Author: martina

The public event “Forgotten Voices: Carmen de Burgos and Women’s Emancipation in Early 20th-Century Spain” will take place on Tuesday, March 18 at 6:00 p.m. in the Multimedia Room of the Arturo Frinzi Library (Via S. Francesco 20, Verona). The meeting, featuring Stefano Bazzaco, Antonella Gallo, and Silvia Salis, will be an opportunity to discuss, together with the translators, the most interesting aspects of the life and work of Carmen de Burgos Seguí, known by the pen name “Colombine.”

Colombine was a writer, translator, journalist, and war correspondent in Spain at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was an independent and combative woman, constantly fighting for women’s rights and critical of a Spanish culture still anchored in rigid patriarchal tradition. Carmen de Burgos authored an enormous number of works, including novels, short stories, articles, biographies, etiquette manuals, and travel books.

During the event, recent translations of two of her novels will be presented:

• “The Sloping Plane,” translated by Antonella Gallo, Le Lettere, 2024

• “The Swimming Pool, the Swimming Pool,” translated by Silvia Salis, Le plurali, 2024

Registration is now open for the Open Badge course “Accessible Textual Heritage. Competencias transversales para la digitalización del patrimonio textual,” a new initiative in collaboration with our department, the Teaching and Learning Centre of the University of Verona, and the Laboratorio de Humanidades Digitales IIBICRIT–CONICET in Argentina. The course, which will run from June 15 to July 25, 2025, aims to provide participants with knowledge and skills in the field of Digital Humanities, with a specific focus on automatic document transcription, the production of accessible eBooks, the modeling and creation of digital editions in XML-TEI, and the publication of structured data collections using open-source software.

The course will be held entirely online. Teaching activities will be delivered exclusively in Spanish, with asynchronous online lessons and dedicated teaching materials.
Registration is open until May 1, 2025. More information about the course is available at this link.

The lecture series “ЇЇ – Her: Dimensions of Ukrainian Womanhood” will take place from March 7 to May 30. This series of in-depth talks aims to explore the roles of Ukrainian women in war, peace, and cultural resistance. The truth about Ukraine goes beyond territories: it concerns identity, history, and the future. Ukrainian women are not only witnesses—they are fighters, diplomats, and guardians of culture.

March 7, 12:00–1:30 p.m., Co-working Room
Women: War and Peace. Ukrainian Writers and Artists (1914–2022)
with Aleksandra Hnatiuk (Historian, professor at Kyiv Mohyla Academy, professor emerita at the University of Warsaw, member of the Polish and Ukrainian PEN Clubs)

March 28, 12:00–1:30 p.m., Room T.07
Modern Heroines of Ukraine: Women Resisting, Rescuing, and Fighting for Freedom
with Tetiana Zhukova (human rights and international law expert; collaborates with the UN, EU, Council of Europe, and OSCE to prosecute war crimes and human rights violations in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine)

April 11, 10:15–11:45 a.m., Room S.10
Militant Women: New Images of Femininity in Public Discourse during the Russian Invasion
with Oksana Kis (feminist historian and anthropologist, President of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History, author of Survival as Victory, Harvard, 2021)

May 30, 12:00–1:30 p.m., Room T.10
Ambassadors of Freedom: The Historical Experience of Ukrainian Women in International Politics and Diplomacy
with Alla Shvets (Dr. Philol., Deputy Director at the Ivan Franko Institute, member of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History)

During the lectures, the following topics will be explored:

• Women’s experiences through wars and repression

• Their impact on international politics

• Artistic and literary voices across different generations

• Today’s heroines fighting for freedom

It will be possible to attend the meetings either in person or via Zoom by connecting through this link.

The initiative is promoted by Professors Daniele Artoni and Anna Giust from our department, and by our doctoral students Diana Bota and Khrystyna Yordan.

Registrations are now open for “Understanding LIS (Italian sign language) and deafness: an introductory course”, an advanced and professional development course organized by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. It is open to all those who work with deaf individuals or want to acquire some basic knowledge about deafness and sign language for personal or professional reasons.
The seminar will allow participants to acquire:

• basic theoretical and practical competence in the Italian sign language (LIS),
• key knowledge about communicative strategies while interacting with deaf individuals,
• important information about tactile Italian sign language (LIST) and deafblindness.

The traning will also include the knowledge of some important features of Deaf culture and of some key pedagogical-educational needs of deaf students, beginning with the analysis of their familiar and linguistic background.

The course will last three months, from march to may 2025, and will be in a face-to-face modality. During the sessions, the participants will practice both production and comprehension skills. Registration is open until February 18, 2025, and more details can be found here. A video-presentation of the course with LIS translation is available below.