Singles and the Single Life
in the Roman and Later Roman Worlds
Rome, 28–30 May 2015
Organizers: Sabine R. Huebner (Basel) and Christian Laes (Antwerp, Brussels, Tampere)
Academia Belgica (Via Omero 8, 00197 Roma, Italia)
Thursday, May 28, 2015
15:30-16:00 Welcome & Coffee
16:00-16:30 Christian Laes „What’s in a Single? Roman Antiquity and a Comparative World Approach“
Panel I: Demographic, Archaeological, and Socio-Economic Approaches
Chair: Christian Laes
16:30 – 17:00 Sabine Huebner „The Demographic Background for Singles: Roman Egypt and Beyond“
17:00 – 17:30 Anna Boozer „Looking for Singles in the Archaeological Record"
17:30-18:00 Wim Broekaert „Singleness as Business Strategy? Economic Incentives or Drawbacks of Living Alone“
18:00 – 18:30 Discussion
18:30-19:30 Reception
Friday, May 29, 2015
Panel II: Singles in Judaism; Chair: Ville Vuolanto
9:30-10:00 Ranon Katzoff „Age at Marriage of Jewish Girls in Late Antiquity and the Rabbinic Rejection of Singleness“
10:00-10:30 John Martens „Was Jesus Single?“
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Kevin Funderburk „Contesting the Temple: Nazirite vows and primitive Christian celibacy“
11:30-12:00 Discussion
12:00-14:00 Lunch
Panel III: Being Single in the Roman world; Chair: Sabine Huebner
14:00– 14:30 Judith Evans Grubbs „Penalizing celibacy? A Socio-cultural approach to Augustus’ marriage legislation“
14:30-15:00 Harri Kiiskinen “Living “Single” by Catullus and Cicero”
15:00-15:30 Elina Pyy „Detecting Roman Ideas on Female Singleness: a Literary Perspective“
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:30 Single Hanne Sigismund Nielsen „Commemoration in Latin Epigraphy“
16:30-17:00 Mina Petrova Petrova „Single as a Lena. The Depiction of Procuresses in Roman Augustan Literature“
17:00-17:30 Ilse Mueller „Single Women and Slaves in Roman Antiquity“
17:30-18:00 Discussion
20:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Panel IV: Late antique Christianity: the rise of the ideal of being single
Chair: John Martens
9:00-9:30 Thomas Goessens „Single Commemoration in Christian inscriptions from Rome“
9:30-10:00 Raffaella Cribiore „Three Different Ways of Life: Being Single in the Fourth Century CE“
10:00-10:30 Ville Vuolanto „Ascetics as Single Men and Women“
10:30-11:00 Geoff Nathan „Augustine, “Philosophical Retirement” and the Singles Life“
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Stephanos Efthymiadis „Singles in Early Byzantine Literature“
12:00-12:30 Jennifer Cromwell „’Listen to my mistreatment’: Coptic evidence for the difficulties faced by single women in Late Antique and early Islamic Egypt „
12:30-13:00 Discussion
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Panel V: Comparative voices; Chair: Christian Laes and Sabine Huebner
14:30-15:00 Mohammed Hocine Benkheira „Singles and Celibacy in Early Islam“
15:00-15:30 Julie De Groot „Singleness in the Early Modern Period: How Do Historians Cope with It?“
15:30-16:00 Matteo Manfredini “Singleness in the Libri Animarum (19th Century Italy)“
15:30-16:00 Final Discussion
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