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The Department of Modern Languages and European Studies at Reading is seeking to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature for one year.

The successful candidate will undertake high-quality teaching in this area (particularly in film studies, modern and contemporary literature, cultural and intellectual history post-1800) as well as to contribute to other activities of Italian Studies at Reading such as outreach, and Open/Visit Days. The ability to contribute to the Department’s existing teaching strengths beyond comparative literature (film studies, and cultural studies), would be an advantage.

Closing date: 13 June 2018.

More information at this link.

Anche quest’anno l’ASMI, l’Association for the Study of Modern Italy, premia il miglior saggio di storia, sociologia o politica (riguardante il periodo dal c. 1780 in poi).

Oltre a ricevere £300, l’autore/trice dell’articolo vincente (lunghezza tra le 5.000-10.000 parole, incluse note e bibliografia) avrà una buona possibilità di  far pubblicare l’articolo sulla rivista Modern Italy. Infine, l’articolo verrà formalmente premiato durante il convegno annuale di ASMI, che si tiene ogni anno a Londra.

Possono partecipare dottorandi attuali o che hanno completato il dottorato non più di 12 mesi fa, anche di università italiane e oltre.

Scadenza: 31 luglio 2018. Ulteriori informazioni a questo link. Per partecipare mandate una versione elettronica a questo indirizzo: asmi.secretary@gmail.com.

E per incrementare le vostre possibilità di vincere fate magari correggere il vostro paper a me: io il premio lo vinsi (con questo articolo) nel lontano 2010…

A new online issue of Modern Italy has just been published, and it’s not just any issue – it is the special issue that I’ve co-edited with Arianna Mainardi and Elena Zambelli:

Sexuality and Power in Contemporary Italy: Subjectivities Between Gender Norms, Agency and Social Transformation

The special issue can be accessed at this link.

NB the Introduction as well as my Context and Debates article, entitled ‘Je ne suis pas Catherine Deneuve. Reflections on contemporary debates about sexual self-determination in Italy’, can be freely downloaded (either by clicking the green “access” link or via this sharing code:  BA5528955ABE021B0EE769A01068A17C). Buona lettura!

Wellcome Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool is delighted to invite applicants to the Wellcome Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science scheme, which offers postdoctoral positions providing salary and research expenses for up to three years. The department has identified key areas of activity within the Wellcome remit and is seeking to support applicants who contribute our key areas of research excellence. Its vision of research excellence within Modern Languages is founded on expertise in interrogating transfers across cultural boundaries – be they national, social, ethnic, linguistic, or disciplinary in nature – in order to contribute to and lead research projects that work with an explicit awareness of and directly problematise language use beyond the Anglophone world.

The department particularly welcomes applications in the following areas:

• health-related projects in developing world contexts, with a particular interest in Latin America, Lusophone Africa, China or India
• disability studies in film, literature, or culture in a modern languages context
• multilingualism and language policy in health, with a particular interest in linguistic landscapes
• linguistic and cultural aspects related to the key challenges posed by an aging population, dementia and care for the elderly
• the creation and circulation of health-related knowledge through print and digital culture in a modern languages context
• the history of science and medicine in plurilingual or pluricultural contexts
• interpreting and translation services in health
• the cultural sociology of translation in health

Further information and contact details at this link.

Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy
Call for papers and panels

The First World War in Italy and Beyond: History, Legacy and Memory (1918–2018)

30 November – 1 December 2018
Italian Institute of Culture, London

The closing date for receipt of abstracts is 1 June 2018

Further information and contact details at this link.

Ci sono delle borse di studio per un dottorato in italianistica nella fighissima Dublino, presso la University College Dublin. Tra i research interests di alcuni membri della facoltà la prima guerra mondiale, facismo e avanguardia.

Scadenza 31 maggio 2018. Per ulteriori informazione cliccate questo link.

CFP

GENDER AND PUBLIC SPACE IN HISTORY

Graduate school in Gender History 4-7 June 2018

The Groupe de recherche d’Histoire EA 3831, Université de Rouen Normandie, together with the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, the Università di Napoli Federico II, the Università di Napoli L’Orientale, the Università di Roma TRE and the Universität Wien launches a Graduate School on the theme of Gender and public space in history to be held in Rouen, Normandy, from 4 to 7 June 2018.

The separation/opposition between a public – and political – space occupied by men and a private – and domestic – space specifically designed for women is a central issue in gender history. This separation has its roots in the classical antiquity opposition between polis and oikos. It was then reasserted and complicated in the last centuries of European, and more generally Western history, particularly in the context of the political theories of liberalism and the French Revolution.

A first approach to this issue is connected with the social history of politics: how was women’s and men’s participation in politics and citizenship defined, and how did it develop, in different historical and geographical contexts?

A second approach takes into account the separation between work inside the household (domestic and care work, but also market-oriented production) and work outside the household. It investigates the emergence of the male breadwinner figure, as a consequence, in particular, of the Industrial Revolution. For Medieval and Modern times, the possibility for women of having access to guilds of artisans or merchants should be interpreted as an opportunity to act in the public and political space.

A third approach looks at the category of space and examines the various ways in which men and women existed and acted in public and domestic spaces. From a historical point of view, what kinds of cultural, social, and religious issues have prevented women from having access to certain public spaces, and in some cases men from entering into certain domestic spaces?  And how have these regulations translated into dress rules and manners?

A fourth approach aims at complicating the idea that there exists a clear-cut separation between the public and the private. For instance, we will examine the ‘public’ aspects of the home, such as the fact that it is open on the street, that it is a space for market production, where to incorporate and integrate people coming from the outside, such as apprentices and domestic workers.

These are just a few themes that will be addressed during the Graduate school.  During the week, scholars of the partner universities will deliver lectures and Ph.D. students will present their research.

Deadline and submission details available at this link.

Calling all gender historians! Vacancy for lecturer in gender history open now in my dear green place, Glasgow. Deadline 12 March 2018. For details click here.

Attenzione attenzione! Annuncio per un posto da docente universitario in studi di genere, nella mia carissima Glasgow. Scadenza 12 marzo 2018. Per informazioni cliccate qui.

A questo link troverete un articolo della rinomata casa editrice inglese, Palgrave Macmillan, sui motivi per pubblicare in open access.