[Antiquitas] ISSEI: Images of Women and Reconstruction of Gender, 30.-312.7.2008

[Katariina Mustakallio]

The workshop "Images of Women and Reconstruction of Gender in Classical,
Pre-Modern and Early Modern Literary and Historical Imagination" will take
place on Wednesday 30 July and Thursday 31 July at the University of  
Helsinki.  On both days the workshop will be held in the main building  
of the University of
Helsinki, Auditorium IV.

Maximum length of time for presentation of paper - 20 minutes for the
presentation and 10 minutess for the discussion.

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Images of Women and Reconstruction of Gender in Classical, Pre-Modern  
and Early Modern Literary and Historical Imagination

Chairs: Liisa Savunen and Katariina Mustakallio
Wed. July 30 and Thurs. July 31, 9:15 - 13.00
University Main Building, Old Wing AUD IV

July 30, WIVES, MOTHERS , AND OTHERS at 9.15-13.00
Welcome addresses and introduction by the chairs
1. Tognazzi, Giada (Siena), The Bride in Ancient Greece: an Analysis  
through Wedding
compositions
2. Hiekkalinna, Tiina (Turku), Speaking Women and Gender Construction  
in Greek Literary
Anecdotes
3. Hänninen, Marja-Leena (Helsinki), Severae matres - images of Roman  
women during the
Second Punic War

Coffee Break

4. Lankila, Tuomo (Helsinki), Opposed Images of Theodora
5. Kuuliala, Jenni (Tampere), From Child-Eating striges to Devoted  
Mothers. The Image of
Women with Children in Medieval Folklore
6. Gomes, Joana (Porto), The Good, the Bad and the Villain: Gender of  
Ethics in Chronica Najerensis and Hollywood's El Cid
Discussion

July 31, MASCULINITY - FEMININITY etc.at 9.15-13.00
1. Rauhala, Marika (Oulu), Manliness Hanging in the Balance:  
Expressions of Gendered
Behaviour in Classical Greek Literature
2. Rantala, Jussi (Tampere), `Call me not Lord, for I am a Lady' -  
Emperor Elagabal and
the Problem of Gender in the History of Cassius Dio
3. Ferrera de Rosário, Maria (Coimbra), Urraca of Castille and Teresa  
of Portugal:
Engrams of a forsaken paradigm
4. Neeman, Harold (Wyoming), Early-Modern French Feminine Narratives

Coffee Break

5. Koptev, Aleksandr (Tampere/Helsinki), Female Image in Male Society:  
the Story of
Virtuous Lucretia
6. Koponen, Anu (Roma/Helsinki), Roman Women and Dining
7. Toivo, Raisa (Tampere), What Happened when Literature Came into  
Witchcraft History?
Closing Discussion
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Liisa Savunen & Katariina Mustakallio
Workshop chairs

Emails
liisa.savunen at helsinki.fi
katariina.mustakallio at uta.fi






-- 
Katariina Mustakallio, yliopistonlehtori, University Lecturer,
Historiatieteen ja filosofian laitos - Department of History and Philosophy
Tampereen yliopisto - 33014 University of Tampere, Finland