{"id":669,"date":"2016-04-06T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval\/?p=669"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:23:35","slug":"engendering-time-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-april-29-may-1-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/2016\/04\/06\/engendering-time-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-april-29-may-1-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference: Engendering Time in the Ancient Mediterranean, April 29-May 1, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Penelope weaves and unweaves a garment she intends as a shroud for Laertes, she delays a marriage promised to take place at its completion. More than this, Penelope seems to stall or reverse time. The object she creates is not preserved, but, like the proverbial witches of antiquity who call rivers back to their source, and seduce the moon from its home in the sky, Penelope\u2019s weaving instead constructs time\u2014as cyclical and recursive. For his part, Odysseus moves through time and space in an apparently linear fashion; one event or action leads inexorably to the next, even if themes and experiences repeat themselves. His adventures are recorded in epic verse: within the time\/space of the poem, we hear his own account of them, and, with the advent of writing, they will become the material of history.<\/p>\n

Homer\u2019s Odyssey offers a meditation on how time is gendered and its consequences for social, literary, and historical enterprises outside of the epic. This conference examines how the experience of time was gendered in the ancient Greco-Roman Mediterranean through a range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“This low relief frieze, ‘The Borghese Dancers,’ depicts a happy gathering of the Three Graces and Horae, the Goddesses of Time.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Engendering Time in the Ancient Mediterranean, organized by Esther Eidinow (University of Nottingham, UK) and Lisa Maurizio (Bates College), has been generously supported by the Costas and Mary Maliotis Charitable Fund Foundation.<\/p>\n

The conference is open to the public. Meals are available for conference delegates only. Please contact Lisa Maurizio at lmaurizi@bates.edu<\/a> if you would like to attend the evening presentations.<\/p>\n

Agenda<\/h2>\n

All\u00a0events will take place in Commons 221-222.<\/em><\/p>\n

Friday<\/span><\/h4>\n

1:15-1:30pm<\/strong>:\u00a0Introductory Remarks And Welcome: Matthew Auer, Dean of Faculty, Bates College<\/p>\n

Afternoon Panel<\/h5>\n

Moderator: Esther Eidinow, University of Nottingham, UK<\/p>\n

1:30-2:15pm<\/strong>:\u00a0Sappho\u2019s Games and Gendered Temporality: Repetition and Interruption in Female Performance of Choral
\nSong, ANDROMACHE KARANIKA, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, CA<\/p>\n

2:15-3:00pm<\/strong>:\u00a0Atalanta and Sappho: Women In and Out of Time,\u00a0KIRK ORMAND, OBERLIN COLLEGE, OH<\/p>\n

Coffee & Tea<\/p>\n

3:30-4:15pm<\/strong>:\u00a0\u201cFeminizing\u201d Time through Grammatical Gender in Pindar\u2019s Epinicians,\u00a0MARIA PAVLOU, UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, CY<\/p>\n

4:15-5:00pm<\/strong>:\u00a0Ritual Time and Restoration in Sophocles\u2019 Trachiniae,\u00a0TERESA YATES, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, CA<\/span><\/p>\n

6:00-8:00pm<\/strong>:\u00a0A Mediterranean Feast followed by desserts and discussion with Stephanie Kelly-Romano on \u201cAlien Abduction and Time\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday<\/span><\/h4>\n
Morning Panel<\/h5>\n

Moderator: Jennifer Clark Kosak, Bowdoin College, ME<\/p>\n

9:00-9:45am<\/strong>: The Poetics of Time: Plot and Pattern in Herodotus\u2019s Narrative,\u00a0ESTHER EIDINOW, NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY, UK<\/p>\n

9:45-10:30am<\/strong>: Mortal Time, Divine Time,\u00a0DEBORAH LYONS, MIAMI UNIVERSITY, OH<\/p>\n

Coffee & Tea<\/p>\n

11:00-11:45am<\/strong>: Gender, Genre, and Time in Delphic Divination,\u00a0LISA MAURIZIO, BATES COLLEGE, ME<\/p>\n

11:45am-12:30pm<\/strong>: Festival and Ritual as Engendered Time in Ancient Greece: Chronological and Diachronic Time in Gendered and Non-Gendered Sacred Rites, MATTHEW P. DILLON, UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND, AU<\/p>\n

12:30-1:30pm<\/strong>: Lunch In Commons<\/p>\n

Afternoon Panel<\/h5>\n

Moderator: Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College, ME<\/p>\n

1:30-2:15pm<\/strong>: Delia\u2019s Saturnian Day: The Puella and the Golden Age in Augustan Elegy,\u00a0HUNTER GARDNER, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, SC<\/p>\n

2:15-3:00pm<\/strong>: Gendered Patterns: Constructing Time in the Communities of Catullus 64,\u00a0AARON SEIDER, COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, MA<\/p>\n

Coffee & Tea<\/p>\n

3:30-4:15pm<\/strong>: Static Father, Dynamic Daughter: Hunger and Time in Ovid’s Erysichthon Episode,\u00a0ROBERT SANTUCCI, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, MD<\/p>\n

6:00-8:00pm<\/strong>: A New England Feast<\/p>\n

Sunday<\/span><\/h4>\n
Panel and Discussion<\/h5>\n

Moderator: Todd Berzon, Bowdoin College, ME<\/p>\n

9:30-10:15am<\/strong>: Sosipatra, Destiny, and Death,\u00a0CRYSTAL ADDEY, ST. ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, SCT<\/p>\n

Coffee & Tea<\/p>\n

10:30-11:15am<\/strong>: (En)Gendering Christian Time: Female Saints and Roman Martyrological Calendars,\u00a0NICOLA DENZEY LEWIS, BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI<\/p>\n

11:15am-12:00pm<\/strong>: Telling Time with Epiphanius: Periodization and Metaphors of Genealogy and Gender in the Panarion,\u00a0ELIZABETH CASTELLI, BARNARD COLLEGE, NY<\/p>\n

12:00-1:00pm<\/strong>: Conference Brunch followed by a round table discussion<\/p>\n

Conference concludes at 1:00pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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