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CFP: Collecting Her Thoughts: Lightning Talks on Women Art Collectors Across Time

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Posted by: Boston University
Deadline: Fri, April 26th, 2024

Collecting Her Thoughts: Lightning Talks on Women Art Collectors Across Time

Date: June 14, 2024
Location: Boston, MA
CFP Deadline: April 26, 2024

For full CFP: https://www.bu.edu/haa/2024/04/10/collecting-her-thoughts-lightning-talks-on-women-art-collectors-across-time/

For this graduate student colloquium, we seek brief, 10-minute lightning talks that take up the theme of women art collectors. How does the study of female collectors challenge and expand existing museum studies scholarship? Who were these women, and why did they collect? How might a private or domestic collecting practice differ from a public-facing curatorial project?

Possible subjects include, but are not limited to: 

Women collectors, women archaeologists, women’s collecting circles
Women’s roles in taste-making and national identity formation
Museum formation, overlooked contributions to museum studies
Domestic collecting and decoration, revisiting the “separate spheres” phenomenon
Women’s philanthropy, collecting as activism
Feminist curatorial practice; Intersectional perspectives of women collectors and museum practice
Barriers or opportunities for women’s art acquisition
New methodologies or approaches to collection, revising gendered collecting terminology 

We welcome submissions from graduate students in the disciplines of art history, archaeology, literary studies, queer and gender studies, history, and related fields. Projects at all stages, including works in progress are welcome, as this will be a space for community and conversation. 

Submit a 150-word abstract and current CV to dadonato@bu.edu by April 26, 2024. We will be in touch by May 3. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide financial support for travel.

This colloquium is organized by Danarenae Donato, Ilaria Trafficante, and Toni Armstrong at Boston University. It is supported by Boston University’s History of Art and Architecture Department, Archaeology Department, and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department.

Posted on Mon, April 15th, 2024
Expires on Fri, April 26th, 2024

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