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Subject: "Women, Food, and Drink" panel--new submission instructions
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:25:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Kathryn Topper <ktopper at u.washington.edu>

Women, Food, and Drink in the Classical World
Organized by Kathryn Topper (University of Washington) and Laurie Kilker
(Ithaca College)

Since the 1980s and 90s, customs surrounding food and drink have become
central to our understanding of ancient Mediterranean societies and are
now widely understood to have touched on aspects of ancient life as
diverse as poetry, sexuality, religion, politics, and domestic life
(Detienne and Vernant 1989, Lissarrague 1990, Murray 1990, Slater 1991,
Schmitt-Pantel 1992, Murray and Tecuan 1995). Recent inquiries into topics
such as the imagery of the Roman banquet or the cultural significance of
dining posture, as well as more general reassessments of ideas presented
in earlier scholarship, suggest that interest in ancient dining customs
shows no sign of abating (Dunbabin 2003, Orfanos and Carrire 2003, Roller
2006). In most of these studies, however--as at the majority of the
ancient meals themselves--attention has centered on the male participants.
Although some facets of womens involvement in ancient meals, most notably
their roles as courtesans, have been extensively examined, a comprehensive
picture of ancient Mediterranean women's relationships to practices of
eating and drinking still eludes us.

Our panel seeks to address this problem by placing women's roles in
ancient meals (broadly defined to include any interaction with food or
drink) at the center of discussion. By bringing together papers on women,
food, and drink in the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan worlds, we hope to take
stock of current knowledge about the topic and to discover what avenues of
further research may be most productively explored. We therefore solicit
abstracts for papers on any aspect of ancient women's interactions with
food and drink, although papers that address underexplored questions or
evidence are especially welcome. Because of the aims of the panel, we also
encourage abstracts for papers that highlight the promises and limitations
of their own methodologies. Papers may consider literary, visual,
architectural, epigraphic, archaeological, or other forms of evidence;
possible topics include, but are not limited to: women and food
preparation; women's roles at ritual banquets; tropes or metaphors
involving women, food, and drink; evidence for women's diets, both in
daily life and at religious festivals; women and sacrifice; women's roles
at banquets outside of the centers that have been the focus of study
(Greece outside of Athens; the Roman provinces); women's involvement in
meals other than the symposium and convivium.

Please send an anonymous abstract as a PDF attachment to
apameetings at sas.upenn.edu, and be sure to provide complete contact
information and any AV requests in the body of your email. Submissions
must be received by February 1, 2010 and will be reviewed anonymously by
the panel organizers.

Kathryn Topper
Assistant Professor
Department of Classics
University of Washington
218 Denny Hall, Box 353110
Seattle, WA 98195-3110
Fax: (206) 543-2267