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Following the opening conference devoted to this theme, held at CHAM, in November 2016, this second conference brings together an international group of researchers from a range of scholarly perspectives to explore, discuss and debate a series of case studies on the visual construction and projection of women’s political identity in medieval and early modern Spain and Portugal. The papers explore a number of critical perspectives that range from the portrayal of Queens and their household to the discourse on female piety and spirituality, both in the court and beyond to lower social strata. The role of women’s agency within the structures of patriarchal society and discourse that underscored much of visual culture is addressed in a number of insightful ways. Furthermore, the range of papers engages with prescient methodological issues facing the study of the visual dimensions of female political identity.
In addition this conference is pleased to announce a plenary lecture by Juliet Perkins, King’s College London.
This event has been funded by the CHAM — Centre for the Humanities; and the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham.
For enquiries please contact Jeremy Roe, jeremy.roe@fcsh.unl.pt
Programme
Thursday 21st September
9:15 Welcome
9:30-11:00 Session 1) Iconographies of authority
Chair: Jean Andrews
María Morrás, Departament d'Humanitats, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
La iconografía mariana en la Corona de Aragón y la orden de la Jarra
Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya, Universitat Jaume I
Reinas Fuertes: Poder, Religión Y Familia En La Representación De Las Mujeres Habsburgo
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 1:00 Session 2) Religious identity in word and image
Chair: Jeremy Roe
Jean Andrews, University of Nottingham
Josefa in Óbidos: painting under the sign of Luisa de Guzmán
Joana Serrado, Universidade do Porto
Six characters in search of a Canon: Saintliness as Feminist Subjectivity in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire
Lunch 1:00-2:00
2:00 - 4:00 Session 3) Iberian Queens and their courts
Chair: Carla Alferes Pinto, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Laura Oliván, Universidad de Granada
Dresses, Portraits and Spaces: Female Identities at the Alcázar (1621-1665)
Mercedes Llorente, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
The portrayal of two Iberian Queens: Luisa Gusmão and Mariana of Austria
Susana Varela Flor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Catherine of Braganza: the iconographic strategies of a Catholic Queen in a Protestant Kingdom (1662-1693)
4:00-4:30 Tea
4:30 Plenary Lecture
Juliet Perkins, King’s College London
Guilherme Debrie’s engravings for Theatro Comico Portuguez
Friday 22nd September
9:30-11:00 Session 4) The Queen’s household
Chair: Jeremy Lawrance
Vanessa de Cruz Medina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Objects and Agency: Visual Culture and the Political Identity of Ladies-in-Waiting to the Habsburg Courts
Jeremy Roe, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Luisa de Gusmão and the staging of political identity
11:00- 11:30 Coffee
11:30-1:00 Session 5) Discussion
Concluding address: Jeremy Lawrance, University of Nottingham
Roundtable discussion
Organização
CHAM / NOVA FCSH
University of Nottingham
