GENDER IDENTITIES IN ITALY IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BC
20th-21st June 2006
Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
The development of individual and group identities and the processes by
which these form, change and interact is a key theme in recent classical
scholarship. One aspect of the subject which remains relatively
unexplored, however, is that of female identity and the role of gender in
the formation of identities, particularly in early Italy. This conference
(organised in conjunction with the Department of Classics, National
University of Ireland Galway and the Institute of Archaeology, UCL) will
explore the role of gender in shaping identities and in particular the
formation female identities in Italian society from prehistory to the
early Roman empire. It will seek to examine existing methodologies and
theoretical approaches and to develop new ones, and will adopt a cross-
disciplinary approach to the problem, addressing the problems posed by
archaeological, art historical, epigraphic and literary evidence.T o
attend the conference, please complete the attached registration form
(also available online at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/accordia/ conference-
gender.htm) and send it, together with the appropriate fee (£55;
student/unwaged £35), to Dr Kathryn Lomas, Institute of Archaeology,
University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY. The
closing date for registration is May 31st 2006.
Speakers include:
Ruth Whitehouse (UCL): Where have all the men gone? Sex, gender and
Women's Studies
Marietta Horster (Rostock): The cults of Demeter, Kore, and
Persephone/Proserpina in Sicily and
Italy (5th 1st century BC)
Bridget Sandhoff (Iowa): Isn’t s/he Lovely? An investigation of androgyny
in Etruscan art
Corinna Riva (Glasgow): Archaic Central Italy: the non-Greek female body
and the crystallization of
ethnic identity
Lisa Cougle (Canberra): Expression of gender through dress in Latial Iron
Age mortuary contexts
Margarita Gleba (Copenhagen): Textile Implements in early Iron Age
burials: The first female
professionals of Italy?
Kathryn Lomas (UCL): Gender identities in the ancient Veneto:
iconography, writing and ritual
Edward Herring (Galway): Where are they hiding? The visibility of the
native women of Puglia in the
4th century BC
Vedia Izzet (Southampton): Women and the Romanisation of Etruria
Brenda Haack Fineberg (Knox College, Illinois): The irregular career of
Rhea Silvia/ Ilia in the first
millennium BC
Karen Hersch (Temple University), Ethnicity and the costume of the Roman
bride
Kelli Stanley (San Francisco State University): Sallust’s sexual
revolution: Manly women in
the Bellum Catilinae
Lien Foubert (Nijmegen): In search of the emperor’s wife: what’s behind
the different identities of
Agrippina Minor?
Bronwyn Hopwood (University of New England, NSW): The lex Voconia and the
rhetoric of Empire
Fay Glinister (UCL): Women and cult in the sanctuaries of Hellenistic
central Italy
Annette Rathje (Copenhagen): Gender identities in Etruria
Larissa Bonfante (New York University): Images of Gender, Classical and
Etruscan
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