For the second time, the committee Casa Internazionale delle Donne – supported by transform! europe – organises an international conference, this year on “Life at Work, The Sense of Work: Feminist Thoughts and Practices”.
With introductory words by Katerina Anastasiou (transform! europe)
for further information see: libertadonne21sec.altervista.org/programma-2019/
Friday, 11 October
16.30 Registration
17.00 Opening
- Welcome by Casa internazionale delle donne
- Katerina Anastasiou (transform! europe)
Presentation of the Conference Program / 15’ – GIULIANA BELTRAME
- Introduction “The general picture: analysis and reflections” – Antonella Picchio (Uni Modena e Reggio E.) 25’
- Work and welfare in Europe – Giovanna Vertova (Uni Bergamo) 25’
- Presentation of DWF magazine Lavori aperti
Saturday, 12 October
First session
coordination: CHIARA GIUNTI – ALESSANDRA MECOZZI
9:30 (10:00)-13:30 – contributions 15’ – questions and comments 3’
LIFE AT WORK
– Work transformations and regressive policies in Europe
1. Tania Toffanin (University of Padova) – Lavoro produttivo e riproduttivo
2. Enrica Rigo (Uni Roma 3) – Migrations, mobility and social reproduction
3. Annick Coupè (Attac France) – Formal equality, but inequality in the reality
4. Heidi Meinzolt (WILPF – Germany) – Women’s rights beyond the Business Case
5. Pilar Garçia Carrasco (Sindaca di El Bosque, Spain, attivista femminista) – History, struggles, politics (the case of Andalusia, Spain)
6. Borbàla Juhasz (Hungarian feminist Lobby, Hungaria) – Backlash in women’s rights, the „gender ideology” debate, the labour market and „family mainstreaming” in Central-Eastern Europe
7. Skerdi Zanaj (associate Economy and gender officer – University of Luxemburg) – Gender gap in Albania
Second session 15:00-19:30
Contributions 15’ – questions and comments 3’
coordination BARBARA PETTINE – GIULIANA BELTRAME
THE MEANING OF WORK TODAY
— identity, autonomy and paths of life
— social reproduction and unrecognized work
1. Cinzia Arruzza (New School of Research – New York) – (video) The crisis of the social reproduction
2. Zoe Vicentini (Postgraduate, La Sapienza Rome) – For love and for money…
3. Claudia Candeloro (University of Bologna) – Labour law and women workers’ rights
4. FIAT women workers witnesses
5. Linda Fernandez (Portugal)
6. Edda Pando (feminist activist for migrants rights) – The “migrant” paradigm
7. Sara T. Y. Dogmash (Palestinian student) – Study, work, struggles of the Palestinian women
Sunday, 13 October
Third session
9:30-15:00, contributions 10’ – (including short video)
coordination NICOLETTA PIROTTA – ALESSANDRA MECOZZI
STRUGGLES AND ALTERNATIVES
Selforganizing and networking; new forms of struggle and feminist global strike; mutualism and social commons, experiences of welcoming refugees
1. Monica Di Sisto (Italy – Stop TTIP)
2. Camilla Girotti and Caterina Peroni, NUDM Padova – Women’s global strike in a broader framework
3. Anna Maria Magrelli – Women in antimilitarist experience in Sardinia and the reconversion of the military industry
4. Lodi (a struggle for equal rights of the migrant children in the school canteen) (video)
5. Nora Garçia (Spain) – And now we want everything! Huelga feminista general
6. Polixeni Papalexi (The experience of the clinic Ellinikò in Greece)
7. Dilar Derik – sociologist, coordination of Kurdish women
8. Marta Lempart – “Women’s strike” Poland
CONCLUSIONS evaluations and perspectives…
NICOLETTA PIROTTA – ALESSANDRA MECOZZI – CHIARA GIUNTI