5 Settembre 2026

From September 9 to 11, the “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara will host the International Conference of the IWWA (International Women’s Writing Association), an association presided over by Professors Joanne Ella Parsons (Falmouth University) Kirsten Saxton (Northeastern University), and Jennifer Schnabel (Ohio State University). The event, titled Pleasure and Pain in Women’s Writing, focuses on the various ways pleasure and pain are represented in women’s writing across different eras, cultures, languages, and media. The initiative is organized by Professor Mariaconcetta Costantini (“Gabriele d’Annunzio” University) in collaboration with Falmouth University and Professors Claudia Capancioni (Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln) and Elisabetta Marino (University of Rome Tor Vergata). More than seventy scholars from around the world—spanning from Oceania to the Americas—will be in attendance. The conference stems from a collaboration between the IWWA and the L&GEND (Literature & Gender Identity) International Research Group, founded in 2021. One of the invited keynote speakers is our Vice-President, Marilena Parlati Here you find the programme and you can click on the papers’ titles to read the relative abstracts. LINK