fortune.