Round-table
© Lisa Sturacci studio
AWARE launched a free webinar, open to all, allowing the public to meet and exchange with members of our TEAM programme, as well as guest speakers working towards greater inclusiveness of women artists in the history of art.
For its fifth webinar, AWARE will host Kerry Lynn Greaves, Assistant Professor in Art History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, on the subject: « Women Artists in the Nordic Countries and the Politics of Gender in the Welfare State ». This webinar will outline the key players and issues at play for modern and contemporary women artists working in the Nordic countries, with a particular focus on the problematics embedded in the welfare state. The talk will also address recent developments in Nordic feminist art history as well as current debates about gender in the art world as they are unfolding now.
This webinar will be moderated by Maura Reilly, curator, art writer and head of the TEAM program for AWARE.
Pratical Information
The webinars take place each month on variable day and time depending on the guest. Registration is mandatory to access to the meeting.
The webinar#5 will take place on Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 at 5 pm, Paris time. The meeting will be held in English.
Free (subject to availability), reservation is mandatory.
Webinars will be broadcasted and will be available on AWARE website.
Kerry Greaves is Assistant Professor in Art History at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen and External Lecturer in Art History, at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. Her research focuses on recovering overlooked aspects of Nordic art history, feminist theory and women artists, interrogating existing hegemonies of power within modernist art history, and promoting the significance of Nordic culture internationally. She was the curator of War Horses: Helhesten and the Danish Avant-Garde During World War II, organized by the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum, Herning, Denmark. Her book, The Danish Avant-Garde and World War II: The Helhesten Collective was published by Routledge in 2019. In 2020, she edited the anthology Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries, 1900-1960 (Routledge). She currently leads the project, Feminist Emergency, which is funded by a major grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, established the Nordic Feminist Art Histories Research Network, and chronicles the contributions of Nordic women artists over the last sixty years.
Programme
Thu. 12 November 2020
10 AM (CET)
Webinar #1 | For its first webinar, AWARE hosted Jacqueline Millner, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia. A feminist art historian, she is a specialist in Australian contemporary art and is currently leading a research program on “Care: Feminism, Art, Ethics in the Age of Neoliberalism”.
Thu. 10 December 2020
5 PM (CET)
Webinar #2 | For its second webinar, AWARE hosted Doris Sung, Assistant Professor of Asian Art history, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA on the subject: “Why Have there Been no Great Chinese Women Artists?”.
Thu. 21 January 2021
5 PM (CET)
Webinar #3 | For its third webinar, AWARE hosted Tal Dekel, Head of the Visual Literacy Studies Program, Kibbutzim College of Education and Arts, Tel Aviv (Israel), on the subject: « Common Differences - Contemporary Feminist Art in Israel, an Intersectional Analysis ».
Wed. 17 February 2021
5 PM (CET)
Webinar #4 | For its fourth webinar, AWARE hosted Agata Jakubowska, Associate Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, on the subject: « Discussing women artists in European socialist states »
TEAM: Teaching, E-Learning, Agency, Mentoring is an international academic network whose aim is to collect and publish information on women artists developed by scholars, students and teachers. From South America to Africa, Eastern and Northern Europe, the Middle East and Asia, TEAM enriches the AWARE website, with priority given to geographical areas that are still under-represented to date, and supports the training of a new generation of art historians sensitive to gender issues and the role of women artists.
The TEAM Network is headed by a great figure of feminist art history in the United States: Maura Reilly, PhD, co-founder of the Elizabeth SacklerCenter for FeministArt at the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
