(approved by the Board of Directors on 06/06/2019, minutes no. 100)
The “Interdisciplinary Research Center on Gender Cultures: Culture, Language, Economy, Law and Politics (CIRCgE)” was established at the University of International Studies of Rome in July 2019.
Objectives and target audience
The aim of the Center is to encourage the growth and diffusion of gender cultures, understood as cultures of integration, tolerance and the fight against all forms of discrimination.
The Center aims to be a place of meeting and cultural comparison to support and increase synergies between the academic world and civil society. From this perspective, the main recipients of the Centre's activities are identified as sector players, public and private political decision makers who carry out activities to direct and support gender policies, the national and international scientific community (Universities and research centres) ) engaged in teaching and research activities relating to gender issues; in teachers of schools of all levels; in NGO workers, journalists and all those civil society professionals who deal with gender issues in various capacities and in different contexts.
Areas of activity
The Center intends to promote, develop and coordinate research projects relating to the topic; transversal networks for the exchange of interdisciplinary data and information between those involved in the field of gender cultures; promotes interdisciplinary collaboration initiatives also with other national and international universities, bodies, institutes and research bodies. It promotes dissemination initiatives, study days, seminars, conferences, post-graduate and ongoing training activities. It also promotes discussion and related scientific publications in the relevant research areas. It carries out socio-cultural initiatives by inspiring concrete actions of integration and combating every form of discrimination in social life, also adhering to the objectives of the third mission - social impact of the university, aimed at communicating and disseminating knowledge through a direct relationship with the territory and with all its actors. The Center may include, according to the procedures set out in the Statute, professors, researchers and lecturers from the University of International Studies of Rome and/or other universities interested in the thematic areas pertaining to the Centre; professionals who work in Italian, European and international institutions, organizations and bodies and who carry out their professional and/or research activities in the field pertaining to the Centre; renowned experts in the scientific fields of interest to the Center and public and private institutions operating in the sector.
Research committee
Scientific chair
Antonella Ercolani
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
OF POLITICS
AND PSYCHO-SOCIAL DYNAMICS
UNINT
Steering committee
Simonetta Bartolini
FACULTY OF INTERPRETING
AND TRANSLATION UNINT
Stefania Cerrito
FACULTY OF INTERPRETING
AND TRANSLATION UNINT
Giada Mainolfi
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS UNINT
Laura Mori
FACULTY OF INTERPRETING
AND TRANSLATION UNINT
Luciano Nieddu
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS UNINT
Lucilla Pizzoli
FACULTY OF INTERPRETING
AND TRANSLATION UNINT
Sara Trucco
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS UNINT
Members
Lorenzo Blini
FACULTY OF INTERPRETING
AND TRANSLATION UNINT
Danilo Breschi
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
OF POLITICS
AND PSYCHO-SOCIAL DYNAMICS
UNINT
Myriam Caratù
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS UNINT
Maria Serena Felici
FACULTY OF INTERPRETING
AND TRANSLATION UNINT
Andrea Gentili
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS UNINT
Marzia Martino
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS UNINT
Ulderico Parente
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
OF POLITICS
AND PSYCHO-SOCIAL DYNAMICS
UNINT
Fabio Proia
FACULTY OF INTERPRETING
AND TRANSLATION UNINT
Mariagrazia Russo
FACULTY OF INTERPRETING
AND TRANSLATION UNINT
Najla Kalach
UNINT LECTURER
Angelo Iacovella
UNINT LECTURER
Documentation
Events
2024
30st January
Giovanna Ricoveri between tradition and innovation
2023
20 October
Clara Schumann, not just the “wife of”
21nd June
Equity and inclusion: new corporate and social challenges
21th April
A memory of Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
8 March
International Women's Day: women, life and freedom
2022
13th December
“Waste Lands” From TS Eliot to Eimear McBride
27 October
…and the wind in your hair. Public debate on the issue of human rights in Iran
20 October
The Diplomatic Revolution: a gender issue?
17st May
Law as an instrument of repression and fight against homosexuality in Germany and Italy
08 March
International Women's Day. Meeting with the ambassador of Palestine
02 March
Women of valor: Rita Levi Montalcini
10 February
The day of remembrance. The example of Norma Cossetto
2021
07th December
The Anglo-Irish Treaty (6 December 1921) in the eyes of a woman: MAUD GONNE MACBRIDE
15 October
Christa Wolf, a voice out of the chorus
13 October
The value of sustainability, circular economy and ecological transition
04 March
Women of value
08 March
International Women's Day
18 March
Coco Chanel: an 'essential' woman
Contact details
E-mail: circge@unint.eu