A full day of discussion at Sapienza University of Rome on online violence, resistance, and new imaginaries in digital contexts. Free admission.
On 15 January 2026, Rome will host the final conference of the PRIN PNRR project “Gendering Internet: violence, resilience, empowerment in digital spaces – GIVRE”, an event dedicated to the relationship between gender and digital technologies, with a focus on violence, practices of resistance, and empowerment in online spaces. The conference will take place at the Sapienza University of Rome’S Congress Centre in Via Salaria 113, and will be open to the public.
The day will open at 9:00 a.m. with institutional greetings by Luca Dezi, Director of the Department of Communication and Social Research, and Michela Cicculli, President of the Equal Opportunities Commission of Roma Capitale. The proceedings will be introduced and coordinated by Francesca Comunello, while the presentation of the GIVRE project will be delivered by Mariacristina Sciannamblo, the project’s Principal Investigator.
At 10:00 a.m., the first keynote lecture will be given by Elisa Giomi, Professor at Roma Tre University and Commissioner of AGCOM. The lecture will bemoderated by Sciannamblo. After the coffee break, at 12:00 p.m., the programme will continue with a dialogue session among research projects focusing on digital technologies, gender, violence, and discrimination, bringing together scholars from various universities and research centres.
In the afternoon, at 2:30 p.m., the second keynote lecture will be delivered by Tiziano Bonini from the University of Siena, moderated by Cosimo Marco Scarcelli. The day will conclude at 3:30 p.m. with a roundtable discussion on participatory design, resistance, and self-determination against gender-based digital violence, involving experts from academia, activism, and anti-violence practices.
The conference marks the concluding moment of the GIVRE project, funded under the PRIN PNRR program, and aims to provide an interdisciplinary space for discussion on one of the most pressing issues in contemporary public debate: the impact of digital technologies on gender relations and forms of violence, as well as the possibilities for building new imaginaries, practices of resistance, and pathways to empowerment.
