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CONFERENCE 2024 Graduate Students Association of Italian Studies (GSAIS) | On the Threshold: Finding Meaning in Liminality in Italian Studies

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The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to support the participation of Prof. Ombretta Frau (Mount Holyoke College) as a keynote speaker at this year’s GSAIS Conference.

Prof. Frau will be presenting the lecture In limine: Women and the City/Women in the City.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Various Locations
FREE EVENT | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

CONFERENCE
November 1 to 3, 2024

SESSION
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. Ombretta Frau
In limine:  Women and the City/Women in the City

Saturday, November 2 | 11:30AM

VICTORIA COLLEGE
73 Queen’s Park Cres | Toronto  ON
Room 323

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This year’s GSAIS conference centres on the subject of liminality, derived from the Latin līmĕn, meaning ‘threshold’ or ‘entrance’. Līmĕn can also mean ‘house’ or ‘dwelling’, and, more provocatively, the beginning or onset of something.

More recently, such a topic has been explored to demonstrate that liminality is “a pertinent, even necessary concept for understanding a whole series of contemporary phenomena in a historical period—ours—so variously characterized by constant change, uncertainty, and institutionalized contingency” (Thomassen 39).

The presenting scholars will explore different issues in Italian Studies using liminality as a tool of analysis.

Presented by GSAIS – the Graduate Students Association of Italian Studies, the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto with the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto.

  • Organized by: Presented by GSAIS - the Graduate Students Association of Italian Studies, the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto with the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto