The Centre will host the international conference ‘Articulation of Silence from a Gendered Perspective’ on the 26^th, 27^th, and 28^th of September.

The main objective of this conference is to investigate the articulation of silence in text and manuscript cultures in different premodern traditions (Greece, Medieval Europe, China, Japan, Korea, India, ancient Egypt and the Middle East), from a (global?) gendered perspective. We define here ‘silence’ as an expression of the act of the non-articulation in texts and manuscripts of different genres and written on different kinds of material carriers, and invite papers that ‘unmute the muted’ or ‘hear the unheard’. By adopting a gendered perspective in the study of silence, we encourage scholars to be attentive to the silence of both individuals and groups that belong to the non-dominant social, political, and intellectual class in their respective cultures. The conference aims to bring together a diverse group of speakers, including both junior researchers and experienced scholars, coming from different disciplinary backgrounds, with the goal of fostering a lively interdisciplinary debate on the topic.

The conference will take place in the Lucina Ho Room of the China Centre from 9.30am to 5pm on the 26^th, from 10am to 7pm on the 27^th, and from 9am to 1pm on the 28^th.

The conference is co-organised by Dirk Meyer (University of Oxford), Lisa Indraccolo (Tallinn University), and Stefka G. Eriksen (University of Oslo).