Ph.D. Program in “Transcultural Studies on Eurasia and North Africa”
Women’s transnational activism in the Twentieth Century: framing the Chinese case in a global perspective

Chair: Laura De Giorgi
Ca’ Foscari University Venice

10.30-10.45
Opening remarks

Session 1
10.45-11.30
Francisca de Haan
Central European University
Global Socialist Feminists and the “Century of Women”: Recent Publications and New Findings

Q&A

11.45-12.30
Eloisa Betti
Bologna University
Italian Left-wing Women’s Agency and International Exchanges across the Iron Curtain

Q&A

12.45 -14.15
Lunch Break

Chair: Sofia Graziani
University of Trento

Session 2
14.15-14.45
Federica Cicci
PhD Candidate
Ca’ Foscari University Venice
In the Name of the Red Cross Society of China: Women’s Activism and Humanitarian Aid during the War (1937-1945)

14.45-15.15
Rossella Roncati
PhD Candidate
Ca’ Foscari University Venice
Sino-Italian Relations and Transnational Women’s Activism in the Global Cold War

15.15-16.00
Discussant: Jennifer Bond
University College London
Reflecting on Women’s transnational activism in China

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