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Finding the Female Voice in the Ancient World

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Department of Classics
Location
Main Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801
Date
Nov 17, 2025   3:00 - 5:00 pm  
Speaker
Dr. Emily Hauser
Contact
Carrie Lingscheit
E-Mail
carriel@illinois.edu
Originating Calendar
Rare Book & Manuscript Library Events

In this talk, award-winning classicist and Times bestselling author Dr. Emily Hauser explores the many different ways in which we can start to uncover the women of the ancient world. Dealing with the silences of the archive – the voices and identities written out of history – requires new and innovative tools, and in this talk she surveys the many different approaches she has taken across her fiction and non-fiction writing to recover women: from deep analysis of Greek texts to popular contemporary myth retellings to innovative takes on history that mix fact and fiction to uncover new ways of knowing. Join her on an adventure across time and the tools of history to re-discover the women of the ancient world.

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