Feminists and feminisms in museums and art galleries: International knowledge exchange and engagement with common research issues
SSHRC Connections Workshop Schedule
Friday January 25, 2019 – Sunday January 27, 2019
Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (National Museum of Contemporary Art, NMCA)
| Date | Time | Location | Activity |
| Jan. 24 | 6:15pm | Hotel Mundial – meet in lobby | Walk to NMCA for opening lecture and networking event |
| 6:30-7:30pm | Sala Polivalente (SP), National Museum of Contemporary Art (NMCA) | Clover, Sanford, Taber, and Williamson – The feminist museum hack for gender justice: Critical, creative, and contextual applications | |
| Jan. 25 | 9:45am | Hotel lobby | Walk to NMCA |
| 10:00-10:45am | Sala Polivalente (SP), NMCA | Ferreira – Welcome to Portugal and NMCA | |
| 10:45-11:15am | SP, NMCA | Taber, Clover, and Sanford – Introduction to workshop | |
| 11:30-12:15pm | SP, NMCA | Ferreira, Monteiro, and Moreira – The invisibility cloak: Are museums and collections still veiling women artist’s work with disinterest and demeaning words | |
| 12:30-1:45pm | NMCA | Group lunch (catered) | |
| 2:00-
3:15pm |
SP, NMCA |
Schönweger, International Women’s Museum Association – Creative presentation |
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| 3:30-
4:15pm
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SP, NMCA | Formenti, Del Negro, and Luraschi – Unexpected audiences: Four paths for a dream of life | |
| 4:30-
5:15pm |
SP, NMCA | Clover and Sanford – Fashioning women, defrocking patriarchy | |
| 5:30-6:15pm | SP, NMCA | Merriweather – Racialized gendered literacy: A racial realist reading of museum space of the African American female | |
| 6:30-7:15- | SP, NMCA | Williamson – Barbie Hack | |
| 7:30-
onwards |
Toma Lá Dá Cá Travessa do Sequeiro 38 |
Group dinner | |
| Jan. 26 | 10:00-11:30am | SP, NMCA | Williamson – Exploring societal gender representation and (in)justice through visual and text-based collage enquiry in a gallery setting (including group activity) |
| 11:45am-12:30pm | SP, NMCA | Taber – Military heritage sites: Women’s war work, castles, and fortresses | |
| 12:45-
2:15pm |
TBA | Group lunch (catered) | |
| 2:30-3:15pm | SP, NMCA | Thivierge – Canadian women in STEM: A history | |
| 3:30-4:15pm | SP, NMCA | Grover – Decolonizing discourses on Niagara Falls: An analysis of feminist praxis in the exhibit 1779 | |
| 4:30-5:15pm | SP, NMCA | Henehan and Voelkel – Infinitely obscure lives: Invisibility of women in a U.S. historic site | |
| 5:30-6:15pm | SP, NMCA | Johnson – Beneath the invisibility cloak | |
| 6:30-
7:30pm |
TBA | Time to explore | |
| 7:30pm onwards | Leão d’Ouro
Rua 1 de Dezembro 105 |
Group dinner | |
| Jan. 27 | 10:00-1:00pm | i.e. Casa da Cera, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Fundação Arpad Szenes Vieira da Silva | All – Museum interventions, methodologies, pedagogies: Museum visits
Choose your own museum/gallery |
| 1:15am-2:45pm | NMCA | Group lunch (catered) and debrief from museum visits | |
| 3:00-4:30pm | SP, NMCA | Schönweger – Global feminist museum hack | |
| 4:30-5:15pm | SP, NMCA | All – Mapping out research dissemination, future grants, and closing | |
| 5:15pm onwards | Dinner on our own | ||
| Jan. 28 | Travel home |
For a detailed description of the conference workshops and activities, click here to see the SSHRC Final Report.