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Subject: WCC panel @ the 2010 APA
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:35:54 -0600 (CST)
From: <mparca at illinois.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS

Gender, East and West in the Ancient World
Women’s Classical Caucus Panel, American Philological Association
Anaheim, January 6–9, 2010

Organizers: Maryline Parca (mparca at illinois.edu) and Angeliki Tzanetou
(tzanetou at illinois.edu)

The Greeks and the Romans started conceptualizing the West as a space,
mental and physical, and over time came to define the West’s historic,
political and cultural distinctiveness in relation to the East.  Gender 
as a
category played a central role in articulating this dichotomy, and it now
provides a tool for retrieving and analyzing the interactions, tensions, 
and
accommodations that underlie the polarity.  Distinct pairings—male vs.
female, free vs. slave, Greek and Roman vs. other, civilized vs. barbarian,
democratic vs. despotic, center vs. periphery—and the meanings attached
to them lie at the heart of hierarchies which informed the social and 
political
identity of the Greeks and the Romans.

Difference in polarity is as old as Homer and offers rich ground for 
reflection.
The Amazons, Circe, Medea, Dionysus, Cybele, Hippocratic determinism,
luxury and eastern corruption, Attic vs. Asianic rhetoric, slaves and 
freedmen
in the social Roman hierarchy, the gendered language of conquest and 
victory,
the Orient in epic, mime and pantomime, Cleopatra, Rome and Alexandria,
Roman empresses—these are but a few topics that prospective panelists
are invited to address.  We are also looking to reconstruct the 
evolution of
attitudes toward the East in different periods; to classify the 
character of the
interactions between East and West (e.g., trade, war, migration); to 
document
and examine case-studies in particular areas (e.g., religion, 
literature, art,
social and political institutions) as well as probe the ways in which they
informed various ideologies (e.g., otherness, superiority, hybridity,
assimilation).

The role of gender in defining the relationship between East and West has
been the subject of structuralist analyses and, more recently, has become
an object of enquiry informed by feminism and post-colonial theory.  We
invite abstracts of papers that propose to explore the intersections and
connections between the ‘feminine’ and the East, and how they stand as
foils for the ‘masculine’, ‘civilized’, ‘orderly’, ‘hegemonic’ West, 
employing
these and other analytical and interpretive approaches.

Abstracts should be sent as Word documents in an email attachment to
Laura Mc Clure (<lmcclure at wisc.edu>) by February 6, 2009. Do not send
them to the panel organizers. Personal identifying information should
appear only in the cover message, not on the abstract itself.  Abstracts
should be no more than ONE page in length, and should follow the
instructions for the formatting of individual abstracts provided on p. 6
of the APA Program Guide at
http://www.apaclassics.org/Newsletter/2007newsletter/1007insert.pdf