Draft of Symposium Program now available

Feminism and the Museum: a Symposium

November 2, 2013. Conference Room, Level 4,

 National Library of Australia.

9.00	Delegates arrive
9.15 – 9.30	Welcome to Country Welcome from the symposium’s conveners Alison Bartlett (UWA) and Margaret Henderson (UQ)
9.30 – 10.30	Keynote Lecture - “Speaking, Doing, Making, Being: Four modes of Feminism in the National Museum”   Dr Kirsten Wehner (National Museum of Australia)
10.30 – 10.45	Coffee break
10.45 – 12.30	Session I: Collecting - “Women are Transmogrifying”    Mandy Paul (History SA) - “The Gendered Politics of Collections”    Sophia Maalsen (U Syd) - “Feminist Futures, Feminist Pasts and Generational      Relationships: responding to second wave activist material    culture in Adelaide collections”    Petra Mosmann (Flinders) - “First Steps in Digitization: Irene Greenwood and Woman to   Woman”    Kate Makowiecka (Murdoch)
12-30 – 1.00	Lunch
1.00 – 1.45	Performance - “The Lost Culture of Women’s Liberation, the Pre-Dynastic    Phase 1969-74”   Suzanne Bellamy (U Syd)
1.45 – 3.30	Session II: Exhibiting - “A Mediterranean Bazaar: The Bazar du Genre exhibition at the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM) in Marseille, 2013”   Bronwyn Winter (U Syd) - “Acting Out: performing feminisms in the contemporary art   museum”   Courtney Pedersen (QUT) and Rachael Haynes (QUT) - “What is a Feminist Object? Things that liberate and material   culture.”   Alison Bartlett (UWA) and Margaret Henderson (UQ) - “The Military Museum as a site for feminist history”   Lindsey V. Sharman (U Calgary)
3.30 – 5.00	Book Launch - Things that Liberate: An Australian Feminist     Wunderkammer, edited by Alison Bartlett and Margaret     Henderson, launched by Marian Sawer (ANU) at the Library    Bookshop
7.00	Dinner (Venue TBA)

Register your attendance for the symposium here, and for the book launch here!