For the first installment of our Social Justice Wednesday talks, Dr. Greta Kroeker (History, GSJ) will be discussing "The Artemisia Project" with us!
Talk summary: A new rape culture emerged in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750) as Europeans incorporated the moral priorities and cultural consequences of the Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. These changes left a durable legacy as consistories, courts, and communities increasingly focused on the moral characters of rape victims. This talk examines the linguistic evidence of this shift as Europeans began to speak of rape, rape victims, and rape perpetrators in new ways and the pedagogical project that has grown from this research, The Artemisia Project.
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Picture: Susanna and the Elders, by Artemisia Gentileschi (1610)
Image from Wikipedia