CV dr. Gaia Giuliani – January 2015
DETAILED CV
dr. Gaia Giuliani
CONTACT DETAILS
Dept. Scienze Politiche e Sociali
University of Bologna
Strada Maggiore 45 - 40125 Bologna, Italy
telephone numbers: 07843870209 +3925719685
email: [email protected]
skype: gaiamaquigiuliani
websites/blogs: distopie.wordpress.com & www.intergrace.it
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Excellent speaking, writing and reading skills: Italian (mother tongue) and Spanish
Good speaking, writing and reading skills: English.
Good understanding and fair speaking skills: French.
QUALIFICATIONS
1. 2001-2005: DPhil. in History of Ideas/History of Political Thought
• Studi Politici Europei e Euroamericani at the Department of Studi politici, University of Turin
(completion, 17/02/05).
• Research project: ‘Liberalismo, utilitarismo e impero. La History of British India di James
Mill e il suo contesto’ (Liberalism, Utilitarianism and Empire. The J. Mill’s History of British
India and its context).
• Supervisors: profs. Maria Teresa Pichetto (University of Turin, Italy) and Guido Abbattista
(University of Trieste, Italy).
2. 1994-2001: BA (Laurea) in Political Sciences, Political Theory
• University of Bologna, 110/110, cum laude (with honour) (completion 22/06/01).
• Research project: ‘Racism in the Age of Globalization: Theories and Practices of
Exclusion’.
• Supervisors: Profs. Carlo Galli (University of Bologna) and Sandro Mezzadra (University of
Bologna).
PRESENT APPOINTMENT
(Oct 2013-) Non-stipendiary research assistant at the Dept. Scienze politiche e sociali,
University of Bologna
PRESENT EMPLOYMENT
(November 2014): temporary employement as history schoolbooks writer with a major
Italian pubisher for education (Zanichelli). The contract covers two projects: the editing of a
school-book on History/History of culture (XVIII-XIX centuries) and the co-writing of a schoolbook on History/History of culture of the XX century. The whole editing/writing project started
at the beginning of September and ends the 1st October 2014.
VISITING POSITIONS
April2014-December2014: Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Oct 20013-Dec2013: Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS), Dept. od Sociology
and Social Policies, University of Leeds.
2008-2011: Associate visiting scholar at TfC, at University of Technology Sydney (NSW).
2007-2008: Honorary visiting scholar at TfC, at University of Technology Sydney (NSW).
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GRANTS AND AWARDS
1. June 2014: ‘Bianco e nero. Storia dell’identità razziale degli italiani’ co-authored book with
dr. Cristina Lombardi-Diop (Loyola University, Chicago, Ill.) has been awarded by the
American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) with the best book award 2013 for the
category of 20-21st centuries.
2. 13th November 2009- 12th May 2010: ‘Representations of the Self and its Others in British
Australia’, Endeavour (postdoctoral) Research Fellowship (issued by the Department of
Education Employment and Workplace Relations of the Australian Government), at the
Transforming Cultures Research Centre [TfC], University of Technology, Sydney [UTS].
Supervisor: Prof. Ilaria Vanni Accarigi (25.000AUS$: GBP: 14946).
3. 2009: Award for Graduate Student Excellence in teaching (2008-2009) issued by the
University of California representative at the University of Bologna (University of California,
Centro Studi di Bologna)
4. 2007-2009: ‘Representation of migrants, Aborigenees and white sovereign subjects in
British Australia’, Post-doctoral Fellowship (two years), issued by the University of Bologna
(€15,000 per year; GBP: 12.800 per year).
5. 2007: ‘Italiani brava gente. L’immaginario razziale in Italia e Australia tra la fine del XX
secolo e il Fascismo’ (Italians good people. The Racial imaginary in Italy and Australia
between the end of 19th century and Fascism), Marco Polo Fellowship issued by the
University of Bologna for a 3 months’ research program at TfC, UTS (€4000; GBP: 3413).
6. 2001-2005: ‘Representation of the Self and its Others in British colonial India’, PhD
Fellowship issued by the University of Turin, Italy (€ 10.000 per year; GBP: 8533 per year).
7. 1996-1997: Erasmus Fellowship for a stay of one year at the Faculty of Political Sciences of
the University of Bilbao-Leioa (Spain) (issued by the University of Bologna).
ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS
InteRGRace (Interdisciplinary/Intersectional Research Group on Race and Racisms)
University of Padova, since 2014.
CIRSPG (Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca. Studi Sulle Politiche di Genere) University of
Padova, since 2009: http://www.unipd-cirspg.it/chi-siamo-3.
CSC (Centro Interuniversitario di Storia Culturale) University of Padova, 2014:
http://centrostoriaculturale.org/personeg.
White Space Network (advisory board) University of Leeds (UK), since 2012:
http://whitespaces.leeds.ac.uk/people/.
ACS (Association for Cultural Studies), since 2010.
ACRAWSA (Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association) 2009-2010.
AISDP (Associazione Italiana degli Storici delle Dottrine Politiche), since 2009.
EASA (European Association for Studies of Australia, 2009-2010).
Endeavour Research Alumni, since 2010.
