Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Conference - Imagining History

The Canadian Women Artists History Initiative (CWAHI) fosters and circulates research about women's contributions to the cultural and material history of Canada. The Imagining History conference will bring together researchers and  resources to enhance scholarship on historical women artists in Canada, focusing on the period prior to 1967.

The CWAHI Imagining History conference, led by Art History faculty members Janice Anderson and Kristina Huneault, will question if the time if right for a new history of women and art in Canada. If so, what might such a history, or set of histories, look like?

With four decades of scholarship to draw on, women's art history is well established as a critical approach that has broadened the range of issues open consideration in an art history perspective. In Canada, research into this expanded field has produced both narrative overviews and analytic case studies. What are the strengths of this scholarship, and what remains to be achieved? What challenges are raised by the task of integrating existing knowledge into a broader synthetic framework, and what solutions can we imagine? Which stories are still to be told? What gaps and omissions would frame such a history from its margins?

These, and other issues, will be explored at the conference.

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When:  Thursday, May 3 to Saturday, May 5, 2012