Women, Gender and Violence from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Women, Gender and Violence from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

An ANU Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Medieval Worlds Workshop

By ANU School of History

Date and time

Fri, 8 Nov 2024 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM AEDT

Location

RSSS Lectorial 1 (room 1.21)

146 Ellery Crescent Acton, ACT 2601 Australia

Agenda

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Welcome

Assoc. Prof. Maria Nugent (Head, School of History) & Dr. Meaghan McEvoy

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

Keynote 1: Uxoricide and Coercive Control -Dr Eleanor Cowan (Sydney)

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Caillan Davenport

Keynote 1 title: Uxoricide and Coercive Control - Methods and Questions for the Study of Domestic Abuse in the Roman World.

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

Morning Tea

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Silenced Voices? Reading Rapes in the Roman World - Dr Simona Martorana (ANU)

Chair: Dr Karen Fox

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Visibility as Vulnerability - Dr Meaghan McEvoy (ANU)

Chair: Dr Karen Fox

Visibility as Vulnerability: Imperial Women and Political Violence in the Fourth and Fifth centuries AD.

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

The Barbarian's Bitter Hands - Dr David Romney Smith (ANU)

Chair: Dr Karen Fox

The Barbarian's Bitter Hands: Sea Raiders and Women in the Dark Age Mediterranean.

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

Lunch

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

Keynote 2: Violence, Gender and Homelessness - Prof. Megan Cassidy-Welch

Chair: Zoe Smith

Violence, Gender and Homelessness in the Middle Ages - Prof. Megan Cassidy-Welch (University of Divinity, Melbourne)

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Afternoon Tea

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Secrecy, Loyalty, and Betrayal - Dr Tania Colwell (ANU)

Chair: Dr Karen Downing

Secrecy, Loyalty, and Betrayal: Gendering Verbal Violence in Late Medieval France

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Expulsion, Exile and the Trauma of Reform - Julie Hotchin (ANU)

Chair: Karen Downing

Expulsion, Exile and the Trauma of Reform at the Convent of Wienhausen, c.1500

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Conclusion

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Reception & Book Launch

Reception & Book Launch of Dr Simona Martorana’s new book "Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's Heroides" (Cornell University Press) at the ANU Classics Museum (A.D. Hope Building)

About this event

The event is a one-day workshop entitled “Women, Gender, and Violence from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.” It will bring together scholars working at ANU and other institutions in Australasia to present research papers investigating women’s experiences of gender-based violence in different contexts, particularly in the political, domestic, legal, and ecclesiastical spheres.

The workshop aims to explore a number of key research questions, including: in what contexts do we see gender-based violence occur in the Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods; and what does this violence tell us about the societal norms and expectations in the periods examined?

The workshop will be followed by a Reception & a Book Launch of Dr Simona Martorana’s new book Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's Heroides (Cornell University Press) at the ANU Classics Museum (A.D. Hope Building)

If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact Meaghan McEvoy at Meaghan.McEvoy@anu.edu.au .


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