Category Archives: decolonization

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

Posted on 28 March 2024 by blognostrumuva

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 →

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

Posted on 18 January 2024 by blognostrumuva

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 →

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

Posted on 4 January 2024 by blognostrumuva

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 →

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Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli in The Netherlands (and in the UvA Library)

Posted on 27 October 2023 by blognostrumuva

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (15) Organized by the Instituto Cervantes de Utrecht (Spanish Cultural Institute), the Embajada de España en los Países Bajos (Spanish Embassy in The Netherlands) and (in 2023) the University of Leiden (home to … Continue reading →

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Stories by migrant women in Italy: A book series

Posted on 27 September 2023 by blognostrumuva

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (14) First organized in 2005 on the initiative of journalist and writer Daniela Finocchi (editor of the volumes listed below) – and supported by the Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino – the … Continue reading →

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On the occasion of Pride Month: Queer literature from North Africa and the Maghreb

Posted on 23 June 2023 by blognostrumuva

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (11) Just as previously with the post on (African) Francophone Cinema or, at Library333: UvA Social Sciences Library blog, with the one on Celebrating Black History Month, it is an issue of JSTOR … Continue reading →

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Stories by migrant people in Italy: A book series

Posted on 20 June 2023 by blognostrumuva

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance Languages (10) DIMMI Diari Migranti is the title of a book series started in 2018 to promote the outcomes of the writing context DIMMI Diari Multimediali Migranti which, since 2012, «collects and circulates the … Continue reading →

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New book: “Coloniality and meritocracy in unequal EU migrations: Intersecting inequalities in post-2008 Italian migration”

Posted on 30 May 2023 by blognostrumuva

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (9) The object of a recent event at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Amsterdam – with UvA’s lecturer Elio Baldi, director and writer Daniela Tasca, and the book’s author, Simone Varriale (Loughborough … Continue reading →

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Recommended article & scholar: Diana Garvin’s “Building pasta’s empire: Barilla in Italian East Africa”

Posted on 12 May 2023 by blognostrumuva

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (8) Modern Italy, to which the UvA Library has since 2017 online access, is a peer-reviewed journal, founded by the Association for the Study of Modern Italy in 1995 and publishing research and … Continue reading →

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Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (7)

Posted on 4 May 2023 by blognostrumuva

How to search for UvA books on graphic novelsIn French, Italian, or Spanish While the UvA Allard Pierson (the heritage collections of the University of Amsterdam) holds a vast collection of (Dutch) comics – hugely expanded under (recently awarded) Jos … Continue reading →

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