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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI">Hei / Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI">muistuttaisin ystävällisesti maanantaina 13.12. klo 17.15 pidettävästä tämän syksyn viimeisestä Helsinki Research on Ancient World (HelRAW) -seminaarista.
</span>Puhujana on Elina Pyy (Suomen Rooman-instituutti) otsikolla <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I Speak Because I Can: Gender, Violence, and the Rewriting of Ancient Myth in Contemporary Pop Music</span></em><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">.</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI">Abstrakti ja linkki Zoomiin löytyvät alla olevasta viestistä.
</span>Tervetuloa mukaan!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to kindly remind you on this semester’s last Helsinki Research on Ancient World (HelRAW) seminar on Mon 13<sup>th</sup> December at 17:15. Elina Pyy (Finnish Institute in Rome) will be speaking on:
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I Speak Because I Can: Gender, Violence, and the Rewriting of Ancient Myth in Contemporary Pop Music.</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The abstract and link to Zoom are in the message below. Welcome!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ystävällisin terveisin / With kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mira Harjunpää<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Koskimäki, Mirkka E M <mirkka.koskimaki@helsinki.fi>
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<b>Sent:</b> 30. marraskuutata 2021 15.11<br>
<b>To:</b> antiquitas@lists.utu.fi<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Antiquitas] HelRAW seminar 13.12: Elina Pyy, "I Speak Because I Can: Gender, Violence, and the Rewriting of Ancient Myth in Contemporary Pop Music.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></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 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>Abstract</b>: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">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></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">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></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><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Event page:
</span></b><a href="https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/news/language-culture/online-helraw-elina-pyy-13.12.2021"><span lang="EN-US">https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/news/language-culture/online-helraw-elina-pyy-13.12.2021</span></a><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">About the speaker:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span>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></p>
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<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><a href="https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-grammar-of-greek-documentary-papyri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-grammar-of-greek-documentary-papyri</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">)
and SpaceLaw (</span><a href="http://www.spacelaw.fi"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">www.spacelaw.fi</span></a><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"><a href="mailto:mirkka.koskimaki@helsinki.fi"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">mirkka.koskimaki@helsinki.fi</span></a><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><a href="http://www.spacelaw.fi/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">www.spacelaw.fi</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI" 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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