Category Archives: historical memory

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

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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

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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

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“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

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“Las cartas de la memoria”: Letters from the victims of Franco’s dictatorship

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance Languages (17) Reviewed last month in The Guardian on the occasion of the hardcover release (by editorial L’Encobert), and published open access earlier this year, Las cartas de la memoria is an initiative of … Continue reading

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