09–9.30am Greetings and opening remarks

• Francesco Bedeschi, Director, University of Arkansas Rome Center
• Adelina Modesti, Curator of Aiwac, University of Melbourne
• Consuelo Lollobrigida, Curator of Aiwac, University of Arkansas Rome Center

Session I 10-12.30pm Chair: Adelina Modesti
10–11.15am 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. 

11.15–11.45am Coffee break

11.45–12.30pm 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 

12.30–2pm Free range for lunch

Session II  2-5.15pm Chair: Consuelo Lollobrigida

2-3pm   Keynote Speaker

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

3–3.45pm  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

3.45-4.15pm   Tea Break

4.15-5.15pm 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

7.00 pm  At Jane Austin’s Table In-house dinner for convenors at the Rome Center (registration required)

9-9.30 Greetings

• Adelina Modesti, Curator of Aiwac, University of Melbourne
• Consuelo Lollobrigida, Curator of Aiwac, University of Arkansas Rome Center

Session I 9.30-12.30pm Chair: Adelina Modesti
9.30–10.30am 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 

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

12.30-2.30pm Free range for lunch

Session II Chair: Adelina Modesti

2.30–3.30pm 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

3.30–4pm Tea Break

4- 5pm Single women and professionalization

• 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 Kent
• Ina Jessen, Polyvalent inequality: Monica Bonvicini’s costume and stage design  

Session I 9.30-12.30pm Chair: Consuelo Lollobrigida
9.30-10.30am 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

10.30-11am Coffee Break

11-12.30pm 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? 

1.20pm Q&A , Round table and closing remarks