09. AGEING BODIES IN ANTIQUITY. DEPENDENCY AND CARE
Panel Convenors
Agnès Garcia-Ventura (University Autònoma of Barcelona) [agnes.garcia.ventura@uab.cat]
Borja Méndez Santiago (University of Oviedo) [mendezsborja@uniovi.es]
Carla Rubiera Cancelas (University of Oviedo) [rubieracarla@uniovi.es]
Agnes Garcia-Ventura (1977) is currently lecturer at the University Autònoma of Barcelona (Spain). Since 2012, she worked as postdoctoral researcher at several universities, including the University of Heidelberg (Germany), the “Sapienza”, Università degli Studi di Roma (Italy) and the University of Barcelona (Spain). Her main areas of interest are gender studies, historiography of ancient Near Eastern studies, ancient musical performance and the organization of work in Mesopotamia. She is author of nearly 100 articles, book chapters and reviews issued in international academic journals and series. Moreover she is editor of several volumes, including Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East (coedited with Saana Svärd, State College, PA: Eisenbrauns and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018), Mujeres en el Oriente cuneiforme (coedited with Josué Justel, Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá, 2018) and What’s in a Name. Work force and job categories in the Ancient Near East (Münster: AOAT 440, Ugarit-Verlag, 2018).
Borja Méndez Santiago (1989) got his degree in History (2012) at the University of Oviedo, and his degree in History of Art (2016) at the National University of Distance Learning. In 2017 he was granted a "Severo Ochoa" pre-doctoral fellowship, which is allowing him to carry out his Ph. D, in which he is analyzing the different masculinity models inserted by Plutarch in his Parallel Lives. His main areas of interest are gender studies (in ancient Greece and Rome), the phases of life (especially infancy and youth), the analysis of the ageing process and disability. He is member of the research team 'Deméter. Motherhood, Gender and Family' (University of Oviedo) and is currently collaborating in a research project called 'Maternidades, filiaciones y sentimientos en las sociedades griega y romana de la Antigüedad. Familias alternativas y otras relaciones de parentesco fuera de la norma (HAR2017-82521-P)', led by Rosa María Cid López.
Carla Rubiera Cancelas (1985) is currently assitant lecturer at the University of Oviedo (Spain). In 2007, she was granted a collaboration fellowship in the department of Ancient History at the University of Oviedo, under the supervision of Dr. Rosa Maria Cid López. After finishing her degree in History, awarded in 2008, she continued her university education with an international master, the Master Erasmus Mundus in Women's and Gender Studies at the Universities of Oviedo and Bologna, a program of excellence supported by the European Commission. In 2009, she was granted the "Severo Ochoa" pre-doctoral fellowship program, which allowed her to carry out a Ph.D. She also joined the research team led by Dr Rosa Maria Cid López (Deméter. Motherhood, Gender and Family) and contributed to her research project on motherhood, working mainly on Roman female slaves and the partus ancillae. In 2014 she presented her Ph.D. on "Female slavery in ancient Rome: famulae, ancillae et seruae. Between the field and the city", for which she was awarded honour 'cum laude' and with an international mention. One year later, she received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. From 2014 to 2019 she worked as postdoctoral scholar at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Oviedo (Marie Curie COFUND CLARÍN program). Her main areas of interest are gender and women studies, female slaves in the Roman urban space, and motherhood, infancy and slavery in Roman society. She is currently collaborating in a research Project: “Maternidades, filiaciones y sentimientos en las sociedades griega y romana de la Antigüedad. Familias alternativas y otras relaciones de parentesco fuera de la norma” (HAR2017-82521-P), led by Rosa María Cid López, and “Pastwomen: Mujeres y género en las sociedades prehistóricas y antiguas, de la investigación a la educación” (RED2018-102526-T), led by Paloma González Marcén