Victor Strazzeri, Visiting Fellowship 2023/24
Biography
Victor Strazzeri is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo and a Project Coordinator at the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory. His research examines the relationship between communist party politics and the feminist movement in the 1970s across several contexts, mainly Italy, Spain, and Brazil. His latest publications on the subject are “Beyond the Double Blind Spot: Relocating Communist Women as Transgressive Subjects in Contemporary Historiography” (Gender and History, 2022) and “The Interweaving: Communist Women and Feminism in 1970s Italy” (Contemporary
European History, 2023). These publications were the result of postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Bern (2017-2019) and Geneva (2020-21) and a research residency at the
Swiss Institute in Rome (2020-21).
Visiting fellowship June – July 2024
Motivation
During my fellowship period, I will be looking to expand the focus of my research on the relationship between communist militancy and feminist activism in the 1970s into the Slovenian and broader Balkan context. My goal is to understand the differences and convergences of this ‘interweaving’ between party and movement in the contexts I have examined so far (Italy, Spain, Brazil) and in Socialist Yugoslavia; finally, I aim to examine the presence of different forms of women’s activism in 1970s Yugoslavia in the militant memory of current left-wing parties and feminist movements in the Slovenian context.
List of publications (a selection)
- E-mail:
- victorstrazzeri@gmail.com