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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

  • Conference "Rewriting ancient myths in the 20th and 21th centuries: Gender perspectives and modern concerns", organized online by J. Fabre-Serris and F. Klein
    on January 24-25, 2025
    > See the program (PDF, 185 Ko)
    > See the abstracts (PDF, 263 Ko)
    > Join Zoom Meeting with this link

  • Conference ‟Minor” Female Poets of the Archaic and Classical Age, organized by Cecilia Nobili and Tullia Spinedi
    on January 29th-30th, 2025 - at the University of Bergamo, Aula Fornasa, p.le S. Agostino 2, 
    It will be possible to follow the conference online via Meet. To request the link please contact: cecilia.nobiliunibgit or tullia.spinediunibgit
    > Program (PDF - 116 Ko)

  • Wikipedia edit-a-thon organized by Frances Myatt (Classics: Latin literature), Ashley Lance (Classics: ancient philosophy), Sólveig Hilmarsdóttir (Classics: linguistics) and Claudia Cornelissen (English literature)

    The Wikipedia edit-a-thon on the theme of ‘Classics Beyond the Canon’ aims to expand or create Wikipedia pages on people or topics within the ancient world and its reception which have been overlooked, particularly due to gender or race. At the moment we’re seeking nominations of subjects for the edit-a-thon to focus on, and it would be great to share the nomination form at the EuGeStA meeting! (The nomination form plus more information about the event can be found here: https://forms.gle/vPWXbN4YNyoJEhrYA.)

  • The next EuGeStA network symposium, organized by Florence Gherchanoc, will take place in early 2026.

Publications

  • Z. Alonso Fernández and S. Olsen (2024) Imprints of dance in ancient Greece and Rome. Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

  • H. King (2024) Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the history of women’s bodies, Profile Books.
     
  • S. Martorana, Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's Heroides, Cornell University Press.
     

  • F. Prescendi (2024) Lupae. Présences féminines autour de Romulus et Rémus, Brepols

  • G. Gilles, K. Frank, C. Plastow, L. Webb (eds) 2024, Female Agency in the Ancient Mediterranen World, Women in Ancient Cultures,Liverpool.
     
  • 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 »).

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Call for papers

  • The call for papers for the third workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece is now open:
    https://www.efa.gr/call-for-papers-the-great-women-behind-the-great-men/ (deadline: 20 December 2024).
    The topic chosen for the 2025 edition is “The Great Women Behind the Great Men”.
    The workshop, which will take place at the French School at Athens on 12-13 March 2025, is organized jointly by the French School at Athens and the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens, with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Greece
    > To know more (PDF - 70 Ko)

  • The Ama-Mater research team is organizing an international conference that will take place at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (France) on the 11th, 12th and 13th of June 2025. The conference is about " Ancient Mothers and Motherhood: representations, practices and reappropriations from Antiquity to the present day". The event is intended to be multidisciplinary and diachronic. Returns are due by 20/12/24 at the latest
    You can download the call for papers with all of the necessary information through the following link.

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