CREOR Lunch Lecture Series Women in the Ancient World
Women in the Ancient World
CREOR Lunch Lecture Series 2018-2019
This Thursday lunch lecture series focuses on women in the ancient world. How did women live 1500-3000 ago, what did they feel, think and believe in, what did they produce and achieve? Recent research has uncovered many hidden treasures about the world in which women lived and were part of, from ancient Egypt and Babylonia to ancient Israel and Early Judaism, from the Greco-Roman world and Early Christianity to Byzantium and early Islam, of which much is now accessible through ancient writings, art and archeology. Join our lecture series with informative and exciting presentations, images never seen before, and a light lunch and fellowship with graduate students and faculty. Topics will include women in the Ancient Near East, Women in Ancient Israel, women in Early Judaism, women in the Greco-Roman World, women in early Christianity, women in Rabbinic Judaism, and women in Byzantium.
This lecture series is organized by McGill’s Centre for Research on Religion, the Montreal Biblical Colloquium, the School of Religious Studies and the Department of History and Classics.
Audience: Members of the McGill Center for Research on Religion, students and faculty of the School of Religious Studies, the Department of History and Classical Studies, the Montreal School of Theology, MORSL, interested lay people.
Date & Location
Birks Heritage Chapel and Senior Common Room 100, 3520 University Street, Montreal
Thursdays from 11:30-13:00, 2018-2019
February 7, 2019: William Gladhill (McGill University) “Women, Lament, and Roman Spirituality”
WILLIAM GLADHILL is an associate professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. His research includes Roman poetics, empire and space, and the ancient body. Hi current publication “Rethinking Roman Alliance: A Study in Poetics and Society”, is a cultural reconstruction of the processes, contexts, and tensions inherent in the performance of ritual alliances. He has also published several articles including “Tiberius on Capri and the Limits of Roman Sex Culture,” and book chapters such as, “Women from the Rostra,” in Reading Republican Oratory: Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions. In addition to his publication work, Dr. Gladhill sits on the board of Vergilius, one of the leading journals on the study of Vergil and started McGill University's working group Classical Revolutions.
