The NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study presents
QUEEN: REIMAGINING POWER FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
A Virtual Symposium
Thursday-Friday, September 23-24, 2021
via Zoom
THURSDAY, September 23, 2021
10:45-11:00 am (EST)
Introductory Remarks
Patricia Eunji Kim (NYU) and Anastasia Amrhein (Bryn Mawr)
11:00-11:30 am (EST)
Keynote #1: Queen: Recovering, Reconstructing and Revisioning Ancient African Queens
Shelley P. Haley (Hamilton College)
11:30-12:15 pm (EST)
The Gender and Sex of Queenship
Papers analyze the construction of gender and sexuality for queens and queenly figures, both in the past and in present-day scholarship
Moderator: Patricia Eunji Kim (NYU)
Merovingian Royal Women and Authority: Gender Studies and Marks of Feminine Agency within the Frankish palatium
Justine Cudorge (Université de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne)
Roxane: The Making of the Last Achaemenid Queen
Yanxiao He (University of Chicago)
The Amazon Paradox: Exploring Female Power and Agency in Myth
Alice Parkin (University of Oxford)
'As if He Were a Queen': Gendered Representation and Reception in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri
Quinn Stickley (Cornell University)
Hatshepsut: The Female King in Context
Jacquelyn Williamson (George Mason University)
12:15-1:00 pm (EST)
Keynote #2: Important Women in the Civilization of Mesopotamia in the Light of Cuneiform Texts and Archaeological Evidence
Aminah Fadhil Jafaar Al-Bayati (Iraqi Museum Library)
1:00-1:30 pm (EST)
Queens as Patrons of the Arts and Architecture
Queens exercised their power and agency to support the construction and creation of public art, architecture, and spectacles
Moderator: Ainsley M. Cameron (Cincinnati Art Museum)
Empress in Exile: Eudokia’s Patronage in the Holy Land
Karen Britt (Northwest Missouri State University)
Bilqis at the Mughal Court: Solomonic Imagery of the Empress Nur Jahan to Portray Imperial Power
Mehreen Chida-Razvi (The Nasser D.Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, London)
Hittite Queens and Their Officials: the Queen as Patron and Entrepreneur
Michael Moore (Independant Scholar)
Kandakes of the Past and Present: A Study of Queenship and Power in Ancient Kush
Kate Rose (Harvard University)
1:30-2:00 pm (EST)
Divine Queens and Queenly Cults
An exploration of queenly goddesses, goddess-like queens, and the role of royal women in cult.
Moderator: Jillian Stinchcomb (Brandeis University)
Divine Bodies: Rethinking Nude Female Imagery through the Lens of Feminine Power in Iron Age Greece
Megan Daniels (University of British Columbia)
Theodora, Shirin and Hind: Sixth-Century Women of Power and Faith
Valentina Grasso (NYU-ISAW)
Movers and Shakers: Women as Founders outside Cult Structure in the Worship of Isis
Lindsey A. Mazurek (Indiana University)
Saint Thecla’s Sensational Grip on Late Antique Cult
Jessica Plant (Cornell University)
2:00-2:30 pm (EST)—BREAK
2:30-3:00 pm (EST)
Keynote #3: Ivory Reflections of the Sexual Aspect of Neo-Assyrian Queenship and Imperial Power
Amy Gansell (St. John's University)
3:00-3:30 pm (EST)
Queenly Bodies and Beauty
Papers explore the visual expressions and cultural ideas around queenly bodies and beauty as politically significant themes
Moderator: Hallie Franks (NYU)
Royal Baby Bumps: Pregnancy as Power in the Early Roman Empire
Caitlin C. Gillespie (Brandeis University)
Tools of Beauty - Soft, Bristly, and Clean
Christina Ko (Visual Artist)
Laodike III and Public Performance(s) in Asia Minor
Lex Ladge (University of Chicago)
FRIDAY, September 24, 2021
10:45-11:00 am (EST)
Welcome Remarks
Patricia Eunji Kim (NYU) and Anastasia Amrhein (Bryn Mawr)
11:00-11:30 am (EST)
Keynote #4: Queen Mary, Weh We Ah Go Bu’n?
La Vaughn Belle (Visual Artist)
11:30-12:15 pm (EST)
Defining Queenship from Antiquity to the Present
Papers employ a variety of methodological and theoretical frameworks to grapple with the notion of queenship across disciplines
Moderator: Anastasia Amrhein (Bryn Mawr)
Arabian 'Queens' or 'Female Kings'? Defining šarratu during the Neo-Assyrian Period
Ellie Bennett (University of Helsinki)
Bathsheba, Jezebel, and Esther: Biblical Queenship and the Power of Persuasion
Allison Hurst (Harvard University)
A Queenly Model: Dido, Cleopatra and the Roman Empire
Catherine Newell (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Neo-Assyrian Queens and Power
Saana Svärd (University of Helsinki)
Black Queendom in the Danish West Indies: Counter-hegemonic Ideations of Flesh and Body
VISCO: The Virgin Islands Studies Collective: La Vaughn Belle (Visual Artist), Tami Navarro (Barnard), Hadiya Sewer (Stanford University), and Tiphanie Yanique (Novelist, Poet, Essayist)
12:15-12:45 pm (EST)
Keynote #5: The Impossible Dream of a Female King: Gender Transgression and the Reception of Cleopatra in the Korean Historical TV Drama, The Great Queen Seodoek (2010)
Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky)
12:45-1:15 pm (EST)—BREAK
1:15-2:00 pm (EST)
Reception and Modern Mythologies of Ancient Queens
These papers explore the stakes of ancient queenship in modern and contemporary visual and material culture
Moderator: Bruce M. King (NYU)
Picturing Olympias: The Mother of Alexander the Great after Antiquity
Elizabeth D. Carney (Clemson University)
Barbie, Perpetual Queen of the Egyptians: Inventing Egyptian Queenship in Popular Culture
Aimee Hinds (University of Roehampton)
Califia: Queen of the Golden West
Jose Ignacio Rivera (Independent Scholar)
Queens and Consorts in the Modern Story of Sardanapalus
Michael Seymour (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Portrayals of the Vestal Virgins in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Casey Stark (Bowling Green State University)
2:00-2:30 pm (EST)
Centering Women in the Ancient World
Papers offer new modes and methods of critical, creative, and publicly-engaged pedagogies that center histories and art of queens and women from the ancient world
Moderator: Clare Fitzgerald (NYU-ISAW)
Representation Matters and Hellenistic Queens Have the Power to Help
Ashley L. Bacchi (Graduate Theological Union)
'The stories we tell, the people we become': Sonic Adventures of Historic Queenship and the 'Vanguard of the Viragoes' Podcast"
ChelseaDee (Interdisciplinary Creator and Arts Educator)
Studying and Teaching Nubian Queens
Tasha Vorderstrasse (University of Chicago)
2:30-3:15 pm (EST)
Performance by Mrs. Smith (followed by conversation)
3:15-3:30 pm (EST)
Closing Remarks
Patricia Eunji Kim (NYU) and Anastasia Amrhein (Bryn Mawr)
This conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, visit this link: https://gallatin.nyu.edu/utilities/events/2021/09/QueenSymposium.html
For more information, contact Patricia Kim pek237@nyu.edu or Anastasia Amrhein amrhein@sas.upenn.edu