Ecco il programma del seminario “Rappresentare il femminile. Costruzione e decostruzione dell’immagine delle donne in Italia” :

13h-14h30: ‘Women, Choices and Boundaries’
Chair: Eleonora Carinci (Universitet i Oslo)
Isabel Harvey (UCLouvain), Consecrated Lives and their Cloisters: Tales from Early Modern Italian Nunneries
Vincenzo Lagioia (Università di Bologna), ‘Far di sua vita ciò che le piace’: donne, meretricio e conversione in Età moderna
Serena Laiena (University College Dublin), Christian Actresses? Rewriting the Boundaries of Women’s Virtues in Early Modern Italy

14h30-16h: ‘Women De-stereotyping the Self’
Chair: Elena Musiani (Università di Bologna)
Domenico Rizzo (Università di Napoli L’Orientale), Malmaritate o capricciose? Separarsi (e divorziare) a Napoli tra antico regime e Restaurazione
Giacomo Girardi (Università degli Studi di Milano), The Women of the Risorgimento from Revolution to Exile: Between Image and Reality
Ursula Fanning (University College Dublin), Deconstructing Feminine Images: Matilde Serao’s Women Workers

16h-17h30: ‘Women’s Images beyond Imagination’
Chair: Sara Delmedico (University College Dublin)
Manuela Di Franco (University of Michigan), Breaking Stereotypes: Depiction of Femininity in Comics
Elena Sottilotta (University of Cambridge), Damsels in Distress? (Re)Constructing Femininity in Italian Fairy-Tale Adaptations
Ginevra Sanvitale (Trinity College Dublin), Configuring the Housewife. Visualising Household Technologies and Gender Norms in Cold War Italy

17h30: ‘Translating Women in Manzoniʼs The Betrothed’
Sara Delmedico and Elena Musiani in conversation with Michael F. Moore (translator of the latest edition of Alessandro Manzoniʼs The Betrothed)