7th Arachne Conference

Women, Power and Agency in Antiquity

University of Tampere, Finland 2224 October 2014
Programme (draft 3.9.14)
Venue: Pinni B -building, address: Kanslerinrinne 1.
WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER
09.00 Registration opens

10.00
(auditorium B1096)
Opening of the conference and Welcome

10.15
(auditorium B1096)
Keynote lecture I

11.00 Coffee
Session I
(room B3109)
11.3012.45
Methodological and theoretical
approaches

Session II
(room B3110)
11.3012.45
Age and agency in the lives of women

11.3011.55
Birgitta Leppnen-Sjberg:
Visible or non-visible: the construction of
gendered public space and Athens

11.3011.55
Erika Lindgren Liljenstolpe:
The importance of age for Roman
womens music making

11.5512.20
Glenys Davies:
Re-thinking Roman attitudes in female
invisibility

11.5512.20
Ville Vuolanto:
Women as supervisor in the Roman
Empire

12.2012.45

12.2012.45

13.00 Lunch (restaurant Minerva, Pinni B, 2nd floor)

Session III
(room B3109)
14.3015.45
Demography, health and well-being

Session IV
(room B3110)
14.3015.45
Women in Early Christianity and Late
Antiquity

14.3014.55
Rachel Plummer:
Family planning and female agency in
Rome

14.3014.55
Outi Lehtipuu:
Women leaders in early Christianity
communities: An assessment of recent
scholarly trends

14.5515.20
Patricia Gonsalez:
Physicians, contraception and abortion in
ancient Rome

15.5515.20
Christine Amadou:
Olympias and the power of poverty

15.2015.45
Ada Nifosi:
The divine sage-femme: Continuity and
innovation in the role of the midwife in the
Greco-Roman world

15.2015.45

16.45
(auditorium B1096)
Keynote lecture II

18.00 Reception at the university

THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER
Session V
(room B3109)
10.0012.20
Household, economy
and wealth

Session VII
(room B3110)
10.0012.20
Women in prehistoric
Greece

Session IX
(room B3111)
10.0012.20
Power, empowerment
and status

10.0010.25
Olakumbi Olasope:
Women as domestic
labourers in fifth century
BC Athens

10.00-10.25
Lilah Grace Canevaro:
Homeric Women and the
politics of objects

10.0010.25
Claude CentlivresChallet:
Behavioural power:
Roman womens leverage
through public,
subordination or scandal

10.2510.50
Alexis Castor:
The agency of gold:
Womens use of jewellery

10.2510.50
Santa German:
Minoan and Mycenaean
Women: Reality check

10.2510.50
Patricia Johnson:
Whos your Mommy? The
female kin of C.
Sempronius Tuditanus

11.00 Coffee

11.00 Coffee

11.00 Coffee

11.3011.55
Ria Berg:
Custos domi: Women as
managers in Roman
domestic economy

11.3011.55
Ann-Louise Schallin:
Mycenaean female
figurines as evidence for
female gendered bodies

11.3011.55
Pia Mustonen:
Influential mistresses in
the imperial dynasties of
first century Rome

11.5512.20

11.5512.20

11.55-12.20
Elina Pyy:
Modest maidens, mighty
matrons: life-course and
social power on Roman
war-centred epic poetry

12.30 Lunch (restaurant Minerva, Pinni B, 2nd floor)

Session VI
(room B3109)
14.0016.20
Work, production and
female professional
identities

Session VIII
(room B3110)
14.0016.20
Law, justice and legal
practices in Ancient
Greece

Session X
(room B3111)
14.0016.20
Sacral space and ritual
practices

14.0014.25
Irene Cismeros Abelln:
Kapelis in the Athenian
agora: feale
socio.economical acitivity
in Athens (480-338
B.C.E.)

14.0014.25
Elena Duce Pastor:
Women in Gortyn laws

14.0014.25
Carmen Alfaro Giner:
Clothing the Goddess:
women. Textiles and
religion in Classical and
Hellenistic Greece.

14.2514.55
Maria Papadopoulou:
Women as yarn, cloth and
textile producers and
buyers in Ptolemaic Egypt

14.2514.55
Laura Loddo:
Looking for a new
definition of womens role:
Solonian laws about
women

14.2514.55
Lindsey Mazurek:
In the guise of the
goddess: gender. Dress
and self-fashioning in the
Egyptian cult

15.00 Coffee

15.00 Coffee

15.00 Coffee

15.3015.55
Hedvig Landelius
Enegren:
The agency of loom
weights. Women in south
Italy in the Archaic period.

15.3015.55
Brenda Griffith-Willimas:
Silent witnesses: The
testimony of women in the
courts of Classical Athens

15.3015.55
Meghan DiLuzio:
Sacerdotes Doctae:
Women as ritual experts
in Ancient Rome

15.5516.20
Gretchen Meyers:
Womens work: Artefacts
as evidence of female
craft and labour in Ancient
Etruria

15.5516.20
Sara Forsdyke:
Women and popular
justice in Ancient Greece

15.55 16.20
Outi Sihvonen:
Praestantissimae
Patronae. Socioeconomical influence of
the Vestal virgins in the
third century Rome.

16.45 Poster session

19.00 Dinner (not included in the conference price)

FRIDAY 24 OCTOBER
Session XI
(room B3109)
09.0011.35
Roman womens lives
and public roles
reflected in epigraphy

Session XII
(room B3110)
09.0011.35
Female agency and civic
life in Greece and the
Roman East

Session XIII
(room B3111)
08.3012.00
Female agency and civic
life in Roman Italy and
the western provinces

09.0009.25
Celine Chulsky:
A womans onomastical
legacy names
transmissons in
Nemausus during the
Roman era.

09.0009.25
Arja Karivieri:
Priestesses and
entrepreneurs active
roles of women in Roman
Athens

09.0009.25
Coen von Galen:
Female citizenship and
agency in Rome.

09.2509.50
Sanna Joska:
Women as dedicator of
honorific monuments of
imperial children

09.2509.50
Irene Salvo:
Greek women as cursers:
the social power of ritual
actions

09.2509.50
Berit Hildebrandt
The power of
representation: Aspects of
female status display in
Roman imperial times

09.5010.15
Mattia Vitelli Casella:
The Romanization of the
province of Dalmatia
through the womens
inscriptions.

09.5010.15
Andrea Stefan:
Antonia Sokratike;
Mothers, sisters, wives,
daughters of the orators in
the Roman East (1st-3rd
cent. CE)

09.5010.15 Riccardo
Bertolazzi:
Ob egregiam. Priestesses
eugerteism in Roman
Africa

10.15 Coffee

10.15 Coffee

10.15 Coffee

10.4511.10
Lindsey Penner:
Beyond Vestal virgins:
Women as religious
participants in Latin
inscriptions
11.1011.35

10.4511.10

10.4511.10
Elena-Emilia Stefan:
Earthquakes and women
as public benefactors in
the early Roman Empire.

11.1011.35

11.1011.35 Caitlin
Gillespie:
(S)mothering the state:
alimentary programs and
the dangers of moneyed
women.

(auditorium B1096)
Concluding words
Lunch (restaurant Minerva, Pinni B, 2nd floor)