UCLA Graduate Conference 2010: "That's What She Said: The Construction and Expression of Women's Voices in Antiquity"
UCLA Graduate Conference 2010: "That's What She Said: The Construction and Expression of Women's Voices in Antiquity"
The UCLA Department of Classics invites abstracts for its third biennial graduate conference, "That's What She Said," which will examine the construction and expression of women's voices in antiquity using both literary and material sources. This conference will focus on women in an active role: how women speak, think, and desire in both male and female-authored texts. We encourage submissions that challenge or rethink previous scholarship on the suppression and appropriation of women's voices, and also papers that explore the role of women at the temporal and geographical borders of the Greco-Roman world. By incorporating a variety of approaches and perspectives, we hope to reach a new understanding of the role of women's voices in the Classical world.
The UCLA Department of Classics invites abstracts for its third biennial graduate conference, "That's What She Said," which will examine the construction and expression of women's voices in antiquity using both literary and material sources. This conference will focus on women in an active role: how women speak, think, and desire in both male and female-authored texts. We encourage submissions that challenge or rethink previous scholarship on the suppression and appropriation of women's voices, and also papers that explore the role of women at the temporal and geographical borders of the Greco-Roman world. By incorporating a variety of approaches and perspectives, we hope to reach a new understanding of the role of women's voices in the Classical world.
The following questions are suggested for consideration:
- How do women express their desire? Is there a difference between how male authors construct desiring women and how women represent themselves?
- How do silenced or silent women find ways to communicate? Are non-verbal forms of expression, such as weaving, akin to speech?
- What can visual representations of women tell us about how and when women speak?
- Is there a difference between the voices of "real" women, as revealed by graffiti or personal letters and other documentary papyri, and the voices of textually constructed women?
- How do women in literature appropriate traditionally masculine types of speech, such as epic, legal, or philosophical?
- Is there such a thing as female humor? How do jokes about women differ from jokes by women?
How do women writers of later periods, such as Hrotsvit and Egeria, appropriate Classical texts?
This conference will take place Friday, November 12 through Saturday, November 13, 2010 at UCLA. Our keynote speaker will be Sharon James of UNC, author of "Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy."
Abstracts of 300 words or fewer should be submitted by May 21, 2010 to kmann1@humnet.ucla.edu. Papers should be 15-20 minutes in length. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by June 25, 2010.
This conference will take place Friday, November 12 through Saturday, November 13, 2010 at UCLA. Our keynote speaker will be Sharon James of UNC, author of "Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy."
Abstracts of 300 words or fewer should be submitted by May 21, 2010 to kmann1@humnet.ucla.edu. Papers should be 15-20 minutes in length. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by June 25, 2010.
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