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Conférence internationale – « Growing up Motherless in Antiquity », Bâle

« Growing up Motherless in Antiquity »motherless
Basel/Switzerland from May 26-28 2016

The last forty years have witnessed a vast reclamation project in ancient history, as scholars have worked to recover the lives of historically muted groups, particularly those of women and children. The result is an impressive body of work collecting the traces ancient women and children have left behind, as well as a sophisticated epistemology of the biases, gaps, and silences in the historical record. From this perspective, the absence of ancient mothers has represented an ineluctable reality and a methodological hurdle, but rarely a subject of study in its own right. Yet the evidence suggests that mother absence was not merely a secondary artifact of bias or artistic and historiographical conventions; it was also a primary condition of antiquity, one whose root causes, social articulations, and psychological effects have never been fully described or explored, even as it had a profound effect on ancient family life and the experience of childhood.

Attendance is free of charge, however, please contact Sabine Huebner (sabine.huebner@unibas.ch) for registration or any questions.

Program of the conference:

THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2016

15:30 SABINE R . HUEBNER (Basel ): Welcome and Introductory remarks

 PANEL 1: DEMOGRAPHY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

16:00 TOSHA DUPRAS (Central Florida): Maternal mortality and orphans: A bioarchaeological assessment of growing up motherless in ancient Egypt
16:30 CHRISTIAN LAES (Antwerp / Tampere): Crucial and vital decisions: Caring for infants after mother’s death in childbed
17:00 DAVID M. RATZAN (New York University): The economics and outsourcing of ancient mother-work
17:30 General Discussion

18:00 Reception at Departement für Altertumswissenschaften (“Rosshof”), Petersgraben 51

FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2016

PANEL 2: THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE

9:30 RENÉ BLOCH (Bern): Moses: Motherless with two mothers
10:00 SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ (Fordham): Mourning for mother: The topography of mother absence in rabbinic literature and piyyut
10:30 General Discussion

11:00 Coffee Break

PANEL 3: THE GREEK EXPERIENCE

11:30 FIONA McHARDY (Roehampton): The risk of violence towards motherless children in ancient Greece
12:00 ROSALIA HATZILAMBROU (Athens): Being motherless in classical Athens: The evidence of Attic forensic oratory

12:30 Lunch

14:00 ANGELIKI TZANETOU (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): Motherly absence in Euripides’ reunion plays
14:30 SUSANNE MORAW ( Jena): Absent mothers by choice: Upper class women in classical Attic vase painting
15:00 General Discussion

15:30 Coffee Break

 PANEL 4: ROMAN REALITIES

16:00 SABINE R . HUEBNER (Basel ): The last will of Alcestis: Motherless children and their widowed fathers in Roman Egypt
16:30 JUDITH EVANS GRUBBS (Emory): A long way from home: Motherless children in slave sale contracts
17:00 VÉRONIQUE DASEN (Fribourg ): Who cares for motherless children? Wet nursing in the Roman world
17:30 General Discussion

20:00 Dinner

SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2016

 PANEL 5: ROMAN REPRESENTATIONS

10:00 ELINA PYY (St. Andrews): Growing up motherless, growing up to be a hero: Motherless children in Virgil’s Aeneid
10:30 MARGHERITA CARUCCI: The journey of a motherless child in the decoration of the Roman house
11:00 SANNA JOSKA (Tampere): Motherless empire? The Antonine dynasty, imperial children, and imperial policy at the death of Faustina the Elder
11:30 General Discussion

12:00 Lunch

PANEL 6: LATE ANTIQUITY

13:30 GEOFFREY NATHAN (New South Wales): The wicked stepmother in late antique imperial politics: A reevaluation
14:00 MARIA DOERFLER (Duke): Wayward mothers, saintly children: Late ancient reading strategies in pursuit of the absent parent
14:30 Discussion
15:00 DAVID M. RATZAN (New York University): Closing remarks

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Appel à contribution – Edinburgh Conference on Late Antiquity for Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers

Call for Papers: Edinburgh Conference on Late Antiquity for Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers

University of Edinburgh
April 21-22, 2016

Since its creation as a distinct discipline, the field of late antique studies has undergone many transformations and reinterpretations. As this exciting and still evolving field establishes its own place in academia, we feel it is integral for those studying Late Antiquity at the postgraduate level to meet and work together in creating the future of our field. And what better place to do this than the University of Edinburgh, an established and thriving centre for Late Antiquity in the beautiful ‘Athens of the North’.

Our inaugural Edinburgh Postgraduate Conference on Late Antiquity will take place at the University of Edinburgh from April 21-22, 2016. This cross-disciplinary conference is intended to bring together postgraduates and early career researchers from across the UK and abroad whose research focuses on any aspect of Late Antiquity. We welcome submissions from disciplines including (but not limited to) history, literature, archaeology, classics, art and architecture, and divinity. The conference aims to provide a forum to meet fellow postgraduates of Late Antiquity and discuss our current research and enthusiasm for the field.

We invite postgraduate students and early career researchers to submit abstracts for papers (or proposals for panels) on any aspect of Late Antiquity. Papers should be 20 minutes in length and will be followed by a 10 minute discussion period. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to edinburghlateantiquity@gmail.com by February 15, 2016.

https://edinburghlaconf.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/

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