The workshop aims to highlight the modalities through which gender (dis)affiliation shaped or influenced labour and/or business cultures, the relations between sexes, classes, generations, nationalities/‘races’ or other kinds of belonging, and, finally, everyday life patterns in (imperial/colonial) European port/emporium cities in Modern times (19th–20th centuries).

The workshop proceedings in English and Italian will be published in a collective volume edited by Erica Mezzoli for the Vita Activa (Trieste, Italy) publisher.

Please send your 20-minute-presentation proposal to Erica Mezzoli at wow.rome2023@gmail.com by 15 September 2023. The proposal should include:

• max 300-word abstract in English;
• max 250-word bio profile in English with affiliation, position and contact information.

The workshop is organised in the framework of the NextGenerationEU Project ‘Ondine. Women’s Labour and Everyday Life on the Upper and Eastern Adriatic Waterfronts, mid-19th century–mid-20th century’ (Funded by EU; CUP E53C22002420001) hosted by the Department of History, Humanities and Society of the Tor Vergata University of Rome.

More details and information are in the call for papers