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

SATURDAY, March 20, 2004

REGISTRANTS CHECK-IN AND COFFEE

8:00-9:00, Quita Woodward Room

Session II: FIGURING

9:00-12:00, THOMAS 110

Liana De Girolami Cheney, History of Art (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
Lavinia Fontana: le donne famose (Read Abstract [MS Word])

Panel: Figuring and Disfiguring Race, Culture, and Body in Representations of Women

Carla Williams and Deborah Willis, Art and Cultural Studies (Artist, freelance writer, independent scholar; New York University)
"The Black Female Body in Photography" (Read Abstract [MS Word])
Laurie Stras, History of Music (University of Southampton)
"'Concentratin' On You': Picturing Connie Boswell" (Read Abstract [MS Word])
Yiman Wang, East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature (Haverford College)
"White Lux, Colored Actress - Performing Lux in America and East Asia" (Read Abstract [MS Word])

Paul Marchbanks, British Literature (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Heroines Configured as Caged Birds in Brontë, Du Maurier, and Hitchcock (Read Abstract [MS Word])

LUNCH

12:15-1:45, Quita Woodward Room

Boxed lunch (please order when pre-registering) or lunch on your own

Session III: PORTRAITING

2:00-5:00, Thomas 110

Sarah A. Gordon, History of Art (Northwestern University)
Modeling Philadelphia Womanhood: Female Nudes in Muybridge's Animal Locomotion (Read Abstract [MS Word])

Panel: 'Portraiting' for Posterity: The Afterlives of Portrait Images and Texts

Julie M. Johnson, History of Art (Utah State University)
"Looking Back: Maria van Oosterwyck's Self Depiction and the Blind Spots of Art History" (Read Abstract [MS Word])
Benedict Leca and Leora Maltz, History of Art (Brown University, National Gallery of Art; Harvard University)
"'Give her pitch-black nipples and dreadlocks...': Portraying Delacroix's Liberté as the Face of the New South Africa" (Read Abstract [MS Word])

Rickie Solinger, History (Independent scholar and curator)
Who Has the Right to be a Mother? — A Curator Challenges the Public Portrait (Read Abstract [MS Word])

SPECIAL EVENING SESSION

7:00-9:30, Thomas 110

Planning for this session is still in progress

Keynote remarks: Ann Sutherland Harris, History of Art (University of Pittsburgh)

Panel presentation and roundtable discussion: "Picturing Women: Print to the Public "

Panelists:

MJ Lewis, Independent documentary filmmaker
"Godey's Lady's Book and the Art of Gentility" (Read Abstract [MS Word])
Jocalyn Clark, Women's Health/Public Health (women's health/public health scientist, assistant editor, British Medical Journal)
"Cover Girls: An Analysis of the Fine Art on the Covers of Medical Journals" (Read Abstract [MS Word])
Patricia Bradley, Journalism (Temple University)
"Strident Women: Images from the Second Wave of Feminism" (Read Abstract [MS Word])
Julia Kagan, Former magazine editor, Vice President, Zagat Survey
"Women at the Millenium" (Read Abstract [MS Word])