Conference Programme:
Saturday 15 February 2020
9.15am Registration and Coffee/Tea
9.45am Welcome
Jenny Rallens (University of Oxford), Katharine O’Reilly (King’s College London), and Peter Adamson (LMU Munich)
10am Session 1
Session Chair: TBC
10-10.30: Paper 1: Aiste Celkyte (Utrecht University), ‘Lost and Found: Hypatia's Philosophical Views’
10.30-50: Q&A
10.50-11.20: Paper 2: Maria Protopapa (Academy of Athens), 'Cynic Women on Philosophy (The Case of Hipparchia)'
11.20-11.40: Q&A
11.40-12: Break
12-1pm Keynote
Danielle A. Layne (Gonzaga University), ‘The Platonic Priestess: Erotic Pedagogues from Diotima to Asclepigenia’
1-2pm: Lunch
2pm Session 2
Session Chair: MM McCabe (King’s College London, UCL, Cambridge)
2-2.30: Paper 3: Kelly Arenson (Duquesne University),'Ancient Women Epicureans and their Anti-Hedonist Critics'
2.30-50: Q&A
2.50-3.20: Paper 4: Kate M. Brassel (Columbia University), 'Recovering the Stoic Woman: Megara and Roman virtus'
3.20-3.40: Q&A
3.40-4pm: Break
4pm Session 3
4-5.30: Giulia De Cesaris (Durham University), Phillip Sidney Horky (Durham University), Caterina Pellò (Cambridge University), Panel: ‘Perictione, Mother of Metaphysics: A Female Theory of Wisdom’
Q&A: 5.30-6pm
Sunday 16 February 2020
9.15am Registration and Coffee/Tea
9.30am Session 4
Session Chair: TBC
9.30-10am: Paper 5: Thornton Lockwood (Quinnipiac University), ‘Artemisia of Halicarnassus: Virile woman or female intellectual?'
10-10.20: Q&A
10.20-10.50: Paper 6: Pieta Päällysaho (University of Jyväskylä), ‘Apples, headbands, and fire under the skin – Sappho’s philosophical materialism’
10.50-11: Q&A
11-11.20: Break
11.20 Session 5
Session Chair: Dawn Teresa LaValle (Australian Catholic University)
11.20-11.50: Paper 7: Anne Jaap Jacobson (University of Oxford), ‘Enheduanna and the women’s literature of early Mesopotamia’
11.50-12.10: Q&A
12.10-40: Paper 8: Mali Skotheim (Warburg Institute, London), ‘Submerged among the Fragments: Female Historians in the Roman Empire’
12.40-1pm: Q&A
1-2pm: Lunch
2-3pm Keynote
Sophia Connell (Birkbeck College, University of London), ‘Women’s Medical Knowledge in Antiquity: Beyond Midwifery’
3-3.10: Break
3.10 Session 6
Session Chair: Armand D'Angour (University of Oxford)
3.10-4.20: Laura Viidebaum (New York University), Marguerite Johnson (Newcastle University), Amanda Roberts (Carleton University), Joanne Waugh (University of South Florida), Panel: ‘Aspasia and Diotima’
4.20-5pm: Q&A
Conference ends.
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