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2000 Feminist Art and Art History Conference at Barnard College, October 28 & 29

New York, N.Y. - The 2000 Feminist Art and Art History Conference will be held at Barnard College, October 28 & 29. Registration begins at 9:00 a.m., Saturday, October 28 at McIntosh Center, Broadway and 117th Street.

This year The Feminist Art and Art History conference will feature approximately 150 speakers from Europe, Asia, and North America. During 40 different panels and workshops the participants will discuss a myriad of topics including film, art, business, representations of women, religion, tradition, and women's identities in the world throughout history. Panel topics include: Historicizing the Female Nude, Modern Visions of Domesticity, and Transgressive Beauties and Other Advertising Gambits. Smaller, interactive workshops will address issues such as: Why Are There No Great Women Architects? Feminist Approaches to Art Education, and Women and Genocide.

In addition, the conference will feature thematic sessions and a keynote panel focusing on the interplay between gender, art and commerce. The closing event of the conference will be the keynote panel, which will be held on Sunday, October 29 from 4:15 - 6:00 p.m. in the Julius S. Held Lecture Hall (304 Barnard Hall). The panelists will include distinguished scholars and prominent visual artist, Sylvia Kolbowski. Moderating the discussion will be Ann Pellegrini of Barnard College. The speakers include Keller Easterling from Yale University, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth from Harvard University and Penny Sparke from Kingston University in the U.K.

Over the past 10 years, The Feminist Art and Art History Conference has become an institution at Barnard College. The conference's goal is to address gender in relation to all aspects of art and visual culture. Because of its focus, this conference is unique compared to other academic events on the Columbia and Barnard campuses. The conference has provided a forum for generating and exchanging ideas between established scholars, artists and graduate students from across the country and around the world.

The 2000 Feminist Art and Art History Conference is sponsored by the Department of Women's Studies at Barnard College, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University.

What: The 2000 Feminist Art and Art History Conference
Where: Barnard College, 117th Street & Broadway
When: Saturday and Sunday, October 28 - 29 Registration starts: 9 a.m., October 28, McIntosh Hall, Upper Level
Contact: For more information, please call 212-854-7907.

Click here for conference schedule.

Contact: Petra Tuomi, Associate Director of Public Affairs, 212-854-7907