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Book by Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet
Routledge, 2022
Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples ... more Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples in Greco-Roman antiquity? This volume explores a wide range of sources over seven centuries to uncover possible answers to this question.
On tombstones, curse or oracular tablets, in contracts, petitions, letters, treatises, biographies, novels, and poems, throughout Egypt, Greece, and Rome, 107 couples express themselves or are given life by their contemporaries and share their experiences of, and views on, marital relationships and their practical and emotional consequences. Renowned scholars and the next generation of experts explore seven centuries of source material to uncover the dynamics of the married life of metropolitan and provincial, famous and unknown, young and old couples. Men’s and women’s hopes, fears, traumas, joys, endeavours, and needs are analysed and reveal an array of interactions and behaviours that enlighten us on gender roles, social expectations, and intimate dealings in antiquity. Known texts are revisited, new evidence is put forward, and novel interpretations and concepts are offered which highlight local and chronological specificities as well as transhistorical commonalities. The analysis of married life in Greco-Roman antiquity, from ongoing vetting process to place where to find security, reveals the fundamental yearning to be included and loved and how the tensions created by the sometimes contradictory demands of traditional ideals and individual realities can be resolved, furthering our knowledge of social and cultural mechanisms.
https://www.routledge.com/Married-Life-in-Greco-Roman-Antiquity/Challet/p/book/9780367345044
Oxford: Peter Lang , 2013
"Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male coun... more "Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as ‘other’.
This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men: the same qualities and abilities pertaining to the domains of parenthood, intellect and morals are ascribed by writers to women as well as to men. There are two voices, however: a traditional, ideal voice and an individual, realistic voice. This creates a duality of representations of women, which recurs across literary genres and reflects a duality of mentality. How can we interpret the paradoxical information about Roman women given by the male-authored texts? How does this duality of mentality inform us about gender roles and gender hierarchy?
This work analyses well-known, as well as overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal and sheds new light on Roman views of women and their abilities, on the notions of private and public and on conjugal relationships. In the process, the famous sixth satire of Juvenal is revisited and its topic reassessed, providing further insights into the complex issues of gender roles, marriage and emotions. By contrasting representations of women across a broad spectrum of literary genres, this book provides consistent findings that have wide significance for the study of Latin literature and the social history of the late first and early second centuries."
Reviews: A. Dressler, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.06.10.(http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-06-10.html).
M. Vandersmissen, L'Antiquité Classique, 84, 2015, 369--370.
M. Béraud, Clio, Femmes, Genre, Histoire 43, 2016 (https://clio.revues.org/13053).
W. R. Richardson, Mouseion 13.3, 2016, 687--694.
Papers by Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet
In Married Life in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Routledge, pp.1-20, 2022
This chapter introduces the relevance, scope, caveats, and resulting findings of a study of marri... more This chapter introduces the relevance, scope, caveats, and resulting findings of a study of married life in antiquity spanning seven centuries and based on literary, epigraphic, and iconographic sources of Greek, Egyptian, and Roman origins. The potential pitfalls of investigating a notion covering myriads of different realities are discussed, such as the oft-repeated problem cause by sources produced mainly by a male, elite, and urban population, the danger of anachronism, the issues of authorial bias and the specificities of the types and aims of the sources, the lack of recognition of alternatives to different-sex unions, and the difficulty of navigating emotional utterances, filtered by formulaic expressions, traditional ideology, wishful thinking, and /or displaced emotions.
The analysis of the interpersonal dynamics of 107 couples through their mention, depiction, or self-expression in relation to married life yields a picture of commonalities which transcends, quantitatively and qualitatively, geographical, cultural, and chronological differences, principally the predominant notion of inclusion through ordinariness – married life being used as an ongoing vetting process of socially expected qualities – and the pervasive evidence that to love and being loved, in the broad sense of the word, is the ultimately sought-after state, an ideal revealed not only by all media, but also by the depictions of individual experiences. The variety of the types of sources, contexts, and circumstances of the mentions of married life is evidence of the pivotal role that it played in the lives of men and women beyond the confines of dyadic interactions.
