Category Archives: Italian

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

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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. “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

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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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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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Jhumpa Lahiri: from London to Rome, from Bengali to Italian

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance Languages (16) Following previous posts centered on the work of Italian (women) authors with a migrant background – Migrant women writers from & in Italy. A tentative reading list of secondary sources (open access … Continue reading

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“Le città invisibili: Poema d’amore alle città” op het Italiaans Cultureel Instituut in Amsterdam

In 2023 is het 100 jaar geleden dat de Italiaanse schrijver Italo Calvino (1923-1985) werd geboren. Naast tentoonstellingen in Italië en elders, en verschillende online initiatieven – zoals “Il centenario della nascita di Italo Calvino: Lo scrittore senza tempo” van … Continue reading

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Stories by migrant women in Italy: A book series

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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