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L’Initiative Genre (Philomel) et l’Initiative Humanités Biomédicales de Sorbonne Université sont heureuses de vous informer de leur récente collaboration et vous invitent chaleureusement à participer à l’événement qu’elles organisent, au croisement des humanités biomédicales et des études de genre et de sexualité. Ce colloque interdisciplinaire intitulé “Genre et Médicalisation” aura lieu le lundi 28 novembre et le mardi 29 novembre 2022 à Paris. Il se propose d’étudier la place qu’occupe le genre dans les processus de médicalisation.
Nous accueillons avec intérêt des propositions de communication émanant :
– des sciences humaines et sociales dans toute leur diversité (sociologie, histoire, littérature, anthropologie, lettres classiques, psychologie, arts, histoire des sciences et des techniques, économie, droit, philosophie, science politique, santé publique…) ;
– des professionnel·le·s de santé ;
– d’acteur·rice·s associatif·ve·s ou militant·e·s dans le champ de la santé.

Les propositions de communication peuvent être rédigées en français ou en anglais. Elles comporteront environ 250 mots (±10%), et seront transmises par courriel à l’adresse suivante : gender.medicalization@gmail.com. La date limite de soumission est fixée au lundi 16 mai 2022. Merci d’inclure dans le corps du mail votre affiliation universitaire et une courte biobibliographie. L’abstract transmis en pièce jointe (au format pdf ou word) devra être entièrement anonymisé. 

Calendrier prévisionnel :

-Envoi des propositions jusqu’au lundi 16 mai 2022
-Sélection par le comité scientifique durant les mois de mai et juin 2022
-Réponses du comité scientifique d’ici au 1er juillet 2022
-Diffusion du programme final d’ici au 1er septembre 2022


The Gender Initiative (Philomel) and the Biomedical Humanities Initiative of Sorbonne University are pleased to inform you of their recent collaboration. We warmly invite you to participate in the event we are organizing at the crossroads of biomedical humanities and gender studies. This interdisciplinary symposium entitled “Gender and Medicalization” will take place on Monday November 28 and Tuesday November 29, 2022 in Paris. It aims at studying the place and the role of gender in medicalization.
We welcome proposals from:
– Social Sciences in their diversity (Sociology, History, Literature, Anthropology, Classics, Psychology, Arts, Science and Technology, Economics, Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, etc.);
– professionals from the health sector;
– social activists in the field of health.

Abstract proposals can be written in French or in English. They must contain approximately 250 words (±10%), and be sent by email to the following address: gender.medicalization@gmail.com. The deadline for submission is Monday, May 16, 2022. Please include your university affiliation and a short biobibliography in your email. Transmitted as an attachment (in pdf or word format), the abstract must be completely anonymized.


Provisional schedule:


• Deadline for the submission of proposals:  Monday, May 16, 2022
• Selection by the scientific committee during the months of May and June 2022
• Answers from the scientific committee by July 1, 2022
• Announcement of the final program by September 1, 2022

This work is dedicated to the study of self-reference in Ancient and Byzantine literature through the works of the historian and orator Niketas Choniates (c. 1155-c. 1217). Self-reference can be understood through three prisms: as the staging of the author himself ; as self-quotation; as the self-reference of texts themselves (metapoetics). As heir of a secular literary tradition, Niketas Choniates’ art seems to be self-referential. But because it is obvious that the concepts inherited from the Ancients by the Byzantine literati have drastically changed, it is necessary to go back from the Komnenos Era (XIth-XIIth c. ) to the "pretheoric" Era (Homer and Hesiod). Therefore, this study of self-reference achieves a double movement: in one hand, a diachronic movement from Troy to Byzantium, dealing with the constitution of the Ancient literary way of thinking; in the other hand, a reverse diachronic movement from Niketas to Homer, which is about the reception of Ancient though...

Revised and extended version of the paper "The Kind Look of the Muses, The Evil Eye of Ares. Encomiastic strategies in Callimachus and in Hellenistic inscriptional epitaphs." delivered at the International conference "Casting Off Shadows: Hellenistic Poetry Beyond Callimachean Aesthetics", Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, UK, 1-3/09/16.
The paper has also been presented in part, and with significant variants,  at the Università degli Studi di Bologna (03/02/17) and at the Università La Sapienza, Roma (05/12/16).

Many Hellenistic epitaphs for youths fallen in battle point out that the deceased belonged to the civic élite of the hoi apo tou gymnasiou. The importance attached to the poetic and musical paideia in these epigrams is such that the excellence of the deceased in this field is mentioned even before the military valor (traditionally the focus of war epitaphs). The article examines in detail some case studies, analyzing how in these epitaphs the relationship between military kleos and intellectual prestige unfolds, and comparing them with some key-expressions of the poems of Callimachus.