AIWAC 2026

Annual International

Women in Arts Conference

Speaker Credits

Meet the 20 speakers contributing to the Annual International Women in Arts Conference.

Anthony Majanlahti

“Of Herself Alone Both Muse and Subject”: the Women of the Boncompagni Ludovisi and the Arts

Ekaterina S. Novikova

Rethinking Sofonisba Anguissola: Historiography and the Problem of Interpreting Women Artist

Novikov.kate@gmail.com

Maude Bastille

Reading Elisabetta Sirani’s Eurydice and Orpheus in the Underworld as Theory. Framing Women’s Visual Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Bologna : Methodological Challenges.

maude.bastille@umontreal.ca

Sivan Maoz

‘Ugly but Gifted’: Giulia Lama and the Gendered Politics of Appearance

maozsi@post.bgu.ac.il

Adelina Modesti

The Nota delle pitture fatte da me Elisabetta Sirani. An early modern woman artist's work register as a methodological research tool

amodesti@unimelb.edu.au

María Eugenia Di Franco

Between the Canon and the Archive: Art Education and Female Agency in Early Modern Bologna.

marudifranco@gmail.com

Stefania Biancani

The “Centro di documentazione sulla storia delle donne artiste” of Bologna: an art-historical methodological approach

Consuelo Lollobrigida

Virginia da Vezzo: a methodological connoisseurship

clollobr@uark.edu

Linda Manuela Piardi

A changing landscape: women artists, institutions and education in Nineteenth Century Turin

Francesca Penna

From Mothers to Professional Artists: The Case of the Scuola delle Donne within the Royal Academies of Fine Arts in Italy (1842-1902)

francesca.penna@unina.it

Laura D’Angelo

A Workshop for Women: Maddalena Costantini and Women’s Professional Education in Post-Unification Rome

laura.dangelo1974@gmail.com

Susanne Mersmann

Women Artists’ Debates in the “Women in Professions” Section at the 1899 International Congress of Women in London

susanneh.mersmann@gmx.de

AIWAC 2026

Annual International Women in Arts Conference

Convenors

Consuelo Lollobrigola, Ableina Moolesti

Organizers

Delilah Gal, Suzu Kokuho, Paige Lennon,Cidney Hix, Meghan Chang, Megan Green,Sophie Johnson, Joelle Glick, Leeza Sinai,Wendi Martinez, Limberly Disla, Zara Seiger

Publisher

Jirki Thirbaut, Brepols