#  Dancing Bodies, Learned Ladies, and Elastic Moralities in Ancient Rome 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 6, 2016** 

 04:15PM - 05:45PM EDT 

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 **Smith College. Neilson Library Browsing Room**  



 

 



 

RCC is pleased to announce this talk by RCC Fellow [Zoa Alonso Fernández](http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/people/zoa-alonso-fernandez), Postdoctoral Fellow at the [Department of the Classics](http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/) at Harvard University.

**Abstract:** Taking into account a series of Latin elegiac poems and satiric epigrams as well as funerary inscriptions from the Early Imperial Period, Zoa Alonso Fernández argues that dance constituted a space for female intellectual discourse in Ancient Rome. However, the association of dancing with lax morality complicated these women's channels of intellectual authority. Alonso Fernández interrogates the figure of the *docta puella* ('learned girl') as both a model of real female agency and a literary ideal that embodied the patriarchal discourse of Roman male imagination.

**Sponsor(s):** [Department of Dance at Smith College](http://www.smith.edu/dance/), [Department of Classical Languages and Literatures at Smith College](http://www.smith.edu/classics/index.php), [Program in the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College](http://www.smith.edu/swg/), [Five College Dance Department](https://www.fivecolleges.edu/dance).

**Contact(s):** [Zoa Alonso Fernández](mailto:///zalonsofernandez@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 

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 See also:- [ Greater Boston ](/location/boston)
- [ Roman Dance Cultures in Context ](/researchtaxonomy/roman-dance-cultures-context)
- [ Gender Studies ](/sample-event-taxonomy/gender)
- [ Visual and Performing Arts ](/sample-event-taxonomy/visual-and-performing-arts)
 
 

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