Study Groups

Batya Weinbaum is offering study groups on radical feminist theorists such as Shulamith Firestone, at a suggested donation of $300 to get through a series of 8 sessions. Donations can be made through the gofundme page at the beginning of the study group or on a session-by-session basis.

Workshops

We are delighted to announce the workshop series hosted by members of the Femspec community!

All workshops meet 4 times for 1 hour each via Zoom. Registration is a flat fee of $150 and includes registration for all four sessions. You can also pay for individual sessions. Please see below.

If you would like to host a workshop, please see our call for workshops.

Workshops Currently Enrolling

Chiara Fumai: a medium for powerful female voices

Conceived and led by Giulia Palladini

Dates and time:

 February 9, 2026

 February 16, 2026

 February 23, 2026

 March 2, 2026

5pm CST< 6pm EST

Registration date: Jan 15, 2026

Workshop description:

Chiara Fumai: a medium for powerful female voices

The workshop explores the interdisciplinary work of Italian artist Chiara Fumai, a feminist practice spanning from performance to visual art, and functioning as vehicle for resurrecting or channelling female figures historically condemned to shame or oblivion for diverse reasons: spiritualists like Eusapia Palladino, militants like Ulrike Meinhof, circus and side-show performers like Zalumma Agra and Annie Jones, feminist activists like Carla Lonzi, Valerie Solanas and Rosa Luxemburg. Playing with the figure of the medium, the

ventriloquist, and the shaman, in her work Chiara Fumai embodied and reactivated the powerful disobedience all those figures stood for, while establishing a critical and creative dialogue with her legacy.

Day 1: Introduction to Chiara Fumai’s work
Day 2: Focus on a selection of Fumai’s performances and on of key figures she embodied or
conjured in her work: Eusapia Palladino, Carla Lonzi, Ulrike Meinhof, Valerie Sonalas,
Zalumma Agra, Annie Jones.
Day 3: Discussion of Fumai’s approach to her role as ‘medium’ and her methodology of
research and creation
Day 4: Task-based critical and creative exercise based on Fumai’s methodology of work,
and responding to the idea of the artist as ‘medium’.

Bio:

Giulia Palladini is a writer, educator and curator currently based in Mexico City. Originally from Italy, for the past fifteen years, she has worked internationally developing projects in the art world and in academia: she was a Visiting Scholar at NYU, an Alexander von

Humboldt fellow in Berlin and Senior Lecturer in Performance at the University of Roehampton in London. She has presented her work in numerous art institutions, such as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Tate Modern in London, the Museum Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Museo Miguel Urrutia in Bogotà. She curated a number of projects fostering a dialogue between artistic practice and critical reflection, such as 'Feminismos Antipatriarcales and Poetic Disobedience' (UK 2021), 'Antidotes: thinking live arts in the political landscape'(Mexico, 2024) and 'Rumbos de vida' (Italy, 2024), and collaborated as dramaturg and critical theorist with artists like Mapa Teatro, Sara Leghissa, Monica Mayer, Vlatka Horvat. Some examples of her published work include the book 'The Scene of Foreplay: Theatre, Labor and Leisure in 1960s New York' (2017), the edited collection 'Lexicon for an Affective Archive' (2017), and numerous essays written or translated in various languages. In 2025, Giulia is Radio Art Fellow at Wave Farm (Acra, NY), where she is developing a project on sound archives of resistance. Together with Michal Kobialka and Bryce Lease, she is editor of the Routledge series 'Staging Difficult Pasts'.

Intended audience:

The intended audience for this workshop includes artists, writers and researchers of all ages, especially those interested in visual and performance art, and in feminist thought and history. The workshop will also appeal to those interested in the figure of the ‘medium’,

and in ways in which epistemological traditions like spiritualism, and occultism emerge in contemporary feminist art.