Posted on 03 August 2015
The Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre, together with the Historical Archives of the European Union, is organizing the international conference The building of a European Civil Society in the context of equality between women and men. The legacy of Fausta Deshormes La Valle. The conference will be held on 25 September 2015 at Villa Salviati in Florence, home to the Historical Archives of the European Union.
Fausta Deshormes la Valle is unanimously regarded by scholars and experts as one of the mothers of a united Europe. In 1977, she founded the Women’s Information Service at the European Commission and launched Women of Europe, a bimonthly information bulletin that soon became an “official journal” for women and feminist movements in EU member states.
The conference aims to highlight how the Women’s Information Service and Women of Europe contributed to strengthening civil society organisations and networks and to reducing the gap between European institutions and citizens in the field of gender equality. Building on the assessment of the past experience and of the present dialogue between European institutions and women’s networks, the conference will explore ways of stimulating the participation of civil society in the development of a European parity democracy at a critical juncture in the history of European construction
The programme of the conference.
The conference languages will be English and Italian.
All the interested participants are invited to attend.
For further information and in order to register your participation, please contact the conference secretariat:
Fabrizio Borchi - tel.: +39 0554685 945
Personal data will be processed in accordance with the EUI’s Data Protection Policy (President’s Decision No. 40 of 27 August 2013 regarding Data Protection at the EUI) as well as under the specific modalities outlined in the Privacy Statement for events organised by the Historical Archives of the European Union.