Patrizia Sambuco

Congratulations Patrizia!
And many thanks again for your commitment and contribution to the forthcoming Modern Italy special issue on the 'Allied Occupation of Italy in History and Culture: A Reassessment' (due in May 2026).

New publication: Very glad to see my article on American food and Italians in WWII in @modernitaly.bsky.social 😍 Thanks to @efghilmno.bsky.social and Camilo Erlichman guest editors of SI on Allied occupation 🙏 #WWII #foodhistory

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Woman giving a lecture at @unisg

Delighted to present my new book, Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing. A Reassessment, at Pollenzo! Thank you all for the hospitality and the great discussion 😍 #foodhistory #womenswriting

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How does food imagery in Italian women's writing challenge political discourses? Patrizia Sambuco's new book explores 100 years of literature through food & emotions.

Read Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing here: bit.ly/4jF09Wu #FoodStudies #WomenWriters @drpatriziasambuco.bsky.social

Statuetta Pegasus d’oro

Waking up in Francavilla after an amazing evening #InternationalFlaianoprizes

@modernitaly.bsky.socialTurns 30! See the Open Access editorial written by the general editors Gianluca Fantoni and
@milenasabato.bsky.social at the link.
[https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2024.77]

#OnThisDate, 4 April 1828, it is generally accepted that Casparus van Houten Sr. developed a method of pressing all the oil out of roasted cocoa beans. This made them into a dry cake, which could be crushed into a powder. It is known as Dutch process #chocolate.

#FoodHistory #History #OTD

In libraries all around the world 🙂 And for more here 👇https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487506834
@uoftpress.bsky.social #FoodStudies #ItalianStudies

Cold water is a matter of perception up here. Yesterday I saw a 80y old woman swimming and sunbathing while I walked wrapped up in several layers and boots along the beach 😳 ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Join us in Bologna, 9-10 June at the Canadian Association of Italian Studies conference. Interested in food and war? Send me an abstract for my panel Food, Conflict, Memories drive.google.com/file/d/1JIvx... #FoodStudies canadianassociationforitalianstudies.org

Merchant City Women’s Heritage Walk
Sat 5 April, 2-4pm

Expect stories of scandal, vice, radicalism, regeneration & revival as we highlight the role women have played in this area, from its dear green beginnings, through its darker days, to its recent resurgence.
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‘Famine in Sudan result of war, not drought’, UNHCR says The civil war has forced millions of people from their homes and aid agencies describe it as the world's worst humanitarian and displacement crisis.

‘Famine in Sudan result of war, not drought’, UNHCR says
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IHR Research Seminars - New Series (2025) Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Do you have a proposal for an innovative new seminar to join the IHR Research Seminar programme? We are looking for 3 fresh seminar series to launch in 2025-26. Applications are open now - deadline of 31 March. Full details of what we are looking for and how to apply here:

True. And taste and smell also through films and literature -neuroscience-

World’s cartoonists on this week’s events Drawing the top stories around the globe.

This week's top stories ... as drawn by the world's cartoonists.

Nella foto la ballerina Etrita Abdullahu, studente del corso Triangle fire di Edvige Giunta alla New Jersey City University nel 2021. In primavera, nel bel mezzo della pandemia, come progetto del corso fece la coreografia del balletto "Dance of the Seamstress," ispirato all'incendio della Triangle e ballò a Washington Square Park.

Domani a #Feminism8 "Le ragazze della #Triangle. Saggi intimi e politici sull’incendio di una fabbrica newyorkese" a cura di @edvigegiunta.bsky.social e Mary Anne Trasciatti. In foto Etrita Abdullahu, del corso Triangle fire di Edvige Giunta, balla sulla coreografia ispirata all'incendio.
#libri

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

‘English snobs’ at the University of Edinburgh: accent bias in play Despite efforts to address the issue of discrimination towards certain students, linguistic prejudice continues to take place

Despite efforts to address the issue of discrimination towards certain students, linguistic prejudice continues to take place | Melissa Knight

Your Friday Philosophy:

"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few." | David Hume, Edinburgh, 1711 -1776:

Open Access Lecture Series The History of Emotions: A Public Lecture Series The purpose of this series is to introduce a wider audience to findings in the growing field of the history of emotions, with parallel presentations…

NACHE is excited to (re)share its new open access lecture series on the history of emotions ✨ feat. parallel presentations in English and Spanish on love, happiness, nostalgia, shame, anger, and fear from a range of scholars in the field! (1/2) nachemotion.wordpress.com/teaching/ope...

The graphic mainly contains further information about the conference and the call for proposals in blue and green script. Please go over to the event page (marked in description) to find out all the details. Here is a very brief summary of the corner dates: Title: "Green(ing) War: Military Build-Up, Warfare, and Socio-Environmental Wounds;" Organizer: EISA 2025; Location: University of Bologna, Italy; Conference dates: 25-29 August 2025; Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025, submit via EISA.

We have been asked to spread the word about the upcoming Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA PEC) in Bologna: "Green(ing) War: Military Build-Up, Warfare, and Socio-Environmental Wounds."

Event page: eisa-net.org/pec-2025/

#rccnews #conference #green #war #military #envhum

🥳We are excited to present issue six of our #openaccess online publication 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴!🥳

Read it here: springs-rcc.org

More about the content in the following thread.

Tonight at 18:30 at @stjohnscollege.bsky.social (Old Divinity School) join friends @cambraincns.bsky.social for an neuroethical panel discussion - 'From Molecule to Morality'
You can register here - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Registration is now open for 'CNS2025: Expanding the Horizons of Brain Research' at

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Stellar Programme w/ plenaries from Soyon Hong & Mayank Mehta & @CamNeuro peeps from 7 departments
Sign up now to guarantee your space!
Sorry for the silence….will do better!

Happy #SeachdainNaGaidhlig, or #WorldGaelicWeek! 🥳

Did you know that in 2023, a collection of over 100 videotapes produced by communities in the Outer Hebrides were digitised by our team and made accessible online? 🎥

La ghinea di febbraio Blasted di Sarah Kane

Anche questo mese come ogni mese un (con)tributo alla sorellanza chiamato Ghinea Newsletter.

Livia Bitton-Jackson (1931-2023) written by prof lisa pine livia bitton-jackson was born as elli friedmann on 28 february 1931 she grew up in samorin somorja czechoslovakia a small farming town at the edge of the carpathian foothills...

My article on the inspirational Holocaust survivor, Livia Bitton-Jackson is now published online: www.whisc.center/Livia-Bitton

My latest book is now published! Thank you to @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social and my excellent co-author Kees Boterbloem. 📖