By WVUA 23 Digital Reporter Ella Grossomanides
The 2024 symposium,” Challenging Empire: Women, Art and the Global Early Modern World,” will take place on March 1 and March 2 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, the Birmingham Museum of Art and online.
Dr. Tanya Jones is one of the co-organizers of the symposium. Alongside, Dr. Doris Sung, and Rebecca Teague, who announced this tw0-day event.
“We are delighted to have the opportunity to bring a slate of internationally recognized scholars to the UA campus and the Birmingham Museum of Art for this groundbreaking event. The dialogues that will result promise to offer important new insights into the varied roles of early modern women in the arts on a global scale – a truly unprecedented endeavor,” Jones said.
This will be the first international art history conference on the UA campus. It is intended to extend and expand knowledge of cultural production for early modern women.
Keynote lecturers will be Dr. Noelia Garcia Perez of the University of Murcia and Dr. Hui-Shu Lee of UCLA. Invited lecturers will be Dr. Mika Natif of The George Washington University and Dr. Leah R. Clark of the University of Oxford.
In the past several decades, symposia and resulting publications have addressed women as producers, consumers and subjects of European art. The symposium aims in the analysis of women’s cultural production across continental boundaries.
View the schedule and register here.
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