The 2022 Nils Klim Seminar: Historical Perspectives on Women's Mobility
What enabled or compelled women to move in the past? This seminar explores aspects of women’s travel in the Ancient Mediterranean.
Since antiquity, women have been linked with sessility and domestic spaces, while a great deal of famous travellers have been men. Though cultural expectations and divisions of labour have shaped patterns of human mobility in gendered ways, various sources point to women on the move. Some of them travel voluntarily but others by force, which draws attention to the motives behind their trips. As a result, a more nuanced notion of the social complexity of travel history begins to emerge.
Academic seminar held in honour of the 2022 Nils Klim Laureate Elisa Uusimäki and her research. There will be an introduction of the topic by Uusimäki, followed by presentations by three invited guests, a panel discussion and Q&A.
Photo: "Ruth Declares her Loyalty to Naomi" (1614) Painting by Pieter Lastman.
SPEAKERS
ELISA UUSIMÄKI - INTRODUCTION
Elisa Uusimäki is Associate Professor in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism in the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University. She also serves as the Principal Investigator of the project “An Intersectional Analysis of Ancient Jewish Travel Narratives”, funded by the European Research Council. Uusimäki is awarded the 2022 Nils Klim Prize for her outstanding research into the literary and cultural history of Judaism in antiquity.
JESSICA VAN'T WESTEINDE - FORCED MOBILITY' OF SERVANTS AND SLAVE-GIRLS
From the fourth century CE, there appears a rise in travel undertaken by Roman noble women. Egeria, Melania, and Paula are famous examples of such mobile women. However, the invisible group of people that formed their entourage have often been overlooked. Domestic servants, slave-girls, were forced to leave the comfort of the domus for an arduous journey, to end up living in a monastery abroad. I will try to render visible these invisible women who accompanied their matrons on their travels.
TROELS MYRUP KRISTENSEN - ARCHEOLOGIES OF WOMEN'S MOBILITY
This paper engages with the ‘pilgrimage moment’ in current scholarship on ancient Mediterranean religion and examines some examples of how archaeology can shed light on the different experiences of sacred travel. Material culture indeed provides important nuance to the study of religious mobility that so often is studied exclusively through texts, such as inscriptions and literary accounts, that tend to be one-sided in terms of both status (elite) and gender (male).
LIEN FOUBERT - FORCED (IM)MOBILITY IN A GENDERED ROMAN ANTIQUITY
A highly mobile culture was the norm in the ancient Mediterranean. Yet, travel was one of those social practices that catapulted women in the ‘public’ domain. Graeco-Roman writers sought ways to come to terms with the gendered dynamics of mobility. The expansion of the Roman Empire made them turn to a new narrative strategy: picturing women as the embodied link between displaced men and their patria, from a geopolitical and/or religious perspective.
Moderator of the seminar is Jorunn Økland, professor at the Centre for Gender Research and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo.
THE 2022 HOLBERG WEEK
This event is a part of the Holberg Week, which this year takes place 7—10 June.
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Since antiquity, women have been linked with sessility and domestic spaces, while a great deal of famous travellers have been men. Though cultural expectations and divisions of labour have shaped patterns of human mobility in gendered ways, various sources point to women on the move. Some of them travel voluntarily but others by force, which draws attention to the motives behind their trips. As a result, a more nuanced notion of the social complexity of travel history begins to emerge.
Academic seminar held in honour of the 2022 Nils Klim Laureate Elisa Uusimäki and her research. There will be an introduction of the topic by Uusimäki, followed by presentations by three invited guests, a panel discussion and Q&A.
Photo: "Ruth Declares her Loyalty to Naomi" (1614) Painting by Pieter Lastman.
SPEAKERS
ELISA UUSIMÄKI - INTRODUCTION
Elisa Uusimäki is Associate Professor in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism in the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University. She also serves as the Principal Investigator of the project “An Intersectional Analysis of Ancient Jewish Travel Narratives”, funded by the European Research Council. Uusimäki is awarded the 2022 Nils Klim Prize for her outstanding research into the literary and cultural history of Judaism in antiquity.
JESSICA VAN'T WESTEINDE - FORCED MOBILITY' OF SERVANTS AND SLAVE-GIRLS
From the fourth century CE, there appears a rise in travel undertaken by Roman noble women. Egeria, Melania, and Paula are famous examples of such mobile women. However, the invisible group of people that formed their entourage have often been overlooked. Domestic servants, slave-girls, were forced to leave the comfort of the domus for an arduous journey, to end up living in a monastery abroad. I will try to render visible these invisible women who accompanied their matrons on their travels.
TROELS MYRUP KRISTENSEN - ARCHEOLOGIES OF WOMEN'S MOBILITY
This paper engages with the ‘pilgrimage moment’ in current scholarship on ancient Mediterranean religion and examines some examples of how archaeology can shed light on the different experiences of sacred travel. Material culture indeed provides important nuance to the study of religious mobility that so often is studied exclusively through texts, such as inscriptions and literary accounts, that tend to be one-sided in terms of both status (elite) and gender (male).
LIEN FOUBERT - FORCED (IM)MOBILITY IN A GENDERED ROMAN ANTIQUITY
A highly mobile culture was the norm in the ancient Mediterranean. Yet, travel was one of those social practices that catapulted women in the ‘public’ domain. Graeco-Roman writers sought ways to come to terms with the gendered dynamics of mobility. The expansion of the Roman Empire made them turn to a new narrative strategy: picturing women as the embodied link between displaced men and their patria, from a geopolitical and/or religious perspective.
Moderator of the seminar is Jorunn Økland, professor at the Centre for Gender Research and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo.
THE 2022 HOLBERG WEEK
This event is a part of the Holberg Week, which this year takes place 7—10 June.
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