Marta Baradić: “Ponovni pogled na aktivizem Giuseppine Martinuzzi ob stoletnici njene smrti”
You are kindly invited to the first lecture of the new generation of visiting fellows in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at the INZ premises or via the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85093074535?pwd=chFdSCgScVg8fw1djh3bVz8h9gqWtm.1 . In the new season, lectures will take place at 3 p.m. and if you will be joining us in person, you are welcome to a coffee 20 minutes before the lecture begins.
The lecture will be given by Marta Baradić, and the title of the lecture is “Revisiting Giuseppina Martinuzzi’s Activism on the Centenary of Her Death”. The lecture will be held in English.
Revisiting Giuseppina Martinuzzi’s Activism on the Centenary of Her Death
Recent scholarship has portrayed Martinuzzi as the first socialist woman in Istria, the most important socialist and feminist in Trieste, and a champion of women’s rights in the Adriatic lands. Giuseppina Martinuzzi (1844–1925) was a prominent Istrian and Triestine social and political activist, journalist, editor, writer and teacher. Given that this year marks the centenary of Martinuzzi’s death, this presentation will consist of two parts.
The introductory part will focus on Martinuzzi as an activist and intellectual active in the Northern Adriatic borderland during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, across different movements and ideologies, addressing the various phases and forms of her activism. The second part will examine her nationalist phase, during which she founded and edited the literary journals Pro Patria (1888) and Pro Patria Nostra (1889), with particular attention to the process of launching the journal, its editorial policy, and the networks of intellectuals associated with it.
