© 2026 Beatrice Sica.
La nascita e le famiglie:
cosa raccontiamo ai bambini?
["Birth and Families: What Are Children Told?"]
Round table with Milena Bernardi, Professor of Children's Literature at the University of bologna; Maria Silvia Fiengo, co-founder of the Famiglie Arcobaleno association and Lo Stampatello publishing house; and Roberta Giommi and Valentina Berruti, psychotherapists.
The number of children born through IVF and/or donor conception is increasing everywhere in the world, even in Italy, where the law giving access to PMA treatments is much more restrictive than elsewhere. What are children told about these new forms of conceptions and the family types that they generate? Which books can we read with them, give them to read, or write to illustrate how children come to the world, their families and the families of others?
Bologna, 20 giugno 2023 ore 15:30
Università di Bologna, Dipartimento Filologia Classica e Italianistica
via Zamboni 32, aula II
Professor of Children's Literature and Director of the Research Centre on Children's Literature (CRLI: Centro di Ricerca in Letteratura per l’Infanzia) at the University of Bologna, and author of La voce remota. La fiaba, l’infanzia, l’eredità delle storie (Pisa, 2019)
Co-founder of Famiglie Arcobaleno association and Lo Stampatello publishing house, which printed Piccolo uovo by Francesca Pardi, illustrations by Altan (Milan, 2011)
Psychotherapist, Director of "Istituto Internazionale Sessuologia – Ricerca e Formazione" in Florence, and author of La stanza degli affetti. L’educazione affettiva, emotiva e sessuale dei bambini e degli adolescenti (Florence, 2018)
Psychotherapist specialised in infertility treatments and parenthood and author of Famiglia: una storia da raccontare. Nascere con la fecondazione assistita con donazione di gameti (forthcoming)
Chaired by:
BEATRICE SICA (University College London)
LARA MICHELACCI (Università di Bologna)
This round table was organised with the financial support of the "Global Cities Programme" of University College London
© 2023 Beatrice Sica. Image: © Altan.