Women in the archaeology of Greece: the case of women aspiring archaeologists and the École française d’Athènes
Sylviane Déderix (Université de Varsovie) & Maguelone Bastide (École française d’Athènes) présentent les travaux qu’elles conduisent dans le cadre du programme EFA sur Les femmes dans l’archéologie de la Grèce au séminaire du Groupe des historiens pour la recherche en histoire des femmes et du genre / Ιστορικοί για την έρευνα στην ιστορία της γυναίκας και του φύλου.
Séance en ligne animée par Kostis Gkotsinas (EIE)
En anglais
The research program Women in the archaeology of Greece, conducted under the auspices of the École française d’Athènes (EFA), stems from Sylviane Déderix’s interest in the fate of two young adventurous women sailors and classicists who managed to briefly join the all-male excavations at Malia in the 1920s. This initially small-scale investigation led to the organisation of a first workshop devoted to unsung women pioneers in the archaeology of Greece (2023) and a second workshop focused on the role of archaeological institutions as brakes or springboards in young women’s careers (2024). In the framework of the latter, Maguelone Bastide (together with Marie Stahl) studied the institutional obstacles that had to be overcome for the first women to finally enter EFA as scientific members. In this talk, we will discuss how our respective research connects and enables us to start writing a new fragment of the history of women aspiring archaeologists in the interwar period.
Maguelone Bastide & Sylviane Déderix lead the research program “Women in the archaeology of Greece”, hosted and funded by the École française d’Athènes since 2023.
Sylviane Déderix is currently an Ulam program grantee (NAWA) at the University of Warsaw. She specializes in Aegean prehistory and her research interests include archaeological landscapes, mortuary practices, mining and metallurgy, archaeological geomatics, and the historiography of archaeology. She has been a member of the Sissi Archaeological Project (EBSA, dir. J. Driessen) since 2008, the director of the prehistoric team of the Thorikos Archaeological Research Project (EBSA, dir. R. Docter) since 2018, and the P.I. of the project “Minoan burial practices at Malia” (EFA) since 2020.
Maguelone Bastide is a scientific member of the École française d’Athènes. Since the completion of her PhD on cult places in Ancient Thrace, she has been working on the history of colonisation of Thasos and on the archaeology of its Iron Age settlements. She has conducted excavations and ceramic studies in Greece and Bulgaria.