[Antiquitas] Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, social and cultural perspectives, Monday, May 4, 2026 University of Helsinki

[Tuori, Kaius T]

Hei!

Ohessa toukokuun 4. järjestettävän "Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome” workshopin ohjelma. Workshop myös striimataan, linkki jaetaan myöhemmin ennen tapahtumaa. 

Tapahtumaan on vapaa pääsy ja toivomme runsasta osanottoa! 

Järjestelytoimikunnan puolesta,

Kaius Tuori

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Monday, May 4, 2026
University of Helsinki 
Main building, U3039

Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, social and cultural perspectives

10-11.15 keynote: Prof. Christian Laes: Women and disabilities in Antiquity: between presentism and daily life 

11.30-13.00 session 1: Disabled Women in the Roman Narratives 

Sofia Vierula: The case of Harpaste - Lived experience of disability in Seneca’s letter to Lucilius 

*Mathilde Chartrand: The Daily Life of a Furiosa: On the Gendered Consequences of Mental Illness

Fran Geldard: Enslavement and Disability in Eusebian Martyr Narrative

Lunch

14.00-15.30 session 2: Women, Disability and Roman Law

*Arnaud Paturet: Some Reflections on the Status of Deaf People by Roman Jurists 

Kaius Tuori: "Infirmity and monstrosity: on the legal construction of female disability in law"

Jana Mauri Marlborough: Against All Odds: The Legal Position of Wet Nurses in Roman Law

Coffee

16.00-17.30 session 3: Intersections of Gender and Disability in Late Antiquity 

Gaetana Balestra: Muta puella fuit. The Mute Woman between tutela mulierum and Justinian's Legislation.

*Elena Pezzato Heck: Mental Illness as Grounds for Repudiation in Late Antiquity and the Justinian Era

Arttu Alaranta: Vulnerable Life-Cycle Moments and Disabilities in Women’s Asceticism during Late Antiquity