Scripted Women: female voices across text, liturgy and theatre

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9:00 - 9:05 Welcome - Hindy Najman (Oriel)

9:05-9:15 Opening Remarks
Rahel Lampérth

Morning session

9:15-10:15 Ellen Muehlberger (University of Michigan)
Learning to Speak as a Woman: Historiographical Implications for Scholarship

10:15-10:20 Short break

10:20-11:20 Yael Nu’emah-Kremer (Oriel/Harvard)
Women’s Speech, Author, and Audience

11:20-11:45 Coffee break

11:45 - 12:45 Maria Doerfler (Yale)
Fragmented Texts, Flexible Virgins: Matthew 25 for Fun(erals) and Profit

12:45-14:00 Lunch - all are welcome 

Afternoon session

14:00 - 15:00 Anne Alwis (Kent)
Women’s Speech in Byzantine Hagiography

15:00-15:10 Short break

15:10 - 16:10 Rahel Lampérth (Oriel)
Hellenistic Heroines: Female Speech and Prayer in Times of Crisis

16:10-16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:30 Laura Lieber (Regensburg) "Like a Silent Dove": Performing The Gendered Voice of Mourning from Late Antiquity to Medieval Ashkenaz 

17:30 - 17:45 Closing remarks Yael Nu’emah-Kremer

17:45 Drinks reception - all are welcome

Consult at the Oriel College porter’s lodge for the 4-digit code to enter the Harris Lecture Theatre and Seminar Room.


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