https://www.routledge.com/Married-Life-in-Greco-Roman-Antiquity/Challet/p/book/9780367345044
In Totelin, L., Leonard, V., Bradley, M. (eds), Bodily Fluids in Antiquity, London: 134-144, 2021
The satires of Juvenal are ripe with bodily fluids; among them, bile, milk, sperm, stomach conten... more The satires of Juvenal are ripe with bodily fluids; among them, bile, milk, sperm, stomach contents, tears, urine and vaginal secretions appear either as gender-specific fluids or in relation to both men and women, depending on how the satirist sets out to characterize the exuder's behaviour, and, as a corollary, to categorize the exuder according to the aim of his satirical discourse.
This chapter investigates the types of behaviour with which Juvenalian bodily fluids are connected, whether the fluids themselves are negatively or positively connoted, or whether it is the context in which they appear that taints or graces the satires' protagonists. It intends to show that bodily fluids are used as strong markers, by their traditional or untraditional use and display, of the propriety or impropriety of both men's and women's behaviour.
Some fluids, such as milk and sperm, are positively connoted and accordingly used in the satires to show how men and women should behave in order to fit the traditional, expected model of gendered behaviour, while other, biologically non-gendered fluids such as tears or urine are used in a culturally loaded way as markers of out-of-bounds behaviour, even more so if they are intentionally and publicly leaked or retained. The chapter concludes, from these observations, that Juvenalian bodily fluids play an important role in the satirist's conveying of his message concerning men's and women's proper or improper roles within the conjugal relationship.
Museum Helveticum 75: 155-168, 2018
This article proposes to re-examine what purposes the letters of Pliny the Younger to and about ... more This article proposes to re-examine what purposes the letters of Pliny the Younger to and about his wife Calpurnia serve in Pliny's quest for lasting fame. It shows that from their hybrid genre of elegiac epistolography to their seemingly intimate themes, these letters' form and content have aims that go beyond flaunting Pliny's perfect private and public life and his numerous talents, and that his writing to an absent wife is as much a pretext as a perfect backdrop to convey messages about himself and about his prose. This article concludes that Pliny stages himself as a lover to show his readers, by a mirror effect, how they should love him, and that his wife's behaviour and their conjugal relationship are ultimately transmuted into templates for the ideal reader's behaviour and the ideal relationship between Pliny and his readership.
Arethusa 50.3: 369-384, 2017
Despite the fact that breastfeeding was a vital gesture in Roman times since milk substitutes en... more Despite the fact that breastfeeding was a vital gesture in Roman times since milk substitutes endangered the life of infants, the occurrences of literary and visual representations of ordinary, domestic breastfeeding are very few. This article offers hypotheses concerning this dearth of representations, firstly postulating a real disinterest, related to male disgust of, or distance with, female physiological processes, and, secondly, a strategic disinterest, which may be accounted for by male envy of power and pleasure. Lastly, it investigates various male strategies of depreciation and appropriation of breastfeeding, and the subsequent female internalization of negative messages about it.
Latomus 17, 2017: 895-909
This paper investigates what substitutes for maternal milk existed for Roman infants whose mother... more This paper investigates what substitutes for maternal milk existed for Roman infants whose mothers were not able or not willing to breastfeed. It examines the potential reasons why a mother could or would not breastfeed or why an infant could not suckle, and the various attested or hypothetical alternatives to maternal milk about which literary and archaeological sources as well as anthropological, sociological and practical considerations inform us, from wet nurses to animal milk, from a bottle or from the udder, to allomaternal nursing
Guest ed. C.-E. Centlivres Challet (2016) Revue Economique et Sociale, Special Issue: Haut potentiel, pourquoi il faut agir. 74: 43-50, 2016
Le haut potentiel est une spécificité méconnue du grand public et dont l’école et l’industrie sui... more Le haut potentiel est une spécificité méconnue du grand public et dont l’école et l’industrie suisses ne font pas assez cas. Cette absence de prise en compte active et constructive a des coûts humains, médicaux et économiques énormes, et a des répercussions sur la société dans son ensemble: non seulement elle empêche la réalisation du potentiel et le bien-être de tout un pan de la société, mais elle prive également l’ensemble de la communauté de forces vives. Ce volume propose des solutions simples, efficaces, et peu coûteuses pour y remédier.
