Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East - 08-09-10/04/2019, Ghent (Belgium)
After two very successful and fruitful Workshops on Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East held in Helsinki, Finland (October 2014) and Barcelona, Spain (February 2017), we are very happy to announce that the third Workshop on Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East will be held at Ghent University, Belgium, from 8 to 10 April 2019. Our aim is to bring together both established and up-and-coming scholars whose work brings gender studies theory to bear on various materials and contexts in order to discuss different methodological approaches to gender studies within the framework of Ancient Near Eastern studies.
FECHA /DATE/DATA : 08-09-10/04/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Katrien De Graef ; Anne Goddeeris ; Agnès Garcia-Ventura ; Saana Svär
INFO: web - gemane3@ugent.be
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Monday April 8 2019 09:00-09:30 registration Welcoming Session 09:30-09:40 welcome by Gita Deneckere, Dean of the Faculty of Arts 09:40-10:00 welcome by Katrien De Graef on behalf of organizing committee First Keynote Lecture 10:00-10:30 Brigitte Lion (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Grandmother’s Tablets. Some Reflections on Female Landowners in Nuzi 10:30-11:00 coffee break Session 1: Gendered Spaces & Spheres Chair: Agnès Garcia-Ventura 11:00-11:30 Lorenzo Verderame (Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma) Engendered Cosmic Spaces in Ancient Mesopotamian Myths 11:30-12:00 Laura Cousin (CNRS & Université de Nanterre) Looking for Gendered Spaces: The Case of Babylon in the First Millennium BC 12:00-12:30 Karolien Vermeulen (University of Antwerp) Of Cities, Mothers, and Homes. A Cognitive-Stylistic Approach to Gendered Space in the Hebrew Bible 12:30-14:00 lunch break Session 2: Gender in the Neo-Assyrian World Chair: Megan Cifarelli 14:00-14:30 Amy R. Gansell (St John’s University) Images Divinely Sanctioned Neo-Assyrian Queenship at Nimrud’s Northwest Palace 14:30-15:00 Saana Svärd (University of Helsinki) Arabian Queens: Constructs of Gender and Ethnicity in the Neo-Assyrian Empire 15:00-15:30 Omar N’Shea (University of Malta) & Sophus Helle (Aarhus University) Soldier of Scholar? Competing Masculinities in the Representation of Ashurbanipal 15:30-16:00 coffee break Session 3: Sex and Gender Chair: Saana Svärd 16:00-16:30 Ann K. Guinan (University of Pennsylvania) Probing the Boundaries of Mesopotamian Heteronormativity: The Case of Tablet 103 16:30-17:00 Natalie N. May (University of Leiden) Women in Cult in Mesopotamia Tuesday April 9 2019 Second Keynote Lecture 09:00-09:30 Megan Cifarelli (Manhattanville College) “Perhaps it Was Always Already Gender:” Dressed Bodies in the Archaeological Record Session 4: Archaeology & Iconography Part I (Then) Chair: Katrien De Graef 09:30-10:00 Frances Pinnock (Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma) The Late Bronze Age in Syria: Was It a Dark Age for Women? 10:00-10:30 Sera Yelözer & Mihriban Özbașaran (Istanbul University) Entangled at Death: Beads, Gender, and the Dead at Early Neolithic Așıkh Höyük 10:30-11:00 Raffaele Frascarelli & Letteria Grazia Fassari (Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma) Queering the Past. The Case of the Goddess on Lion at Hasanlu 11:00-11:30 coffee break Session 5: Archaeology & Iconography Part II (Now) Chair: Anne Goddeeris 11:30-12:00 Beth Alpert Nakhai (University of Arizona) Ecce Feminae: Excavating at the Convent of Notre Dame of Sion and the Arch of Ecce Homo on Jerusalem’s Via Dolorosa 12:00-12:30 Agnès Garcia-Ventura (IPOA-Universitat de Barcelona / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Women Talking about Women: Digging the Memory of Women in Ancient Near Eastern Studies 12:30-14:00 lunch break Session 6: Biblical World Chair: Beth Alpert-Nakhai 14:00-14:30 Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme (University of Copenhagen) The Aroma of Majesty: Gender and the Hebrew Bible’s Olfactory Cultic Theology 14:30-15:00 Cathleen Chopra-McGowan (University of Chicago) Lamentations as Indictments of Masculinity: The Complexity of Gender Performance 15:00-15:30 Elizabeth B. Tracy (Ph.D. St Andrews University) Vanishing Point: Perspectivity on Women in the Book of Exodus 15:30-16:00 coffee break Session 7: Phoenician and Punic Worlds Chair: Brigitte Lion 16:00-16:30 Ana Delgado Hervás & Aurora Rivera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona) Rituals of Mothering and Fathering in Phoenician Sacred Places 16:30-17:00 Mireia López-Bertran (Universitat de València) & Meritxell Ferrer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona) Performing Beauty in Phoenician in Punic Cultures: A Gender Perspective 19:00 conference dinner Wednesday April 10 2019 Session 8: Female Social Networks Chair: Ann K. Guinan 09:00-09:30 Allison Thomason (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) Women’s Property and Social Networks in Mesopotamia 09:30-10:00 Anne Goddeeris (Ghent University) Women and their Weight. Incorporating Weighted Nodes in a Network Analysis of the Central Redistributive Household of Old Babylonian Nippur 10:00-10:30 James D. Moore (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin & Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Berlin) Socio-Historical Insights into Women at Elephantine according to the Aramaic Documentary Sources 10:30-11:00 coffee break Session 9: Women in Economy Part I Chair: Frances Pinnock 11:00-11:30 Baptiste Fiette (CNRS & Collège de France) Zinû, Wife and Manager in Old Babylonian Larsa 11:30-12:00 Katrien De Graef (Ghent University) Seals on Heels. The Sealing Practice of Female Economic Actors in Old Babylonian Sippar 12:00-12:30 Ilan Peled (University of Amsterdam) Was It Law? Gender Relations and Legal Practice in the Ancient Near East 12:30-14:00 lunch break Session 10: Women in Economy Part II Chair: Natalie N. May 14:00-14:30 Yoko Watai (University of Tsukuba) Women Involved in Daily Management in Achaemenid Babylonia: The Cases of Rē’indu and Andiya 14:30-15:00 Sarah Jarmer Scott (Wagner College) The Scorpion and the Spider: Gendered Identities in Early Literate Seals and Sealings 15:00-15:40 Fumi Karahashi (Chuo University) & Agnès Garcia-Ventura (IPOA-Universitat de Barcelona / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Women’s Participation in Socio-Economic Activities in Pre-Sargonic Lagash 15:40-16:10 coffee break Session 11: Ongoing Projects & Future Plans 16:10-16:50 Project Panel Presentation and Discussion of Ongoing Projects on Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East 16:50-17:20 GeMANE Study Group Panel Presentation of “Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East vol II” (proceedings of Barcelona meeting) & Planning of 4th Workshop in Helsinki (2021)