Women who Create: the Feminine and the Arts (A Transdisciplinary Conference)

Women who Create: the Feminine and the Arts (A Transdisciplinary Conference)
29th to 31st March 2025
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Where:
March 29-30: In person participation at Cambridge University and online
March 31: Fully online

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/10/20/women-who-create-2025/

Fees: 180 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Abstract: Deadline January 10, 2025


Call for Papers

Creative people, whether they are visual artists, poets, writers, musicians, designers, or actors (to name a few) have constantly changed the world. We would like to take a closer look at how women have played this vital role. How has women's creativity changed, shaped, and formed the world through impacting different cultures, environments and disciplines?

Why do women write, paint, dance, and perform? Whether as a hobby or a need, women create for various reasons and because of multiple impetuses: they may do so to connect, to inform, to move, and to inspire others. But what has become manifest is that women who create, for whatever purpose, from anywhere in the world, all do so with courage and strength. As Margaret Atwood said about the writing experience, "A word after a word after a word is power."

This conference aims to bring together scholars, creatives, postgraduate students, and professionals to explore and discuss the relationship between the feminine and the arts, whether it appears in history, science, pop culture, or any other epoch or discipline.

We welcome 15-minute presentations (academic and/or creative, from scholars, creatives, graduate students, and professionals.) that reflect this spirit and express aspects and issues of the feminine.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

The feminine in creative non-fiction
Surrealism and magical realism
Portrayal of the female experience in popular culture
The feminine in spirituality
The feminine in nature
Gender bias and underrepresentation of women
The female body
Female sexuality
LGBTQ studies in the arts
The feminine in production
The maternal
Archetypes of the feminine
Goddesses, muses, and classicist influences of women in art
Gender motifs in poetry, fiction, nonfiction
The concept of displacement and female creatives
Women in translation
The concept of liberty
Identity
History through the creative depictions of women
Psychology
Daughters, sisters, spouses
Women and science fiction
The art of writing letters
Biography/autobiography
Poetry and gender
The feminine in ekphrasis
Ghostwriting and women
Journalism
Cliches of sentimentality
The struggle of female writers in a male-dominated world
Influential female writers
The full conference programme will be announced after the proposal deadline, once all our presenters have been chosen.

**Participants interested in attending the conference without presenting a paper are also welcome.

Submission Guidelines: Abstracts should be submitted through https://forms.gle/RdAGQBVKyyRsEkoi7 by January 10, 2025

Conference fee (for in person participation) includes:

Tea/coffee breaks on both days, lunch on first day (besides the conference booklet and the amazing intellectual, creative, and networking experiences and opportunities)

Contact Information:

For any inquiries or clarifications, please email us on conferences@labrc.co.uk

Enquiries: conferences@labrc.co.uk
Web address: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/10/20/women-who-create-2025/