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  "textContent": "The workshop Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, Social and Cultural Perspectives will be held at the University of Helsinki Main Building, Room U3039 (3rd floor). It will begin at 10.00 am (EEST) May 4 with the keynote. Remote participation is possible through this Zoom link. Both in-person and remote participants should register. For in-person participants, we would like to ask whether you are participating in the lunch (at the expense of participants) and the afternoon coffee. Please register through this form.\n\n**10-11.15 Keynote**\n\nProf. Christian Laes: Women and disabilities in Antiquity: between presentism and daily life\n**\n11.30-13.00 session 1: Disabled Women in the Roman Narratives**\n\nSofia Vierula: The case of Harpaste: Lived experience of disability in Seneca’s letter to Lucilius\n\nMathilde Chartrand: The Daily Life of a Furiosa: On the Gendered Consequences of Mental Illness\n\nFran Geldard: Enslavement and Disability in Eusebian Martyr Narrative\n\n**14.00-15.30 session 2: Women, Disability and Roman Law**\n\nArnaud Paturet: Some Reflections on the Status of Deaf People by Roman Jurists\n\nKaius Tuori: Infirmity and monstrosity: on the legal construction of female disability in law\n\nJana Mauri Marlborough: Against All Odds: The Legal Position of Wet Nurses in Roman Law\n\n**16.00-17.30 session 3: Intersections of Gender and Disability in Late Antiquity**\n\nGaetana Balestra: _Muta puella fuit_ : The Mute Woman between _tutela mulierum_ and Justinian's Legislation.\n\nElena Pezzato Heck: Mental Illness as Grounds for Repudiation in Late Antiquity and the Justinian Era\n\nArttu Alaranta: Vulnerable Life-Cycle Moments and Disabilities in Women’s Asceticism during Late Antiquity\n\n--Dan Ernst",
  "title": "Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome",
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