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Call for Papers for the 2023 ESNA Conference: Beyond 'The Obstacle Race'. Women’s Role in the History of Nineteenth-Century Art Revisited

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Posted by: European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art (ESNA)
Deadline: Sun, January 1st, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art (ESNA) Conference 2023

Beyond ‘The Obstacle Race’. Women’s Role in the History of Nineteenth-Century Art Revisited

RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague

1-2 June 2023

esnaonline.wordpress.com

 

The 2023 ESNA conference will investigate women’s interrelations within the art world and their impact on art objects and art collections.

Although we realize that for a woman in the nineteenth-century art world there were many obstacles to be overcome, this conference will focus instead on the choices and possibilities women did have. People live in relation to each other and create a world together. We are all individuals, defined not by a singular identity but by manifold, intersecting, and evolving features and practices. Only by studying the diverse ways in which women took up different roles in relation to others is it possible to understand not only historic and present realities, but also the dynamics of art (history). By fully taking various factors into account in our thinking about our field, by enlarging the concepts and scope of our research and exhibition practices, female actors will become a self-evident and permanent part of history.

The 2023 ESNA conference will thus take a holistic and systemic approach to women’s roles in art during the nineteenth century. We invite papers which explicitly present women makers, models, critics, dealers, museum professionals, collectors, and other mediators in relation to their historical context and within the broader art world. How did women work together with others, which networks and strategies did they use, run into, or create? And how did the situation evolve over the course of the nineteenth century?

 

Please consult the full Call for Papers on our website: esnaonline.wordpress.com

 

Please send your abstract (max. 200 words) and biography (150 words) by January 1, 2023 to esnaonline@hotmail.com  

Posted on Mon, November 28th, 2022
Expires on Sun, January 1st, 2023

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