WCC Virtual Conference - Program
Embodying Women’s Colonial Experiences
February 28, 2025
Organized by: Savannah Sather Marquardt and Maddalena Scarperi
Program
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Introduction
8:30-9:00 AM EST
S.S. Marquardt & M. Scarperi
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Panel One: Literary Approaches to Ancient Womanhood
9:00-10:00 AM EST
Valeria Spacciante (Columbia University): Foreign Women’s Love in the Ancient Novel
Irene Han (NYU Gallatin) : Chinoiseries: Cassandra in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
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Panel Two: Womanhood in Italic Contexts
10:30 AM -11:30 PM EST
Katharina Korthaus (IMT Lucca): The (Un-)Making of Women’s History: A Case Study of Pompeiian Parietal Inscriptions
Parrish Wright (University of South Carolina): The Use and Abuse of the Locrian Maidens – Reexamining Womanhood in Archaic Calabria
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Panel Three: Royal/Imperial Womanhoods
12:00-1:00 PM EST
Devon DeRouen (Brandeis University): Cleopatra Selene: The Iconography and Cultural Inheritance of Cleopatra’s Daughter
Marco Ferrario (University of Trento): The Bribe and the Bride: Alexander and Rōxanē: Again, Anew
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LUNCH BREAK
1:00 -1:30 PM EST
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Panel Four: The Regina Tombstone: A Case Study
1:30 PM-2:30 PM EST
Lylaah L. Bahlerao (NYU): “A Woman Called Queenie”: The Regina tombstone in reflections on a multi-cultural Britain
Katrina Knight (University of South Dakota): Natione Britanna: The Ethnic Identity of British and Romano-British Women
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Keynote
3:00-4:00 PM EST