Studyday ARAHAB-KAAKB

Invitation

Belarthis invites you to its next study day, ‘Precursors: Legacies and Perspectives on Gender Issues in Art History,’ organised by A. Malevez and L. Vancampenhoudt on 22 May 2026 at the Royal Academy of Belgium.

The programme and various practical details will be published here shortly.

Spread the word and join us in large numbers.

Your presence is important for the debate we wish to build and share.

Raising the issue of women and gender in art history is not a current fashion or a passing trend. These are rich and complex issues that have been developed over a long period of research, exhibition practices and outreach. But the memory of women’s history and those who write it is fragmentary and precarious. As art historians, we need precursors in order to establish ourselves within a lineage of practices, thoughts and knowledge. We hope that the study day ‘Precursors: Legacies and perspectives on gender issues in art history’ will be a space for dialogue. It brings together both the researchers who have opened up and consolidated the field of women’s history, gender issues and feminism in art history in Belgium over the last twenty-five years, and those who continue to explore these areas of research.