Please send an email to lesbiangaze-kunsthist@clutterunibas.ch (limited number of participants)

The workshop will bring participants into shared discussion of how art history has supported false taxonomical binarisms—in gender, genre, style, and content—and how we might undo these to have a richer understanding of both art and life. Readings will include essays by Ringelberg (two of which unpublished) as well as texts by David J. Getsy and Emma Heaney. In the second part of the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to contribute specific questions related to their own research that resonate with the workshop’s readings and themes.

Readings:
– Ringelberg, Kirstin. “Reading Cisheteronormativity into the Art Historical Archives.” Arts 13, Nr. 3 (2024): 89. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13030089

– Ringelberg, Kirstin. “Beyond Sex and Gender Binaries: The Floral Still Lives of Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928).” [draft]
– Ringelberg, Kirstin. “Introduction.” Chez Madeleine Lemaire: Gender and Genre in the Queer Belle Époque (in progress) [draft]
– Getsy, David J. “Capacity.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1, no. 1–2 (May 2014): 47–49.
– Heaney, Emma. “Introduction: Sexual Difference without Cisness.” In Feminism Against Cisness, edited by Emma Heaney, 1–33. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.

Kirstin Ringelberg is Professor of Art History in the Department of History & Geography at Elon University in North Carolina. Their book Redefining Gender in American Impressionist Studio Paintings: Work Place/Domestic Space was re-released in paperback in 2017. Recent articles include “Reading Cisheteronormativity into the Art Historical Archives” in Arts, spring 2024, “Trans visibility and trans viability: a Roundtable,” co-edited, with Jill Casid and Cyle Metzger, in the Journal of Visual Culture in 2022, and “Prismatic Views: a look at the growing field of transgender art and visual culture studies,” co-authored with Cyle Metzger in the Journal of Visual Culture in 2020. In 2024, Ringelberg was the Every Page Foundation Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, for work on their book-length project Chez Madeleine Lemaire: Gender and Genre in the Queer Belle Époque (in progress).