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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The final Helsinki Research on the Ancient World (HelRAW)
<span style="color:black">seminar of 2021 takes place on 13<sup>th</sup> December with Elina Pyy
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(Finnish Institute in Rome</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">)
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">and the talk
<i>“</i><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">I Speak Because I Can: Gender, Violence, and the Rewriting of Ancient Myth in Contemporary Pop Music.”</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Abstract</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">:
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">Sexual violence is among the most predominant themes in the Graeco-Roman narrative tradition. In Athenian tragedy, in Homeric epic, and in Roman historiography and poetry alike, rape wields great narrative significance
– it is an act that sets events in motion and defines the dynamics between humans and gods, and between peoples, cities, and states. It is noteworthy that the ancient rape tales often tell us more about the aggressor than about the survivor who tends to disappear
from the scene as soon as violence has served its narrative function. Intriguingly, this is the same phenomenon for which contemporary Western popular culture has been repeatedly accused: in both literature and screen fiction, sexual violence is used in abundance
to explain and motivate the male protagonists' actions, while the subjectivity of the survivors is often lacking entirely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">This presentation discusses contemporary writers and artists who seek to challenge this dominant storytelling tradition – by utilising the very mythology from which it stems. In this seminar, I explore what is known
as "feminist revisionist mythology": a narrative tradition that rewrites ancient myths of gender-based violence, often by putting emphasis on the survivors' viewpoint. While the influence of this tradition can nowadays be observed widely in literature, cinema,
and visual arts, I will here limit my discussion to its applications in the field of pop music. I examine select examples from Anglo-American (folk) pop, written and performed by female artists, where the events, characters, or topoi of Graeco-Roman mythology
are deliberately reinterpreted. With the help of these examples, I discuss how, through narratological choices concerning focalization and agency, victims have been metamorphosed into survivors and patriarchal myths into feminist fairytales of inclusion and
empowerment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">When: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">December 13<sup>th</sup> 2021 at 17.15<br>
<b>Where: </b>On Zoom<br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/69602868719?pwd=elI4djlvcXBuMzJwQytmWWRDOGpvdz09">https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/69602868719?pwd=elI4djlvcXBuMzJwQytmWWRDOGpvdz09</a>
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Meeting ID: 696 0286 8719 <br>
Passcode: 679918 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Event page:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/news/language-culture/online-helraw-elina-pyy-13.12.2021">https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/news/language-culture/online-helraw-elina-pyy-13.12.2021</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">About the speaker:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">Elina Pyy is the vice director of the Finnish institute in Rome. She has published several articles on gender and identity in Roman literature,
as well as the monographs "The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus" (Bloomsbury, 2018) and "Women and War in Roman Epic" (Brill, 2020). She is currently working on a classical reception studies project “Rewriting Rape: Narratives of Sexual Violence in Ancient Myth
and on the Contemporary Screen”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The event is a part of an interdisciplinary seminar series titled Helsinki Research on the Ancient World. This monthly seminar operates under the aegis of the
PapyGreek (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-grammar-of-greek-documentary-papyri"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-grammar-of-greek-documentary-papyri</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">)
and SpaceLaw (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.spacelaw.fi"><span lang="EN-US">www.spacelaw.fi</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">) projects.
The seminar is open for all.<br>
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Welcome!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">Mirkka Koskimäki<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="mailto:mirkka.koskimaki@helsinki.fi"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">mirkka.koskimaki@helsinki.fi</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">+358504679565
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">Tutkimusavustaja / Research assistant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition (</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="http://www.spacelaw.fi/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">www.spacelaw.fi</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">Siltavuorenpenger 1 A, huone / room 323<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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