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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)

  • The closing conference ‘Donne e violenza in età romana Radici storiche di un problema attuale’ (Women and violence in Roman times: historical roots of a contemporary problem) of the PRIN #EtiamEgo project – Violence against women in ancient Rome: historical perspectives and symbolic constructions, will take place from 25 to 27 September 2025 in Turin, at the Accademia delle Scienze and the Department of Historical Studies of the University.
    > Poster (PDF, 3 Mo)
    > Program (PDF, 250 Ko)

  • Cycle of meetings of the Project EuGeStA Gender Studies and Classical Scholarship:
    Seventh Session: 26 September (Friday)
    Hour: 9 h (USA/West Coast) 11h (USA/NYC) – 11h Canada - 13h - (South America/Belo Horizonte) – 17h (Europe/France)
    - Speakers 1: Andromake  Karanika, Wedding, Gender and Performance in Ancient Greece
    - Speakers 2:  Mary Hamil Gilbert (co-authors: Megan Elena Bowen and Edith Gwendolyn Nally), Believing Ancient Women. Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome
    - Respondent 1: Elena Duce Pastor
    - Respondent 2: Rafael Silva
    - Chair: Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho

    > See the poster (PNG, 365 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

  • 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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