Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK, September 7 - 08, 
 2016

 Gendering Museum Histories

 Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, 7-8 September 2016

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 Wednesday 7 September

 10.00-10.30—Registration and tea/coffee

 10.30-10.45—Introduction

 10.45-12.15—Panel 1: The Gender of the Museum: women at the Pitt Rivers 
 1884-1945 (Chair Elizabeth Hallam)

 Alison Petch (Pitt Rivers Museum), Examining the gendered history of 
 the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

 Frances Larson (independent scholar), Settling down to sticking on 
 labels: the careers of Winifred Blackman and Beatrice Blackwood

 Jaanika Vider (Pitt Rivers Museum), The lady scientist and museum 
 trophies: Maria Czaplicka’s collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum

 12.15-13.15—Lunch (not provided) [postgraduate students' session for 
 pre-registered participants only]

 13.15-14.45—Panel 2: Gender and professionalization in the museum 
 (Chair tbc)

 Ana Baeza Ruiz (Leeds/NG), Gendering the Archive as a Means of 
 Mobilising Museum Histories

 Alyson Mercer (KCL), Gender and the Gallery Space: Representing the 
 First and Second World War Experiences of Women at the Imperial War 
 Museum

 Ellie Miles (London Transport Museum) and Ealasaid Munro (Glasgow), 
 Strange transpositions: Margot Eates’ work and her visibility

 14.45-15.15—Tea/coffee

 15.15-16.45—Panel 3: Women Collectors and the Museum (Chair tbc)

 Martina D'Amato (Bard Graduate Center), La Collectionneuse: Gendering 
 Renaissance art collecting in Paris, 1870-1920

 Caroline McCaffrey (Leeds), Loaning Sèvres, exhibiting gender

 Liz Mitchell (MMU), The Lady Vanishes: researching the Mary Greg 
 collection at Manchester City Galleries

 16.45-17.45—Keynote lecture (Chair tbc)

 Merete Ipsen, The Women’s Museum in Denmark: From Women’s History to 
 Gender Culture

 18.00-19.30—Reception

 Thursday 8 September

 10.00-10.30—Tea/coffee

 10.30-12.00—Panel 4: Gender Politics and the Museum (Chair tbc)

 Kathleen Davidson (Sydney), The '”Man-Goose” at the museum’: performing 
 masculinity in the nineteenth-century museum

 Fiona McGovern (CUNY/independent scholar), Exhibiting Queer Culture

 Änne Söll (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), ‘What's Cooking? Reconfiguring 
 Gender and Domestic Space in the exhibits of Margarete 
 Schütte-Lehotsky’s “Frankfurt Kitchen”’

12.00-13.00—Lunch (not provided)

 13.00-13.30—MGHG AGM

 13.30-15.00—Panel 5: Roundtable Gendered legacies and museums today 
 (Chair tbc)

 15.00-15.15—Tea/coffee

 15.15-16.45—Panel 6: Thresholds of Knowledge: Museums and Women’s 
 Expertise 1880-1910 (Chair Helen Rees Leahy)

 Carolyn Sargentson (Sussex), Women voicing object histories in the 
 museum: female expertise as an alternative to folly, 1880-1910

 Meaghan Clarke (Sussex), An ‘armoury of feminine weapons’: collecting 
 histories and museum culture 1890-1910

 Francesco Ventrella (Sussex), Behind the gallery handbook: Women 
 connoisseurs at work in the 1890s

 16.45-17.00—Conference ends

 Poster Presentations

 Brittney Bies (UWE), M Shed as the “Museum of Bristol” and its gender 
 representation within permanent displays

 Louise Kenward (Independent), 'In Conversation with Annie'

 Stephen Kotze (Durban Local History Museums), Explaining the absence of 
 hoes: Gender bias in collections of Zulu field implements from museums 
 in KwaZulu-Natal

 Hadwig Kraeutler (Independent), In A Rough Voice. Alma S. Wittlin 
 (1899-1992). A Case Study

 Sarah Marden (MMU/Tatton Park), Maurice Egerton, Fourth Baron of 
 Tatton, and the “Male Collectors” of the Early Twentieth Century

 Erin McCurdy (Ryerson/York), Dance as a Catalyst for Change in Modern 
 Art Museums

 Isabel Rodríguez-Marco and Ana Cabrera-Lafuente (National Museum of 
 Decorative Arts, Madrid), Women’s involvement in the National Museum of 
 Decorative Arts of Madrid (Spain) from 1912 to 1942

 Reference / Quellennachweis:
 CONF: Gendering Museum Histories (Oxford, 7-8 Sep 16).