Gender and Medieval Studies Seminar

Everyone is welcome to come to a seminar held at AUP on Gender and Medieval Studies. Featuring Ros Brown-Grant (University of Leeds), Yasmina Foehr-Janssens (University of Geneva), Didier Lett and Anne Paupert (both from the University of Paris VII-Paris Diderot). Come and join this fascinating, interdisciplinary discussion. Please RSVP at  i.fabry-tehranchireading.ac.uk (subject: RSVP%20Gender%20and%20Medieval%20Studies%20Seminar) i.fabry-tehranchireading.ac.uk ( )if you plan on attending.

The workshop on Gender is part of a series of three workshops called New perspectives on Medieval Studies initiated by the International Medieval Society and partner universities in Paris. The workshops aims at developing collective thinking and academic exchange of ideas in different fields of medieval studies. They will promote the crossing of disciplinary boundaries on thematic questions including Animal (27 March, Paris Sorbonne), Gender (10 April, AUP) and Image (29 May, Sorbonne Nouvelle), building on past and current works to elaborate new practical and theoretical tools for research through the contribution and collaboration of French, UK and international academics.

The workshops want to promote interdisciplinary exchanges between PhD students, early career and established academics working in the fields of History, History of Arts, Literature, Philosophy or Musicology from different traditions and national and historiographical schools of thoughts. Their objectives are to:

produce a critical synthesis of the current state of medieval studies highlight and understand different perspectives on similar objects of studies in humanities and social sciences examine the difference between methodological and theoretical approaches in the medievalists community.

Ros Brown-Grant is professor of Late Medieval French Literature at the University of Leeds. She has worked extensively on gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages. She is the author of Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), and English translator of Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies (Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1999). She has also published French Romance of the Later Middle Ages: Gender, Morality, and Desire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Yasmina  Foehr-Janssens is professor of French medieval literature and Gender studies at the University of Geneva. She works on Gender in Medieval Literature, courtly poetry, collection of tales and exempla. She has published Le Temps des fables: Le Roman des Sept Sages, ou l’Autre Voie du roman (Paris, Champion, 1994) and translated from Latin Dolopathos, ou le Roi et les septs sages, from Jean de Haute Seille (Turnhout, Brepols, 2000). She is also the author of La Veuve en majesté : Deuil et savoir au féminin dans la littérature médiévale (Geneva, Droz, 2000).

Didier Lett is professor of medieval history at Université Paris 7 – Paris Diderot. He works on the history of childhood, family and kinship, social categories, identity and masculinity. He has published extensively on these subjects with Hommes et femmes au Moyen Âge. Histoire du genre XIIe-XVe siècle (Paris, Armand Colin, 2013), Frères et sœurs. Histoire d’un lien (Paris, Payot, 2009), Famille et parenté dans l'Occident médiéval (Ve-XVe siècles) (Paris, Hachette, 2000) and L’Enfant des miracles. Enfance et société au Moyen Âge (XIIe-XIIIe siècle) (Paris, Aubier, 1997).

Anne Paupert is professor of medieval French literature at Université Paris 7 – Paris Diderot. She is currently working on an edition and modern French translation of the Livre de la Cité des Dames by Christine de Pizan, and on book on female speech in Medieval French literature. She has published Les Fileuses et le clerc. Une étude des Evangiles des Quenouilles (Paris, Champion, 1990) and translated the Evangiles des Quenouilles and La Vision de Christine  (Voix de femmes au Moyen âge, dir. D. Régnier-Bohler, Paris, Laffont, 2006). She has also co-edited and directed La discorde des deux langages. Masculin/féminin dans les discours littéraires, du Moyen Âge à l’Âge classique (Textuel, 46, 2006) and Revisiter la "querelle des femmes": discours sur l'égalité-inégalité des sexes de 1400 à 1600 (Saint-Étienne : PU de Saint-Étienne, 2013).