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The history of genre: paths, plots, perspectives'.
This is the title of the eighth congress of the Society of Italian
Historians,
the group of scholars who have been fighting since 1989 with the aim of
promoting historical, didactic and documentary research in the field of women's history and gender history.
. The SIS now has about 200 members who carry out research activities in all areas of historical disciplines, from political to social, cultural and religious history, as well as in the teaching of history and the conservation and enhancement of bibliographic and documentary sources. Among other things, the company's objectives include promoting new concepts and categories in the research and teaching of history which, also through a different documentary conservation, promote the history of women.
The eighth congress of the company will take place online between 9 and 12 June with about
180 speakers from various Italian, European and non-European universities and research centers
. In the various panels, themes and interpretative categories of the history of women and gender will be discussed and the new historiographical orientations will be discussed in a multidisciplinary perspective. The interventions, organized in 44 parallel sessions, cover a chronological span that extends from antiquity to contemporaneity and refer to a multiplicity of geo-political and cultural contexts (Europe, Americas, Middle and Far East, Africa) analyzed with approaches that they focus attention on local, national, transnational and global realities.
The topics covered range from the analysis of bodies to female voices and writings, from criticism to binarism to the construction of gender models, from work in its various forms to the sphere of the sacred, from urban spaces to mines, from migration and mobility to colonial perspectives. , from the various forms of individual agency to those of collective action, from citizenship rights to feminisms and environmental movements, from political languages and propaganda to autobiographies and self-perceptions, from emotions to representations of the feminine, to name but a few . The Congress will be inaugurated by Professor Joanna De Groot, a well-known Iranian from the University of York (United Kingdom), with a lectio magistralis entitled The Space of Gender and the Gender of Space:some Thoughts from a Historian of Nineteenth Century Iran. It is a tribute from the SIS to the memory of Anna Vanzan - Iranian, member of the board of the Company from 2014 to 2018, and of the editorial staff of the Genesis magazine from 2018, who died prematurely in 2020.