Full Programme
Day 1, Mon 24 June
GENDER PASTS (All Day: Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum)
9 am: Registration
9.30am: Welcome and Introduction (Maria Misra)
9.45am-12.15 noon, Session 1: ‘Distant Pasts’
A session that will explore the diverse and protean nature of gender imaginaries and orders in the longue durée, and will feature historians specialising in the ancient, medieval and early modern worlds.
Speakers
Serdar Yalcin, (Macalester) author of Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, Ca. 1415-1050 BCE (2022)
Leah DeVun (Rutgers), author of The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (2021)
Rajayshree Pandey (Goldsmiths), author of Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives (2016)
Discussant
Ruth Karras (Trinity, Dublin)
12 noon- 3pm: AHRC Public Engagement Displays and Tours at the Ashmolean
Featuring:
-Young Creators Pop-up Photography Exhibition
-Young Curators Pop-up Tours
-Antiquities Tour with Anja Ulbrich (Ashmolean)
-Gallery 19 Display: ‘Demon, Mother, Kingmaker’ and accompanying film
-Mughal Gallery: Small Exhibition ‘Devi Mahatmya’ (illustrated texts and prints)
-Jameel Study Room: display curated by Maria Misra and Anja Ulbrich (Ashmolean)
3pm-5.15: Session 2 ‘Colonial Pasts’
This panel will consider gender in pre-colonial Africa, Asia, and the Americas and the ongoing influence of colonial gender ideologies and practices.
Speakers
Mrinalini Sinha, (Michigan), Spectres of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire (2006)
Nwando Achebe (Michigan State), author of Female Monarch and Merchant Queens in Africa (2020)
Gregory Smithers (Virginia Commonwealth) Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal and Sovereignty in Native America (2022) [tbc]
Discussant
Sebastian Conrad (Berlin)
Day 1, Mon 24 June
GENDER PASTS (All Day: Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum)
9 am: Registration
9.30am: Welcome and Introduction (Maria Misra)
9.45am-12.15 noon, Session 1: ‘Distant Pasts’
A session that will explore the diverse and protean nature of gender imaginaries and orders in the longue durée, and will feature historians specialising in the ancient, medieval and early modern worlds.
Speakers
Serdar Yalcin, (Macalester) author of Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, Ca. 1415-1050 BCE (2022)
Leah DeVun (Rutgers), author of The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (2021)
Rajayshree Pandey (Goldsmiths), author of Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives (2016)
Discussant
Ruth Karras (Trinity, Dublin)
12 noon- 3pm: AHRC Public Engagement Displays and Tours at the Ashmolean
Featuring:
-Young Creators Pop-up Photography Exhibition
-Young Curators Pop-up Tours
-Antiquities Tour with Anja Ulbrich (Ashmolean)
-Gallery 19 Display: ‘Demon, Mother, Kingmaker’ and accompanying film
-Mughal Gallery: Small Exhibition ‘Devi Mahatmya’ (illustrated texts and prints)
-Jameel Study Room: display curated by Maria Misra and Anja Ulbrich (Ashmolean)
3pm-5.15: Session 2 ‘Colonial Pasts’
This panel will consider gender in pre-colonial Africa, Asia, and the Americas and the ongoing influence of colonial gender ideologies and practices.
Speakers
Mrinalini Sinha, (Michigan), Spectres of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire (2006)
Nwando Achebe (Michigan State), author of Female Monarch and Merchant Queens in Africa (2020)
Gregory Smithers (Virginia Commonwealth) Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal and Sovereignty in Native America (2022) [tbc]
Discussant
Sebastian Conrad (Berlin)