Women's Legacies in Natural Studies, Health, and Liberal Arts.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8zAbCwaFvA

OPENING REMARKS 9:00 AM

Francesco Bedeschi
Resident Director UARK Rome Program
Consuelo Lollobrigida and Adelina Modesti
Convenors of AIWAC
Jirki Thibaut
Publishing Manager, Brepols Publishers

MORNING SESSION 10:00 AM

A Gendered Nature
Adelina Modesti, chair - Rebecca M. Gregg, executive organization

@ Teodoro De Giorgio
The «lux vivens» and Hildegard’s new senses: tools for knowledge of God and nature

Patricia Simons
Why Have There Been So Many Women Pioneers in Still-Life?

@ Patricia Rocco
A gendered nature: women and naturalism in early modern Bologna

COFFEE BREAK 11:15 AM

Stefania Biancani
“I hear too much, I see too much, and I notice everything”: Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, an Artist’s Ailment

Haizea Barcenilla
Unearthing colonialism: botanic criticism in the work of Jenny Yurshansky

Marie Vymazalova
Women-founders of Prague Loreto in the context of iconographic motive miraculous Nativity according to St. Bridget of Sweden

INAUGURAL PLENARY LECTURE 2:00 PM

Vera Fortunati
Fede Galizia pittrice di nature morte tra sentimento religioso e spiritualità teatina

AFTERNOON SESSION 3:00 PM

Still Life
Consuelo Lollobrigida, chair - Mary D. Reynolds, executive organization

Catherine Powell-Warren
The Illustration of Nature as a Collaborative Enterprise: Examining the Artistic Practices of Maria Sibylla Merian and the Women Artists in her Network

COFFEE BREAK 4:30 PM

Clio Rom
On Being Planted and Portrayed: Horticulture and Floral Imagery in Seicento Rome through the works of Anna Maria Vaiani

DINNER 7:00 PM

At Hildegard’s Table
Medieval Dinner from Hildegard’s Book of Recipe

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOKay01pJD8

MORNING SESSION 9:00 AM

Botanical Studies and History of Naturalism
Consuelo Lollobrigida, chair - Emily K. Coleman, executive organization

Simona Trifogli
Properzia de’ Rossi schultora e la natura: una relazione di valori

Leah Tharpe
Elizabeth Gould, “The Queen of All Naturalists”

@ Tori Champion
On Women and Colour: Catherine Perrot and the Practical Guides to Art-Making by Early Modern Women Artists

COFFEE BREAK 11:15 AM

Alessia Muroni Ramus
A Lifetime’s Work: Mary Delany and Her Paper Garden

Loretta Vandi
“Uccellami e Fiorami” for History and Poetry in Grand Ducal Florence. The naturalistic drawings of Suor Maria Benigna Cavalcanti (Convent of Le Murate) and Suor Caterina Angelica della Vacchia (Convent of St. Chiara)

Katie Sagal
The Repudiation of Originality & the Embrace of Vegetality in the Botanical Artwork of Henrietta Maria Moriarty

Jeanette Hoorn
From The Kimberley to Cape York: The emergence of flora in the art of female artists working in remote First Nations communities in Australia

@ Martina Sitt
Reflected illustrations of knowledge instead of lifeless flowers – some remarks on still life female artists

KEY NOTE SPEAKER 2:00 PM

Bruce Edelstein
Eleonora di Toledo and the Creation of the Boboli Gardens

AFTERNOON SESSION 3:00 PM

Domesticities and Entrepreneurship
Adelina Modesti, chair

@ Ana Ágreda and Carolina Naya
From prophylaxis to luxury. Tradition passed down and glossed by women in the domestic environment: recipe books and pomes in modern Europe

Michelle Moseley
The Rise of Household Manuals and Early Modern Dutch Dollhouse: The Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Home as Laboratory and Site of Knowledge Production

COFFEE BREAK 4:30 PM

Alba Carballeira
Neroli, the essence of Princess des Ursins’ legacy: the blooming of a legend

Margaret (Greta) Barnes
Madonna of the Svezzamento

Anna Kopócsy
Wet-Nursing, theories and representation - Új Nyolcak Festőnők a modern művészet sodrában

Emilio Del Gesso
Medicine and Health in Hildegard of Bingen: new outlooks

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIreZtvSvqA

MORNING SESSION 9:00 AM

Folly and Hysteria
Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi, chair - Chantal A. Celis, executive organization

Laura Sardone
Woman… the transformation of an archetype from witch to fatal Woman, crossing feminism at the beginning of the twentieth century

Giovanni del Missier
Fools, witches, and hysterics

Veronica Parise
Folly and witchcraft in anthropological studies

COFFEE BREAK 11:15 AM

Laura D’Angelo and Luana Testa
Stung by oistros, the divine goad: Female bodies in motion from hysterical dancing to art performance

Francesca Valentini
Francesca Alinovi, critique as performance: a source for art history

KEY NOTE SPEAKER 2:00 PM

@ Liana Cheney
Josefa de Ayala D’Obidos’s Physical and Spiritual Realms of Nature: Flora and Fauna Symbolism

AFTERNOON SESSION 3:00 PM

A Gaze Over Contemporaneity
Laura D’Angelo, chair - Addison P. Stahler, executive organization

Juliet Simpson
Unseen Modernities: Re-imagining the Visionary “Real” in the Art of Marianne Stokes, 1900-1910s

Lara Demori
Sneaky Peeks: Women in the Bedroom

Francesca Riccardo
A marriage between nature and architecture: feminine biophilic

COFFEE BREAK 4:30 PM

CLOSING REMARKS 5:00 PM

Fran Hagstrom
Will a Woman Transform the World through Art and Medicine? Alice Walton circa 2005-2031 and beyond

PRIZE

AIWAC for Women Mnemosyne

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