Loyola University Chicago

Art Exhibit: “DISLOCAZIONI: Colletiva delle giovani artiste de la Magnolia”

Introduction by the artists

Casa Internazionale delle Donne

Welcome: Dott.ssa Costanza Fanelli, President of the Consortium

Casa Internazionale delle Donne

Screening and Discussion of Milan

• Directed by Olivia Lamasan
• Discussion Leader: Dr. Flaminio DiBiagi, Professor of Italian
• John Felice Rome Center

Invocation

Albert Anuszewski, O.S.S.T.

• Director of Campus Ministry, John Felice Rome Center

Welcome Addresses

• Dr. Susana Cavallo, Professor of Spanish and Associate Director, John Felice Rome Center
• Christine Wiseman, Provost, Loyola University Chicago
• Prof.ssa Emerita Bianca Maria Tedeschini Lalli, Board of Directors, Centro Studi Americani
• Dott.ssa Maria Palazzesi, Responsabile Area Cultura Casa Internazionale delle Donne

Panel #1: WOMEN ON THE MOVE

• Moderator:Dr. Kathleen Adams, Professor of Anthropology. Loyola University Chicago

“In the Shadow of Mobility: the Role of Women Who Remain in the Fields”

• Dr. Natalia Ribas-Mateos, Associate Researcher, Department of Sociology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

“Between Gender and Ethnicity: Post-War Diaspora of Bosnian Women in Italy”

• Dr. Valentina Gentile, Associate Researcher, Center for Ethics and Global Politics, Luiss Guido Carli University of Rome
  
• Discussant: Dr. Gabriella Lazaridis, Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Leicester, UK.

Panel #2: FAITH AND TRADITION

• Moderator: Dr. Susan Ross, Professor and Chair of Theology, Loyola University Chicago

“The Future has an Ancient Heart: Transformational African Migration Paths Around the Mediterranean”

• Dr. Lucia Chiavola-Birnbaum, Professor of Philosophy, Religion, Women’s Spirituality, California Institute of Integral Studies

“Living with the Qur’an between the Worlds”

• Dr. Halima Krausen, An-Nisa Society

“Pilgrims in the Wilderness: Religion and Filipino Women in the Context of Migration”

• Dr. Gemma Cruz, Program in Catholic Studies, DePaul University
  
• Discussant:  Dr. Ahmad Vincenzo, Professor of Law, Università Federico II di Napoli

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: On. Emma Bonino, Vice-President, Senate of the Republic

• Introduction by Sen. Giuliano Amato, President, Centro Studi Americani

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:

• On. Emma Bonino
• Dr. Nawal El Saadawi

Welcome Address

Emilio Iodice, Vice President & Director, John Felice Rome Center

Betsy Jones Hemenway, Director of Women’s Studies/Gender Studies Program, Loyola University Chicago

Panel #3: POLITICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

• Moderator: Todd Waller, Associate Director for Student Life, John Felice Rome Center

“Democratization, Human Rights, Gender and U.S. Foreign Policy in North Africa”

• Dr. Peter Schraeder, Professor, Department of Political Science, Loyola University Chicago

“Reconceptualizing Migrant Women’s Rights: The Theory, Practice, and Poetry of El Taller International’s ‘Courts of Women’ ”

• Dr. Marguerite Waller, Professor of Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature, University of California Riverside

“The Anthropology of Human Rights”

• Dr. Tamar Pitch, Department of Filosofia del Diritto, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’ Università di Perugia
  
• Discussant: Dr. Giovanna Campani, Professor, Department of Education, University of Florence

Panel #4: THE MEDIA AND THE ARTS

• Moderator: Dr. Sarah Maclaren, Professor of Sociology, John Felice Rome Center

“A Sea of Migrants: Female Literature of Migration in Italy”

• Dr. Lidia Curti, Professor of English Literature & Postcolonial Studies, University of Naples, L’Orientale

“Screening the Drama of Female Migration”

• Dr. Aine O’Healy, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Loyola University Marymount

“Mother and Daughter Tongues: Creativity and Constraints in Women Writers from the Red Sea”

• Dr. Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Italian Studies, American University of Rome
  
• Discussant: Dr. Caterina Romeo, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and American Studies, Sapienza – Università di Roma

Panel #5: MIGRANT WOMEN AND MEDITERRANEAN FEMINISMS

• Moderator:Dr. Anne Wingenter, Professor of History and Women’s Studies, John Felice Rome Center

“The Limits of Multicultural Exchange: Crossing Feminist Boundaries in the Mediterranean”

• Dr. Wendy Pojmann, Assistant Professor of History, Siena College

“Mediterranean Approaches to the Empowerment of Women Between Feminist Networks and UN Policies”

• Dr. Bianca Maria Pomeranzi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

“Lingua Madre’: Empowering Self-Representation of Migrant Women in Italy”

• Dr. Anna Maria Crispino, Journalist and Founding Editor of Leggendaria
  
• Discussant: Dr. Tracy Pintchman, Professor of Theology, Loyola University Chicago

CLOSING SESSION

• Dr. Roberto Derobertis, Department of Italian Studies, University of Bari

“Postcolonial Links. Bodies, Voices and (hi)Stories across the Mediterranean in Gabriella Ghermandi’s and Igiaba Scego’s Writings”

• Igiaba Scego, Writer and Journalist

“Queen of Flowers and Pearls”

• Gabriella Ghermandi, Ethio-Italian Writer & Storyteller