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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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  • Strong Women of the Ancient Mediterranean World and their Reception - Online series
    Organisers: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand)
    and Martina Treu (IULM University, Milan, Italy)> 2 October - See the program of the event (PDF)
    > 16 October - See the program of the event (PDF)
    > 6 November - See the program of the event (PDF)
    > 20 November - See the program of the event (PDF)
    > 27 November - See the program of the event (PDF)

  • Meeting 2 Days - Gender and Ovidian Translation: A Global Perspective
    organized by Stephanie McCarter - 21 and 22 October
    > See the program (PDF)
    > Zoom link

  • The next EuGeStA network symposium, "La guerre des sexes. Violences conjugales dans les mondes anciens : pratiques, discours, imaginaire" organized by Florence Gherchanoc, will take place on 4-5 June 2027.

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Publications

  • Boatwright, Mary T. (2026) Agrippina the Younger: a dangerous woman in Rome’s early empire. Women in antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
  • Carrete, A. (2026) Antigone a la Mexicana: a discourse of heritage, resistance, and reception. Classics and the postcolonial. London: Routledge.
     
  • Clark, J.H. (2026) Women in fragments: alternative histories of the Roman Republic. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press.
     
  • Gillespie, C. (2026) Livia: mother of Rome. Ancient lives. New Haven: Yale University Press.
     
  • Gillespie, C. (2026) Women and resistance in the Annals of Tacitus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
     
  • Gürlach, A. (2026) Vom Mädchen zur Frau: Weihgaben als Indikatoren rituellen und kommunikativen Handelns von Frauen in griechischen Kulten. Philippika, 188. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
     
  • Lehmann, H. and Plastow, C. (2026) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society. London: Routledge.
     
  • Pedrucci, G. (2026) Mothering in antiquity. Rewriting antiquity. London: Routledge.
     
  • Pedrucci, G., Fulminante. F, and Seifert, M. (2026) Inside out: gender and ageing agency in urban and non-urban religious spaces in antiquity. Women of the past, 5. Turnhout: Brepols,
     
  • Sebillotte Cuchet, V. and Gladding, J. (2026) Queen, warrior, captain: the story of Artemisia of Halicarnassus. New Haven: Yale University Press.
     
  • Severy-Hoven, B. (2026) Octavia: the life of a Roman matron between Antony and Augustus. Women in antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
     
  • Stockdale, E. (2026) Female agency and virtue in the Odyssey. Routledge monographs in classical studies. London: Routledge.

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Call for papers

  • Call for papers - Women Travellers, Explorers, and Proto-archaeologists Across the Lands of the Ancient Greek World (18th-19th Centuries)
    Fifth workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece and the Greek World, organized by Clémence Weber-Pallez, Tina Kalantzopoulou and Sylviane Déderix, at the French School at Athens on 9 March 2027.
    Deadline for proposals: 20 November (Contact & Information: clemence.weber-pallezuniv-tlse2fr | t.kalantzogmailcom | sylviane.dederixgmailcom.)
    To know more:  https://www.efa.gr/call-for-papers-women-travellers-explorers-and-proto-archaeologists/

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