Schedule

Under the patronage of the University of Padua

Women in Crime III

The Schedule

Day 1

Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026

Registration 2:00 – 2:30

2:30 – 2:35

Kickoff for Women in Crime III

Viviana Gaballo & Lili Pâquet

2:35 – 2:45

Institutional welcome

Margherita Colonnello, Councillor for Social Affairs, Social Integration and Inclusion, Civic Participation, the Right to Education, Labour and Employment Policies, Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities, Gender-Based Violence, and Healthcare (ATS), City of Padua

Gabriele Bizzarri, Director, DiSLL (Dept of Linguistic and Literary Studies)

2:45 – 3:00

Introduction

Viviana Gaballo

2:30 – 2:35

Kickoff for Women in Crime III

Viviana Gaballo & Lili Pâquet

3:00 – 3:30

Challenging the Norm: Women’s Acceptability of Physical Intimate Partner Violence in Low-Resource Settings and Paths to Change

Elisabetta Croci Angelini

3:30 – 4:00

The Archive Against Silence: Yekaterina Bahatur and the Gendered Politics of Historical Memory

Rafik Santrosyan 

4:00 – 4:30

Beyond Protection: Investigating Violence, Empowering Women

Silvia Signorato

4:30 – 5:00

“Make sure you are in a place to keep scrolling”: The Survivor-Influencer as Ethical True Crime Creator on TikTok

Simon Hobbs & Megan Hoffman

5:00 – 5:30

The discomforts of violent women: A dialogue with Dahlia de la Cerda’s “Perras de Reserva” and “Medea me canto un corrido.”

Kenya Herrera Borquez

Social gathering 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Day 2

Friday, Sept. 25, 2026

10:00 – 10:30

Who Has the Authority to Tell Violence? Narrative Voice, Testimony, and Epistemic Power in Contemporary Cinema 

Cinzia Spinzi 

10:30 – 11:00

Safety and ethics:  Women’s experiences of listening to true crime podcasts focused on violence against women and girls 

Laura Vitis  

11:00 – 11:30

Who Tells the Story of Wartime Rape? Gender, Testimony, and Injustice

Maria Gabriella Mieli

11:30 – 12:00

Teaching Against Fear: Critical Pedagogy and Women’s Representation in True Crime

Kathleen Rodgers  

12:00 – 12:30

من يروي قصة النساء ي ف جرائم الحرب ي ؟ 

 ا قراءة صحفية في السرد الإعلامي والذاكرة الجماعية 

[Who Tells the Story of Women in War Crimes? A Journalistic Reading of Media Narratives]

Lubna Yaseen  

12:30 – 3:00

Lunch break

3:00 – 3:30

A Force of Their Own: Female Authority and the Investigative Body in the crime narratives of Giuseppina Torregrossa and Cristina Cassar Scalia  

Nicoletta di Ciolla 

3:30 – 4:00

Nuovo fenomeno sociale delle baby gang femminili: Processi di affiliazione, riconoscimento e territorializzazione

 

[Female Youth Gangs as an Emerging Social Phenomenon: Affiliation, Recognition, and Territorialization]

Simone Borile 

4:00 – 4:30

Collaborative Life Writing with a Yazidi Survivor of ISIS 

Lili Pâquet 

4:30 – 5:00

Breaking the Omertà Code: The Role of Women in Challenging Mafia Silence and Power 

Angela Procaccino  

5:00 – 5:30

Virtue hoarding in the primary prevention of violence against women and children 

Michael Salter 

5:30 – 6:30

ROUND TABLE discussion with director Paola Randi on 

Se domani non torno [If I don’t come back tomorrow], 

her film on the femicide of Giulia Cecchettin

Social dinner, 8:00 – 11:00 p.m.

Day 3

Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026

10:00 – 10:30

Female Crime in Rhyme: Gendering Criminality in Anglophone Folk Literature

Anna Romagnuolo  

10:30 – 11:00

Anger, Violence and Female Detective Heroism in African Noir 

Sam Naidu 

11:00 – 11:30

“We told ourselves a different story with a different ending”: Female Perpetrators and Violent Female Femininity in Issa Lopez’s True Detective: Night Country

Zoe Landsberg 

11:30 – 12:00

Wilfulness and Insurgency: Methodologies of Queer Resistance in Life Writing

B.B.P. Hosmillo  

12:00 – 12:30

Beyond the Frame: Imagining New Narratives of Justice and Equality

Viviana Gaballo

1:00 – 1:00

• Wrap-up
• Invitation to submit papers for publication
• Themes for next conference

Viviana Gaballo & Lili Pâquet

Closing 1:00 p.m.

Women in Crime III – Who Tells the Story of Violence? Gender, Law, and Power 
University of Padua, Italy – 24-26 September, 2026

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