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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

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  • Colloque "Les travaux, le rôle et le contrôle des femmes dans les textes didactiques antiques / The Labours, Role, and Control of Women in Ancient Didactic Texts"
    organisée par Maëlys Blandenet, Marine Bretin-Chabrol et Ian Goh
    5 juin - Université Jean-Moulin Lyon 3 / 6 juin - ENS de Lyon
    > See the program (PDF, 180 Ko)

  • Genre et Sexualité dans l'Antiquité  / Gender and Sexuality in Antiquity -- 2 Days Meeting of the EuGeStA Project Gender Studies and Classical Scholarship, organized by Sarah Azevedo and Marina Cavicchioli - 6-7 june 2025
    > Access this event: univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/j/99733760902?pwd=Jpuj9zmyixWVI548YqZbhb8D1Uojbb.1
    Meeting ID: 997 3376 0902
    Passcode: 220705
    > See the poster (JPG, 2 Mo)
    > See the program of this event (PDF,  80 Ko)
    > See the abstracts of this event (PDF, 120 Ko)

  • Conference organized by the team  Ama-Mater : Mères et maternités antiques : représentations, pratiques et réappropriations de l'Antiquité à nos jours, 11-13 June 2025. Palais des Beaux-Arts, lille
    > See the program: https://amamater.hypotheses.org/evenements-a-venir

  • Conference organized by Zoa Alonso, Rosario López and Luis José Unceta Gómez : Recepción Clásica y Dictaduras europeas: Legitimación y resistencia /Classical Reception and European Dictatorships: Legitimation and Resistance, 28-30 May 2025, Universidad Autonòma de Madrid, Sala de Juntas de Decanato, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.
    > See the poster (PDF,  2.7 Mo)
    > See the program (PDF, 3.3 Mo)
    > See the abstracts (PDF, 1 Mo)

  • Cycle of meetings of the Project EuGeStA Gender Studies and Classical Scholarship: Sixth Session on May 20 (Tuesday)
    > See the poster (PNG, 406 Ko)
    > Zoom Link:  to receive it, please, fill the google form.

  • Call for Participation – #EtiamEgo Academy, Bologna, aule DISCI 28 – 30 maggio 2025
    The Bologna unit of the PRIN 2022 project #EtiamEgo - Violence against women in ancient Rome: historical perspectives and symbolic constructions is pleased to announce the first edition of the EtiamEgo Academy, which will be held on May 28, 29 and 30, 2025.
    > For more information (PDF, 160 Ko)

  • 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

  • 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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