Profiles and life trajectories of Women in the dynamics of the alpine Arc (late 17th - first half 19th century)

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Wednesday 9th June

14:30 - 15:00 Welcome and introduction | Miriam Nicoli

Chair and Discussant: Prof. Sandro Guzzi-Heeb
15:00 - 15:20 Aline Johner | Piété féminine et influence sur la famille : les femmes au sein des confréries dévotionnelles dans la région alpine (1780-1860)
15:20 - 15:40 Marco Bettassa | «Les misérables». Vedovanza, Valdesi e comunità alpine nel Piemonte sabaudo (XVIII secolo)

15:40 - 16:00 Break

16:00 - 16:20 Miriam Nicoli | Three generations of women in the letters of an alpine family
(XVIII-XIX Centuries)
16:20 - 16:40 Ernest Menolfi | Sabine Gonzenbach: Some features of the history of my unfortunate
marital life, and my sufferings - A mechant’
s wife at the turn to modern times (1798)
16:40 - 17:30 Discussion

Thursday 10th June

Chair and Discussant: Prof. Patrizia Audenino
14:00 - 14:20 Camille Caparos | Des vignes, du blé et des langes : vie et survie de deux femmes nobles dans les Pré-Alpes françaises au XVIIIe siècle
14:20 - 14:40 Marina Cavallera | Le contraddizioni delle donne tra immobilismo normativo e dinamiche sociali

14:40 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 15:20 Stefania Bianchi | Le donne, il giudice e il notaio. Le ragioni delle donne d’Antico Regime
nella Svizzera italiana (secoli XVII-XVIII)
15:20 - 16:00 Discussion
16:00 - 16:15 Break
16:15 - 17:15 Argonaute and Via Mulieris | “Female egodocuments for the future”: Memory and oral history

Friday 11th June

Chair and Discussant: Prof. Dionigi Albera
14:30 - 14:50 Federica Re | Comuni montani e agency femminile: processi per stupro nella provincia di Como dal 1820 al 1833
14:50 - 15:10 Rolando Fasana | Il non detto della microstoria: antroponimia del baliatico. Le balie tra Sottoceneri e antica Provincia comasca (secoli XVIII-XIX)

15:10 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 15:50 BreakMadline Favre | Entre plaine et montagne : quel rôle pour les femmes dans les pratiques de santé en Valais (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)?
15:50 - 16:30 Discussion and conclusion