Organzers: Elina Pyy, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae (Finnish Institute in Rome) – Academia.edu, ORCID

Program:

	Thursday 27Th
	09.20 Opening keynote lecture. Christopher Greenough: The Bible and Sexual Violence Against Men
	Session 1: Definging Sexual Violence in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Chair: Ria Berg)
	10.00 Suzanne Lynch: Rape Culture and the Language of Sexual Violence in Ancient Greece
	10.20 Kirsty Harrod: Rape and Respectability in the Athenian oikos
	10.40 Anna Everett Beck: Rape and the Word paelex: Agency and Opprobrium
	11.00 Nephele Papakonstantinou: Gender-based sexual violence in Roman Declamation
	11.40-12-10 Coffee break
	Session 2: Coercion and Rape in Myth and Poety (Chair: Tuomo Salokas)
	12.10 Brian McPhee: Rape Apologetics and Normalization in Callimachus' Acontius and Cydippe (frr.67-75 Pf.)
	12.30 Simona Martorana: Re-Enacting Rape: Medusa in Ovid's Metamorphoses
	12.50 Sigrid Schottenius Culled: Nefas: Philomela and the Unspeakable
	13.30-14-30 Lunch break
	Session 3: Gender, War, and Violence in Epic and Tragedy (Chair: Elina Pyy)
	14.30 Tine Scheijnen: Women in the Trojan War: Gender Evolutions across the Ancient Greek and Medieval Vernacular Literary Traditions
	14.50 Pieta Päällysaho: Sexual Violence and Subjectification in Euripides' Helen
	15.10 Kate Meng Brassel: On Violence Against Trojan Women
	15.30 Alice Hu: Rape and Revision in Statius' Thebaid
	16.10-16-40 Coffee break
	Session 4: Classical Reception (Chair Ria Berg)
	16.40 Aisha Dad: What To Do About That Part: Re-inscribing Rape in Children's Literature
	17.00 Briana King: Fatal Attraction: Ancient Precedents, Modern Appropriations
	17.20 Elina Pyy: Prisoners of the Body: Ancient Myth and Sexual Trauma in 21st Century Screen Fiction
	Discusion
	Friday 28Th
	Session 5: Biblical Reception (Chair: Elina Pyy)
	9.00 Louis Zweig: From Antiquity through Abelard: Dinah's Rape in Latin Poety
	9.20 Giovanni Frulla: "Mal egli non volle ascoltarla" (2 Sam 14): la rappresentazione della storia di Tamar nel Cinquecento
	Discussion
	Session 6: Roman Rape Cultures - Literary Perspectives (Chair: Tuomo Salokas)
	10.00 Evan Jewell: Same-Sex Rape in the Roman Military: Catullus (c. 15, 28) and the Poetics of Homosociality
	10.20 Lucy Mudie: Blurred Lines: The Rape Culture of Ovid's Ars Amatoria
	10.40 Ash Finn: Violence, Degradation and the So-Called 'Gains of Revenge'
	11.00 Benjamin Adam Jerue: The Contested Role of Sexual Violence in Roman Historiography: The Rape of the Sabine Women in Dionysisu Halicarnassus' Antiquitates Romanae 2.30
	Discussion
	11.40-12-10 Coffee break
	Session 7: Imperial Ideology and Colonial Narratives (Chair: Elina Pyy)
	12.10 Kelsey Madden: Identifying the Traffic of Captive Women in Roman Conquest Iconography: A Multidisciplinary Approach
	12.30 Eleanor Newman: The Sexual Exploitation of African Males in Roman Material Culture: Yoyeurism, Penetration, and Fetishization
	15.50 Francesca Bellei: The Great Beauty and the Eternal Victim in Italian Literature from Dante to the Risorgimento
	Discussion
	13.30-14-30 Lunch break
	Session 8: Late Antiquity (Chair: Elina Pyy)
	14.30 Judith Evans Grubbs: 'Don't Force the Slave of God!' St. Thekla and the Avoidance of Rape
	14.50 Gianna Stergiou: Temptation Is Defeated Only by Force: The Case of the Female Figures in the Stories of Early Christian Ascetics
	15.10 Alexander Thies: For the Good of the Empire – "Ritulised Rape Culture" in the Late Antique Court
	Discussion
	15.50 Closing keynote lecute. Victoria Leonard: Gendering Violence in the Ancient Past
	Concluding remarks
	Digital Presentations
	Imme Laseur: A Web of Rape: rachne, Ovid and Sexual Violence in the Metamorphoses
	Enni Pentinpuro: Ill-Starred Beauty: The Sexualization of Dying Women in Roman Literature
	Hatin Boumehache Erjali, and and Borja Vertedor Ballesteros: Women Facing the Roman Soldiers: Narrative Strategies of Resitance & Attempted Rape During the Roman Mediterranean Expansion (III-II BC)

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