Thursday, February 1, 2018:
6:00 – Introduction/Gallery Talk – Melissa Hyde, Professor of Art & Art History, University of Florida, co-curator of Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: French Art in the Horvitz Collection
Friday, February 2, 2018:
Session 1
Moderator: Melissa Hyde, Professor of Art & Art History, University of Florida
9:00 – Kathleen Nicholson, Professor Emerita of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon
Rosalba Carriera and the Fabrication of the Modern Woman in France in the Early Eighteenth Century
10:00 – Vivian Cameron, Independent Scholar
Taking Exception: LeRoulx de LaVille’s Innocence between Vice and Virtue
11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break
11:15 Susanna Caviglia, Assistant Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University
Indolence is a Woman. Greuze’s Lazy Italian Girl and the debate over Italian cultural collapse
12:15-1:15 – Lunch Break
Session 2
Moderator: Dena Goodman, Lila Miller Collegiate Professor of History and Women’s Studies
1:15 – Suzanne Pucci, Professor of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, University of Kentucky
Inventing Domestic Intimacy: The Tableau
2:15 – Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Professor Emerita of the History of Art & Architecture, University of California Santa Barbara
Constance Mayer: Mythology, Historiography, Discourse
3:15-3:30 – Coffee Break
3:30 – Anne Lafont, directrice d’études (professor), Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
The Body as a Project: Women in Colonial Art (read by Melissa Hyde)
4:30 – Dorothy Johnson, Roy J. Carver Professor of Art History, University of Iowa
Sophie Frémiet Rude: an Artist’s Asseveration of Identity (ready by Christopher Johns)
Saturday, February 3, 2018:
Session 1
Moderator: Kathryn Desplanque, Department of Art & Art History, UNC Chapel Hill
9:00 – Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
A Villa fit for Two Queens: Female Royal Patronage in Early Eighteenth-Century Turin
10:00 – Michael Yonan, Associate Professor, School of Visual Studies, University of Missouri
Moved by Love at the Wieskirche
11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break
11:15 – Susan Taylor Leduc, Independent Scholar
Other Possibilities: Marie-Antoinette and Joséphine as Garden Patrons
12:15-12:45 – Closing Discussion
1:00 – Memorial Service for Mary D. Sheriff, Graham Memorial Hall