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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

  • Next "2 days meeting" - EuGeStA Gender Studies and Classical Scholarship Project :
    Modern Masculinities and Classical Reception  - organized by Alastair Blanshard, Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Anna Chiara Corradino - 6-7 November 2025
    > See the program of this event (PDF, 200 Ko)
    > See abstracts and bio (PDF, 250 Ko)

  • Cycle of meetings of the Project EuGeStA Gender Studies and Classical Scholarship:
    Eighth Session: 25 November (Tuesday)
    Hour: 11h (USA/NYC) – 11h Canada - 13h - (South America/Belo Horizonte) – 17h (Europe/France)
    Speakers 1: Brenda Longfellow, The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompei
    Speakers 2:  Cristina Rosillo-López and Silvia Lacorte, Cives Romanae. Roman Women as citizens during the Republic
    Respondent 1: Sarah Levin-Richardson
    Respondent 2: Giulia Vettori
    Chair: Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho
    Join Zoom meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84989693783?pwd=zabht2LzvpJIHScaeGLY9Mt5MX9b9N.1

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

Publications

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

  • 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

  • Call for papers International Conference: Women’s and Gender History in Times of Challenges to Democracy, Diversity and Responsibility
    Conference languages will be German and English. Participants will need to organise and pay for their travel expenses themselves. And there will also be a moderate conference fee. However, we will apply to the DFG for reimbursement of travel and accommodation costs for international participants. Unfortunately, this will only work for established scholars, not for graduate students. 
    The cfps (in English and German) can be found on https://genderhistory2026.de
    Deadline: 10. 11. 2025

  • 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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