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• 28 Mar 2025

  Nancy

  Call for papers - Europe

  Des jeunes filles puissantes

  Statuts et agentivité des jeunes filles dans les mondes antiques et médiévaux

  Le laboratoire SAMA (Sciences de l’Antiquité et du Moyen Âge) de l’université de Lorraine organise une deuxième journée d’étude consacrée cette année aux jeunes filles puissantes de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge. Cette rencontre sera l’occasion de questionner leur statut, leur vulnérabilité et leur capacité d’agir en vertu même de leur état d’individu en transition.

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• 07 Jun 2022

  08 Jun 2022

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Women and Diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age

  Egypt and Ancient Near East

  Diplomatic marriages are attested in the Ancient Near East between the 3rd millennium BCE and the middle of the 1st. They took place after numerous negotiations and exchanges of gifts, and made it possible to seal or strengthen alliances with powers of the same rank or with vassal kingdoms. Thanks to the intervention of specialists of the Late Bronze Age in Egypt and the Ancient NearEast, and through the examination of textual, archaeological and iconographic sources, this symposium will analyse the place of women of the royal entourage in international relations.

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• 30 Jul 2021

  Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  Eros and Thanatos in the Arts of Asia

  Revue « Art Asie Sorbonne »

  From Plato to Saint Augustine to Freud, the pairing Eros / Thanatos occupies a place that is both central and multi-faceted in Western thought and art. It appears as a celebration of love as a vital energy that allows the (male) soul to escape its mortal body and reach the divine, but also as a threat when under the effect of carnal desire, or of feminine, maternal power, the soul is exhausted. This is also the case in Asian thought and art, whether in popular beliefs and images, religious icons, classical, traditional or contemporary representations.

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• 04 Oct 2018

  06 Oct 2018

  05 Oct 2018

  Nanterre

  Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Textiles and Gender: Production to wardrobe from the Orient to the Mediterranean in Antiquity

  Textiles and gender intertwine on many levels, from the transformation of raw materials into fabric at one end, to dress and garments, and the construction of identity at the other. The conference will examine the gender division of work in the production of textiles, as well as attitudes to dress and gender across the Near East and Mediterranean culture in antiquity (c. 3000 BCE-300CE), tracing both cross-cultural and culturally specific associations.

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• 01 Aug 2018

  Wavre

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  The feminine in Antiquity and writing in Antiquity

  Revue Volumen – vol. 19/20 (2018) journal

  Le prochain numéro de la revue annuelle Volumen (n°19/20, 2018) sera consacré aux thèmes du féminin dans l’Antiquité et de l’écriture dans les civilisations antiques.

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• 05 Nov 2014

  06 Nov 2014

  07 Nov 2014

  Conference, symposium - Asia

  The Role of Women in Work and Society

  French historians are concerned by women’s history since thirty years, but studies are manly dealing with the Occident. For the ancient Near East, there is now a great deal of limited studies on women and gender history, but few syntheses. Furthermore, economic history is well represented in Assyriology, thanks to the good preservation of dozen of thousands of clay tablets recording administrative operations, contracts and acts dealing with family law. Despite these voluminous sources, the topic of work has not been much addressed. The thirty participants of this conference will examine the various economic occupations involving women, in a gender perspective, over the three millennia of Near Eastern history.

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