Invited keynote speakers for the International Conference Penetrable / Traversable / Habitable: Exploring spatial environments by women artists in the 1960s and 1970s, to take place at Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, on the 19th and 20th of May:

Catherine de Zegher, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium

International curator, art historian and art critic, Catherine de Zegher is currently the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (Belgium). She was the artistic co-director of the 18^th Sydney Biennale, in 2012, and she was also the curator for the Australian Pavilion in the 55^th Venice Biennale, in 2013. Catherine de Zegher’s most recent book is an anthology of collected essays on contemporary women artists: Women’s Work. Is Never Done.

Jenni Sorkin, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Jenni Sorkin is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She writes on the intersection between gender, material culture, and contemporary art. Her book, Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community (University of Chicago Press) will be published in April of 2016. This project examines the confluence of gender, artistic labor, and the history of post-war ceramics. She has published widely as an art critic, and her writing has appeared in the New Art Examiner, Art Journal, Art Monthly, East of Borneo, NU: The Nordic Art Review, Frieze, The Journal of Modern Craft,Modern Painters and Third Text.