{"id":584,"date":"2014-04-25T13:45:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval\/?p=584"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:05:16","slug":"womens-ritual-competence-int-he-ancient-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/2014\/04\/25\/womens-ritual-competence-int-he-ancient-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Ritual Competence int he Ancient Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From April 25 &#8211; 27, 2014, Bates College hosted the conference &#8220;Women&#8217;s Ritual Competence in the Ancient Mediterranean&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This conference looked at a variety of women&#8217;s ritual activities, such as lamentation, prophecy, magical incantation, prayer, weaving and sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about this conference, view the story, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/17\/conference-at-bates-explores-womens-ritual-activities-in-ancient-times\/\">Conference at Bates explores women\u2019s ritual activities in ancient times<\/a><\/strong>, from the Bates News.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WOMEN\u2019S RITUAL COMPETENCE IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN<br \/>\nBates College, Lewiston Maine, April 25 \u2013 27, 2014<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">DAY 1:\u00a0 Friday April 25<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1:45\u00a0 Welcome and Opening Remarks<br \/>\nDean of the Faculty, Matthew R. Auer, Bates College<\/p>\n<p>The Semiotics of Material Objects 2:00 \u2013 5:30<br \/>\nModerator: Esther Eidinow, University of Nottingham, UK<\/p>\n<p>2:00\u00a0 Materiality and Ritual Competence: Insights from Women\u2019s Prayer Typology in Homer<br \/>\nAndromache Karanika, University of California, Irvine, USA<\/p>\n<p>3:00\u00a0 The Forgotten Things: Women, Rituals and Community in Western Sicily (8<sup>th<\/sup>\u20136<sup>th<\/sup> centuries BC)<br \/>\nMeritxell Ferrer, Stanford University, USA<\/p>\n<p>4:00\u00a0 Break<\/p>\n<p>4:30\u00a0 Women, Ritual and Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the second half of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Millenium BC<br \/>\nCecilie Brons, National Museum of Denmark and The Danish National Research Foundation\u2019s Centre for Textile Research, DK<\/p>\n<p>7:30\u00a0 Dessert<br \/>\nSymbolic ritualization of reproduction\/ reproductive anxieties in alien abduction narratives<br \/>\nStephanie Kelley Romano, Mays Center, Bates College USA<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">DAY 2:\u00a0 Saturday April 26<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Time and Community\u00a0 9:00 \u2013 12:30<br \/>\nModerator: Jennifer Kosak, Bowdoin College, USA<\/p>\n<p>9:00\u00a0 Bitter constraint? \u00a0Penelope&#8217;s web, and &#8216;season due&#8217;<br \/>\nLaurie O\u2019Higgins, Bates College, USA<\/p>\n<p>10:00\u00a0 Break<\/p>\n<p>10:15\u00a0 Silent Mourners: Terracotta Statues and Death Rituals in Canusium<br \/>\nTiziana D\u2019Angelo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA<br \/>\nMaya Muratov, Adelphi University, USA<\/p>\n<p>11:15\u00a0 Women, Death Ritual and Social Memory in Classical Athens<br \/>\nLaura McClure, University of Wisconsin, USA<\/p>\n<p>12:30\u00a0 Lunch in New Commons<br \/>\nCenter and Periphery 2:00 \u2013 5:30<br \/>\nModerator: Deborah Lyons, Miami University of Ohio, USA<\/p>\n<p>2:00\u00a0 Delphic Oracles: Occasional Verse and Ritual Competence<br \/>\nLisa Maurizio, Bates College, USA<\/p>\n<p>3:00\u00a0 The Lone Man in \u2018A League of their Own\u2019, and \u2018Light My Fire\u2019: Two Aspects of Women and Sacrifice<br \/>\nMat Carbon, Universit\u00e9 de Li\u00e8ge, BE<\/p>\n<p>4:00\u00a0 Break<\/p>\n<p>4:30\u00a0 Why was the Festival of the Athenian Haloa celebrated?<br \/>\nMatthew Dillon, University of New England, AU<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">DAY 3:\u00a0 Sunday April 27<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Embodied Ritual 9:00 \u2013 12:30<br \/>\nModerator: Matthew Dillon, University of New England, AU<\/p>\n<p>9:00\u00a0 Owners of Their Own Bodies: Greek Women\u2019s Competence in Reproduction Rituals<br \/>\nIrene Salvo, Royal Holloway University and Gerda Henkel Foundation, UK<\/p>\n<p>10:00\u00a0 Break<\/p>\n<p>10:15\u00a0 A Cutting Prophet<br \/>\nBert Lott, Vassar College, USA<\/p>\n<p>11:15\u00a0 Magical Action and the Ritual Competence of \u2018Victimhood\u2019<br \/>\nEsther Eidinow, University of Nottingham, UK<\/p>\n<p>12:30\u00a0 Lunch in New Commons<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Discussion<\/span> 1:15 \u2013 3:00<\/p>\n<p>1:15\u00a0 Current Trends and Future Directions in the Study of Women, Religion and Classics<br \/>\nA round table discussion with Bonnie MacLachlan, Emeritus Professor, The University of Western Ontario, CA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From April 25 &#8211; 27, 2014, Bates College hosted the conference &#8220;Women&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}