Deadline extended to February 15, 2005

"Exploring Roman Manhood: Formations, Transformations, and Contestations"

Three-Year Colloquium
2006 Annual Meeting of the APA (Montreal)

Call for Papers

Organizers: Jill Connelly, Texas Tech University; Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College; Mark Masterson, Hamilton College

Ever since the publication of Sarah Pomeroy's Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves, the study of women has been a prominent feature of classical studies, and courses on women in antiquity have become a staple of college course offerings. The study of men, however, as an outgrowth of women's studies and now gender studies, is a more recent field of exploration and one that has begun to receive attention. Increasingly, scholars of the ancient world have endeavored to problematize understandings of Roman male culture as merely political, military, or voluptuary and to suggest instead that Roman manhood is the dynamic product of social processes of enculturation. The research of Carlin Barton, Virginia Burrus, Maud Gleason, Erik Gunderson, Mathew Kuefler, Amy Richlin, and Craig Williams, among others, has helped to deepen our understanding of masculinity in Rome by focusing on Roman men's formative relationships with sexuality, women/femininity, and the social expectations for viri.

In our colloquium's second year, "Transformations of Roman Manhood," we would like to focus on the various changes to which Roman manhood was subject. Authors are encouraged to construe "transformation" broadly. Papers may approach this topic from various perspectives, including (but not limited to) social/historical, literary, feminist- and/or queer-theoretical, archaeological, art-historical, or anthropological. Questions addressed by individual papers might include:

1. How do concepts associated with Roman manhood change over time?
2. Women can possess virtues (e.g., virtus, fortitudo, etc.) marked as masculine by the Romans. Does this relative independence of masculine virtue from the male body transform Roman manhood? (If so, how and according to whom?)
3. How does the change from a small republic of citizen soldiers to an empire supported by mercenaries alter the realization of Roman manhood? Or, put differently, what effect does the removal of elite males from the ranks of the soldiery have on Roman manhood?
4. What impact does the coming of Christianity have on Roman concepts of masculinity?
5. How do various literary genres (epic, elegy, historiography, drama, etc.) and/or philosophy/theology/rhetoric portray or interact with transformations of Roman manhood?

Abstracts of 500-800 words are due by February 15, 2005. Submit abstracts, by email (preferred) or as a hard copy, to Elizabeth Manwell, Department of Classical Studies, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo MI 49006. Abstracts will be judged anonymously by two referees.

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University of Nottingham
Classics Research Workshop & Additional Classics Seminars
Spring Term 2005

Tuesday 1 February     
Professor Tim Cornell (ICS, London) Back to Basics with Augustus (Thai Lecture Theatre, Trent College, Long Eaton. 5.00pm)

Tuesday 8 February     
Dr A. M. Burnett (British Museum) What were Coins for? (Cecil Roberts Room, County Library, Angel Row, Nottingham. 6.45pm)

Tuesday 15 February    
Dr Mark Bradley (Nottingham) The Importance of Colour on Ancient Sculpture (B7, Archaeology & Classics Building, University Park. 5.00pm. Tea from 4.30pm)

Tuesday 22 February    
Lynn Kozak (Nottingham) Trust Among Warriors (B7, Archaeology & Classics Building, University Park. 5.00pm. Tea from 4.30pm)

Tuesday 8 March Lilia Hachiya (Critical Theory & Cultural Studies, Nottingham) & Matthew Hiscock (Classics, Cambridge)
Theorising Suicide Ancient and Modern (B7, Archaeology & Classics Building, University Park. 5.00pm. Tea from 4.30pm)

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