Conference Program
9am Welcome: Jaclyn Neel
9:15-10am Opening Remarks, Juliet Keeler-LeBien, LCSW-R, LICSW “Women and Healing in the Here and Now”
10-11:15am Antiquity I
Judith Hallett, Classics, University of Maryland, “Male Infertility and Impotence in the Roman World: A Reconsideration”
Alison Traweek, Greek and Roman Classics, Temple University, “Healing Song: Women's Ritual Lament and the Restoration of Household Order”
Karen Carducci, Greek and Latin, The Catholic University of America, “Pregnant and Gendered Minerals: From Geodes to Parturition”
11:15-11:30am Break
11:30am-12:45pm Antiquity II
Molly Mata, Classics, Rutgers University, “Illness as a Feminizing Force in Sophocles' Philoctetes”
Theodora Naqvi, Classics, University of Pennsylvania, “Agnodice, Feminine Modesty, and the Origins of Gynecology”
Jeremy Swist, Classics, University of Iowa, “Regal Women in the Breviarists of Late Antiquity”
Lunch 12:45-2pm
2-3pm Late Antiquity- Medieval Period
Carissa Harris, English, Temple University, “Her arsse to hym spake”: Healing Women’s Angry Bodies in Late Medieval England”
Vasiliki Limberis, Religion, Temple University, “Breads of Healing: Pagan and Christian Customs after Constantine”
3-4pm Renaissance-Modernity
Rita Krueger, History, Temple University, “Embodying Medical Expertise: Maternal Healing and Women's Knowledge in the Habsburg Lands”
Eleni Anni, Biology, Temple University, “Treating postpartum depression: SAGE-217”
Break 4-4:15pm
4:15-5pm Undergraduate Panel
Tyler Valera, Departments of Art History and Greek and Roman Classics, Temple University, “Man as Healer, Woman as Destroyer: The Gender of Magic in Apuleius' Metamorphoses”
Ellen Taraskiewicz, History, Temple University, “To Heal a People: The Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible”
5pm closing remarks