Women, Power and Agency in Antiquity 7th Arachne Conference –24 October 2014

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Women, Power and Agency in Antiquity 7th Arachne Conference –24 October 2014
7th Arachne Conference
ARACHNE: Nordic Network for Gender Studies and Women’s History in Antiquity
Women, Power and Agency in Antiquity
University of Tampere, Finland 22–24 October 2014
Programme
Venue: Pinni B -building, address: Kanslerinrinne 1
WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER
09.00 Registration opens
10.00 Opening of the conference and Welcome
Marja-Leena Hänninen
Katariina Mustakallio
(auditorium B1096)
10.15 Keynote lecture I:
Sex lies and stereotypes: what can we do about Roman women?
Mary Harlow
(auditorium B1096)
11.00 Coffee (lobby buffet 1st floor)
Session I
(room B3109)
11.30–15.45
Female agency and civic life in Roman
Italy and the western provinces
Chair: Lena Larsson Lovén
Session II
(room B3110)
11.30–15.20
Sacral space and ritual practices
Chair: Marja-Leena Hänninen
11.30–11.55
Glenys Davies:
Re-thinking Roman attitudes in female
invisibility
11.30–11.55
Lindsey Mazurek:
In the guise of the goddess: gender, dress
and self-fashioning in the Egyptian cult
11.55–12.20
Coen van Galen:
Female citizenship and agency in Rome
11.55–12.20
Riccardo Bertolazzi:
Ob egregiam. Priestesses’ eugerteism in
Roman Africa.
12.20–12.45
Celine Chulsky:
A woman’s onomastical legacy – name’s
transmissions in Nemausus during the
Roman era
12.20–12.45
Meghan DiLuzio:
Sacerdotes Doctae: Women as ritual
experts in Ancient Rome
13.00 Lunch (restaurant Minerva, Pinni
B, 2nd floor)
13.00 Lunch (restaurant Minerva, Pinni
B, 2nd floor)
Session I cont.
Chair: Ria Berg
Session II cont.
Chair: Marja-Leena Hänninen
14.30–14.55
Erika Lindgren Liljenstolpe:
The importance of age for Roman
women’s music making
14.30–14.55
Outi Sihvonen:
Praestantissimae Patronae. Socioeconomical influence of the Vestal virgins
in the third century Rome
14.55–15.20
Berit Hildebrandt:
The power of representation: Aspects of
female status display in Roman imperial
times
14.55–15.20
Outi Lehtipuu:
Women leaders in early Christian
communities: An assessment of recent
scholarly trends.
15.20–15.45
Ville Vuolanto:
Women as supervisors of the minors in the
Roman Empire
15.45 Coffee (lobby buffet 1st floor)
16.15–17.00 Keynote lecture II:
Des femmes “puissantes” dans le théatre d'Euripide
Louise Bruit Zaidman
(auditorium B1096)
18.00-20.00 Reception at the university (Pinni B, 5th floor)
THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER
Session III
(room B3109)
10.00–11.55
Work, production and
female professional
identities
Chair: Arja Karivieri
Session IV
(room B3110)
10.00–11.55
Law, justice and legal
practices in Ancient
Greece
Chair: Agneta
Strömberg
Session V
(room B3111)
10.00–12.20
Power, empowerment
and status
Chair: Katariina
Mustakallio
10.00–10.25
Irene Cisneros Abellàn:
Stephanopólides, the
female garland-sellers
10.00-10.25
Elena Duce Pastor:
Women in Gortyn laws.
Women, who receive her
dowry, inherit from their
family and accept
marriage, a new
perspective from
Archaism in Crete
10.00–10.25
Birgitta LeppänenSjöberg:
Visible or non-visible: the
construction of gendered
public space and Athens
10.25–10.50
Maria Papadopoulou:
Women as yarn, cloth and
textile producers and
buyers in Ptolemaic Egypt
10.25–10.50
Laura Loddo:
Looking for a new
definition of women’s role:
Solonian laws about
women
10.25–10.50
Claude CentlivresChallet:
Behavioural power:
Roman women’s leverage
through public,
subordination or scandal
11.00 Coffee (lobby
buffet 1st floor)
11.00 Coffee (lobby
buffet 1st floor)
11.00 Coffee (lobby
buffet 1st floor)
11.30–11.55
Gretchen Meyers:
Women’s work: Artefacts
as evidence of female
craft and labour in Ancient
Etruria
11.30–11.55
Brenda Griffith-Williams:
Silent witnesses: The
testimony of women in the
courts of Classical Athens
11.30–11.55
Pia Mustonen:
Influential mistresses in
the imperial dynasties of
first century Rome
11.55–12.20
Caitlin Gillespie:
(S)mothering the state:
alimentary programs and
the dangers of moneyed
women
12.30 Lunch (restaurant Minerva, Pinni B, 2nd floor)
Session VI
(room B3109)
14.00–15.15
Household, economy
and wealth
Chair: Birgitta
Leppänen-Sjöberg
Session VII
(room B3110)
14.00–15.15
Demography, health and
well-being
Chair: Ville Vuolanto
Session VIII
(room B3111)
14.00–15.15
Power, empowerment
and status cont.
Chair: Outi Lehtipuu
14.00–14.25
Alexis Castor:
The agency of gold:
Women’s use of jewellery.
14.00–14.25
Rachel Plummer:
Family planning and
female agency in Rome
14.00–14.25
Sanna Joska:
Women as dedicators of
honorific monuments of
imperial children
14.25–14.50
Olakunbi Olasope:
Women as domestic
labourers in fifth century
BC Athens
14.25–14.50
Patricia Gonsàlez:
Physicians, contraception
and abortion in ancient
Rome
14.25–14.50
Irene Somà:
In the name of the mater:
metronymic
representation of Roman
emperors in public spaces
14.50–15.15
Ria Berg:
Custos domi: Women as
managers in Roman
domestic economy
14.50–15.15
Ada Nifosi:
The divine sage-femme:
Continuity and innovation
in the role of the midwife
in the Greco-Roman world
14.50–15.15
Elina Pyy:
Modest maidens, mighty
matrons: life-course and
social power on Roman
war-centred epic poetry
15.15 Coffee (lobby buffet 1st floor)
15.45–16.30 Poster session (lobby buffet 1st floor)
Sabrina Colabella
Coré Ferrer Alcantud
Agnès Garcia-Ventura
María José Martín Velasco
Jaakkojuhani Peltonen
19.00 Dinner (not included in the conference price)
Restaurant Finlayson Palace, address: Kuninkaankatu 1
FRIDAY 24 OCTOBER
Session IX
(room B3109)
10.00–11.15
Female agency and civic life in the
Greco-Roman East
Chair: Jussi Rantala
Session X
(room B3110)
10.00–10.50
Women in prehistoric Greece
Chair: Marjatta Nielsen
10.00–10.25
Arja Karivieri:
Priestesses and entrepreneurs – active
roles of women in Roman Athens
10.00–10.25
Lilah Grace Canevaro:
Homeric Women and the politics of objects
10.25–10.50
Irene Salvo:
Greek women as cursers: the social power
of ritual actions.
10.25–10.50
Ann-Louise Schallin:
Mycenaean female figurines as evidence
for female gendered bodies
10.50–11.15
Mattia Vitelli Casella:
The Romanization of the province of
Dalmatia through the women’s inscriptions.
11.30 Concluding words
Marja-Leena Hänninen
Katariina Mustakallio
(auditorium B1096)
12.00 Lunch (restaurant Minerva, Pinni B, 2nd floor)

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