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We are pleased to announce that the panel “La prostituta come cattiva italiana: genere, razza e onore nazionale (XIX-XX sec.)” has been selected for the SISSCO conference “Cantieri di Storia XII”.

The conference will take place in Cagliari on 13-15 September 2023

(Campus Aresu, Facoltà di Studi Umanistici, Università di Cagliari, via San Giorgio 12).

13 September 2023, 17:15-19:00 CEST

La prostituta come cattiva italiana: genere, razza e onore nazionale (XIX-XX sec.)

Panel’s coordinator: Chiara Fantozzi (Università di Pisa)

Discussant: Alessandra Gissi (Università di Napoli L’Orientale)

Speakers:

Oscar Greco (Università della Calabria) // Meretrice e delinquente. L’internamento femminile nei manicomi meridionali (1890-1910)

Laura Schettini (Università di Padova) // «Questo scandalo che torna a danno gravissimo del nome e della colonia italiana». Prostitute e migranti attraverso il Mediterraneo tra Otto e Novecento

Annalisa Cegna (Università di Macerata) // Casa chiusa, prostituzione clandestina e “difesa della razza” nell’Italia fascista

Chiara Fantozzi (Università di Pisa) // Le prostitute degli Alleati: genere, razza e nazione nella transizione postfascista

Cantieri Cagliari 2023 – Programma dei lavori

International workshop

The Trouble with Trafficking: Abolitionist Framings and the Specter of Slavery, CFS Department, UNIPI, 17 May 2023.

Chair:
Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti (Università di Pisa)

Keynote speaker:
Jessica R. Pliley (Texas State University)

Discussants:
Sara Ercolani, Chiara Fantozzi, Vinzia Fiorino (Università di Pisa)

Film Festival “Diversamente. Cineforum contro la l’intolleranza e la paura del diverso”, an initiative promoted by the Equal Opportunity Council of Vicopisano (Pisa), on the occasion of Women’s Day month.

Outreach lecture introducing the movie Suffragette, 12 March 2023.

https://www.pisatoday.it/eventi/rassegna-marzo-di-donna-2023-vicopisano.html.

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Il colore della Repubblica: “Figli della guerra” e razzismo nell’Italia postfascista [The Colour of the Republic: “War Babies” and Racism in Post-Fascist Italy], CFS Department, UNIPI, 15 December 2022.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 843361.

Race in Post-Fascist Italy: ‘War Children’ and the Color of the Nation

2022 “Lezioni di Cinema” Festival [Cinema Lectures], Livorno, organized by the “Commedia all’Italiana” Research Centre

Museo di Storia Naturale del Mediterraneo a Livorno, via Roma 234

A conversation on Tombolo, Black Paradise and Without Pity, 8 October 2022

In the immediate post-World War II period, Livorno became the stage for some important film productions of the neorealist strand. Giorgio Ferroni’s Tombolo, paradiso nero (1947) and Alberto Lattuada’s Senza pietà (1948), films at the centre of this lecture, both focused on the ‘forbidden pine forest’ of Tombolo,which had become a national emblem of the most deleterious consequences of the Allied occupation.

The massive presence of troops, which lasted until December 1947 and led to Livorno also becoming an immense warehouse of war material of all kinds, drew thousands of individuals from the already liberated south of the country in search of fortune. In this context, Tombolo  became an icon of the degradation produced by the ‘long liberation’. A sort of no man’s land – often beyond the control even of the Military Police (MP) – where deserters, traffickers, smugglers and ‘segnorine’ were stationed. A legend was soon created around it, fuelled by journalistic reportages. It is not surprising that, with such a concentration of ingredients, Tombolo and Livorno attracted the attentions of film directors and producers. The town provided a literary and transcendent backdrop to the descent into the underworld of post-war misery. The adventurous space that this context offered allowed neorealist cinema to draw on the chronicle to readapt old genre codes to the new post-war horizon: gangster movie, spy story, noir, western, comedy and melodrama.

Chiara Fantozzi, Segnorine: Sex Work and National Honor in Post-Fascist Italy

Webinar, CFS Department, University of Pisa – History Department, Fordham University

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Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies.

Paper presentation, 11 March 2022.

Chiara Fantozzi, Segnorine: Nation, Gender, and Crime in the Recasting of Post-WWII Italy.

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Sex Work and Crime: National and Transnational Perspectives

Seminar Series, University of Pisa/ Fordham University, 4-18 May 2021. Co-organized by Chiara Fantozzi, Vinzia Fiorino and Silvana Patriarca.

Ciclo di seminari “Sex work e criminalità: Prospettive nazionali e transnazionali”

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Photo: Prostitute at window. Peoria, Illinois, 1938. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Chiara Fantozzi, Segnorine. La prostituzione clandestina nella Livorno liberata [Segnorine. Illegal prostitution in liberated Livorno]

Institute for the History of the Resistance and Contemporary Society in Livorno Province (Istoreco Livorno), 30 July 2020.

La prostituzione clandestina nella Livorno liberata.