Women and Post-war Transitions: Istria in Focus
The ERC funded project EIRENE: Post-War Transitions in Gendered Perspective: the case of the North-Eastern Adriatic Region (https://project-eirene.eu/) focuses on exploring post-war transitions in light of gender across various geopolitical frameworks to the North of the Adriatic area. A comparative approach and a comparison of different chronologically and geographically different transitions are necessary for a better insight into specific and general lines of forces behind this subject matter. In tandem with the Center for Historical Research Rovinj/Rovigno, the workshop will primarily focus on Istria and neighbouring areas in the region.
Special attention would be paid to the female workforce (factory workers, teachers, intellectuals) and to their role in various national environments (Italy, Free Territory of Trieste, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Croatia etc.) either in the setting of majority or minority. Attention would also be paid to the effects of the dynamic development of economic systems (capitalist and socialist) and to the link between work and political activity of women in the transition periods.
Another thematic scope of the conference will be dedicated to the evaluation of the past, considering the effects of violence and trauma. Both conditions greatly affected socio-political development in Istria, which was subjected to wars and manifold changing of political regimes throughout the 20th century.
Zoom link: https://uni-lj-si.zoom.us/j/93975462415?pwd=K29TT1BSbmQ4WVN5RktLdkF0VGRkUT09
Meeting ID: 939 7546 2415
Passcode: istria711
MONDAY, 7 November 2022
09:00 – Zoom activation
09:20 Welcome speech
- Raul Marsetič (Center for Historical Research Rovinj/Rovigno)
09:30–09:50 Introductory lecture
- Marta Verginella (University of Ljubljana) – Transitions, Violence and Women’s Labour Market in Istria
10:00–11:30 PANEL: AT WORK
- Anita Buhin and Sara Žerić (Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula) – Welders, Cleaners, Accountants, Mothers, Homemakers. Women of the Uljanik Shipyard in Late Socialism
- Tamara Nikolić Đerić (Ethnographic Museum Pazin) – Privileged by Work: Demystifying the Roles and Position of the Rovinj Women Workers
- Enrico Miletto (University of Torino) – Working Elsewhere. The Exodus from the Tobacco Factories of Istria
12:00–13:30 PANEL: IMAGES OF VIOLENCE
- Orietta Moscarda (Center for Historical Research Rovinj/Rovigno) – Women and Political Violence in the Northern Adriatic Region
- Dagmar Wernitznig (University of Ljubljana) – Rape, Refugeeism, and Ruins: Trauma, Motherhood, and Life-Writing on the Margins
- Gorazd Bajc (University of Maribor) – Women as Perpetrators of Violence in the Julian March Region. The Case of Maria Pasquinelli
- Ana Ljubojević (University of Ljubljana/ University of Graz) and Jelena Seferović (Institute for Anthropological Research in Zagreb) – Working through Post (War) Trauma: The Perspective of Widows of Croatian Homeland War Veterans
15:00–16:30 PANEL: CONCEALED RECOLLECTIONS
- Urška Lampe (Institute IRRIS for Research, Development and Strategies of Society, Culture and Environment/ Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) – Women’s Activism on Behalf of the Prisoners of War from a Comparative Perspective: Slovenian and Croatian Women in 1918 and Italian Women in 1945
- Vida Rožac Darovec (Historical Studies of the Science and Research Centre Koper) – Memories of the Time of Liberation: The Importance of Oral History in the Disclosure of Mythological Structures Operating in the Past
- Vanni D’Alessio (University of Naples “Federico II”) – Italian-Language Teachers Living the Transition in Post-war Yugoslav Rijeka
17:00–18:00 CLOSING DISCUSSION
- Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan) – Final discussant
- Chair: Urška Strle and Manca Grgić Renko (University of Ljubljana)