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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

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  • Next "2 days meeting" - EuGeStA Gender Studies and Classical Scholarship Project :  Beyond the Protagonist: Supporting Characters in Big Screen Greece and Rome. - organized by Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos  - April 24-25, 2026

  • Cycle of meetings of the Project EuGeStA Gender Studies and Classical Scholarship:
    Ninth  Session: 20 March (Friday)
    Hour: 9 h (USA/NYC) – 9 Canada - 11h - (South America/Belo Horizonte) – 15h (Europe/France)
    Speakers 1: Emily Hauser (and Helena Taylor) - Women Creating Classics. A Retrospective, Bloomsbury.
    Speakers 2: Giulio Celotto (and Laurel Fulkerson), Sulpicia. A woman’s voice from Ancient Rome, Oxford University Press.
    Respondent 1: Jacqueline Klooster
    Respondent 2: Mathilde Skoie
    Chair: Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho

  • The next EuGeStA network symposium, organized by Florence Gherchanoc, will take place in early 2027.

Publications

  • Tsakou, E. (2026) Courtisanes et lettres d’amour grecques anciennes, Armand Colin, Paris.

  • Klooster, J. (2025) Medusa in de Spiegel: Wat Mythen ons vertellen over wie we zijn, Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep. 

  • Hauser, E. (2025) Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, through the Women Written Out Of It, London.

  • Hauser, E. and Taylor, E. (2025) Women Creating Classics: A Retrospective, London, Oxford: Bloomsbury.

  • Hauser, E. and Taylor, E. (2025) Women Re-Creating Classics: Contemporary Voices, London, Oxford: Bloomsbury.

  • Boehringer,S. (2025) La sexualité antique, une histoire moderne, EPEL.

  • Lucchelli, T.M; Rohr Vio, F e McClintock, A. (2025) TARPEIA. Tradimento e fides: una storia esemplare di violenza, Bologna, Patron Editore.

  • Ancona, R. (2025) Martha Grahams's Greek-Myth based Dances and her Collaboration with Isamu Noguchi, Oxford: Bloomsbury.

  • 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

  • Call for papers - Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, social and cultural perspectives 
    Workshop at the University of Helsinki, Finland, organized by Sofia Vierula (University of Helsinki), Gaetana Balestra (University of Salento) and Kaius Tuori (University of Helsinki)
    Monday, May 4, 2026
    Deadline for submission: March 2, 2026
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  • Call for Abstracts: Not A-Musing: Women as Art Makers in the Ancient World
    Panel Sponsored by the Women’s Classical Caucus -  AIA/SCS Annual Meeting: January 7-10, 2027, Boston MA
    Organized by Sarah Blake (York University) and Kate Cooper (Royal Ontario Museum)
    Please send abstracts that follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (see the SCS Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts) to Alicia Turner (turnerayorkuca) by Feb. 15, 2026. 
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  • Call for papers : Women, Power and Money
    11 June 2026, The University of Warwick, The Oculus Building, OC1.04
    Organisers: Richard Allard-Meldrum, Clare Rowan, Victoria Vening Richards
    Please submit abstracts of 150-200 words (including a paper title, your contact details, and an abstract) by 12th December 2025 to Victoria.Vening-Richardswarwick.acuk
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