Our podcasts series examines how women’s history and creativity are narrated today.
Podcast
At a time when many more publications on women authors and women’s history are becoming available we ask what methodologies are being used. Are we witnessing a structural change in the narrative of the present and past? Or is the focus given to women a mere adjustment not able to create sustainable changes for the future?
The project is curated by Dr Patrizia Sambuco.
How to narrate women’s history today
An Interview with Prof Silvia Salvatici
Prof Silvia Salvatici (University of Florence) in conversation with Dr Patrizia Sambuco (Dundee) discusses her recent edited volume and the methodology to narrate women’s history today.
Topics discussed:
- interdisciplinarity as a crucial methodology for women’s history
- long-period approach to revisit traditional chronology
- global history to rewrite national history and gendered history
- transnational, national, local, and domestic levels to better capture gendered history
Women Photographers
An Interview with Donata Pizzi
Photographer and collector Donata Pizzi in conversation with Patrizia Sambuco discusses the works and history of Italian women photographers.
Her private collection (Collezione Donata Pizzi) combines photos of more than 90 Italian women photographers from 1965 to the present day. She has collaborated with the Association for the Study of Modern Italy for the Through the Female Gaze exhibitions curated by Maria Chiara Di Trapani and coordinated by Prof Ilaria Favretto (Kingston University) and Dr Nico Pizzolato (Middlesex University).
Points discussed:
- network of women photographers and editors
- reasons for the timeframe of the collection
- political aspects of the collection
- reportage vs abstract photography
