Bonjour à toutes et à tous,
Il nous fait plaisir de vous inviter au prochain Séminaire interdisciplinaire de l’Institut d’études anciennes et médiévales de l’automne 2021. Nous aurons l’honneur d’entendre Madame Lea Stirling, professeure au département d’études classiques de l’Université du Manitoba. Madame Stirling a été co-directrice des excavations du site de Leptiminus (Lamta, Tunisie) entre 1995 et 2008, et titulaire de la Chaire de Recherche du Canada en archéologie romaine entre 2001 et 2012. Elle a récemment publié, aux côtés de Nejib ben Lazreg et de Jennifer Moore, l’ouvrage Leptiminus (Lamta). Report No. 4 The East Cemetery: Stratigraphy, Ceramics, Non-ceraminc Finds and Bio-archaeological Studies (2021).
« Women Real and Imagined in Roman-era North Africa: The View from Leptiminus (Lamta, Tunisia) »
Vendredi 5 novembre 2021, 15h30-17h30
La conférence aura lieu sur Zoom au lien suivant :
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89512439763?pwd=YTMwV1BvL01iNkJRSFQ2TG9xR0JLZz09
Meeting ID: 895 1243 9763Passcode: 914067
Résumé
What can we know about the lives of women in Roman-era North Africa? The question is complicated by the variety that status, wealth, and ethnic background would have created, compounded by the colonial setting. Moreover, different types of evidence—skeletal data, epigraphy, and artistic images – are difficult to combine. This paper uses evidence from a single site (Leptiminus, Tunisia) to seek lived experience and identity, including aspects of health, class experience, work, and ideals of beauty. Graves provide evidence about health and diet. Among the two dozen female names preserved at Leptiminus are two non-Latin names, Rerricha and Maziva. A handful of slaves and freed slaves are distinguished in epitaphs. A few tools of traditional women’s work survive. Statuettes and mosaics show ideals of beauty. Although the results inevitably point in different directions, the range in types of data makes it possible to ask a wider spectrum of questions than is possible from one form of evidence alone.
Vous trouverez ci-jointes trois images qui seront présentées par Madame Sterling durant sa conférence.
Au plaisir de vous y voir,
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