Conference: The Barbie Effect
Guest Speaker: Karoline Steckley
Thursday, March 7, 2024, 6 pm
Associazione Italo Americana FVG / American Corner Trieste
Piazza Sant'Antonio Nuovo, 6 - Trieste
FREE ENTRANCE
Barbie is the first-ever fictional character to be selected as one of Forbes’ most powerful women in the world, a list that otherwise includes 99 hardworking, flesh-and-blood founders, leaders and innovators.
Barbie may be a doll, but in 2023 she became much more. On the strength of Greta Gerwig’s Warner Bros. movie, Barbie expanded beyond a symbol of female empowerment to become an avatar for the necessity of fighting to recapture power that’s been taken away. She’s inspired girls and their mothers for generations, but this was the year women needed her most. And she came through. Nearly 65 years into her “life,” the 11.5-inch Barbie stands at the height of her influence.
Karoline Steckley is the President of the Associazione Italo Americana FVG. She holds a B.A. in French Language & Literature and an M.A. in Foreign Language and Literature from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. Currently, she teaches English at CIOFS FP, the University of Trieste, and at the Associazione Italo Americana FVG.
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Here is the LINK to our THEMATIC EVENTS for March 2024 - Women's History Month. Barbie: Inspiring Women