Workshop – “Protagonism, activism and women’s networks in universities in the contemporary age”, 25 oct. 2021, en ligne.

Women became fully part of university life only in the twentieth century. This seminar aims to analyze the different forms of female presence in the academic world by focusing on women’s activism and their ability to network within a male universe, also in relation to possible career opportunities.

9.30 welcoming remarks, Antonella Cagnolati, Simona Salustri

opening remarks

FIRST SESSION 10-13

chair Simona Salustri

• Katerina Dalakoura (University of Crete), Female university students’ associationism in the
  Interwar period
• Patrizia Guarnieri (University of Florence), L’emigrazione delle donne ebree laureate e le università
• Tanya Fitzgerald (University of Western Australia), Networks of influence: Caroline Spurgeon (1869-1942)
• Tamar Groves (University of Extremadura), Consuelo Flecha García (University of Seville), La Asociación Amistad universitaria (1955-1976)
• Antonella Cagnolati (University of Foggia), Tra luci ed ombre. Il ruolo dell’Associazione nazionale fascista donne artiste e laureate*

discussion

SECOND SESSION 15-18.30

chair Antonella Cagnolati

• Simona Salustri (University of Padua), «Non vogliamo donne all’università, le vogliamo distese sul sofà». La presenza femminile nei Gruppi fascisti universitari
• Carolina Rodríguez López, Irene Mendoza Martín (Complutense University of Madrid), El activismo femenino en la Universidad española: una visión panorámica del siglo XX
• Luigiaurelio Pomante, Sofia Montecchiani (University of Macerata), L’associazionismo femminile cattolico: il contributo delle giovani universitarie della Federazione universitaria
  cattolica italiana nella prima metà del Novecento
• Alessandra Cantagalli (University of Bologna), La storia dell’Associazione italiana donne ingegneri e architetti nella costruzione di nuove professionalità dentro e fuori gli atenei
• Marie-Elise Hunyadi (Université Paris 8, Vincennes Saint-Denis), The International Federation of University Women and the promotion of women’s access to higher education
  (1919-1970)
• Sonia Maria Melchiorre (University of Tuscia), “La rete delle formiche”. Le donne nelle università italiane (2000-2020)

discussion

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