March 13-14: In person participation at Oxford University and online;

March 15: Fully online

Women who Create: The Feminine and the Arts

A Transdisciplinary Conference

March 13-15, 2027

Where:

March 13-14: In person participation at Oxford University and online

March 15: Fully online

Fees (for both presenters and attendees):

195 GBP (in person)

100 GBP (Online)

Prices exclude booking fees

Abstract: Deadline January 15, 2027

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

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.

Submission Guidelines: Abstracts should be submitted through https://forms.gle/ncHguxFZYTdogNf4A (https://forms.gle/ncHguxFZYTdogNf4A) by January 15, 2027.

Conference fee (for in person participation) includes:

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

Contact Information:

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

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