Category Archives: inclusion

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

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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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In memoriam: Michela Murgia (1972-2023)

Inclusive searches & sources@UvA Romance languages (13) Widely commented on in the international press – see among others The Guardian and The New York Times – Italian writer Michela Murgia passed away on last August 10th. Thanks to both her … Continue reading

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Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (12): Index

To help navigating the posts from the series – in addition to the built-in WordPress ‘Search’ function on the right-hand side of the weblog – I’ve made an index of the posts published so far, with the categories they belong … Continue reading

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Stories by migrant people in Italy: A book series

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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Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (5)

How to search for UvA books on inclusive languageIn French, Italian, or Spanish Complementary to a a list of mostly English language resources published on Library 333: UvA Social Sciences Library blog, the present post aims at helping find French, … Continue reading

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A new blog post series: “Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages”

«The UvA wants to be a university where everyone feels at home and feels respected. Diversity and inclusion are important core values for us. We recognize that prejudice, discrimination and racism also occur at the UvA and we pursue an active diversity … Continue reading

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