L' Antiquité Classique, 85: 157-180, 2016
Cet article s'appuie sur une expérience pratique, sur nos connaissances actuelles de la physiolog... more Cet article s'appuie sur une expérience pratique, sur nos connaissances actuelles de la physiologie de la lactation et des besoins nutritionnels du nourrisson, sur des considérations anatomiques, pratiques et affectives, et sur la relecture de données archéologiques, ostéologiques, chimiques et anthropologiques. Premièrement, il défend l'hypothèse selon laquelle une catégorie de petits récipients romains en terre cuite considérés comme des tire-lait sont en fait des biberons. Deuxièmement, une étude de la fonctionnalité de ces récipients met au jour trois fonctions potentielles, qui correspondraient respectivement à une utilisation par des enfants de moins de 6 mois, de plus de 6 mois, et par des adultes. Enfin, des hypothèses concernant le contexte funéraire dans lequel la majorité de ces récipients sont trouvés sont proposées.
In: Harlow M., Larsson Lovén L. (eds.) (2012) Families in the Roman and Late Antique World. The family in Antiquity 2, Continuum, London, pp. 7-22, 2012
In: Bielman A., Frei-Stolba R., Bertholet F. (eds.) Egypte, Grèce, Rome, les différents visages des femmes antiques. Peter lang, Bern, pp. 289-324, 2008
With Bähler Baudois M., in: Bielman A., Bianchi O., Frei-Stolba R. (eds) Les femmes antiques entre sphère privée et sphère publique, Peter Lang, Bern, pp. 269-279, 2003
Edited collection by Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet
Revue Economique et Sociale, 74.4, 2016, special issue
Le haut potentiel est une spécificité méconnue du grand public et dont l’école et l’industrie sui... more Le haut potentiel est une spécificité méconnue du grand public et dont l’école et l’industrie suisses ne font pas assez cas. Cette absence de prise en compte active et constructive a des coûts humains, médicaux et économiques énormes, et a des répercussions sur la société dans son ensemble: non seulement elle empêche la réalisation du potentiel et le bien-être de tout un pan de la société, mais elle prive également l’ensemble de la communauté de forces vives. Ce numéro propose des solutions simples, efficaces, et peu coûteuses pour y remédier.
Table des matières:
– Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet : Introduction: pourquoi faut-il agir ? 43
– Olivier Revol, Roberta Poulin: Les enfants à Haut Potentiel Intellectuel , 51
- Monique de Kermadec: Le surdoué a-t-il tout pour lui? 59
– Claudia Jankech: Quel écueils sur la route des enfants et des adolescents à haut potentiel intellectuel, 65
- Fabienne Giuliani, Béatrice Couchepin Marchetti: Haut potentiel intellectuel et syndrome d’Asperger: vers une meilleure connaissance et reconnaissance, 81
– Hanna David: Diagnostic et enseignement des enfants HP: l’exemple d’Israël, 91
- Hanna David: «Haut potentiel», «douance», ou «précocité»: «juste» une question linguistique? 103
– Mark Dettinger: Ökonomische und soziale Konsequenzen von Hochbegabung, 113
Talks by Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet
Centre for Knowledge in Culture in Antiquity and Beyond, Sexual Knowledge Unit, University of Exeter, 17 October 2019
Incontri e Seminari di 'Storia romana' - 'Antichità romane e cultura moderna, University of Florence, 4 April 2019
Classical Association Annual Conference, Leicester University, UK, 6–9 April 2018.
Ages, Ageing and Old Age in the Greco-Roman World, 8th Arachne conference, 25-27 October 2017
Bodily fluids/fluid bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity, Cardiff University, 11-13 July 2016
The Classical Association/Classical Association of Scotland Annual Conference, University of Edin... more The Classical Association/Classical Association of Scotland Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, 8th April 2016
Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, University of Toronto, 20-22 May 2015
Routledge, 2022
Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples ... more Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples in Greco-Roman antiquity? This volume explores a wide range of sources over seven centuries to uncover possible answers to this question.
