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The first workshop in the series 'La Mamma: Interrogating a National Stereotype' will take place at the University of Dundee on the 4th of May.
Please be advised that there are a few spaces available at the workshop. If you wish to attend, please contact the project administrator, Emily Ryder: [log in to unmask]
Attached are details of the workshop titles and speakers who will be in attendance.
The Maternal Role and Representations of Maternity in the Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century
University of Dundee, 4th May
Benedetta Gennaro (Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt/Main)
‘Mothers in/at War: The Use of the Maternal to Normalize Unruly Behaviours in the Risorgimento’
Marjan Schwegman (Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies ) ‘From cruel women to angelic mothers. (Grand)motherhood in Italian folktales’
Kate Mitchell (University of Strathclyde)
‘Figlioismo’ in Verga’s Cavalleria Rusticana (1880) and Febo Mari’s Cenere (1916)
Erica Moretti (Brown University)
‘A Nation of Mama’s Boys: The Figure of the Mother in the Turn-of-the-Century Educational Debate’
Ursula Fanning (UCD)
‘Sibilla Aleramo: Representing the Maternal - Reflections and Refractions’
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi (University of Warwick)
‘Questa forza nera, ineluttabile’: Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Mothers
Perry Willson (University of Dundee)
‘Mothers in Fascist Italy’
Sharon Wood (University of Leicester)
'The art of maternity: Annie Vivanti's Devourers'
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