Bryn Mawr College
Jan. 23–May 30, 2004

Library Company
of Philadelphia
Jan. 28–April 30, 2004

Rosenbach
Museum & Library
Jan. 28–April 30, 2004

Picturing Women: A Cross-Disciplinary Symposium

FRIDAY, March 19, 2004

REGISTRANTS' CHECK-IN

10:00-1:00, Thomas Great Hall

Session I: FASHIONING

1:30-4:30, Thomas 110

Sharrona Pearl, History of Science (Harvard University)
Fashioning Madness: The Insane Women of Victorian Photographer Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond (Read Abstract [MS Word])

Panel: Conjuring, Constructing, and Concealing: Fashioning Female Identity Across Cultural Boundaries

Alicia Craig Faxon, History of Art (Independent art historian and curator)
"Ethnic Traditions in the Construction of African American, Native American and Latina Female Identity" (Read Abstract [MS Word])
Kristin Henry, History of Art (Yale University)
"Felt Pictures: The Phenomenological Fabric of Alison Watt's Shift Paintings" (Read Abstract [MS Word])
Ashraf Zahedi, Sociology (The Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Stanford University)
"The Social and Political Construction of Female Hair in Iran" (Read Abstract [MS Word])

Heike Weber, History of Technology (Munich Centre for the History of Science and Technology, Hagley Museum and Library)
Female Cyborgs: Envisioning Women As Users of Everyday Technologies (Read Abstract [MS Word])

WELCOME RECEPTION

4:30-6:00, Thomas Great Hall

For all registered symposium attendees

SPECIAL EVENING SESSION

7:30-10:00, Location TBA

Slide Share and Screenings co-sponsored by the Women's Caucus for Art of Philadelphia
Special screening of short film "Mirror, Mirror" by guest artist Jan Krawitz (Stanford University; film distributed by Women Make Movies), followed by "Slide Share." Call for Participants for Slide Share