Oscillations of Gender & Genre

All presentations are free and open to the public

For those non-registered participants interested in joining us for lunch at Medici's or the reception at Epiphany, please contact Melissa Johnson or Julie Lynd.

Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña to headline symposium on women in arts, November 10

Chilean poet and visual artist Cecilia Vicuña will be the featured speaker at the symposium “Oscillations of Gender and Genre” at Illinois State University.

Opening Talk by Jen Bervin

Wednesday, November 9, 4pm
University Galleries
Reception to follow at Stave (111 W. North St., Normal)
Learn more about Jen Bervin

Reading the Reading (To Con Template Mistral)
A Performance Talk by Cecilia Vicuña

Thursday, November 10, 5pm
The artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña speaks of encounters with women’s art that have shaped her life’s work.
Learn more about Cecilia Vicuña

Concluding Remarks by Dianna Frid

Saturday, November 12, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Followed by a roundtable discussion with symposium organizers and participants
Learn more about Dianna Frid

Wednesday, November 9

4:00 p.m.

Opening Talk by Jen Bervin
Location: University Galleries
Reception to follow at Stave (111 W. North St., Normal)

Thursday, November 10

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Coffee & Sign-in
Location: University Galleries

9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

Kendra Paitz, Senior Curator at University Galleries
Guided tour of the exhibit Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy
Location: University Galleries

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Melissa Johnson, Illinois State University
Introductory Remarks
Location: University Galleries

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Stephen Cope, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Ekphrasis, Ekstasis, and the Transgeneric Hybridity of Gertrude Stein’s Aesthetics
Location: University Galleries

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Cristina Correa, Cornell University
Creating a Scene: An Ekphrastic Exploration of Latina Chicago
Location: University Galleries

11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch at Medici’s
All symposium participants who have prepaid online are invited to continue conversing over lunch at Medici’s in Uptown Normal (120 E. North St.)
Location: Medici in Normal

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Jone Urrutia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Eclectic and the Modern: Discourses of Modernity and Hybridity in Cocina ecléctica (1890) by Juana Manuela Gorriti, La cocina española antigua (1913) and La cocina española moderna (1914) by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Location: University Galleries

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Carla Nappi, University of British Colombia
Fragments for a History of Substance: The Elizabeths
Location: University Galleries

2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Coffee Break
Location: University Galleries

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Ana Roncero-Bellido and Juliet Lynd, Illinois State University
Art, Poetry, and Testimonio in Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami (1973)
Location: University Galleries

3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Alyssa Bralower, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Surface Image and Ulterior Psyches: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore’s Anti-Nazi Propaganda
Location: University Galleries

5:00 p.m.

Keynote
Reading the Reading (To Con Template Mistral)
A Performance Talk by Cecilia Vicuña
The artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña speaks of encounters with women’s art that have shaped her life’s work.
Location: University Galleries

Friday, November 11

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Coffee & Sign-in
Location: University Galleries

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Okechukwu Charles Nwafor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Ndidi Dike: Art, Gender and Postcolonial Crises
Location: University Galleries

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Ellie Moseman, Colorado State University
Process and Perception: The Intersection of Fiction and Surrealist Automatism in Ellida Schargo von Alten’s Writings and Art, 1934-1994
Location: University Galleries

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. 

Julia Danner, Illinois State University
Expressing the Disruption of Pain: Combining the Visual and Verbal in the Work of Frida Kahlo and Cecilia Vicuña
Location: University Galleries

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Coffee break and walk to Milner Library

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Kathleen Lonbom, Associate Professor and Art, Arts Technology, Theater & Dance Librarian at Milner Library
Presentation of Milner Library book exhibit complementing Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy
Location: Milner Library

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch Break
Participants are free to dine wherever they choose. Uptown Normal offers a number of options.

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Bailey Romaine, University of Illinois, Chicago
Artist’s Talk: She is free not to appear
Location: University Galleries

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Dawn Roe, Rollins College
Artist’s Talk: Dwelling [Inside] Mourning
Location: University Galleries

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Coffee break
Location: University Galleries

2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Kate Lewis, Illinois State University
Performance of two compositions by Libby Larson: “Black Birds, Red Hills,” and “Dónal Óg,” the former inspired by Georgia O’Keefe paintings and the latter a response to an 18th century anonymous poem published in the Kiltartan Poetry Book (Tr. Lady August Gregory, 1919), accompanied by a lecture and discussion by Lewis.

Kate Lewis (viola), Tuyen Tonnu (ISU, piano), and Anne Dervin (ISU, clarinet)

Joanne Diaz, Illinois Wesleyan University, reading of “Dónal Óg”
Location: University Galleries

6:30 p.m.

Dinner Reception at Epiphany Farms Restaurant 
All symposium participants who have prepaid online are invited to celebrate our symposium over dinner at Epiphany Farms Restaurant in Downtown Bloomington (220 E. Front St.). The reception will be held in the Ball Room, on the second floor of the restaurant.

Transportation from the Hyatt to Epiphany Farms will be provided.
Location: Epiphany Farms

Saturday, November 12

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Dianna Frid, University of Illinois at Chicago
Special Guest Artist Dianna Frid will offer concluding remarks, followed by a roundtable discussion, with moderators Melissa Johnson and Julie Lynd
Location: Milner Library, Floor 6, Northwest Corner

Conference Hotel

Hyatt Place Bloomington/Normal
200 Broadway Ave
Normal, IL 61761
(309) 454-9288

To guarantee the conference rate, book by October 10

Reserve A Room

Travel to the Twin Cities

There is also a Marriott in the Uptown area and other hotels in Bloomington-Normal (though please be advised the Hyatt and the Marriott are the only two within walking distance of the University Galleries). There are other hotels in the area, but bear in mind you'll need to factor in additional transportation costs for taxis.

You can choose to fly into either of the Chicago airports (O’Hare or Midway) and reserve ground transportation with Peoria Charter, rent a car, or take Amtrak from Chicago Union Station to Normal, IL (both Peoria Charter and Amtrak are located in the Transportation Center, in the same building as the University Galleries and across the street from the Hyatt). You may also fly directly to the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington, IL (BMI).

For those flying into BMI and staying at the Hyatt, you must arrange shuttle service from the airport ahead of time. Email Ashley Young (ashley.young@hyatt.com) with your name, flight #, time of pick up/drop off, and a contact phone number.

About Bloomington-Normal

Normal

The University Galleries is located in Uptown Normal, which offers a number of restaurants, shops, and cafés. For more information on Uptown Normal, pleae visit the town website

Illinois State University is located in Normal, IL, where many of the conference events will be held. The University has an interactive campus map available for directions.

Bloomington

Our dinner reception will be held at Epiphany Farms in Downtown Bloomington.

For more on what downtown Bloomington has to offer, please visit the Downtown Bloomington website.