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Vassilissa Carangio had her paper, “White Anglo patriarchal possession in organizations:
Unequal vertical career progressions among Anglo White & non-Anglo White highly skilled
immigrant women,” about Australian workplaces, highly skilled immigration, and gender
published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Gender, Work & Organization (Feb. 2023), the
first journal dedicated to the organization of gender and the gendering of organizations.
Irene Caratelli attended the European Public Policy Conference at the Central European
University in Vienna (March 31-April 2), organized by the Hertie School of Governance,
where she participated in the panel, “Capabilities and Limitations of Aspects of EU Crisis
Management Response,” along with Yuliya Kaspiarovich and Katja Munoz.
Lisa Colletta was an invited speaker at the University of Edinburgh. Her talk was on "The Grand
Tour and the Conception of Modern Italy," which will form a chapter in the upcoming book
from University of Edinburgh Press: Italy by Design: Materiality, Intermediality and
Commodification from Leonardo to the MAXXI.
Francesca Conti gave a presentation at the Royal Anthropological Institute Film Conference
entitled “What does it mean for you?”, an account of various attempts made to study the
unexpected, while dealing with cancer.
Kristien De Neve is participating in an international, all-female choral exhibition at the
Municipal Art Gallery "Antonio Sapone" of Gaeta (March 10th-May 6th), for which she made a
site-specific installation and proposed a performance on the collective theme “Da Cajeta a Circe
- between Healing and Magic,” focusing on the necessity to go beyond gender stereotypes.
Paul Gwynne was invited to the international conference: “Arma virumque. Vergil’s Aeneid and
Its Reception” held at the Institute of Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań,
(23 – 24 March 2023), where he presented “Capta Victrix: the reception of Virgil in Famiano
Strada's Prolusiones Academicae (Rome, 1617).” The paper will be published in the conference
proceedings and will also form part of his next major publication: Famiano Strada’s ‘Muretus’
and the beginnings of Jesuit Historiography (Brill, 2025; in collaboration with Dr. Simon
Ditchfield).
Jens Koehler participated remotely in the 3rd International Congress on Ancient Thermalism,
(Madrid, March 9 and 10), and will also be a peer reviewer for the incoming papers.
Claudia La Malfa has edited “Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino in Art Collections and in the History of
Collecting,” recently out from Cambridge Scholars, in which she also has a chapter “Raphael’s
Drawings Between the Cinquecento and the Seicento: Alberti’s Soldier and Villamena’s Disegno
Grande.”
Laura Prota is coordinating an action research promoted by the Regione Campania in the EU
project COM.in 0.4, exploring under what conditions migrants and refugees can settle in the
inner areas of Italy where depopulation is threatening essential social and ecosystem services.
Last month they organized the first workshop in the field involving more than 70 people from 6
rural communities. Results were discussed and shared with the relevant institutions at the
regional level, and the region is now issuing a dedicated line of funding of about €1.7M.
Cathy Ramsey-Portolano co-edited and contributed an essay to the volume Female Cultural
Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art and Intellectual History (April 2023 from Palgrave
Macmillan).
Rita Salvatore has published an article, along with E. Chiodo, “Farmers’ permanence in
peripheral rural areas. Place-based values as drivers of resistance beyond the decline” (Qual
Quant https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-023-01642-7).
Scott Sprenger gave a paper at The Society of 19th-Century French Literature Conference at
Oxford University (March 27): “Balzac Postsecular: French Subjectivity and Religious
Disenchantment”.
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