The workshop Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, Social and Cultural Perspectives will be held at the University of Helsinki Main Building, Room U3039 (3rd floor). It will begin at 10.00 am (EEST) May 4 with the keynote. Remote participation is possible through this Zoom link. Both in-person and remote participants should register. For in-person participants, we would like to ask whether you are participating in the lunch (at the expense of participants) and the afternoon coffee. Please register through this form.
10-11.15 Keynote
Prof. Christian Laes: Women and disabilities in Antiquity: between presentism and daily life
11.30-13.00 session 1: Disabled Women in the Roman Narratives
Sofia Vierula: The case of Harpaste: Lived experience of disability in Seneca’s letter to Lucilius
Mathilde Chartrand: The Daily Life of a Furiosa: On the Gendered Consequences of Mental Illness
Fran Geldard: Enslavement and Disability in Eusebian Martyr Narrative
14.00-15.30 session 2: Women, Disability and Roman Law
Arnaud Paturet: Some Reflections on the Status of Deaf People by Roman Jurists
Kaius Tuori: Infirmity and monstrosity: on the legal construction of female disability in law
Jana Mauri Marlborough: Against All Odds: The Legal Position of Wet Nurses in Roman Law
16.00-17.30 session 3: Intersections of Gender and Disability in Late Antiquity
Gaetana Balestra: Muta puella fuit: The Mute Woman between tutela mulierum and Justinian's Legislation.
Elena Pezzato Heck: Mental Illness as Grounds for Repudiation in Late Antiquity and the Justinian Era
Arttu Alaranta: Vulnerable Life-Cycle Moments and Disabilities in Women’s Asceticism during Late Antiquity
--Dan Ernst
