IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 510: Byzantine Bodies, I: The Byzantine Body and Performativity
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Cardiff Centre for Late Antique Religion & Culture, Cardiff University |
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Organiser: | Larisa Vilimonovic, Department of History, University of Belgrade |
Moderator/Chair: | Shaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
Paper 510-a | Bodily Performance in Ritual Contexts: Healing the Sick in Byzantine Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Hagiography |
Paper 510-b | The Scribal Act as a Gendering Act in the Byzantine Lives of 'Cross-Dressing' Saints (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Hagiography |
Paper 510-c | Byzantine Femininities between Discipline and Punishment: Anthropology of the Female Body in Byzantium (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies |
Abstract | This is the first session in a series of panels on Byzantine Bodies. The session aims to map how concrete collective or individual subjects form their identities through various discursive processes (those that constitute religion, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender). It will focus on the performative aspects of gender in Byzantium, on gender fluidity, and on readings beyond binaries. The session also maps Byzantine masculinities and femininities and their relationships to normative power structures. |