forthcoming

Public Lecture ‘“… Neither Contraception nor Abortion”: A Critical History of Contragestion’, University of Granada, 3 June 2026, 18.30-20.00.

Selected participant in the Global Scholars Intensive organized by the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at the Sciences Po Law School, in Paris, France 11-13 June 2026 (director: Professor David Kennedy, Harvard Law School).

Invited speaker of the interinstitutional event ‘Upgrade 1946: è il mio turno. 80 anni dal voto delle donne, il futuro inizia ieri’ organised by ISS, ISTAT, CNR, ENEA, ISPRA, CREA, AIFA, ENAC, INVALSI, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Sapienza Università di Roma, UnivAQ, Unimore and Univda, held in Auditorium of the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) in Rome, 29 May 2026.

Guest Lecture ‘Reproduction and Constitutional Law in Comparative Perspectives’, Department of Law, University of Seville Law School, 21 May 2026 (host: Professor Ruth Rubio Marin).

Co-organiser of the workshop ‘Law, History and Reproduction’, University of Bristol Law School, 1 May 2026 (with Dr Gauri Pillai).

2026

Invited speaker of COST Action Workshop ‘Reproductive Healthcare Providers Across Europe, 19th-20th Centuries, Granada’, 5-6 February 2026, link.

2025

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.

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).

 

Ph: Elena Caruso