16/03/2026
📚 Antonella Bellantuono is an Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at the Catholic University of Lille.
Her talk will start from a seemingly simple question: what is a woman?
A question that spans centuries of philosophy, culture, and religion.
To address this question, the talk will explore how female identity has been constructed over time through social norms, religious narratives, and cultural models. Particular attention will be given to the role of motherhood in the monotheistic religions, examining the symbolic imagination that has often associated the figure of the woman with care, sacrifice, and suffering, with a focus on the biblical account of Genesis and the figure of the Mater Dolorosa.
With a critical perspective, the talk will invite reflection on these representations, seeking to understand how they sometimes fail to reflect even the original meaning of the texts from which they emerge, and how they have nonetheless contributed—both in the past and in the present—to shaping societal expectations of women.
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