Temple/Carleton Consortium on Women, Marriage and the Household from Antiquity to the Present: An Interdisciplinary, Global Conference
THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
WOMEN AND RITUAL ACTS
May 12-14, 2022
Temple University Rome: Lungotevere Arnaldo da Brescia, 15
Virtual participation available via Zoom
Co-Directors:
Karen Klaiber Hersch and Jaclyn Neel
Sponsors:
Temple University Rome (Emilia Zankina, Dean)
Global Studies Program, Temple Main Campus
Schedule of Events
2:30-3:00 PM
Registration in-person at Temple University Rome, Lungotevere Arnaldo da Brescia, 15
Coffee and snacks
3:00-6:00 PM
Panel 1: Online Only via Zoom
(Viewing Room at TUR will be made available, or you may view on your own)
Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Jaclyn Neel
Caitlin GILLESPIE, Department of Classical Studies, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
“‘His Wife Saw to His Burial’”: Uxorial Duty and the Death of the Emperor”
Jaclyn NEEL, Greek and Roman Studies, CARLETON UNIVERSITY
“The grove of Tarpeia: a preliminary investigation”
Rita KRUEGER, Dept of History, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
“Pilgrimages, Rituals, and Power in 18th-Century Central Europe”
Cristina GRAGNANI, Department of Italian, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
“Non-believer, Feminist, and Subversive:” Religiosity and Spirituality in Anna Franchi’s Avanti il divorzio (1902)
Camilla TOSI, Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA
"Qui illam stupravit noctu, Cereris vigiliis. Sexual Violence during Religious Celebrations. ”
8:00-9:00 AM
Registration in-person at Temple University Rome, Lungotevere Arnaldo da Brescia, 15
9:00 AM
Welcome: Karen Hersch
9:15-10:45 AM
Panel 2 (Ilaria Marchesi, Panel Chair)
E.V. MULHERN, Dept. of Greek and Roman Classics, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
“Abstract Feminines and Triumphal Ritual in Prudentius’ Psychomachia”
Steven SMITH, Department of Comparative Literature, Languages, & Linguistics, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
“The Poet Theosebeia: An Early Byzantine Literary Representation of Women's Ritual Mourning”
Linda NOLAN, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY ROME
“Women donors and material memory at the old and new basilica of St. Peter”
10:45-11:15 AM
Coffee Break
11:15 AM-12:45 PM
Panel 3 (Steven Smith, Panel Chair)
Karen Klaiber HERSCH, Greek and Roman Classics, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
"P/regnant: Mother vs. Ruler? Two Case Studies from Rome"
Christer BRUUN, Department of Classics, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
“Cultic Practices Entrusted to Women in Roman Ostia, a ‘City of Women’”
Kristi GRIMES, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, SAINT JOSEPH’S UNIVERSITY
“Petrarch, Saint Monica and the Ritual of Lamentation”
12:45-2:30 PM
Lunch. Pizza and drinks provided for speakers.
2:30-4:00 PM
Panel 4 (E.V. Mulhern, Panel Chair)
Marion BOLDER-BOOS, Klassische Archäologie, KATHOLISCHE UNIVERSITÄT EICHSTÄTT-INGOLSTADT
“Women and Religion in Republican Rome”
Christopher A. FARAONE, Dept. of Classics, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
“Women and Cursing in Sanctuaries: From Hellenistic Cnidos to the Fountain of Anna Perenna in Rome”
Katherine WASDIN, Classics Department, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
“Trojan Cybele and Roman Women”
4:00-4:30 PM
Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 PM
Keynote Address
Benedetta CARPI DE RESMINI, Curator and Art Critic, Professor (Management of Art and Cultural Heritage) BUSINESS SCHOOL SOLE 24ORE & GIUNTI ACADEMY
“Against Dogmas. Feminist Artists and Religion between Italy and Lithuania”
6:00-7:00 PM
Special Gallery Event
Gallery Show and Talk by Katherine KRIZEK, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY ROME
“Do You Know Her?”
Curator: Shara WASSERMAN, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY ROME
In-person or live on Facebook
1:00-2:30 PM
Panel 5 (Kristi Grimes, Panel Chair)
Ilaria MARCHESI, Department of Comparative Literature, Languages, & Linguistics
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
“Controlling Women: Pliny and Tacitus on the rituals of ‘e-ducation’”
Nefeli MISURACA, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY ROME
“A Book of Their Own”
Patrick W. O'NEIL, Department of History, METHODIST UNIVERSITY
“The Paraphernalia of Non-Essentials: Cake, Sex, and Sentiment in Antebellum American Weddings”
2:30-3:00 PM
Coffee Break
3:00-4:30 PM
Panel 6 (Linda Nolan, Panel Chair)
Vered LEV KENAAN, Department of Comparative Literature, HAIFA UNIVERSITY
“The Ritual of Saying Goodbye: The Woman and the Jewelry Box”
Noelle ZEINER-CARMICHAEL, Department of Classics, THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
“Mourning Forever? Grieving Roman Women and Ritualized Memory-Making”
Luca ZIPOLI, Faculty of Humanities, SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE, PISA
"Deviant Rites: Women Martyrs in Early Modern Religious Plays"
4:30-5:00 PM
Coffee Break
5:00-6:00 PM
Endnote Address
Dacia MARAINI, Author, in conversation with Luca ZIPOLI:
"In Praise of Disobedience: Clare of Assisi and Female Spirituality"
6:00-6:10 PM
Closing Remarks and Thanks: Karen Hersch