Official conferences

Conferences and Workshops will be organized, once or twice a year, by zoom and in a hybrid form on different themes related to three major approaches.

1. Gender Studies in Antiquity from the 70s to today: biographies of scholars and discussions on major approaches and works
    
2. On the renewed approaches and innovative perspectives in Gender Studies in the different disciplinary fields
   
   First conference in December 2024 organized by J. Fabre-Serris and F. Klein
    
3. How to de-construct stereotypes and prejudices in traditional approaches in Antiquity?

Other Events

The network resulting from the project will encourage other collaborative works (meetings, books, papers…) left to the free initiative of each researcher.

1) Cycle of meetings

A cycle of meetings is one of the activities of the Project EuGeStA Gender Studies and Classical Scholarship. It consists of a cycle of four online meetings (by zoom) throughout the year, in order to publicize publications related to Gender and Classics. 

Each session will last 1h20 (extended to 1h30 min, if necessary) and will include 2 publications presented by their authors and/or organizers. The sessions will be recorded, and it will be broadcast on the YouTube channel connected to the Project website.

Link to the Youtube channel.

The sessions will always have this structure:

• 5 min: Chair: Introduction: General information about the program, the guest researchers and the subject of the session.
• 15 min. First speaker(s)
• 15 min. Second speaker(s) 
• 10 min:  respondent/commentator of the first speaker(s)
• 10 min:  respondent/commentator of the first speaker(s)
• 25 min. general discussion between speakers and public (questions and comments by chat)

Very important: the respondent will concentrate on important aspects of the book, of its subject or thesis (she/he will not present a detailed analysis or review).

This series of meetings will be chaired in its first year by Maria Cecilia de Miranda N. Coelho, (Philosophy/Federal University of Minas Gerais) one of organizers it and a member of the editorial committee of this project coordinated by Jacqueline Serris-Fabre (University of Lille).

First session: March 8 (Friday, Women's Day)

Hour: 11h (USA/NYC GMT -5) – 13h (South America/Belo Horizonte GMT -3) – 17h (Europe/France GMT+

• Speaker(s) 1:
  Sara Brill and Catherine McKeen (editors) The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy    
• Speaker(s) 2:  Emily Hauser, author How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature.  
• Respondent 1: Brooke Holmes 
• Respondent 2: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris  (Coordinator of the Project EuGeStA Gender Studies and Classical Scholarship)
•  Chair: Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho

 To receive the zoom link feel this google form (link), until March 1

> See the poster

Second Session: May 17 (Friday)

Hour: 10h (USA/NYC GMT -5) – 12h (South America/Belo Horizonte GMT -3) – 16h (Europe/France GMT+1)

• Speaker1: Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (editor) Ancient Greek Women in Film  
• Speaker2:  Ivan Vieira Neto (co-editor)  Compêndio Histórico de Mulheres da Antiguidade
• Respondent 1: Renata Garraffoni Coordinator of Antigas conexões 
• Respondent 2:Sarah Azevedo Coordinator of Messalinas
•   Chair: Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho

Technical assistance:
Caio Franco Assunção (undergradute student in Philosophy/Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Daniela Brinati  (PhD Student in Philosophy/Federal University of Minas Gerais)

2) The series of 2 Days Meetings

2 Days Meetings will be organized on various topics. Each program will bring together 8 participants from different geographical areas: 4 participants on Friday and 4 participants on Saturday (see the suggested meeting format)

All network’s members interested in organizing a 2 Days-meeting are free to choose the topic, participants, date, and language(s).

Participants are encouraged to share their screen when reading their papers to enable better understanding of the audience especially if different languages are used during these 2 Days Meetings.

To propose a 2 Days-meeting, send an email to J. Fabre-Serris

Papers can be collected by the organizers into special issues, submitted to the journals of their choice.

2024

Ovid and the feminisms, organized by J. Fabre-Serris and A. Keith, 26-27 April
(Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Alison Keith, Sara Lindheim, Simona Martorana, Carole Newlands, Ellen Oliensis, Alison Sharrock, Thea Sellias Thorsen)

As noted by Alison Sharrock, “Ovidian corpus provides a particularly rich site for gendered study”. Since the 70s, Ovid’s work has been examined from various perspectives: portraits of women, constructions of femininity and masculinity, motherhood, sexuality, women’s writing, female voices/silence, rape and violence, female cults, love relations, queer theory, social interactions, reception in literature and cinema, and more recently, postcolonialism, ecofeminism, posthumanism.

This mini-meeting brings together European and North-American researchers, who will focus on how Ovid’s work has been discussed and can be today discussed in relation with the ‘feminisms’, understood in a broad sense as the different ways in which feminist/gender perspectives at different times have been developed in reading ancient male authors.

> Access this event by Zoom

> See the program of this event "Ovid and the feminism" (PDF, 123 Ko)
> See the abstracts of this event "Ovid and the feminism" (PDF, 254 Ko)

Women and Roman historiography, organized by Lewis Webb and Olivia Elder – date to precise.

La violenza contro le donne. Storie, memorie, trasmissioni, organized by Beatrice Girotti and Alessandra Valentini, October 2024.

2025

Topic to precise - organized by S. Azevedo and M. Cavichioli – March

Antiquity and Masculinities, organized by Alastair Blanshard and Filippo Carlà-Uhinc (date to precise).

If you are interested in organizing a 2-Days meeting, please send an email to Jacqueline Fabre-Serris

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