Ascolta Women Magnifying Italian Diasporic Women’s Voices
In July this year Ascolta Women Inc. and members were well presented at the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies Biennial Conference 2026 at the University of Melbourne.
Ascolta women presented a panel chaired by Rose Wake: Ascolta Women Magnifying Italian Diasporic Women’s Voices
The panel included three presentations:
Teresa Capetola (Deakin University) Storying Lives of Second Generation Italian Australian Middle-Aged Women
Annamaria Paolino (Edith Cowan University); Agata Pellerito-Adely (Monash University); Teresa Capetola (Deakin University) Language Portraits: Framing Italian Australian Women’s Identities
Elena Callipari (Ascolta Women Inc.); Luci Callipari-Marcuzzo (Mildura Arts Centre); Teresa Capetola (Deakin University) Listening to Italian Diasporic Women
Also presenting at the conference were Ascolta Women members:
Rose Wake (Monash University) Italian Proxy Brides and their Daughters
Vivian Gerrard (Australian National University) Disrupting Disinformation Ecologies through friendship and storytelling
Katrina Lolicato (Deakin University) “What’s it all been for?” Policy, Representation and Elder Wellbeing
Angela Viola (Monash University) From Italian Studies to Transdisciplinary Practice in Language Pedagogy
The full program can be found:
Photos show the insitu panel: (L-R) Agata Pellerito-Adely, Teresa Capetola, Elena Callipari, Rose Wake. On line were Annamaria Paolino and Luci Callipari Marucuzzo
Photo showing Elena Callipari
Photo of Rose Wake
