About Eugesta

EuGeStA is an international network which brings together European researchers working from the perspectives developed in Gender Studies in different disciplinary fields of Antiquity : literature, philosophy, history, history of art, history of religion, law, medicine, economics, archaeology…

The institutional members of EuGeStA are the universities of

Basel (Lead: Henriette Harich), Bern (Lead:Thomas Späth), Exeter (Lead: Rebecca Langlands), Fribourg (Lead: Véronique Dasen), Lille (lead: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Florence Klein), Manchester (Lead: Alison Sharrock), Munich (Lead: Therese Fuhrer), the Open University (Lead : James Robson), Paris 1 (Lead: Violaine Sebillotte-Cuchet), Toronto (Lead: Alison Keith), Turin (Lead: Federica Bessone) and UCLA (Lead: Giulia Sissa).

There are two kinds of activities undertaken :

  • the organisation of seminars rotating between the partner universities of the network
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  • the maintenance of a website which is concerned to promote contacts and exchanges between researchers and students.


Editor: JACQUELINE FABRE-SERRIS
Scientific committee: FEDERICA BESSONE, CLAUDE CALAME, VERONIQUE DASEN, THERESE FUHRER, HENRIETTE HARICH, ALISON KEITH, HELEN KING, REBECCA LANGLANDS, ALISON SHARROCK, VIOLAINE SEBILLOTTE-CUCHET, GIULIA SISSA, THOMAS SPAETH

How about

  • The Women’s Classical Committee UK is pleased to announce its 2024 Annual General Meeting, ‘Labour and Rest‘, on Friday 3rd May 2024, at Durham University. The day will feature a keynote talk by Professor Edith Hall (Durham), as well as a series of short spotlight talks. 

    The AGM will be held in a hybrid format: please register for the event on TicketSource
    If you select to attend via Zoom, you will receive details closer to the date.

    People of any gender expression or identity who support the WCC UK’s aims are welcome to attend this event, and more information on this can be found on our website: wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/about-us/
    Around the website you can also find more information on the Women’s Classical Committee UK, including our aims and activities and how to join.
     

  • "Who’s That Girl?- Portraits of Hetairai between Hellenistic and Imperial Ages",
    Conference organized by Effrosyni Tsakou and Roberto Di-Tuccio at the University of Duhram, June 20 and 21, 2024
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  • Programme of the Oxford Classics faculty research seminar in languages and literature. The theme is 'Taboos and Transitions: Exploring Sexualities and Genders in the Ancient Tradition'
    The regular seminar will be 4-5.30pm on Fridays in the Ioannou Centre Lecture Theatre, 66 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LU
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Publications

  • V. Moro, Il teatro della polis. Filosofia dell'agonismo tragico, Pisa: ETS, 2024.
     
  • Brill, S. and Mc. Keen, C. (2024) The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy, London.
     
  • Boulègue, L. (forthcoming), Equicola, Mario, De mulieribus/Des femmes, intr. et éd. L. Boulègue, trad. L. Boulègue et L. Claire, notes L. Boulègue, M. Brouillet, N. Catellani, L. Claire, A. Duru, A. Lamy, Paris, Les Belles Lettres (coll. « Les Classiques de l’humanisme »).
     
  • Emily Hemelrijk, Women and Society in the Ancient World, Cambridge, July 2023, new paperback edition.
     
  • Cornwell A. and G. Woolf (2023) Gendering Roman Imperialism, Brill, Leiden.
     
  • Pope, M. (2023) Lucretius and the End of Masculinity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
     
  • Racette-Campbell, M. (2023) The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus, Wisconsin studies in classics, Madison.

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Call for papers

  • Call for expressions of interest: An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature by Women
    For the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies, which we co-edit, we are planning an anthology of Neo-Latin Literature by women from the time of Petrarch to 1800.
    We invite expressions of interest in contributing to such a volume, and also suggestions for items for inclusion and the names of potential contributors.
    Please contact both of us simultaneously with any suggestions and / or expressions of interest in contributing (stephen.harrisonccc.ox.acuk and g.manuwalducl.acuk) by 31 March 2024.
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  • Call for workshop participants: Queer, feminist, and decolonial approaches to gender, sexuality and Roman Imperialism
    Institute of Classical Studies, London - October 2024
    Please submit titles and abstracts of up to 250 words, along with your name and affiliation, to romansexualityworkshopgmailcom by Friday, April 5, 2024.
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