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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Dancing Bodies, Learned Ladies, and Elastic Moralities in Ancient Rome
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SUMMARY:Dancing Bodies, Learned Ladies, and Elastic Moralities in Ancient Rome
DESCRIPTION:<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-full"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>RCC is pleased to announce this talk by RCC Fellow <a href="http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/people/zoa-alonso-fernandez">Zoa Alonso Fernández</a>, Postdoctoral Fellow at the <a href="http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/">Department of the Classics</a> at Harvard University.</p><p><strong>Abstract: </strong>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 <em>docta puella</em> ('learned girl') as both a model of real female agency and a literary ideal that embodied the patriarchal discourse of Roman male imagination.</p><p><strong>Sponsor(s):</strong> <a href="http://www.smith.edu/dance/" data-url="http://www.smith.edu/dance/">Department of Dance at Smith College</a>, <a href="http://www.smith.edu/classics/index.php" data-url="http://www.smith.edu/classics/index.php">Department of Classical Languages and Literatures at Smith College</a>, <a href="http://www.smith.edu/swg/" data-url="http://www.smith.edu/swg/">Program in the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College</a>, <a href="https://www.fivecolleges.edu/dance" data-url="https://www.fivecolleges.edu/dance">Five College Dance Department</a>.</p><p><strong>Contact(s):</strong> <a href="mailto:///zalonsofernandez@fas.harvard.edu">Zoa Alonso Fernández</a></p></div></div></div>
LOCATION:Smith College. Neilson Library Browsing Room
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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