Women, Gender and Queenship through the ages

The ANU School of History and ANU Centre for Classical Studies present the third in the annual series of Women and Gender workshops organised by the ANU Late Antique and Medieval Group: 'Women, Gender and Queenship through the Ages'.

Registration is essential: RSVP by 12 (noon) - Monday, 3 November.

Program

9.20 – 9.30 – Welcome (Dr Meaghan McEvoy and Professor Maria Nugent, Head of School of History)

Session 1 – chair: Dr Karen Fox

9.30 – 10.00 – Professor Caillan Davenport - Did the Early Romans have Queens?

10.00-10.30 – Dr Meaghan McEvoy – Queenly patronage in Early Byzantium: Anicia Juliana’s Churches in Constantinople

10.30-11.00 – Dr Esther Klein – The ‘Villainous’ Dowagers, the Female Emperor, and the Anarcho-Feminist Critique of Queenship in China

11.00 – 11.30 – Morning Tea Break

Session 2 – chair: Dr Meaghan McEvoy

11.30–12.30 – Keynote: Dr Alex McAuley (Auckland) – The Other Side of the Dynastic Coin: Rethinking Queenship & Gender in the Hellenistic World

12.30 – 1.20 – Lunch Break

Session 3 – chair: Alexandra Kujanpaa

1.20-1.50 – Dr David Romney Smith – Queens of Mallorca: Fighting at Sea and Ruling on Islands.

1.50-2.20 – Dr Tania Colwell – Queenship in Late Medieval France: Paradoxic Expectations of Elite Women’s Exercise of Power and Authority

2.20-2.50 – Julie Hotchin – Queenly Intercessors and Nuns' Self-Image in the Sybil Embroidery from Heiningen (1517)

2.50 – 3.20 – Afternoon Tea Break

Session 4 – chair: Dr Karen Downing

3.20-3.50 – Professor Ros Smith – 1566: Mary Stuart, the Baptism of James VI, and Religious Affiliation as Spectacle

3.50-4.20 - Fleur Goldthorpe – From Accession to Alliance: Queen Anne’s First 100 Days and the Repair of Anglo-Portuguese Relations

4.20-4.50 – Professor Maria Nugent – First Nations’ Uses of Queen Victoria: Claims and Contestations

4.50 – 5.00 – Conclusion

This event is supported by the ANU Classics Endowment Fund, the ANU School of History, Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies, and the ANU Future Fellowship scheme (FT240100071).