Celebrating Carolee Schneemann’s Archives at Stanford
Upcoming Event: October 20 – 21, 2025
In celebration of the one year anniversary of the digitization of Carolee Schneemann’s diaries, Stanford University Libraries and the Carolee Schneemann Foundation will be hosting a two-day series of events honoring the artist’s legacy from October 20-21, 2025.
This event follows the acquisition of additional archival materials preserved by the Schneemann Foundation, building upon the original acquisition of the Carolee Schneemann Papers from the artist in 2012.
The Celebrating Carolee Schneemann’s Archives at Stanford event schedule is as follows:
Monday, October 20, 2025
Viewing of the Carolee Schneemann Diaries: 2:30 - 4 pm
Keynote and Panel Discussion on Carolee Schneemann with Peggy Phelan and Kenneth White: 5 -7:30 pm
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Discussion on Working with the Schneemann Archive with Katie Anania and Dejan Vasic: 2 - 4 pm
Screening of Fuses (1967), Plumb Line (1971), and Viet-Flakes (1965)(16mm), co-hosted by Canyon Cinema: 5 - 6:30 pm
About the speakers:
Peggy Phelan is the Ann O’Day Maples Chair in the Arts Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and English at Stanford University. She is the author of numerous books and essays, including Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (Routledge, 1993); Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories (Routledge, 1997); Art and Feminism (Phaidon, 2001), and, with Richard Meyer, Contact Warhol: Photography without End (MIT, 2021).
Kenneth White is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Visual Studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. He earned a BFA in Film from Syracuse University and a PhD in Art History-Film and Media Studies from Stanford University.
Dejan Vasić is an art historian and curator of late modern and contemporary art and moving image media, specializing in conceptual art and the transnational avant-garde. Vasić has been a member of the International Association of Art Critics AICA since 2012, and he served on the Program Advisory Board of AICA-Serbia from 2020-2023. Vasić earned a BA and an MA from the University of Belgrade. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.
Katie Anania is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the author of Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America (Yale, 2024). Her work draws upon environmental art history, feminism, and queer theory to articulate the ways in which ideas emerge from outside Western aesthetic canons. Anania earned a BA from the University of Nevada and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.
The Celebrating Carolee Schneemann’s Archives at Stanford event is sponsored by the Special Collections Department of Stanford University Libraries, the Art and Art History Department, the Dept of Theater and Performance Studies, and the Dept of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.