Congratulations Patrizia! And many thanks again for your commitment and contribution to the forthcoming Modern Italy special issue on the 'Allied Occupation of Italy in History and Culture: A Reassessment' (due in May 2026).

New publication: Very glad to see my article on American food and Italians in WWII in @modernitaly.bsky.social 😍 Thanks to @efghilmno.bsky.social and Camilo Erlichman guest editors of SI on Allied occupation 🙏 #WWII #foodhistory www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Delighted to present my new book, Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing. A Reassessment, at Pollenzo! Thank you all for the hospitality and the great discussion 😍 #foodhistory #womenswriting

How does food imagery in Italian women's writing challenge political discourses? Patrizia Sambuco's new book explores 100 years of literature through food & emotions. Read Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing here: bit.ly/4jF09Wu #FoodStudies #WomenWriters @drpatriziasambuco.bsky.social

Waking up in Francavilla after an amazing evening #InternationalFlaianoprizes

@modernitaly.bsky.socialTurns 30! See the Open Access editorial written by the general editors Gianluca Fantoni and @milenasabato.bsky.social at the link. [https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2024.77]

#OnThisDate, 4 April 1828, it is generally accepted that Casparus van Houten Sr. developed a method of pressing all the oil out of roasted cocoa beans. This made them into a dry cake, which could be crushed into a powder. It is known as Dutch process #chocolate. #FoodHistory #History #OTD

In libraries all around the world 🙂 And for more here 👇https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487506834 @uoftpress.bsky.social #FoodStudies #ItalianStudies

Join us in Bologna, 9-10 June at the Canadian Association of Italian Studies conference. Interested in food and war? Send me an abstract for my panel Food, Conflict, Memories drive.google.com/file/d/1JIvx... #FoodStudies canadianassociationforitalianstudies.org

Merchant City Women’s Heritage Walk Sat 5 April, 2-4pm Expect stories of scandal, vice, radicalism, regeneration & revival as we highlight the role women have played in this area, from its dear green beginnings, through its darker days, to its recent resurgence. womenslibrary.org.uk/event/mercha...

‘Famine in Sudan result of war, not drought’, UNHCR says www.channel4.com/news/famine-...

Do you have a proposal for an innovative new seminar to join the IHR Research Seminar programme? We are looking for 3 fresh seminar series to launch in 2025-26. Applications are open now - deadline of 31 March. Full details of what we are looking for and how to apply here:

True. And taste and smell also through films and literature -neuroscience-

This week's top stories ... as drawn by the world's cartoonists.

Domani a #Feminism8 "Le ragazze della #Triangle. Saggi intimi e politici sull’incendio di una fabbrica newyorkese" a cura di @edvigegiunta.bsky.social e Mary Anne Trasciatti. In foto Etrita Abdullahu, del corso Triangle fire di Edvige Giunta, balla sulla coreografia ispirata all'incendio. #libri

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Despite efforts to address the issue of discrimination towards certain students, linguistic prejudice continues to take place | Melissa Knight

Your Friday Philosophy: "Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few." | David Hume, Edinburgh, 1711 -1776:

NACHE is excited to (re)share its new open access lecture series on the history of emotions ✨ feat. parallel presentations in English and Spanish on love, happiness, nostalgia, shame, anger, and fear from a range of scholars in the field! (1/2) nachemotion.wordpress.com/teaching/ope...

We have been asked to spread the word about the upcoming Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA PEC) in Bologna: "Green(ing) War: Military Build-Up, Warfare, and Socio-Environmental Wounds." Event page: eisa-net.org/pec-2025/ #rccnews #conference #green #war #military #envhum

🥳We are excited to present issue six of our #openaccess online publication 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴!🥳 Read it here: springs-rcc.org More about the content in the following thread.

Tonight at 18:30 at @stjohnscollege.bsky.social (Old Divinity School) join friends @cambraincns.bsky.social for an neuroethical panel discussion - 'From Molecule to Morality' You can register here - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Registration is now open for 'CNS2025: Expanding the Horizons of Brain Research' at neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve... Stellar Programme w/ plenaries from Soyon Hong & Mayank Mehta & @CamNeuro peeps from 7 departments Sign up now to guarantee your space! Sorry for the silence….will do better!

Happy #SeachdainNaGaidhlig, or #WorldGaelicWeek! 🥳 Did you know that in 2023, a collection of over 100 videotapes produced by communities in the Outer Hebrides were digitised by our team and made accessible online? 🎥

Anche questo mese come ogni mese un (con)tributo alla sorellanza chiamato Ghinea Newsletter.

My article on the inspirational Holocaust survivor, Livia Bitton-Jackson is now published online: www.whisc.center/Livia-Bitton

My latest book is now published! Thank you to @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social and my excellent co-author Kees Boterbloem. 📖

The February Issue is out! All research article are Open Access and available as of today on the website of Modern Italy (Cambridge University Press)!