The series of conferences that the Sibari archaeological park hosted as part of the nonrompeteci project ended on Sunday
A final journey through stereotypes, prejudices and languages in violence against women, entrusted to the expert guidance of Letizia Caso, legal psychologist and psychoanalyst, whose research topics range from communication in legal contexts to the protection of minors, penitentiary psychology and of work in the field of restorative justice. You are an associate professor at the LUMSA University of Rome, you are director of the Masters in Forensic Psychology and Psychopathology, as well as in Investigative Psychology, Behavioral Sciences and Analysis of the Vulnerable in collaboration with the Carabinieri, at LUMSA.
Professor Caso led the public to imagine gender violence as an iceberg, with a visible part of explicit violent forms, and an invisible, submerged part of subtle, subtle and implicit forms: this is how she introduced the theme of her report. A complex journey through words, the expressions used to name it: domestic violence, violence in intimate relationships, gender violence, femicide, feminicide.
Again, what the Istanbul Convention (dated 2011 and ratified by Italy in 2013) represented in recognizing a public dimension to private violence that affects women; how women’s enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms is compromised and canceled by the exercise of forms of violence; the price that men and women pay for the continuity between gender stereotypes and violence; the multi-director linguistic system and the violent actions that characterize the style of abuse.
A complex journey in which a large audience took part, which animated a rich and detailed debate.
The conference concluded a cycle of reflections which saw the topic of gender violence treated from different and complementary points of view: the legal aspects through the voices of the Public Prosecutor Valentina Draetta and the Lawyer Raffaella Accroglianò; the concrete data and the interventions of the institutions with the psychologist Antonio Gioiello, President of the Mondiversi association and author of the book “Feminicide in Italy”, the Honorable Simona Loizzo, parliamentary member of the Commission of inquiry into Feminicide, the lawyer Annamaria Bianchi , Councilor of the Municipality of Cassano All’Ionio; female sexual well-being, with Doctor Paola Sammarro, founder of the “Io Calabria” obstetric center and Director of “Io Calabria Magazine”.
This was the spirit of nonRompeteci , the cultural action to combat violence against women, promoted by the Park with the collaboration of the Fabiana Anti-Violence Center and which saw the involvement of the secondary schools of the Municipalities of Cassano All’Ionio and Corigliano-Rossano with the full collaboration of the respective municipal administrations.
In addition to the conferences, the program included: thematic workshops led by archaeologists and the operators of the Fabiana Anti-Violence Center to stimulate young people, educate them in the culture of respect, tell them about the women of the past and the contemporary condition, through a necessary civic commitment, a system of relationships to be built from an early age, with healthy communication that gives the right tools to decode violence and its strategies.
Even earlier, “Occhio all’asta” had been held, a solidarity auction whose proceeds were donated to the Fabiana Anti-Violence Centre, promoted in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Catanzaro, where the old wooden boxes, which contained for decades the finds discovered in Sibari and in Sibaritide since the 1960s have been brought back to life through the artistic reworking of the teachers and students of the ABA of Catanzaro, becoming furnishings for the Museum and its offices, as well as objects from a participated charity auction.
«Gender relations and their dysfunctions, fraught with consequences, are an exquisitely cultural theme – concluded Filippo Demma, Director of the Archaeological Parks of Crotone and Sibari – studying classical culture helps to understand the cultural system in which we live, giving everyone has the ability and possibility to take a further and necessary step, in terms of awareness and reaction. From this awareness was born nonrompeteci , a variously structured project of which we felt an ever greater need and whose genesis is in the commercial launched by the Sibari Archaeological Park together with the CAV “Fabiana” on 25 November 2022 and which read “Goddesses, poetesses, workers , warriors. There is a thousand-year-old culture and you are part of it. Let’s meet again here.” We were there, we met again and we hope to see each other again and more often with the awareness that initiatives like this change the world and the future of the new generations.”
