 | | | | In the Shadow of El Alamein: War Violence During the North African Campaign taly's Decade of War: 1935-45 in International Perspective Details Date: 6-7 September 2016 Location: University of Strathclyde From the invasion of Abyssinia to the end of World War II, Italy experienced a decade of war. This conference aims to re-evaluate the history of the Italian experience during this ten-year period with a unifying perspective that places the Italian Fascist regime and its foreign and military enterprises in an entirely internationalised framework of analysis. It will bring an international focus upon the Italian role in the break-down of the international system... |
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| Mortal Life of Trans/Feminism: Notes on " Gender Killings " in Turkey This piece reflects on some ongoing tensions between cisgender women's and trans people's feminisms, suggesting specific frameworks to resolve these tensions into coalitional feminist organizing. To do that, the author draws on her ethnographic research and activist work in Turkey and proposes that a collective focus on the realm of death would bring feminist cis women and trans people together around a shared gender experience. In Turkey, the annual number of cis and trans women who are killed by cis men has been gradually increasing. This situation makes the availability of killing a... |
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| Gender homophily in online dyadic and triadic relationships Gender homophily, or the preference for interaction with individuals of the same gender, has been observed in many contexts, especially during childhood and adolescence. In this study we investigate such phenomenon by analyzing the interactions of the ∼10 million users of Tuenti, a Spanish social networking service popular among teenagers. In dyadic relationships we find evidence of higher gender homophily for women. We also observe a preference of users with more friends to connect to the opposite gender. A particularly marked gender difference emerges in signing up for the social... |
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| Paulo Freire and Melanie Klein: Thoughts on the pain of symbolization in the lifeworld of the mind Two intertwined predicaments bring me to join the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein who argued that depression is the origin of the human condition with Paulo Freire's call for a radical humanization to release oppression. The first concerns the question what transformation transforms; while the second inquires into the relation between oppression and depression hold in loss, mourning, and symbolization. |
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| Mourning, Melancholia and the Maintenance of the Lost Child: Questioning Tribunella on the Uses of Trauma in Children's Literature forthcoming in Philosophy of Childhood: Exploring the Boundaries. David Kennedy and Brock Bahler, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. While the meaning of childhood is notoriously contradictory, multiple, and historically contingent, all childhood is defined in relation to the adult world that serves as its limit and to whose demands the attachments and concerns of childhood must be lost. In this essay, in order to consider the idea of childhood in terms of its loss, I take up Eric Tribunella's (2010) Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children's Literature, a text... |
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