Dr Chiara Bonfiglioli; Visiting Fellowship 2022/23
Chiara Bonfiglioli is a Lecturer in Gender & Women’s Studies at University College Cork, Ireland, where she also coordinates the one-year interdisciplinary Masters in Women’s Studies. She completed a PhD at Utrecht University in 2012, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Pula, and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
In 2023 she received an ERC Consolidator grant for her project titled WO-NAM. Women and Non-Alignment in the Cold War era: biographical and intersectional perspectives.
Visiting fellowship May 16-25, 2023
During my stay in Ljubljana, in view of my next monograph on women and Non-Alignment, I will be researching further the life trajectory of Vida Tomšič, particularly in relation to the history of interwar social movements, antifascism and WWII in Slovenia.
Selected publications:
Women and Industry in the Balkans. The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector, 2019 (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury)
“Representing Women’s Non-Aligned encounters: a view from Yugoslavia”. In Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Imaginaries (edited by Paul Stubbs), 2023.Co-authored with S. Žerić, “Working Class Women’s Activism in Socialist Yugoslavia: An Exploration of Archives from Varaždin, Croatia”, Comparative Southeast European Studies, 70 (1), 80-102, 2022.
“State socialist women’s organizations within Yugoslav factories: a case study of local activism in the Duga Resa cotton mill”, Social History, 47(1), 85-104, 2022.
“Women’s internationalism and Yugoslav-Indian connections: from the Non-Aligned Movement to the UN Decade for Women”, Nationalities Papers, 49(3), 446-461, 2021.
