Womens Ritual DAY I Friday, April 25

1:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks, Lisa Maurizio, Bates College

Competence in the The Semiotics of Material Objects (Moderator) Esther Eidinow, University of Nottingham, UK
2:00 Materiality and Ritual Competence: Insights from Womens Prayer Typology in Homer

Ancient
Andromache Karanika, University of California, Irvine, USA

3:00 The Forgotten Things: Women, Rituals and Community in Western Sicily (8th6th centuries BC)
Meritxell Ferrer, Stanford University, USA

Mediterranean 4:30

7:30
Women, Ritual and Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the second half of the 1st Millenium BC
Cecilie Brons, National Museum of Denmark and Danish National Research Foundations Centre for Textile Research, DK

Symbolic ritualization of reproduction/ reproductive anxieties in alien abduction narratives

Stephanie Kelley Romano, Bates College, Mays Center

DAY II Saturday, April 26

Time and Community (Moderator) Jennifer Kosak, Bowdoin College, USA
9:00 Bitter constraint? Penelopes web, and season due
Laurie OHiggins, Bates College

10: 15 Silent Mourners: Terracotta Statues and Death Rituals in Canusium

Tiziana DAngelo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
Maya Muratov, Adelphi University, USA

11:15 Women, Death Ritual and Social Memory in Classical Athens

Laura McClure, University of Wisconsin, USA

Center and Periphery (Moderator) Deborah Lyons, Miami University of Ohio, USA
2:00 Delphic Oracles: Occasional Verse and Ritual Competence
Lisa Maurizio, Bates College, USA

3:00 The Lone Man in A League of their Own, and Light My Fire: Two Aspects of Women and Sacrifice
Mat Carbon, Universit de Lige, BE

4:30 Why was the Festival of the Athenian Haloa celebrated?

Matthew Dillon, University of New England, AU

DAY III Sunday, April 27

April 2527, 2014 Embodied Ritual (Moderator) Matthew Dillon, University of New England, AU
9:00 Owners of Their Own Bodies: Greek Womens Competence in Reproduction Rituals
Irene Salvo, Royal Holloway University and Gerda Henkel Foundation, UK

Bates College, Lewiston, Maine 10:15 A Cutting Prophet

Bert Lott, Vassar College, USA

New Commons 221/222 11:15 Magical Action and the Ritual Competence of Victimhood
Esther Eidinow, University of Nottingham, UK

Questions? Please contact lmaurizi@bates.edu 1:15 Current Trends and Future Directions in the Study of Women, Religion and Classics
Bonnie MacLachlan, Emeritus Professor, University of Western Ontario, CA

With generous support from Organized by Matthew Dillon, University of New England AU, Esther Eidinow, University of Nottingham, UK
and Lisa Maurizio, Bates College with the Program in Classical and Medieval Studies.
The Costas and Mary Maliotis Charitable Foundation Fund
 Womens Ritual DAY I Friday, April 25
1:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks, Lisa Maurizio, Bates College

Competence in the The Semiotics of Material Objects (Moderator) Esther Eidinow, University of Nottingham, UK
2:00 Materiality and Ritual Competence: Insights from Womens Prayer Typology in Homer

Ancient
Andromache Karanika, University of California, Irvine, USA

3:00 The Forgotten Things: Women, Rituals and Community in Western Sicily (8th6th centuries BC)
Meritxell Ferrer, Stanford University, USA

Mediterranean 4:30

7:30
Women, Ritual and Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the second half of the 1st Millenium BC
Cecilie Brons, National Museum of Denmark and Danish National Research Foundations Centre for Textile Research, DK

Symbolic ritualization of reproduction/ reproductive anxieties in alien abduction narratives

Stephanie Kelley Romano, Bates College, Mays Center

DAY II Saturday, April 26

Time and Community (Moderator) Jennifer Kosak, Bowdoin College, USA
9:00 Bitter constraint? Penelopes web, and season due
Laurie OHiggins, Bates College

10: 15 Silent Mourners: Terracotta Statues and Death Rituals in Canusium

Tiziana DAngelo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
Maya Muratov, Adelphi University, USA

11:15 Women, Death Ritual and Social Memory in Classical Athens

Laura McClure, University of Wisconsin, USA

Center and Periphery (Moderator) Deborah Lyons, Miami University of Ohio, USA
2:00 Delphic Oracles: Occasional Verse and Ritual Competence
Lisa Maurizio, Bates College, USA

3:00 The Lone Man in A League of their Own, and Light My Fire: Two Aspects of Women and Sacrifice
Mat Carbon, Universit de Lige, BE

4:30 Why was the Festival of the Athenian Haloa celebrated?

Matthew Dillon, University of New England, AU

DAY III Sunday, April 27

April 2527, 2014 Embodied Ritual (Moderator) Matthew Dillon, University of New England, AU
9:00 Owners of Their Own Bodies: Greek Womens Competence in Reproduction Rituals
Irene Salvo, Royal Holloway University and Gerda Henkel Foundation, UK

Bates College, Lewiston, Maine 10:15 A Cutting Prophet

Bert Lott, Vassar College, USA

New Commons 221/222 11:15 Magical Action and the Ritual Competence of Victimhood
Esther Eidinow, University of Nottingham, UK

Questions? Please contact lmaurizi@bates.edu 1:15 Current Trends and Future Directions in the Study of Women, Religion and Classics
Bonnie MacLachlan, Emeritus Professor, University of Western Ontario, CA

With generous support from Organized by Matthew Dillon, University of New England AU, Esther Eidinow, University of Nottingham, UK
and Lisa Maurizio, Bates College with the Program in Classical and Medieval Studies.
The Costas and Mary Maliotis Charitable Foundation Fund