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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Dear Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">The <i>Critical Antiquities Network</i> is thrilled to be able to invite you to a special event on Friday Dec 2, 3-5pm, live in person and on Zoom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">“Que peuvent les femmes?”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">An Afternoon with Giulia Sissa on ‘The Power of Women’ (<i>Le Pouvoir des Femmes</i>, Odile Jacob: Paris 2021)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Friday, December 2, 3-5pm in the CCANESA Boardroom, Madsen Building, University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Zoom details: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83120867395<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Please join Giulia Sissa, Ben Brown and Tristan Bradshaw for an interview and extended conversation on the themes and arguments of Giulia’s most recent book,
<i><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/JfhxCBNqjlCV5mRzQcziTzA?domain=odilejacob.fr">Le Pouvoir des Femmes<span style="font-style:normal">, Odile Jacob: Paris 2021</span></a></i>. Discussion will range across topics
such as the body of the male citizen in democratic Athens, Aristotle’s anthropology of the feminine, queens and mothers in history and tragedy, Condorcet’s remarkable call for womens’ rights—to end up in our present post-Enlightment situation where we can
again ask: is the work of a feminist critique of antiquity complete? <i>Que peuvent les femmes?</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Prof. Giulia Sissa (UCLA) is one of the most preeminent and energetic thinkers working today at the juncture of feminism, classical studies and philosophy. Her oeuvre across this terrain is prolific and
extraordinary and has set the tempo for intellectual reflection on women, gender, religion, politics, and philosophy in the Ancient Greek World (and beyond) for an entire generation. Her books include seminal classics such as
<i>Greek Virginity</i> (1990), <i>L' âme est un corps de femme</i> (2000), <i>Le Plaisir et le Mal: Philosophie de la drogue</i> (1997),
<i>Daily Life of the Greek Gods</i> (with Marcel Detienne, 2000), <i>Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World</i> (2008) as well as scores of articles and book chapters on a vast range of topics illuminating the gendered landscape of classical antiquity. It
is with great pleasure that the Critical Antiquities Network can host her at the University of Sydney.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><img border="0" width="162" height="277" style="width:1.6875in;height:2.8854in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D8FF1A.078CA500" alt="Pouvoir des femmes (Le)"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">From the preface:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Once upon a time there were queens and princesses. They ruled countries, commanded armies and were obeyed. Their lives were full of possibilities, powers and plans. They were called
Artemisia of Halicarnassus, Antigone, Jocasta or Aithra. Ancient historiography recounts their marvellous exploits, while classical tragedy resurrects them on stage. Exceptional and singular in societies hostile to women, these individuals belong to an aristocratic
past or live in a royal elsewhere. In these possible worlds, they are themselves possible. It is enough to imagine. The Greeks knew how to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">The same Greeks invented democracy. And now women of this calibre, in a position to deliberate, to lead and to defend the state, become quite simply inconceivable. Philosophy rationalises
their natural defectiveness, a softness whose most debilitating effects are lack of courage and infirmity of decision. The man is able to determine what to do. The woman, whose deliberative faculty is invalid, cannot resolve it. The man is full of zeal. Women
are cowards. Men are inclined to lead. Women are content to be submissive. Man is a political animal. Woman is a domestic animal. Nature is supposed to be the basis for these norms which seem to be imposed on everyone's mind and which organise the family around
a leader who is a husband, a father and a master of slaves.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">In the city, the self-governance of the people requires precisely those virtues, faculties and passions that women do not have. It is, again, their nature. It is imperative, therefore,
to exclude them from the political arena. Christianity nails the feminine to the same impotence and, moreover, to irrationality. The ancient woman was unable to fight, to give orders, to carry out her decisions. Now, in the great medieval theorists like Thomas
Aquinas and Albert the Great, she becomes incapable of coherent thought, trained as she is by her fluid complexion. The male, who was hotter and more spirited than the female, becomes a more methodical reasoner.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">These prejudices remained a given until the Enlightenment. Jean-Jacques Rousseau had a field day with them. Let young girls confine themselves to taste, to conventional ideas and to
the small world of their little families. Let them not try to reason. Since they are not the same as men, women cannot be the equal of men. That would be to usurp rights that are not for them. In the end, it is to the philosophers who replaced the laws of
nature with human rights, notably Nicolas de Condorcet, that we owe everything that makes emancipation and equality possible, and this time, for good. But like everything that comes from the Enlightenment, feminism is an intermittent and never-ending project,
always perfectible and constantly hindered.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">[translated by B. Brown]<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">All are welcome! We hope to see you there. Please also join us afterwards as we adjourn to the Forest Lodge Hotel to continue the discussion!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Please reply to this email for further details</span></i><span style="font-family:Helvetica">,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">All very best, Ben<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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