On tombstones, curse or oracular tablets, in contracts, petitions, letters, treatises, biographies, novels, and poems, throughout Egypt, Greece, and Rome, 107 couples express themselves or are given life by their contemporaries and share their experiences of, and views on, marital relationships and their practical and emotional consequences. Renowned scholars and the next generation of experts explore seven centuries of source material to uncover the dynamics of the married life of metropolitan and provincial, famous and unknown, young and old couples. Men’s and women’s hopes, fears, traumas, joys, endeavours, and needs are analysed and reveal an array of interactions and behaviours that enlighten us on gender roles, social expectations, and intimate dealings in antiquity. Known texts are revisited, new evidence is put forward, and novel interpretations and concepts are offered which highlight local and chronological specificities as well as transhistorical commonalities. The analysis of married life in Greco-Roman antiquity, from ongoing vetting process to place where to find security, reveals the fundamental yearning to be included and loved and how the tensions created by the sometimes contradictory demands of traditional ideals and individual realities can be resolved, furthering our knowledge of social and cultural mechanisms.
https://www.routledge.com/Married-Life-in-Greco-Roman-Antiquity/Challet/p/book/9780367345044
Oxford: Peter Lang , 2013
"Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male coun... more "Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as ‘other’.
This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men: the same qualities and abilities pertaining to the domains of parenthood, intellect and morals are ascribed by writers to women as well as to men. There are two voices, however: a traditional, ideal voice and an individual, realistic voice. This creates a duality of representations of women, which recurs across literary genres and reflects a duality of mentality. How can we interpret the paradoxical information about Roman women given by the male-authored texts? How does this duality of mentality inform us about gender roles and gender hierarchy?
This work analyses well-known, as well as overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal and sheds new light on Roman views of women and their abilities, on the notions of private and public and on conjugal relationships. In the process, the famous sixth satire of Juvenal is revisited and its topic reassessed, providing further insights into the complex issues of gender roles, marriage and emotions. By contrasting representations of women across a broad spectrum of literary genres, this book provides consistent findings that have wide significance for the study of Latin literature and the social history of the late first and early second centuries."
Reviews: A. Dressler, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.06.10.(http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-06-10.html).
M. Vandersmissen, L'Antiquité Classique, 84, 2015, 369--370.
M. Béraud, Clio, Femmes, Genre, Histoire 43, 2016 (https://clio.revues.org/13053).
W. R. Richardson, Mouseion 13.3, 2016, 687--694.
In Married Life in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Routledge, pp.1-20, 2022
This chapter introduces the relevance, scope, caveats, and resulting findings of a study of marri... more This chapter introduces the relevance, scope, caveats, and resulting findings of a study of married life in antiquity spanning seven centuries and based on literary, epigraphic, and iconographic sources of Greek, Egyptian, and Roman origins. The potential pitfalls of investigating a notion covering myriads of different realities are discussed, such as the oft-repeated problem cause by sources produced mainly by a male, elite, and urban population, the danger of anachronism, the issues of authorial bias and the specificities of the types and aims of the sources, the lack of recognition of alternatives to different-sex unions, and the difficulty of navigating emotional utterances, filtered by formulaic expressions, traditional ideology, wishful thinking, and /or displaced emotions.
The analysis of the interpersonal dynamics of 107 couples through their mention, depiction, or self-expression in relation to married life yields a picture of commonalities which transcends, quantitatively and qualitatively, geographical, cultural, and chronological differences, principally the predominant notion of inclusion through ordinariness – married life being used as an ongoing vetting process of socially expected qualities – and the pervasive evidence that to love and being loved, in the broad sense of the word, is the ultimately sought-after state, an ideal revealed not only by all media, but also by the depictions of individual experiences. The variety of the types of sources, contexts, and circumstances of the mentions of married life is evidence of the pivotal role that it played in the lives of men and women beyond the confines of dyadic interactions.
https://www.routledge.com/Married-Life-in-Greco-Roman-Antiquity/Challet/p/book/9780367345044
In Totelin, L., Leonard, V., Bradley, M. (eds), Bodily Fluids in Antiquity, London: 134-144, 2021
The satires of Juvenal are ripe with bodily fluids; among them, bile, milk, sperm, stomach conten... more The satires of Juvenal are ripe with bodily fluids; among them, bile, milk, sperm, stomach contents, tears, urine and vaginal secretions appear either as gender-specific fluids or in relation to both men and women, depending on how the satirist sets out to characterize the exuder's behaviour, and, as a corollary, to categorize the exuder according to the aim of his satirical discourse.
