Women’s Experiences with War: Forging Modern Identities in Italy

“Women’s Experiences with War: Forging Modern Identities in Italy”, a lecture by Dr. Allison Scardino Belzer, Professor of History at Georgia Southern University. The event is organized within Professors Roberta Ricci and Luca Zipoli's class "Modernity and Psychoanalysis: Crossing Boundaries in 20th-century Italy and Europe"  (ITAL B380) is co-sponsored by the Department of History, and is open to the broad Bi-Co community. Please contact rricci@brynmawr.edu and lzipoli@brynmawr.edu for more information.

Speaker's Bio:

Dr. Allison Scardino Belzer, Professor of History at Georgia Southern University, specializes in modern European history. Her research explores gender, war, and social activism in nineteenth and twentieth century Italy and Britain. Her book Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy was published by Palgrave in 2010. She regularly contributes to edited volumes and journals and has authored texts for classroom use. Her current research examines social networking and family ties in post-Risorgimento Italy and Victorian Britain.