Co-organizing


Spring 2026Refusals and practices of freedom
Feminist research residency and summer school 
Co-organized with Fulvia Carnevale, Gabby Moser, and Helena Reckitt
Studio Claire Fontaine, May 14-16, Palermo, Italy
Across three days, this self-directed research and study program in Palermo investigates past acts of exiting, refusal, withdrawal, and other practices of freedom by feminist artists as blueprints for addressing current social, cultural and political emergencies. Reading groups, public lectures, and screenings will explore and activate the “undetonated potential” (Freeman 2011) of earlier feminist practices in the present by examining writings, performances, films and conceptual artworks from the early 1970s through to today.

With contributions by: 
Anita Chari, University of Oregon, Eugene
Teresa Cisneros, Law Society, London
Beatrice Gibson, Artist and filmmaker, Palermo
Joyce Joumaa, Artist, Amsterdam
Jen Kennedy, Queen’s University, Kingston
Yaniya Lee, Concordia University, Montreal
Jaleh Mansoor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 
Daniella Sanader, York university, Toronto

Fall 2025 Sharp Tongues: Gossip as radical knowledge in feminist art histories, 1970s-1980s Session convened with Jen Kennedy
UAAC Annual Conference, York University, Toronto
Historically understood as frivolous and malicious, gossip still resonates as a gendered discourse – one that languishes outside of serious scholarship as an unacceptable, improper, unreliable, and overly subjective mode of information-sharing. Not so curiously, gossip, like feminist art of the 1970s and 1980s, carries the spectre of ridicule and embarrassment. Considering gossip’s volatile reputation otherwise – as a political practice of friendship and solidarity (Federici), as critical knowledge built on untold subjective desire and voyeuristic pleasure (Rogoff), and as self-defence and community-safekeeping (Smith) – this session asks what and how gossip, as a discourse, tactic, method, and form of ‘evidence,’ might trouble in, or reveal of, smoothed-out histories of feminism between 1970 and 1990. What kinds of representation of feminism does gossip allow? What kinds of interventions in the dominant narratives of feminist art of these decades might it enable? We invite speculative stories and scandalous secrets, as well as conventional or unruly contributions that look at and/or engage gossip as research material, as a consciousness-raising exercise, a reading and writing strategy, and a way of knowing in histories of feminist art.

Winter 2024   New ways of knowing in feminist art histories
Session convened with Laura Ryan
AAH Annual Conference, University of Bristol, UK
Fall 2023UAAC Annual Conference, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Ab
This session examines feminist ways of knowing, such as anecdotes (Gallop), autotheory (Fournier), creative writing (Grant and Rubin), omitted footnotes (Dimitrakaki), gossip (Butt, Chave, Rogoff), imagination (Latimer), intuition (de Mille) and queer formalism (Simmons) as answers to incomplete or inexistent archives and sparse or biased literature. What are the implications of working with/on non-traditional forms of writing, and/or anachronistic methodologies? How have Indigenous, Black, queer, and trans critiques of and collaborations with feminisms developed new forms of intersectional art historical narratives? How does this destabilize institutional(ized) feminist art history? We welcome contributions that address such questions and discuss how these experimental processes probe the unknowability/instability of art historical research as a subject, alongside the pedagogical need for such ways of knowing and ways of working.