This chapter investigates the types of behaviour with which Juvenalian bodily fluids are connected, whether the fluids themselves are negatively or positively connoted, or whether it is the context in which they appear that taints or graces the satires' protagonists. It intends to show that bodily fluids are used as strong markers, by their traditional or untraditional use and display, of the propriety or impropriety of both men's and women's behaviour.
Some fluids, such as milk and sperm, are positively connoted and accordingly used in the satires to show how men and women should behave in order to fit the traditional, expected model of gendered behaviour, while other, biologically non-gendered fluids such as tears or urine are used in a culturally loaded way as markers of out-of-bounds behaviour, even more so if they are intentionally and publicly leaked or retained. The chapter concludes, from these observations, that Juvenalian bodily fluids play an important role in the satirist's conveying of his message concerning men's and women's proper or improper roles within the conjugal relationship.
Museum Helveticum 75: 155-168, 2018
This article proposes to re-examine what purposes the letters of Pliny the Younger to and about ... more This article proposes to re-examine what purposes the letters of Pliny the Younger to and about his wife Calpurnia serve in Pliny's quest for lasting fame. It shows that from their hybrid genre of elegiac epistolography to their seemingly intimate themes, these letters' form and content have aims that go beyond flaunting Pliny's perfect private and public life and his numerous talents, and that his writing to an absent wife is as much a pretext as a perfect backdrop to convey messages about himself and about his prose. This article concludes that Pliny stages himself as a lover to show his readers, by a mirror effect, how they should love him, and that his wife's behaviour and their conjugal relationship are ultimately transmuted into templates for the ideal reader's behaviour and the ideal relationship between Pliny and his readership.
Arethusa 50.3: 369-384, 2017
Despite the fact that breastfeeding was a vital gesture in Roman times since milk substitutes en... more Despite the fact that breastfeeding was a vital gesture in Roman times since milk substitutes endangered the life of infants, the occurrences of literary and visual representations of ordinary, domestic breastfeeding are very few. This article offers hypotheses concerning this dearth of representations, firstly postulating a real disinterest, related to male disgust of, or distance with, female physiological processes, and, secondly, a strategic disinterest, which may be accounted for by male envy of power and pleasure. Lastly, it investigates various male strategies of depreciation and appropriation of breastfeeding, and the subsequent female internalization of negative messages about it.
Latomus 17, 2017: 895-909
This paper investigates what substitutes for maternal milk existed for Roman infants whose mother... more This paper investigates what substitutes for maternal milk existed for Roman infants whose mothers were not able or not willing to breastfeed. It examines the potential reasons why a mother could or would not breastfeed or why an infant could not suckle, and the various attested or hypothetical alternatives to maternal milk about which literary and archaeological sources as well as anthropological, sociological and practical considerations inform us, from wet nurses to animal milk, from a bottle or from the udder, to allomaternal nursing
Guest ed. C.-E. Centlivres Challet (2016) Revue Economique et Sociale, Special Issue: Haut potentiel, pourquoi il faut agir. 74: 43-50, 2016
Le haut potentiel est une spécificité méconnue du grand public et dont l’école et l’industrie sui... more Le haut potentiel est une spécificité méconnue du grand public et dont l’école et l’industrie suisses ne font pas assez cas. Cette absence de prise en compte active et constructive a des coûts humains, médicaux et économiques énormes, et a des répercussions sur la société dans son ensemble: non seulement elle empêche la réalisation du potentiel et le bien-être de tout un pan de la société, mais elle prive également l’ensemble de la communauté de forces vives. Ce volume propose des solutions simples, efficaces, et peu coûteuses pour y remédier.
