NOTE: This symposium was originally scheduled for Saturday, May 16.



"Revising Revisionism" examines the intersection of biography, art history, historiography, and feminism—fields that align and diverge—by bringing together practitioners from different disciplines. Generating connections and new avenues for research, this series of panels analyzes methods of collecting, maintaining, and distributing information about women’s lives across multiple platforms, from the oral to the digital.



Here we employ a broadened definition of biography that emphasizes daily experience and subjective points of view, focusing on new methods crucial to the larger project of (re)writing women’s contributions to history. As our current paradigm engages with information technology’s evolution into a predominantly digital domain, what happens to the writing of women’s lives in history? What does women’s biography look like, and how should it function at a time when canonical thinking is being completely reworked within a technological and creative framework, one in which artists, writers, and historians explore nonlinear storytelling and history building?



SCHEDULE



11 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Introduction: The Gendered Archive



Catherine Morris, Sackler Family Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum; Gina Luria Walker, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, The New School, and Director, Project Continua; Annette Leddy, New York Collector, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Siân Evans and Jacqueline Mabey, co-founders of the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Project



12:15–1:30 p.m. Feminist Recovery: Evidence of Women’s Lives



Moderator: Gina Luria Walker, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, The New School, and Director, Project Continua

Panelists: Kirsten Pai Buick, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico; Amy Dooling, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Culture, Connecticut College; Mary Spongberg, Dean, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney; Stephanie Sellers, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies, Gettysburg College



1:30–2 p.m. Break



2:30–3:45 p.m. Artists Roundtable: Biography in Play



Moderator: Saisha Grayson, Assistant Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum

Panelists: Artists Cassandra Guan, Rachelle Mozman, and Marisa Williamson



3:45–5 p.m. Circulation of Histories: From the Oral to the Digital



Moderator: Kate Eichhorn, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies, The New School

Panelists: Alison Booth, Professor of English, University of Virginia, and Director of Collective Biographies of Women; Maria Cotera, Associate Professor of American Culture, Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan; Gillian Dow, Executive Director, Chawton House Library; Michele Mitchell, Associate Professor of History, New York University



5 p.m. Closing Remarks



Free with Museum admission, but please R.S.V.P.