Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity

Date: June 15-17, 2011
Venue: University of Lisbon, Faculty of Letters

The three-day international gathering will promote a reflection on women’s artistic production, contrasting the U.S. context with other cultures. The conference will cover multiple areas, including writing, the visual arts, music, and the performance arts. We will debate women’s aesthetic expression in the U.S. and elsewhere in these diversified fields, from modernity to the contemporary age.

Plenary speakers: Sandra M. Gilbert, Christine Battersby, Edward Lucie-Smith

Deadline for presentation proposals: 31st January 2011

More info and call for papers: http://womenandthearts.blogspot.com/