L' Antiquité Classique, 85: 157-180, 2016
Cet article s'appuie sur une expérience pratique, sur nos connaissances actuelles de la physiolog... more Cet article s'appuie sur une expérience pratique, sur nos connaissances actuelles de la physiologie de la lactation et des besoins nutritionnels du nourrisson, sur des considérations anatomiques, pratiques et affectives, et sur la relecture de données archéologiques, ostéologiques, chimiques et anthropologiques. Premièrement, il défend l'hypothèse selon laquelle une catégorie de petits récipients romains en terre cuite considérés comme des tire-lait sont en fait des biberons. Deuxièmement, une étude de la fonctionnalité de ces récipients met au jour trois fonctions potentielles, qui correspondraient respectivement à une utilisation par des enfants de moins de 6 mois, de plus de 6 mois, et par des adultes. Enfin, des hypothèses concernant le contexte funéraire dans lequel la majorité de ces récipients sont trouvés sont proposées.
In: Harlow M., Larsson Lovén L. (eds.) (2012) Families in the Roman and Late Antique World. The family in Antiquity 2, Continuum, London, pp. 7-22, 2012
In: Bielman A., Frei-Stolba R., Bertholet F. (eds.) Egypte, Grèce, Rome, les différents visages des femmes antiques. Peter lang, Bern, pp. 289-324, 2008
With Bähler Baudois M., in: Bielman A., Bianchi O., Frei-Stolba R. (eds) Les femmes antiques entre sphère privée et sphère publique, Peter Lang, Bern, pp. 269-279, 2003
Revue Economique et Sociale, 74.4, 2016, special issue
Le haut potentiel est une spécificité méconnue du grand public et dont l’école et l’industrie sui... more Le haut potentiel est une spécificité méconnue du grand public et dont l’école et l’industrie suisses ne font pas assez cas. Cette absence de prise en compte active et constructive a des coûts humains, médicaux et économiques énormes, et a des répercussions sur la société dans son ensemble: non seulement elle empêche la réalisation du potentiel et le bien-être de tout un pan de la société, mais elle prive également l’ensemble de la communauté de forces vives. Ce numéro propose des solutions simples, efficaces, et peu coûteuses pour y remédier.
Table des matières:
– Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet : Introduction: pourquoi faut-il agir ? 43
– Olivier Revol, Roberta Poulin: Les enfants à Haut Potentiel Intellectuel , 51
- Monique de Kermadec: Le surdoué a-t-il tout pour lui? 59
– Claudia Jankech: Quel écueils sur la route des enfants et des adolescents à haut potentiel intellectuel, 65
- Fabienne Giuliani, Béatrice Couchepin Marchetti: Haut potentiel intellectuel et syndrome d’Asperger: vers une meilleure connaissance et reconnaissance, 81
– Hanna David: Diagnostic et enseignement des enfants HP: l’exemple d’Israël, 91
- Hanna David: «Haut potentiel», «douance», ou «précocité»: «juste» une question linguistique? 103
– Mark Dettinger: Ökonomische und soziale Konsequenzen von Hochbegabung, 113
Centre for Knowledge in Culture in Antiquity and Beyond, Sexual Knowledge Unit, University of Exeter, 17 October 2019
Incontri e Seminari di 'Storia romana' - 'Antichità romane e cultura moderna, University of Florence, 4 April 2019
Classical Association Annual Conference, Leicester University, UK, 6–9 April 2018.
