Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy; Daria Dyakonova and Minja Bujakovic (European University Institute – EUI, Florence) (Web)

Time: 20.-21.02.2025
Venue: Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Proposals by: 01.11.2024

This conference seeks to bring together scholars from different disciplines working on various aspects of the history of women’s activism and organizing. It aims to explore how women across the spectrum of left-wing politics shaped and influenced the twentieth century’s political, social, and cultural landscapes. The conference aspires to assess the contribution of left-wing women’s activists to the general struggle for women’s emancipation using intersectional, postcolonial, and critical-feminist approaches, acknowledging the pluralities in forms and methods of organizing.
The twentieth century witnessed a surge of diverse forms of women’s activism and the proliferation of women’s organizations on both national and international levels. Consequently, women fought against multiple forms of oppression and for various, yet interconnected, causes across different contexts. Influenced by significant historical moments such as WWI, the fall of empires, the emergence of nation-states, and the success of the October Revolution, women relied on the frameworks of fast-developing left-wing politics to fight for different forms of emancipation. This same framework allowed them to organize within anticolonial and anti-imperial movements and to engage in black liberation struggles later in the century. In this way, they moved across the political spectrum of left-wing politics, which we hope to explore during this conference.
Despite the notable engagement of women activists across the globe, the historiography of twentieth-century left-wing politics has been notably androcentric, often neglecting the significant contributions women made. Read more … (Web)

Key-Note Speakers
– Chiara Bonfiglioli, Ca‘ Foscari Univ. of Venice, Italy
– Zsófia Lóránd, Univ. of Vienna, Austria

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