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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/classical-studies/events/female-roles-ancient-foun
 dation-legends
SUMMARY:Female Roles in Ancient Foundation Legends
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us on October 6 for a Workshop at the University of
  \nWaterloo.  DRAGEN Lab\, St Jerome's University. \n\nWhile women tend
 ed to play only marginal roles in ancient military and\npolitical matters\
 , they not rarely figure as important characters in\nhistorical\, legendar
 y or mythical accounts of exploration\, settlement\,\nor early urban devel
 opment. In these they often appear as largely\nartificial and symbolic cha
 racters\, but this should not prevent us\nfrom digging deeper and asking o
 urselves about the effective\nhistorical roles that women played either at
  the time of foundation or\nmuch later when an origin was remembered – o
 r rather construed –\nto explain\, justify\, or change interethnic relat
 ions. Examples\ndiscussed at this workshop will range from the Amazons ove
 r Medeia and\nKirke to Dido and Lavinia\, but they also include the Biblic
 al Sheerah\n(_1 Chronicles_ 7:20-29) and the romanticized Gallic ‘prince
 ss’\nGyptis/Petta\, the daughter of the Segobrigian king Nannos. In cert
 ain\nways\, these ladies shaped the legends of early-modern\nMatoaka/Pocac
 hontas and Malinche\, and never ceased to invite new\ninterpretation and i
 nstrumentalization\, as an example from National\nSocialist Germany will i
 llustrate.\n\nAt this workshop\, we shall collect\, compare\, and analyse 
 diverse\nstories featuring such women and aim for developing a typology. T
 he\nbetter we understand these female roles in the various literary\ntradi
 tions\, the better we may understand these traditions of origin\nand ident
 ity as well as the agency ascribed to or claimed by women in\ndifferent ti
 mes and places of the ancient world. Their roles but also\nthe foundation 
 stories in which they acted were always subject to\nsociopolitical change 
 at the local level and to major ideological\nshifts inducing the redefinit
 ion of ethnic identity and alterity on a\nmuch broader scale. The ultimate
  aim of this workshop\, and of the\ninternational and interdisciplinary co
 llaboration that it forms part\nof\, is to help us better understand the i
 nclusive and exclusive\ndynamics of storytelling and identity construction
  in societies of the\npast and the world we live in.  \n\nFor the full pr
 ogram including paper abstracts\, see\nhttps://www.altaycoskun.com/female-
 roles-2025. Attendance is open to\neveryone and free\, but registration is
  required. Please\, contact ALTAY\nCOSKUN AT UWATERLOO DOT CA for registr
 ation.
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