9-10 am Greetings and opening remarks

10-11 am Women in/and power

• Brianna Cooney – A Feast for the Senses, A Feast for the Intellect: The Maiolica Patronage of Eleonora Gonzaga
• Laura Mercader Amigò – Margarita of Navarre in the Amie’s Quarrel

• Ilaria Sferrazza – Being a wife: the role of the Duchessa in the Caetani family between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries in Rome.

11-11.30 am Coffee break

11.30 -12 am Women’s patronage (matronage)

• Isabel Ruiz – Women in Action: Female Agency in the Community of the Crown of Aragon in Rome (1350-1525)

• Rita Randolfi – Marie Anne de la Trémoille: a model of a progressive woman between the 17th and 18th centuries

12-2pm Free range for lunch

2-3 pm Keynote Speaker

• Chiara Mercuri – “Un’esegesi riparativa per la storia delle donne” 

3-3.45 Female desire, power, and motherhood

• Noelia García Pérez
• Melania Soler Moratón – Art and Portraits- Medal in the Modern Age: Motherhood as an Image of Power

• Esther Theiler – Paula Modersohn-Becker and Gabriele Münter: People, Places and Passion

3.45 – 5 pm Queer reflections, lesbian identities

• David Fredrick – The Pictrix and Priapus: Queer Agency on Pompeian Walls

• Thomas Fischbacher – Queer Queens. Observations on the visual representation of lesbian love in Early Modern Times

• Abbey Rees-Hales – The Shadow Lesbian? Interwar Feminine Lesbian Identities in Mariette Lydis’s print folio Lesbiennes (1926)

• Erika Almenara – The Monstruous Subjectivity of the Trans and Travesti Body as a New Female Possibility in Las malas by Camila Sosa Villada

5.-5.30 Q&A

7.00 pm Dinner at the Rome Center AT JANE AUSTIN’S TABLE

9-9.30 Greetings

9.30-10.30  -Keynote Speaker

• Daniel Unger – Who are you St. Martha? On Housewives, Housekeepers and Female cooks in Early Modern Paintings”

10.30-11 am – Coffee break

11- 12.30 – Family alliances and professional life: husband/wife 

• Alessandra Masu – “Life and Career of the Roman miniaturist painter Bianca Boni (Rome, 1786 – 1857): family, marriage and a secret love affair of a successful woman artist in the Rome of the Grand Tour”.
• Cecilia Paolini – Caterina Marchetti: the importance of Italian wives for the network of foreign artists in early 17th century Rome.
• Juliet Simpson – The Desiring Eye – Elizabeth Eastlake’s (née Rigby) Art as Cultural Agency beyond a ‘Fortunate Marriage’ in Victorian Britain
• Saeedeh Setayesh – Between Canvas and Family: The Choices of Sophie Hess-von Wyss
• Irene Caravita – A perfect loving and intellectual alliance? Fernanda Pivano and le belle ragazze di Ettore Sottsass

12.30-2.30 pm Free range for lunch

2.30 – 3.30 pm Family alliances and professional life: fathers/daughters, brothers/sisters

• Liana Cheney – Chiara Varotari and Alessandro Varotari: A Sister Muse
• Sara Buoso – A Visual Rhetoric: Anachronisms and Ekphrasis in Marietta Patricia Leis’s painting
• Ludovica Carlini – The professionalisation of Laura Grisi in 1972 through paternal and marital relationship

3.45-4.45 Single women and professionalization

• Cathy Hall van den Elsen – Keeping up appearances: the (early) modern woman artist in Spain.
• Elin Manker – A Work of One’s Own – Professionalism, self-government and the single-women artist in nineteenth-century Sweden
• Paula Gauß – “Love is hard work” – A field analysis of the challenges faced by Corita Ken

5.-5.30 Q&A

Mourning and Memory

• Johnatan Saso – Staging the Royal Mourning: the self-fashioning of Louise of Lorraine, Dowager Queen of France
• Patricia Rocco – Women, Desire, and Death: The Disappearance of Beatrice Cenci
• Lindsay Maldari – Agency in Mourning: The Role of Women as Stewards of Memory in Postwar Commemoration of the Fosse Ardeatine Massacre

Film, Theatre, and Opera

• Katrina Xuereb – Social corsets: motif of confinement in Victorian cinema
• Sonia Arribas – Irene Valle Corpas – ‘Something completely mad and extraordinary’ Love, and Artistic Creation in Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre?
• Ina Jessen – Polyvalent inequality: Monica Bonvicini’s costume and stage design for Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot

Round table