forthcoming
Keynote speaker at the event: ‘Spazio al genere: quali diritti per quali luoghi?’ University of Bologna Department of Sociology and Business Law, 24 October 2025.
2025
Selected participant of the Law in Context Early Career Workshop with the paper ‘The GLocal History of a Legal Object: The Case of Mifepristone in Italy’, 26-27 June 2025, University of Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
Invited speaker at the ‘Reproductive Justice Workshop’, 23 May 2025, University of Kent Law School.
Co-organiser of the workshop ‘Contemporary Abortion Politics in Canada’, University of Waterloo Department of Political Science, 1 May 2025 (link).
Presentation of the paper ‘‘‘The Pill that Changes Everything’’: Notes on Abortion Pills as Legal Objects’, Socio-Legal Studies Annual Conference 2025, Liverpool, 15-17 April 2025.
Visiting Scholar at the University of Bristol Law School, United Kingdom, 1 April – 30 September.
Invited Lecture ‘What Does a ‘‘Good’’ Abortion Law Look Like?’, Dalhousie Health Justice Institute Seminar Series, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law, 28 February 2025 (link).
Invited Lecture ‘Abortion Travel, Feminism, and ‘Becoming Legal’ in 1970s Italy’, Health Law, Policy & Ethics Seminar Series, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, 14 January 2025 (link).
2024
Invited panelist at the ‘Governing Reproduction: Exploring Law and Politics’ conference, University of Ottawa, 21-22 November 2024 (link).
Invited Lecture ‘Feminist activism, medical doctors and abortion law’, Departmental Speaker Series, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1 November 2024 (link).
Invited Lecture ‘The Hyper-regulation of Abortion’, Speaker Series, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, 31 October 2024 (link).
Presentation of the paper ‘Becoming Legal of Abortion’ at the ICON•S Annual Conference, Madrid, Spain, hosted by the IE University Law School on July 8-10, 2024 (link).
Solo-seminar ‘The Becoming Legal: Feminism, Abortion, and the Law in 1970s Italy’, Law Health Justice Series, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, 19 March 2024 (link).
Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 15-30 March.
Presentation of the paper ‘The “Becoming Legal” of Abortion in Italy’ in the event ‘Reproducing abortion: a feminist conversation on bodily autonomy in the shadow of Dobbs’, Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the Melbourne Law School, 8 March 2024 (link).
Visiting Scholar at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1-15 March.
Presentation of the paper “Why Abortion History Matters. The Case of Self-Managed Abortion (SMA) in 1970s Italy” at the Abortion & Reproductive Justice Conference 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, 15-18 February 2024.
2023
Invited speaker at the Symposium on “Reproductive Rights and Futures” at Sciences Po, Paris, 1 December 2023 (link).
Invited speaker at the MedusaFest (with Women Help Women), in Catania, Italy, 13 October 2023.
Guest Speaker of the Summer School on Epidemiology ‘Giornate di Epidemiologia “Carlo Corchia”’, Florence, Italy, 8-10 June 2023.
Co-organiser of a two-day workshop ‘Feminist Engagements with the Law in Contemporary Europe: Perspectives from Activism, Legal Professions and Academia’ to be held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Spain, on 25-26 May 2023 (link).
Invited Speaker of the Roundtable on Reproductive Rights in Italy and in the USA at the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS), Texas, 18-20 May 2023 (declined invitation).
Guest Speaker of the International Festival of Journalism (panel on abortion with activist Alice Merlo and journalist Giulia Siviero), Perugia, 23 April 2023 (declined invitation).
Selected participant of the Global Scholars Academy of the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at the Harvard Law School, which was held at the Stellenbosch University, in South Africa, 16-20 January 2023.
2022
Invited speaker at the seminar ‘Aborto: tra diritto ed etica’, University of Rome Tre, 12 December 2022 (link).
Presentation of a paper entitled ‘The “Social Decriminalisation” of Abortion and the Rise of the Feminist Movement in 1970s Italy’. Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop 2022-2023 (Fall term), Canada (virtual), 23 November 2022 (link).
Invited speaker of the seminar ‘Right-wing legal mobilisation and reproductive rights in the EU’, European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana, Italy, 9 November 2022 (link).
Selected participant of the Annual Socio-Legal Methodology Masterclass, Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 5-6 September 2022.
Interviewee by Professor Maria Rosaria Marella (University of Roma Tre) ‘Oltre Dobbs. E se parlassimo di aborto autogestito?‘, EuroNomade, 2 September 2022.
Invited on feminist legal theory, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (virtual), 2 August 2022 (host: Dr Hien Trinh).
Presentation of a paper entitled ‘Sewing Fragments of Memories for Making Feminist Legal History’. Global Meeting on Law and Society, Law and Society Association, ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, 13-16 July 2022.
Invited guest speaker as legal expert on Italian abortion law at the final dissemination conference of the ERC (European Research Council) project – Women travelling to seek abortion care in Europe, University of Barcelona, 22-23 June 2022 (forthcoming, full program and registration available here).
Participant of the conference ‘Whose choice, whose rights? Global-historical and intersectional approaches to the emergence of reproductive rights after 1945’. University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 9-10 June 2022 (travel grant funded by the Early Career Researcher Forum that forms part of the AHRC-funded research project ‘Inventing Reproductive Rights: Sex, Bodies and Population, 1945-1995’, PI Dr Maud A. Bracke).
Invited Lecture ‘«It’s not that we had the recipe in our pocket»: the Feminist Movement and the Run-Up to the Parliamentary Reform on Abortion (1971-1978)’. Centre of Law and Society’s ‘Work in Progress’ series, Cardiff School of Law and Politics, United Kingdom, 4 May 2022.
Invited Lecture ‘«It Was Like a Knockout Blow» The Implementation of the Italian Abortion Law 194 and the Collapse of the Feminist Movement (1978-1981)’. Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode Law School, University of York, Ontario, Canada, 6 April 2022.
Guest speaker of ‘Reproductive Justice: A Conversation’ with Dr Nayla Luz Vacarezza and Mariana Ardila Trujllo. Gender and Public Policy Specialisation Program (director: Yasmine Ergas) at the Columbia University, 11 March 2022.
Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode Law School, University of York, Ontario, Canada, 1 March – 1 April 2022, thanks to an ESRC- SeNSS Overseas Institutional Visit Grant (£2,700) to fund my travel to and stay in Toronto for the time of the fellowship.
Ph: Elena Caruso
Elena Caruso 