14th Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry: Women and Power in Hellenistic Poetry - 21-22-23/08/2
The Department of Greek and Latin at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) hereby announces the fourteenth workshop in the series “Workshops on Hellenistic Poetry” to be held in Groningen on 21-23 August 2019. The theme of this workshop will be Women and Power in Hellenistic Poetry.Hellenistic poetry is full of powerful women, ranging from Ptolemaic queens and princesses to female divinities and epic heroines. An obvious question is therefore: why do we find so many powerful women in Hellenistic poetry, and in what ways do they differ from previous literary representations of women, for example, in Homeric epic, archaic lyric, and Athenian tragedy.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 21-22-23/08/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Groningen (Groningen, Netherlands)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Dr. Jacqueline Klooster
INFO: web - J.J.H.Klooster@rug.n
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PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Wednesday August 21
17:00 Registration and Reception with drinks (location TBA)
Thursday August 22
09:00-9:20 Registration and welcome
Session 1 Royal Goddesses, Divine Queens
Chair: Annette Harder (RUG)
9:20-10:00 paper 1 Ben Acosta-Hughes (Ohio State University) That I Be Your Plaything. A Study of the Cult of Arsinoe-Aphrodite in Image and Text
Response: Jackie Murray (Kentucky)
10:00-10:40 paper 2 Kathleen Kidder (College of William and Mary, Chicago) What Angers Demeter also Angers Dionysus: Demeter and Dionysus as Ptolemaic Queen and King in Callimachus’ Hymn to Demeter
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-11:40 paper 3 Brett Evans (University of Virginia) Courting the Queen: The Power Dynamics of Patronage as Metaphor for Marriage in Callimachus’ Victoria Berenices
11:40-12:20 paper 4 Thomas J. Nelson (Cambridge University) The Coma Stratonices: Hair Encomia, Queenly Power, and Ptolemaic-Seleucid Rivalry
Response: Annemarie Ambühl-Tehrany (Mainz)
12:20-13:50 Lunch
Session 2 Epic Women
Chair: Jacqueline Klooster (RUG)
13:50-14:30 paper 5 Irene Giaquinta (Universita di Catania) Hypsipyle from Euripides to Apollonius Rhodius: New Perspectives regarding Female Power in Hellenistic Poetry
Response: Mitchell Brown (William and Mary)
14:30-15:10 paper 6 Valeria Pace (Cambridge University) Moschus’ Europa as epic poetry gendered female
Response: Aikaterini Dimkou (Thessaloniki)
15:10-15:30 Break
Session 3 Anchoring female identity in the literary past
Chair: Saskia Peels (RUG)
15:30- 16:10 paper 7 André Lardinois (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Sappho as Anchor for Male and Female Poets in the Hellenistic Period
16:10- 17:00 paper 8 Brian McPhee (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) Power Divine: Apollonius’ Medea and the Goddesses of the Homeric Hymns
Response: Jacopo Khalil (Rome)
19:00 Conference Dinner Location TBA
Friday August 23
Session 4 Female Gazes, Female Voices
Chair: Kathryn Gutzwiller (Cincinnati)
9:30-10:10 paper 9 Flavia Licciardello (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Female gaze in dedications: the case of Nossis
Response: Evi Zacharia (Nijmegen)
10:10-10:50 paper 10 Matthew Chaldekas (California-Riverside University) Seeing Statues: Authority, Erotic Power, and the Gendered Gaze in Theocritus
Response: Chiara Pesaresi (Venice)
10:50-11:10 Break
11:10-11:50 paper 11 Giulia Biffis (Reading University) Lycophron’s Cassandra, a powerful female poetic voice.
11:50-12:30 paper 12 Fabiana Lopes da Silveira (Oxford University) Sit back and watch: female power in Callimachus’ Hymn to Demeter
12:30-14:00 lunch
Session 5 Gendered Power, Powering Gender
Chair: Nita Krevans (Minnesota)
14:00-14:40 paper 13 Tueller (Arizona State University) Youth, Beauty, and Erotic Power: Women and Boys in Greek Epigram
14:40-15:20 paper 14 Simone Oppen (Columbia University) Revisiting Gender and Power in Callimachus Hymn 5
Break 15:20-15-30
15: 30- 16:10 paper 15 Christophe Cusset/Myrtille Remond (ENS Lyon) Femmes de pouvoir et pouvoirs des femmes dans les Syracusaines de Théocrite
16:10-16:30 Wrapping up session