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Conference News CONFERENCE NEWS Review of the symposium “Courtly Ambiguities: Harem and Gender in the Eastern Medirerranean,” held on March 4, 2000 on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The symposium, organized by Marian Feldman and Leslie Peirce, received support from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Departments of History and Near Eastern Studies, all of the University of California, Berkeley. This day-long conference convened to explore “the interplay between harem and gender in the royal courts of Assyria, Egypt, Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire. So often imagined as a site of male sexual dom- inance, the harem is treated in this symposium as a mutable concept that sanctioned a range of gendered identities.” As attendees of the con- ference learned, the ancient and pre-modern Near Eastern textual and material traditions are rich in sources for gender-based study of the “harem”. The speakers (in order of presentation) and their topics were: Anne Dra V korn Kilmer, Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, “Life in the Harem: Ancient Assyrian Royal Harem Regulations”; Marian Feldman, Lecturer in the Depart- ments of Near Eastern Studies and History of Art, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png NIN Brill

Conference News

NIN , Volume 2 (1): 149 – Jan 1, 2001

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Brill
Copyright
© 2002 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1567-8474
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1570-7768
DOI
10.1163/157077601100416851
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CONFERENCE NEWS Review of the symposium “Courtly Ambiguities: Harem and Gender in the Eastern Medirerranean,” held on March 4, 2000 on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The symposium, organized by Marian Feldman and Leslie Peirce, received support from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Departments of History and Near Eastern Studies, all of the University of California, Berkeley. This day-long conference convened to explore “the interplay between harem and gender in the royal courts of Assyria, Egypt, Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire. So often imagined as a site of male sexual dom- inance, the harem is treated in this symposium as a mutable concept that sanctioned a range of gendered identities.” As attendees of the con- ference learned, the ancient and pre-modern Near Eastern textual and material traditions are rich in sources for gender-based study of the “harem”. The speakers (in order of presentation) and their topics were: Anne Dra V korn Kilmer, Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, “Life in the Harem: Ancient Assyrian Royal Harem Regulations”; Marian Feldman, Lecturer in the Depart- ments of Near Eastern Studies and History of Art,

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Published: Jan 1, 2001

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