International conference
Nordic Network for Women’s History and Gender Studies in Antiquity Gender, Identities, and Social Structures in Greco-Roman Antiquity
8-10 November 2023, Via Omero 14 and Via Garibaldi 31, Rome
Conference fee: €150, with a reduced rate of €80 for students and doctoral students.
WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER
Swedish Institute, Via Omero 14
13.30 Registration
14.00 Welcome address in the Institute’s library: Ulf R. Hansson, director of the Swedish Institute
14.10 Key note I: Glenys Davies: Women on Trajan’s Column
15.10–16.00 Session I (Library): Aspects of masculininty in classical and post-classical Athens
15.10 Noah Wellington: The City’s Sons: Elite Athenian Manhood in the Late Fifth Century BCE
15.35 Suvi Kuokkanen: Ideals of Manliness in the Description of Post-Periclean Politicians in Athens
16.00 COFFEE
16.20–17.30 Session II (Library): Roman men and women; age, power and gender
16.20 Karen K. Hersch: Tanaquil Rex? Rome’s First Queen
16.45 Christian Laës: When the Emperor Gets Old: Old Age and Authority in Imperial Rome
17.10 Pia Mustonen: The Afterlife of Livia, Diva Augusta.
17.45 Session III (Library): Poster presentations
Ludivine Capra: Tools and Gender. Study of Women’s Craft Practices in Gaul 1st-3rd cent. A.D.
Eva Astyrakaki: Dionysius Halicarnassus’ Roman Archaeology: The Roman Origin Revised
Ella Sahivirta: Women Behind the Scenes of Church Politics: The Influence of the Aventine Community in Early Catholic Church of the Late 4th Century
Iida Huitula: Diversity of Identities: Understanding Jewish Polytheism
18.30 RECEPTION WITH BUFFET
THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER
Moring: Swedish Institute, Via Omero 14
09.15–11.00 Session IV (Library): Work, social status and professional rules
09.15 Birgitta Leppänen Sjöberg: Spatial Coercion: The Unfree Female Workforce of the Greek oikos
09.40 Giulia Cappucci: Through the Lens of Epigraphy: Servae Owned by Women in the Epitaphs From Early Imperial Rome (Late I Century BCE–Early III Century CE)
10.05 Joonas Vanhala: Occupational Hazards: Professional Steteotypes in Martial
10.30. Angeles Alonso Alonso: Women and medical occupation in ancient Rome: Problems and recognition
09.15–11.00 Session V (Auditorium): Gender, body language and bodily boundaries
09.15 Ria Berg: The Chair: Seats as Gender-bound status markers in Roman Antiquity
09.40 John Starks: The Voice of Experience: Female Singers and Gendered Power in Hellenic Performance Culture
10.05 Elina Pyy: Boundaries of the Body: Sexual and Non-Sexual Violence Against Women in Roman Society and Culture
10.30 Andrea Nyholm: Leda and the Swan in Roman Wall-Painting: Eroticism and Power in the Cubicula
11.00 COFFEE
11.30–13.15 Session VI (Library): Religion, magic, and dreams in the Greco-Roman world
11.30 Irene Salvo: Auntie, Where are Thou? Unearthing Female Kin Bonding in Greek Religion
11.55 Dina Gillham: A Comparison of Vestal Virgins and Christian Consecrated Virgins in Rome: Exploration of Social Status, Limitations, and Benefits
Practices in Pre-Roman Societies
12.20 Arja Karivieri: The Magical Power of Hair in the Roman World
12.45 Jamie Vesterinen: Women’s Dreams in Greco-Roman Historiographical, Biographical and Geographical Literature
11.30–13.15 Session VII (Auditorium): Gender, ethnic and social identities
11.30 Maureen Carroll: Women’s Dress, Gender, and Identity in Southern Italy in the Fourth Century B.C.
11.55 Ellen Siljedahl: Cooking and Preparing Food – Examining Gender and Ethnicity Through Everyday Practices in Pre-Roman Societies
12.20 Judit Pásztókai-Szeőke: Roman Imperialism, Wardrobe Studies and Changing Pannonian Identities
12.45 Jesper Carlsen: Gender, Identities and Social Structures Among Imperial Slaves and Freedmen in Roman Carthage
13.15 LUNCH (served at the Swedish Institute)
Afternoon: Finnish Institute, Via Garibaldi 31
16.15 Welcome address: Ria Berg, director of the Finnish Institute
16.30 Key note II: Marjatta Nielsen Etruscan Women and Their Social Network
17.30 WINE RECEPTION (served at the Finnish Institute, Via Garibaldi 31)
FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER
Swedish Institute, Via Omero 14
09.30–12.30 Session VIII (Library): Greek and Roman masculinity and feminity in religion, philosophy and literature
09.30 Eleni Papadogiannaki: The Phrygian Slave in Euripides
9.55 Johan Vekselius: Self-Control on and Beyond Plutarch’s Lives
10.20 Jussi Rantala: Fighting the Enemy, Lacking Masculinity in Roman Historical Narrative
10.45 COFFEE
11.15 Jaakkojuhani Peltonen: Views of Effeminacy and Gendered Ideology of War in Roman Literature
11.40 Antonios Pontoropoulos: Letters and Representations of Female Voices in Late Antique Rewritings of the Alexander Romance
12.05 Maria Jokela: Procopius and the Women of the Anecdota
09.30–12.30 Session IX (Auditorium): Gender, agency and Roman social identities
09.30 Marja-Leena Hänninen: The Agency of Non-Élite Women in Urban Society of Ostia in the Early Imperial Period
09.55 Kaius Tuori: Female Agency in the Legal Sphere: Spatial Analysis of the Roman Republican Evidence
10.20 Tuomo Nuorluoto: Names as Social Markers for Women in Ancient Rome
10.45 COFFEE
11.15 Alessandra Valentini: Agrippina the Elder, caelesti sanguine orta
11.40 Katariina Mustakallio: Domestic Space, Time and Gender in Varro’s De Agricultura
12.05 Lewis Webb: Cives Romanae Embodied: Ordo matronarum and Female Citizenship in Republican Rome
12.45 CONCLUDING REMARKS (Library)
Jesper Carlsen & Maureen Carroll
13.15 LUNCH (served at the Swedish Institute)