Ages, Ageing and Old Age in the Greco-Roman World, 8th Arachne conference, 25-27 October 2017
Bodily fluids/fluid bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity, Cardiff University, 11-13 July 2016
The Classical Association/Classical Association of Scotland Annual Conference, University of Edin... more The Classical Association/Classical Association of Scotland Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, 8th April 2016
Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, University of Toronto, 20-22 May 2015
Healthcare: Supply and Demand in Prehistory and History, University of Göteborg, 7 May 2015
Women, power and agency in antiquity, 7th Arachne Conference, University of Tampere, 23 October 2014
Méthodologie des études genre appliquée aux sources antiques, EDOCSA conference, University of L... more Méthodologie des études genre appliquée aux sources antiques, EDOCSA conference, University of Lausanne, 8 June 2012
Colloque international "Au-delà de l'élégie d'amour : thèmes, formes et genres parallèles de l'él... more Colloque international "Au-delà de l'élégie d'amour : thèmes, formes et genres parallèles de l'élégie latine", University of Neuchâtel, 7 May 2010
Oikos-Familia, the family in Greco-Roman society: framing the discipline in the 21st century, 5t... more Oikos-Familia, the family in Greco-Roman society: framing the discipline in the 21st century, 5th Arachne conference, University of Göteborg, 5-7 November 2009
Femmes, religion et société de l'Antiquité à nos jours: problématiques et méthodes en études genr... more Femmes, religion et société de l'Antiquité à nos jours: problématiques et méthodes en études genre, University of Lausanne, 2 May 2007
L'Antiquité en fleur: le regard des anciens sur la jeunesse, Cours public, University of Neuchâte... more L'Antiquité en fleur: le regard des anciens sur la jeunesse, Cours public, University of Neuchâtel, 10 January 2007
Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet, Anne Bielman Sánchez, Charlotte Golay
Lausanne, 8-9 November 2018
International colloquium, 9th-10th November 2017, University of Lausanne
Quatrièmes Journées Suisses d'Histoire, University of Lausanne, 10 June 2016
Le couple conjugal est un élément central de la société romaine antique. Il est naturellement la ... more Le couple conjugal est un élément central de la société romaine antique. Il est naturellement la base de la reproduction non seulement humaine mais également sociale: en effet, traditionnellement, c'est au sein du mariage que naît la descendance légitime, par laquelle sont assurés le contrôle de la destination du patrimoine et la survie du nom de la famille. Le couple est également le miroir microcosmique de la société et de son fonctionnement: la façon dont chacun des membres du couple interagit avec ses environnements direct et indirect reflète les relations et la hiérarchie sociales qui le façonnent, et les règles qui le structurent sont le reflet des règles qui régissent les interactions entre individus sociaux. Ainsi l’étude du pouvoir au sein du couple ordinaire révèle des modes de fonctionnement et d’interaction face aux règles et aux autres individus qui nous donnent des informations fondamentales sur la société dans son ensemble, et offre de nouvelles pistes de questionnement aux chercheurs qui se penchent sur les sujets des relations de pouvoir, des interactions entre les individus, des rôles attendus des deux sexes, et des notions de privé et de public.
Ces questionnements s'inscrivent dans la droite ligne du pôle études genre appliquées aux civilisations antiques, qui est un des points forts de l'Institut d'archéologie et des sciences de l'antiquité de l'université de Lausanne. Afin d'explorer ces thématiques, ce panel cherche à réunir des présentations considérant des angles d'approche qui incluent, entre autres, les sujets suivants:
- les catégories de pouvoir que chacun de ses membres peut exercer au sein du couple, sur la maisonnée, ou sur l'autre membre du couple individuellement;
- les stratégies comportementales et les actions concrètes permettant à chacun des membres du couple de prendre l'ascendant sur l'autre;
- les qualités et rôles qui donnent le pouvoir de décision principal à l'un ou l'autre membre du couple;
- les divergences existant entre les prises de décision et leur implémentation;
- la marge de manœuvre de chacun des membres du couple face aux règles imposées par le pouvoir de l'autre membre du couple dans un domaine donné;
- les déviances de comportements et de rôles, au sein du couple, par rapport à la norme sociale et aux schémas de pouvoir imposés par la tradition et les idéaux;
- la mesure dans laquelle l'affect influence les relations de pouvoir au sein du couple.
EDOCSA conference, University of Lausanne, 8 June 2012
2016-2019
A three-year study of the dynamics of ordinary and exceptional couples in Hellenistic, Republican... more A three-year study of the dynamics of ordinary and exceptional couples in Hellenistic, Republican and Imperial documents, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.