This section provides a continually updated list of seminars, debates, conferences, and meetings on Riforma(R)eFamiglia50.

Students who are interested may attend the lecture(s)/seminar even if it/they are not part of their degree courses. For details about content and dates, please contact your lecturers or view the AGENDA section, where you will find the notices (time, classroom) next to each specifically dedicated lecture.

Seminar: "Family leave entitlements of female and male workers under Italian positive law"

• October 16, 2024, Prof. Ombretta Dessì (University of Cagliari): "Family leave entitlements of female and male workers under Italian positive law"

Meeting "Settling Down and Starting a Family in the Touristified City"

• November 18, 2024, Prof. Antonello Podda (University of Cagliari)

Lecture "The Double Presence Today"

• November 20, 2024, Prof. Ester Cois and Prof. Giuliana Mandich (University of Cagliari)

Lecture "Women's Citizenship: Rights, Family, and Violence Against Women"

• November 25, 2024, Prof. Silvia Benussi (University of Cagliari): "Women's Citizenship: Rights, Family, and Violence Against Women" as part of the History of Political Institutions course (Political Science Program)

Seminar "The Family in American Election Campaigns"

• November 26, 2024, Prof. Emiliano Ilardi (University of Cagliari)

Lecture - Study Days "Regulation of Civil Unions Between Same-Sex Couples and Legal Framework of Cohabitation"

• November 26, 27, 2024, and December 2, 2025, Dr. Elisabetta Sanna (University of Cagliari): "The Legal Recognition of Rainbow Families from Constitutional Court Ruling No. 138/2010 to Law No. 76/2016 on the Regulation of Civil Unions Between Same-Sex Couples and the Legal Framework of Cohabitation"

Lecture "The Family Between Reform and Constitution"

• December 4, 2024, Prof. Silvia Niccolai (University of Cagliari): "Equality and Parity in the Family: The Evolution of Family Surnames Between Law and Constitution"

Study Days "Feminisms and Spatial Injustices"

• January 16, 2025, Prof. Alice Salimbeni (University of Milano-Bicocca): "Practices of Care and Struggle in Urban Space"
  Dr. Ester Cois (University of Cagliari): "Feminist Perspectives for the City of Cagliari – Round Table"
  Dr. Martina Loi (University of Cagliari): "Colonialisms and Anti-Colonial Resistances"
• January 17, 2025, Prof. Silvia Aru (University of Turin): "Mobility and Immobility Within and Beyond Borders"
  Dr. Lisa Ferreli (Ogliastra Informa): "The Autistic City – Book Presentation"

Round Table: "Beyond Boundaries. Spaces for Work and Care in the Era of Smart Working"

• February 4, 2025, Prof. Caterina Satta (University of Cagliari) presents the book "Women’s Spaces: Home, Work, Society" (DeriveApprodi) by Michela Bassanelli (Polytechnic University of Milan) and Imma Fiorino (Polytechnic University of Milan), with the authors and Prof. Sabrina Perra (University of Cagliari) Prof. Alice Salimbeni (University of Milano-Bicocca). Opening remarks: Dr. Ester Cois "Beyond Boundaries. Spaces for Work and Care in the Era of Smart Working"

CYCLE OF SEMINARS “From public to private: women’s status in the family and politics throughout history,” edited by Prof. Silvia Benussi

• 6 February 2025, Prof. Marta González Herrero (University of Oviedo):
  “The silent violence against women in the Roman world (I-III centuries): the family and the public sphere"
• 14 February 2025, Prof. Marcella Aglietti (University of Pisa):
  “Women’s Great War (1914-1919). New historical and political outlooks: reality and representation, peace and patriotism, rights and emancipation
• 21 March 2025, Prof. Antonio Javier Marqués Salgado (University of Oviedo): “The family and Italian cinema. Cinema of reality and Jonas Carpignano".

Seminar "The Role of the Family in Political Communication Campaigns"

• 26 March 2025, Prof. Alessandro Lovari (University of Cagliari): "The Role of the Family in Political Communication Campaigns, between personalization and policy"

Meeting "From transformation of intimacy to issues of violence in the family"

• 1 April 2025, Prof. Sveva Magaraggia (UniMib):'From transformation of intimacy to issues of violence in the family: a discussion of changing practices departing from Gidden’s work'

Open Seminar:Doing Research on the Family

• 15 April 2025, Prof.ssa Caterina Satta (University of Cagliari): "Doing Research on the Family. Mapping the Transformations of Family and Intimate Relationships in Everyday Life."

Open Seminar:  Family as a Narrative

• 16 April 2025, Prof.ssa Caterina Satta (University of Cagliari): "Family as a Narrative: Analysing family discourse from public narratives to life stories"

Seminar: "The Family and Italian Cinema. The Cinema of the Real and Jonas Carpignano"

• June 20, 2025, Prof. Antonio Javier Marqués Salgado (University of Oviedo): "The Family and Italian Cinema. The Cinema of the Real and Jonas Carpignano"

Seminar: "The Family Fifty Years After Law No. 151 of 1975: From Legislative Reform to Social Innovation"

• October 9, 2025, Prof. Marco Pitzalis and Prof. Silvia Niccolai (University of Cagliari): "The Family Fifty Years After Law No. 151 of 1975: From Legislative Reform to Social Innovation"

Workshop: "Gender Equality and Perspective"

• October 16, 2025, Prof. Silvia Benussi (University of Cagliari): Introductory Lecture: Women’s Rights in History
• October 17, 2025, Prof. Sabrina Perra (University of Cagliari): Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters. Women, Families, and Society in the Sociological Thought of Anna Oppo
• October 23, 2025, Prof. Francesca Congiu (University of Cagliari): Beyond Patriarchy and Capital: The Anarchist Feminism of He-Yin Zhen in Early 20th-Century China
• October 24, 2025, Prof. Gianluca Borzoni (University of Cagliari): Butterflies Against Dictatorship: Violence Against Women in a Latin American Case Study
• November 6, 2025, Dr. Andrea Serra (University of Cagliari): Starting from Scratch: The Feminism of Carla Lonzi in “Let’s Spit on Hegel”
• November 7, 2025, Dr. Serena Mocci (University of Bologna): Abolitionism and Women’s Rights: The Thought of Margaret Fuller and Lydia Maria Child
• November 13, 2025, Prof. Silvia Benussi (University of Cagliari): Concluding Lecture. Instructions for the Final Assignment