IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 610: Byzantine Bodies, II: Figuration and Discipline of the Gendered Body

Sponsor:	Cardiff Centre for Late Antique Religion & Culture, Cardiff University
Organiser:	Larisa Vilimonovic, Department of History, University of Belgrade
Moderator/Chair:	Shaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University
Paper 610-a	Theophylact Simocatta and the Eroto-Rhetorical Figuration of the Male Body (Language: English) Steven Smith, Department of Comparative Literature, Languages & Linguistics, Hofstra University, New York Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality
Paper 610-b	An Undisciplined Masculine Body of Pleasure and Desire (Language: English) Mark Masterson, Department of Classics, Victoria University of Wellington Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality
Paper 610-c	Gender and Privacy: De-Centring the Body in Medieval Trans Studies (Language: English) Roland Betancourt, Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies
Abstract	This session is part of a series on Byzantine Bodies. This session aims to tackle the politics of the penetrative public gaze as a disciplining force of the dominant masculine Subject, the medieval Vir Romanus. The session seeks to examine gender and sexuality in Constantinople and beyond.