Warsztaty Understanding Ancient Women: New Approaches from Material Texts

W dniach 17-18 maja odbędą się warsztaty Understanding Ancient Women: New Approaches from Material Texts, organizowane przez Karolinę Frank (Uniwersytet Warszawski) i Grace Stafford (Uniwersytet Wiedeński, wcześniej CRAC fellow). Warsztaty odbędą się w Sali Kolumnowej na Wydziale Historycznym UW. Wszystkich zainteresowanych historią starożytnych kobiet oraz studiami nad źródłami epigraficznymi i papirologicznymi zapraszamy do udziału w spotkaniu i dyskusji.

 

PROGRAM:

Friday 17 May:

13.00 – 13.30 Karolina Frank (Warsaw)/Grace Stafford (Vienna): Welcome

13.30 – 14.15 Grace Stafford (Vienna): Ancient Women and Material Texts: A Methodological Introduction

14.15 – 15.00 Rachael Helen Banes (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Gendering Graffiti: Establishing Female Authorship, Presence and Behaviours in Greek Graffiti from Late Antiquity

— Break —

15.30 – 16.15 Sofia Bianchi Mancini (Erfurt): Women in Sicilian Legal Curses and Their Role in the Lawcourts

16.15 – 17.00 Marina Bastero Acha (Warsaw): Women at the Table: A Methodological Approach to Roman Banquets and Women’s Benefaction through Epigraphic Sources

 

Saturday 18 May:

10.00 – 10.45 Karolina Frank (Warsaw): Juxtaposing Formats: Studying Epirote Women through Personal and Public Epigraphic Texts (5th – 1st c. BCE)

10.45 – 11.30 Beatrice Pestarino (Liverpool): Women’s Sacrifices in Classical Cyprus? The Kition Tariff Revisited according to a Brelichian Approach

— Break —

12.00 – 12.45 Nuna Terri (Brussels): Choosing Thekla: Women’s Devotions Through Name-Giving and Name-Taking Practices from Inscriptions in Rough Cilicia

12.45 – 13.30 Anna Kelley (St Andrews): Violence and Social Bonds in Roman and Late Antique Egyptian Papyri: Women as Victims, Perpetrators, and Adjudicators

— Lunch —

14.30 – 15.15 Karolina Tomczyszyn (Oxford): ‘Here lies Dulis, the nun’: Shedding Light on Female Urban Asceticism in the Late Antique East through Inscriptions

15.15 – 16.00 Eugenia Vitello (Oxford): Women at the Intersection between Production and Euergetism: The Case of Roman Hierapolis

— Final discussion and wrap up —