Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, social and cultural perspectives
University of Helsinki
Workshop: In-person&Online
In person participation: University of Helsinki, Main Building (Unioninkatu 34), Room U3039 (3rd floor)
Registration through this form
Remote participation: via Zoom (https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/69089076203)
Monday, 4 May 2026, from 10:00 to 17:30 EEST
Program:
10:00–11:15 keynote: Prof. Christian Laes: Women and disabilities in Antiquity: between presentism and daily life
11:30–13:00 session 1: Disabled Women in the Roman Narratives
Sofia Vierula: The case of Harpaste: Lived experience of disability in Seneca’s letter to Lucilius
Mathilde Chartrand: The Daily Life of a Furiosa: On the Gendered Consequences of Mental Illness
Fran Geldard: Enslavement and Disability in Eusebian Martyr Narrative
[Lunch]
14:00–15:30 session 2: Women, Disability and Roman Law
Arnaud Paturet: Some Reflections on the Status of Deaf People by Roman Jurists
Kaius Tuori: Infirmity and monstrosity: on the legal construction of female disability in law
Jana Mauri Marlborough: Against All Odds: The Legal Position of Wet Nurses in Roman Law
[Coffee]
16:00–17:30 session 3: Intersections of Gender and Disability in Late Antiquity
Gaetana Balestra: Muta puella fuit: The Mute Woman between tutela mulierum and Justinian's Legislation.
Elena Pezzato Heck: Mental Illness as Grounds for Repudiation in Late Antiquity and the Justinian Era
Arttu Alaranta: Vulnerable Life-Cycle Moments and Disabilities in Women’s Asceticism during Late Antiquity
More information is available on UH website.
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