The WCC invites you to our first virtual conference, Embodying Women's Colonial Experiences, organized by Savannah Sather Marquardt and Maddalena Scarperi, on February 28, 2025.

The full program is available at the conference website here and copied below.

Introduction (8:30-9:00am EST)
Savannah Sather Marquardt (Yale University) and Maddalena Scarperi (University of Pennsylvania)

Panel One: Literary Approaches to Ancient Womanhood (9:00-10:00am EST)

1. Valeria Spacciante (Columbia University), Foreign Women's Love in the Ancient Novel
2. Irene Han (NYU Gallatin), Chinoiseries: Cassandra in Aeschylus' Agamemnon
   

Panel Two: Womanhood in Italic Contexts (10:30-11:30am EST)

1. Katharina Korthaus (IMT Lucca), The (Un-)Making of Women's History: A Case Study of Pompeiian Parietal Inscriptions
   
2. Parrish Wright (University of South Carolina), The Use and Abuse of the Locrian Maidens – Reexamining Womanhood in Archaic Calabria

Panel Three: Royal/Imperial Womanhoods (12:00-1:00pm EST)

1. Devon DeRouen (Brandeis University), Cleopatra Selene: The Iconography and Cultural Inheritance of Cleopatra's Daughter
   
2. Marco Ferrario (University of Trento), The Bribe and the Bride: Alexander and Rōxanē: Again, Anew

Lunch Break (1:00-1:30pm EST)

Panel Four: The Regina Tombstone: A Case Study (1:30-2:30pm EST)

1. Lylaah L. Bahlerao (NYU), "A Woman Called Queenie": The Regina tombstone in reflections on a multi-cultural Britain
   
2. Katrina Knight (University of South Dakota), Natione Brittana: The Ethnic  Identity of British and Romano-British Women

Keynote (3:00-4:00pm EST)
Giulia Saltini Semerari (University of Michigan)