“Inside/Out: Exploring Gender and Space in Life, Culture, and Art”

Experience the proceedings on-line: streaming video of the conference is now available.

Welcome and Introduction; Keynote Dialogue
Video (35 minutes)

Keynote Dance:
Video (27 minutes)

Session I: “Exterior”
Video (1:27 minutes)

Session II: “Interior”
Video (1:38 minutes)

Session III: “Borders”; Discussion and Closing Remarks
Video (1:51 minutes)

“Inside/Out” will bring together artists, public intellectuals, and scholars in the fields of design, the humanities, and the social sciences to consider the dynamic interaction between two notions: how gender affects the way we experience, construct, and use spaces, and how the notion of space influences the way we think about gender.

This event is free and open to the public.

In cooperation with the Harvard Graduate School of Design

Post-event coverage: "Inside/Out: Annual Conference Brings Together Scholars and Artists to Comment on Gender and Space"

Schedule

Thursday, April 15

4 p.m.	Welcome and Introduction Barbara J. Grosz, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Senior Advisor to the Humanities Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
4:15 p.m.	Keynote Dialogue: Conversation on Gender and Space A conversation between two leading scholars whose work has been crucial for conceptualizing relations between gender and space. Moderators: Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Elizabeth S. Spelke, Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Panelists: Beatriz Colomina, Professor of History and Theory, School of Architecture, Princeton University Nora Newcombe, Professor of Psychology and James H. Glackin Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Temple University
5:30 p.m.	Keynote Dance A performance of Martha Graham's Lamentation and reflections on space and dance. Introducer: Elizabeth Weil Bergmann, Dance Director, Dance Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard; Lecturer on Dramatic Arts, Harvard Committee on Dramatics Christine Dakin RI ’08, Independent Artist (United States) Pianist: Louis Stewart, Professor of Composition, Berklee College of Music
6 p.m.	Reception

Friday, April 16

9 a.m.	Introduction Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Senior Advisor to the Humanities Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
9:05 a.m.	Session I: “Exterior” An exploration, from the point of view of gender and sexual difference, of the ways in which exterior spaces are constructed, defined, experienced, occupied, or imagined in the current conditions of post-industrial and diasporic modernity. Moderator: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Senior Advisor to the Humanities Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Panelists: Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare, Research Specialist, Reach Out to Asia (ROTA), Qatar Foundation (Qatar) Anette Baldauf, Sociolologist and Cultural Critic (Austria and United States) Simon Leung, Associate Professor of Studio Art, University of California at Irvine
10:30 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m.	Session II: “Interior” An exploration of the relationship between the notion of the interior and interiority and its social and cultural meanings as these have been historically defined and transformed in postmodern societies. Moderator: Nicholas Watson RI ’09, Professor of English, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Panelists: Janine Antoni, Independent Artist (United States) Judith Donath, Berkman Faculty Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School Nilüfer Göle, Director of Studies, Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France)
12:15 p.m.	Break
1:30 p.m.	Session III: “Borders” An examination of multiple senses of the border (geopolitical, social, cultural, and psychic) in order to investigate the meanings of liminal spaces (including virtual space), thresholds, boundaries, and “in/out-edness” of spatial and gender inversions. Moderator: Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Panelists: Yael Bartana, Independent Artist (Israel) Griselda Pollock, Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, School of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies; and Director, Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory, and History, University of Leeds (United Kingdom) Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University
3 p.m.	Discussion and Closing Remarks Giuliana Bruno, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Speakers' Biographies

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Related Exhibitions

Inside/Out: The Geography of Gendered Space

In conjunction with the conference “Inside/Out: Exploring Gender and Space in Life, Culture, and Art,” the Institute’s Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America presents the exhibition Inside/Out: The Geography of Gendered Space (March 8, 2010–October 8, 2010), which will display items from the library’s collections to illuminate such questions as: What is gendered space? Can we make connections between the ways gender plays out in society and the spaces we occupy?

Gendered space can be analyzed across many disciplines, but feminist scholar Kerstin Shands boils it down to two major types: “bracing spaces” (spaces of resistance) and “embracing spaces” (safe or empowering spaces). This exhibit explores these types of spaces in relation to the domestic, urban, political, and artistic landscapes and is organized into four sections: private, public, political, and artistic.

Inhabit

Also in conjunction with “Inside/Out: Exploring Gender and Space in Life, Culture, and Art,” the Harvard University Graduate School of Design presents the exhibition Inhabit by independent artist and “Inside/Out” conference panelist Janine Antoni. Inhabit will be on display from March 22 to April 16, 2010, in Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.