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Mireille Lee to Deliver Lecture on May 31 at Interdisciplinary Seminar in Paris

Posted by on Tuesday, May 22, 2018 in Conferences, Events, HART, Lectures, News, VRC.

mirrormireilleleeMireille Lee, assistant professor of history of art, will present a lecture entitled “Mirroring Femininity: The Body and the Mirror in Ancient Greece” on May 31 at an interdisciplinary seminar in Paris. The overall theme of the seminar is “The Individual and his Body in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin.”

Ancient Greek bronze mirrors provided women essential knowledge about the body throughout the female life-cycle. Mirrors were vital for navigating the bodily transformations of marriage, childbirth, and death, and facilitated important social connections with a woman’s natal family, with other women, and with the divine. “Although mirrors are often interpreted as simple toilet articles, or as straightforward symbols of beauty or vanity, they functioned as complex tools for the social construction of the female body in ancient Greece,” explained Lee.

Held from 4-6 pm (Paris time) at the Ivry sur Seine CNRS building or through video-conference, the seminar will be at the crossroads of history of religions and social anthropology, creating a dialogue between philologists, archaeologists, historians of religions and anthropologists. Those interested in attending the session (either on site or through video-conference) should register by e-mail beforehand (contact: alice.mouton@cnrs.fr).

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