Ketty La Rocca and Women Artists of the Italian Neo-avant-garde: Symposium CfP

One-day Symposium – Call for Papers

Ketty La Rocca and Women Artists of the Italian Neo-avant-garde

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 9.30 – 18.00

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London

Organised to coincide with the first UK museum exhibition dedicated to the artist’s brief yet stimulating career, Royal Holloway University of London and the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art invite 250-word proposals for cross-disciplinary papers of 20 minutes, or short work-in-progress papers of 10 minutes, taking the above themes as a starting point and exploring them in the context of art history and literary or cultural studies.

Themes for investigation might include, but are not limited to:

• New readings of La Rocca’s work
• Intermedia experimentation in Italy c. 1960–75
• Italian feminism in the 1960s and 1970s

All proposals should be sent to symposium@estorickcollection.com by 31 August 2025.

See the full Call for Paper below.