A one-day conference on the multifaceted and interdiciplinary dimensions of gender studies.
09.00 -- Welcome.
Coffee, tea, water and biscuits served.
09.30 - 10:30 -- Panel 1: Race and Gender
Chair: Francesca Conti
- Jenny Petrucci, How Gender and Race Impact the First Year Experience of Ethnic Minority Female Students at The American University of Rome: A Qualitative Study.
- Mayara de Pereira Zucula, Visibility as Burden: African Women as Symbols, African Men as Individuals.
- Vassilissa Carangio, Gender, Race & Business Humanities: Entrepreneurs Luisa Spagnoli & Madam C.J. Walker.
10.45 - 12.00 -- Panel 2: Gendered Explorations in the Media
Chair: Lucia Tralli
- Rocco Anelli, A Call to Poetic Action: Queer Experimentation in the Short Film.
- India Weiman, Male and Female Symbiosis: Little Women.
- Mariangela Ciccarello, Calypso and Judith: An Off-script Performance.
- Isabela El Dib Maesano, Dark Romance and BookTok: Is Problematic Behavior Romanticized Within the Dark Romance Genre?
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
Light lunch for all participants.
13.00 - 14.00 -- Keynote Speaker
- Margherita Ferri (Film and TV director and screenwriter)
14.15 - 15.30 -- Panel 3: Gendered Explorations in the Arts
Chair: Catherine Ramsey-Portolano
- Giulia Rossi and Michela Bonafoni, T-shirt Statement: The White T-shirt as a Canvas for Rewriting Gender Politics.
- Ferruccio Trabalzi, From Martyr to Mother: How Women’s Bodies Become Moral Symbols.
- Tehezeeb Moitra, Shifting Selfhood: Investigations of the Queer Subject in L’amica geniale/My Brilliant Friend.
- Luciana D'Arcangeli, Franca Rame: Sexuality as Emancipation.
15.45 - 16.30 -- Panel 4: Gender and Sport
Chair: Jenny Petrucci
- Alyssa McClenic and Isabel Levya, The Roles of Women in Sports.
- Maria Eduarda Orlandini, Women, Visibility, and Professional Legitimacy: Media Economics & The Rise of the PWHL.
16.30 - 17.00 -- Final Remarks.
Aperitivo