Author Archives: blognostrumuva

About blognostrumuva

blog voor de Collectie Romaanse Talen van de Universiteitsbibliotheek van de UvA (universiteit van Amsterdam)

Queer Italy: an example of literature search

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (25) Whether it’s a book, a journal article, a thesis, or a Wikipedia page, the references listed by each of these sources represent a useful starting point to further explore the literature on … Continue reading

Posted in gender & sexuality, Italian | Leave a comment

Library guide Italian studies. “Italy: emigration and immigration”

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance Languages (24) Fifth in the series – having been preceded by those on National identity, Mafia and other organized-crime groups, Franco Basaglia‘s democratic psychiatry, and Prostitution in Italy: The Merlin Law -, the guide … Continue reading

Posted in (anti)racism, decolonization, gender & sexuality, historical memory, Italian | Leave a comment

Library guide Italian Studies. “Prostitution in Italy. The Merlin Law”

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance Languages (23) Following national identity, mafia and other organized-crime groups, and Franco Basaglia‘s democratic psychiatry, Prostitution in Italy, with a specific focus on the 1958 Merlin Law, is the fourth topic forthcoming from the … Continue reading

Posted in equity, gender & sexuality, Italian | 2 Comments

Library guide Italian Studies. “Democratic psychiatry & Franco Basaglia”

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance Languages (22) After national identity and mafia and other organized-crime groups, Franco Basaglia‘s democratic psychiatry (or anti-psychiatry) is the third topic forthcoming from the collaboration with Elio Baldi and Linda Pennings at the Department … Continue reading

Posted in ableism, diversity, equity, inclusion, Italian | 2 Comments

Library guide Italian Studies. “Mafia and other organized-crime groups”

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance Languages (21) The topic of the first Library guide Italian Studies was national identity, which easily related to diversity, equity and inclusion through the ways a given people defines its collective identity, and what … Continue reading

Posted in (anti)racism, decolonization, gender & sexuality, historical memory, Italian | 3 Comments

New: Library guide for Italian Studies. “National identity”

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (20) This blog series, as laid out a year ago when starting, aims among others at being «a collaborative effort to help broaden and diversify both the UvA Library collections and the way … Continue reading

Posted in (anti)racism, decolonization, gender & sexuality, historical memory, Italian | 5 Comments

Congres “Les Lieux de Georges Perec”

Postuum uitgegeven in 2022 door uitgever Seuil – samen met een interactieve website waarop de volledige tekst op verschillende manieren te onderzoeken is – Lieux van Georges Perec (1936-1982) «is een onvoltooid gebleven, autobiografisch en etnografisch project waaraan Perec werkte … Continue reading

Posted in French | Leave a comment

“La resistenza delle donne”, Premio Campiello 2023

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance Languages (19) Already the author of books on her father’s murder by far-left terrorists, in 1980 (Come mi batte forte il tuo cuore: Storia di mio padre, 2009) and on two massacres by neofascist … Continue reading

Posted in gender & sexuality, historical memory, Italian | Leave a comment

New books from the Bibliothèques francophones (Classiques Garnier)

First purchased in 2021, and expanded last year with the volume Ducharme et Rimbaud: L’océan de la beauté, the Classiques Garnier’s collection Bibliothèques francophones has now been further augmented by the following two volumes:

Posted in French | Leave a comment

“Les Colleuses”: French women street artists against gender-based violence. With literature search tips

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (18) The UNITE campaign runs for sixteen days from November 25th, International day for the elimination of violence against women, to December 10th, International Human Rights Day. Active since 2016 and making the … Continue reading

Posted in French, gender & sexuality | Leave a comment