WCC Virtual Conference - Program

Embodying Women’s Colonial Experiences

February 28, 2025

Organized by: Savannah Sather Marquardt and Maddalena Scarperi

Program

  • Introduction

    8:30-9:00 AM EST

    S.S. Marquardt & M. Scarperi

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • LUNCH BREAK

    1:00 -1:30 PM EST

  • 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

  • Keynote

    3:00-4:00 PM EST

    Giulia Saltini Semerari