Women and Post-War Transitions: Work
ERC Advanced Grant project EIRENE is hosting its third workshop, titled “Women and Post-War Transitions: Work“. We offer you a wide range of presentations covering the periods after both World Wars and the transitional years in the 1990s. The workshop is organized in collaboration with Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università di Trieste.
THURSDAY, 23 January 2020
- 8:30–9:00 Welcome reception and registration of the participants
- 9:00–9:45 Welcome speeches
- Roberto Di Lenarda, Rector of University of Trieste
- Elisabetta Vezzosi, Head of the Department of Humanities, University of Trieste
- Marta Verginella, Principal investigator, University of Ljubljana
- 09:45–10:45 Selina Todd (University of Oxford) – Women, work, labour militancy and the changing state of post-war Britain (keynote speaker)
10:45–11:00 Break
11:00–12:00 Panel 1: Women, Rights and Labour Market in Transition Phases
Chair: Nina Vodopivec (Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana)
- Teresa Bertilotti (University of Ljubljana) – Rights in the post-war II Italian transition
- Roberta Nunin (University of Trieste) – Changes in Italian post-war II labour market and the fight against gender discrimination: the role of the Constitutional Charter and the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court
- Francesca Bettio (University of Siena) – Relative wages for women in Italy. A special focus on post-war transitions
12:00–12:15 Break
12:15–13:30 Panel 2: Women in Tobacco Industry
Chair: Iva Kosmos (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
- Francesca Rolandi (University of Ljubljana) – Workers’ activism, gender issues and political rights in times of transition: the case of the Fiume/Rijeka Tobacco Factory after the Great War
- Orietta Moscarda (Rovinj Historical Research Center) – Rovinj/Rovigno women workers in post-war transition
- Dagmar Wernitznig (University of Ljubljana) – From a Tschickmensch to a parliamentarian: the life and legacy of Marie Tusch (1868–1939)
- Urška Strle (University of Ljubljana) – Tobacco Factory Ljubljana in light of workers’ booklets and registers (1912–1952)
13:30–14:30 Break
- 14:30–15:30 Alessandra Pescarolo (Istituto regionale per la programmazione economica della Toscana) – Gender ideologies and cultures of work in post-war Italian transitions: notes which could be useful to compare with the northern Adriatic transitions (keynote speaker)
15:30–15:40 Break
15:40–16:40 Panel 3: Working women in the Julian March after World Wars
Chair: Dagmar Wernitznig (University of Ljubljana)
- Matteo Perissinotto (University of Ljubljana) – Women employees of the Italian administration in the Julian March (1918–1922)
- Erica Mezzoli (Istituto Livio Saranz, Trieste) – [Wo]manpower. A quantitative overview of the female labour supply in the Zone A of the AMG, 1945–1947
- Tullia Catalan (University of Trieste) – Women employed by the AMG (1945–1954). Recruitment practices, types of works and difficulties during the transition to Italy
16:40–16:50 Break
16:55–17:55 Panel 4: A Changing Labour Market: Women in Italy after World War II and Beyond
Chair: Teresa Bertilotti (University of Ljubljana)
- Elisabetta Vezzosi (University of Trieste) – Gender and social work in Italy. The second post-war experience
- Molly Tambor (Long Island University) – Policing women: How women entered the Italian Police Force
- Antonella Mauri (University of Lille) – The Slavic Circe. Literary and non-literary images of the Balkan women in Italy (1946–1980)
FRIDAY, 24 January 2020
08:30–9:00 Snack
- 9:00–10:00 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Utrecht University) – Globalization and women’s textile work in the twentieth century: a comparative perspective (keynote speaker)
10:00–10:10 Break
10:10–11:10 Panel 5: Rethinking Traditional Female Occupations
Chair: Erica Mezzoli (Istituto Livio Saranz)
- Ana Cergol Paradiž and Petra Testen Koren (University of Ljubljana) – Trst/Trieste and (Slovene) Servants after World War I
- Irena Selišnik (University of Ljubljana) – Domestic help workers and legislation: experiences from the past
- Nina Vodopivec (Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana) – Textile workers in transitions: their social roles and work experiences in socialist and post-socialist Slovenia
11:10–11:25 Break
- 11:25–12:25 Laura Lee Downs (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and European University Institute, Florence) – “A Tolmino il nostro asilo rimarrà unico ed italiano”: Gender, social action and nationalist/irredentist politics in the Upper Adriatic, 1919–1950 (keynote speaker)
12:25–12:35 Break
12:35–13:35 Panel 6: Intellectuals
Chair: Natka Badurina (University of Udine)
- Marta Verginella (University of Ljubljana) – Teachers in the Littoral 1914–1941, a contribution to the research of history of Slovene schooling in the Littoral
- Manca G. Renko (University of Ljubljana) – The woman without qualities? The case of Alice Schalek, intellectual labour and female intellectuals
- Gorazd Bajc (University of Ljubljana) – Women teachers after 1945
13:35–13:45 Break
- 13:45–14:30 Tanja Petrović (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) – Conclusions and final discussion
Location
Università degli Studi di Trieste
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Androna Campo Marzio 10
34123 Trieste, Italia
Sala Atti “Arduino Agnelli”, 2nd floor
