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Classics Special Lecture: Erin Lam Presents 'Breaking Bodies'

Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Location

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via Zoom
The Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies invites you to attend a lecture on “Breaking Bodies: Materiality and Vulnerability in Heroides 12” by Erin Lam, University of California-Berkeley.

Click here to register and to receive the Zoom link.

Erin Lam, from the University of California at Berkeley, is a candidate for the Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellowship sponsored by the Office of the Provost.

Medea is a controversial figure that has captured the imagination of many artists, writers, and scholars due to her transgressions of gender and social norms. Ovid has revisited the figure of Medea in several works including the Heroides (the Metamorphoses, the lost tragedy Medea), but the Heroides has enjoyed little critical attention due to its suspect textual authenticity, which is entangled with poor judgments of its literary quality. Ovid's Heroides 12 in fact presents a compellingly complex portrait of Medea, which this paper will argue recasts her transgressions as containing liberatory potential. Though Medea has been characterized as excessively masculine, this paper will demonstrate that it is in fact her embrace of the materiality and vulnerability of the female body, as depicted in Ovid's Heroides 12, that allow her to bypass the constraints of negative female stereotypes and imagine alternative embodiments and futures. To do so, this paper will juxtapose various queer and feminist conceptions of what it means to be female and to have a body against the Heroidean Medea.  

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Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

Event Contact

Radcliffe Edmonds
redmonds@brynmawr.edu

Bryn Mawr College welcomes the full participation of all individuals in all aspects of campus life. Should you wish to request a disability-related accommodation for this event, please contact the event sponsor/coordinator. Requests should be made as early as possible.

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