Blandine Smilansky, events coordinator
Alessandra Gissi is associate professor in contemporary history, University of Naples “L’Orientale.” After studies at the Universities of Rome (La Sapienza) and Amsterdam, she obtained a PhD in Women’s and Gender history from the University of Naples. Her areas of specialization include Italian and European history (history of reproductive bodies and policies, history of midwifery, history of abortion, history of Internationational Women’s Day and feminisms). She is also interested in history of intellectual migrations between the two World Wars and female migrations after IIWW. She has been an editor of Genesis, journal of the Società Italiana delle Storiche (The Italian Association of Women Historians). Currently she is an editor of journal Italia Contemporanea.