International conference
Program
Friday, July 03, 2026
13:30–14:00 Arrival and coffee
14:00–14:15 Welcome and opening
14:15–15:00 Keynote: Islème Sassi (Kiel)
aetatem et sexum non habet haec suboles. Wie Therasia und Paulinus von Nola in ihrem carmen 25 die Überwindung der Cisnormativität skizzieren
15:00–15:45 Ruth Mitchell-Fox (Oxford)
Who Licked my Wounds? Saint Vincent and the Woman with the Bleeding Disorder (Prudent. Perist. 5)
15:45–16:15 Coffee Break
16:15–17:00 Carlo Luigi Panzeri (Strasbourg/Pisa)
Body language in the Carmen de martyrio Maccabaeorum
17:00–17:45 Michele Cutino (Strasbourg)
Sexual taboos and linguistic codes in the depiction of risqué episodes from Genesis in Claudius Marius Victorius’s Alethia
17:45–18:30 Roberto Angelini (Florence)
Chastity Exposed: Nudity, Gendered Virtue, and the Reversal of the Bathing Motif in the Versus de sancta Susanna
Conference Dinner at Katzengold in Wuppertal
Saturday, July 04, 2026
9:00–9:45 Philipp Buckl (Strasbourg)
Knowing and Not Knowing: Gendered Epistemologies in Latin Biblical Epic
9:45–10:30 Camilla Maracci (Wuppertal)
Mulieres fortes: only Christian women? Semantics of an adjective in motion
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 Stefan Freund (Wuppertal)
Who owns the female body? Lucretia in Christian poetry and discourse
11:45–12:30 Katharina Löhr (Wuppertal)
Covering Sin: Shame, Nakedness, and the Fig Leaves of Genesis 3:7
12:30–13:15 Luisa Sproten (Wuppertal)
Representation of Birth giving in Latin Christian Poetry
13:15–13:30 Conclusion
Join us in person or via Zoom:
Room: LS.03.01 – Seminar LS1
Klassische Philologie
Laurentiusstraße 21, 42103 Wuppertal
Meeting-ID: 659 4176 4431; Password: dXQa4sdn
Link: https://uni-wuppertal.zoom-x.de/j/65941764431?pwd=WJfPT9iDFaxQKxuXa9mComu6Q8GiiV.1Kindly supported by Novus Stiftung