KEYNOTE AT CONFERENCES
In 2011, as a Keynote speaker, I have been invited to give the paper on ‘Settler colonialism
and its colour lines’, at 10th ASNEL Graduate Summer School ‘Spaces of Projection’,
Universities of Bern and Basel (SWI), 5-9 Sept.
COLLABORATIONS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
A. As a non-stipendiary research assistant and executive assistant I have completed n.
3 EU FP7 funded Collaborative projects (a): 1) with the ‘Bologna Unit’ of Mig@net
(www.mignetproject.eu/) – approved by EU commission, 7th Frame program (2010-2012).
Project Funding: € 1.397.240 (GBP: 1.192.340); 2) with the ‘Bologna Unit’ of GeMIC
(www.gemic.eu/) - 2008-2011. Project Funding: € 1.019.250 (GBP: 869.781); 3) with the
‘Bologna
Unit’
of
ATACD
(www.atacd.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=30), approved by
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EU commission, 6th Frame program (2008-2010). Project Funding: € 643.797 (GBP: 549.386).
B. As research assistant I have participated to n.3 international project: 1) in a team for a
research (2005-2007) funded by Feminist Review editorial collective [profs. Nirmal Puwar
(Goldsmiths University, UK) and Jackie M. Andall (University of Bath, UK)] culminated in the
publication of a special issue on Italian feminisms (2007); 2) funded collaboration
(rembursements) with the Nordic colonial mind network (2004-ongoing) – funded by the
Nordic Council NOS-HS. Collaboration since Oct. 2010. Official website:
http://www.postkolonial.dk/Welcome; 3) funded by WUN (rembursements) with the
Worldwide University Network - White Spaces Network (2009-ongoing) – funded by WUN.
Collaboration since June 2012. Official website: www.wun.ac.uk/research/white-spacesnetwork.
C. As research assistant I have completed to n.4 of domestic funded project: 1) in the
research project coordinated by prof. Sandro Mezzadra on Colonialism, Postcolonialism and
Political Theory financed by the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR) through the University of
Bologna (ex 60%). Duration: 2005-2008; 2) funded collaboration (rembursements) in a
team for a research (2005-2007) on women, citizenship and political participation in Italy
funded by the CIRSPCG (University of Padua, Italy) and coordinated by profs. Alisa del Re
and Laura Balbo (University of Padua) culminated in the publication of a special issue of the
Italian review Inchiesta (2007). 3) funded collaboration (stipendiary) with Dr. Lorenza
Maluccelli for a research (2005-2006) financed by the Italian Ministry of Education,
University, and Research and coordinated by profs. Tamar Pitch (University of Perugia,
Italy) and Massimo Pavarini (University of Bologna) on ‘Security policies and Gender
governance in the Italian cities of Modena and Bologna’. The results of this research project
have been published by Carocci (Rome), 2006. 4) funded collaboration (stipendiary) with
prof. Tiziano Bonazzi (who was Head of the same Dept.) for a research (2002-2003) at the
[ex] Dept. of Politica Istituzioni Storia (University of Bologna, Italy) on the political concept of
‘Western civilization’. 5) funded collaboration (stipendiary) with the Istituto Gramsci of
Emilia-Romagna, Bologna (IGER) for the organization of a cycle of conferences Laboratorio
di analisi politica at the Instituto (2001-2002).
D. As leader and funder of the InteRGRace [Interdisciplinary Research Group on Race and
Racisms born ufficially in February 2014 – based as a Research Group at the University of
Padova, Dept. of FSPPA, and as an Association at the Peace School (Scuola di Pace) di
Monte Sole (Bologna)] I am member of the projecting committee now committed to a
fundraising plan that include grants from the EU, Italian Ministry of Education, University and
Research, national, international and multinational fundations. Its aims are both scholarly
exchange, production, and dissemination on an academic level of knowledges around issues
of race from an intersectional and interdisciplinary angle; and exchanges of existing good
practices, production of educational and school materials, translation of academic knowledges
into policies and social practices, and internationalisation of local and national expertises
around issues of race, racism, sexism, class, religious, age, ableism based discriminations.
Members of InteRGRace also are: drs. Gabriele Proglio, Sabrina Marchetti, Tatiana Petrovich
Njegosh, Annalisa Frisina, Elisa Arfini, Daniele Salerno, Vincenza Perilli, Francesca Vianello,
profs. Devi Sacchetto and Roberta Sassatelli, and Maria Chiara Patuelli. In 2014 InteRGRace
is organising/committed in a series of events (booklaunches, symposia, workshops at the
universities of Macerata, Florence, Padua and Bologna).
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DISCIPLINES:
1. RESEARCH GROUPS
InteRGRace (Interdisciplinary/Intersectional Research Group on Race and Racisms)
University of Padova and Scuola di Pace di Monte Sole, since 2014 (www.intergrace.it).
2. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT
Distopie (for a Gender studies, Cultural, Critical Race and Whiteness, and Postcolonial
studies analysis of distopic narratives), since 2013 (www.distopie.wordpress.com).
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3. EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2006-2014: Member of the secretarial editing team of the ‘A’ ranked (Anvur) Italian academic
journal of Cultural Studies, Studi culturali. Since 2013, Secretary of the Editors of the
journal. As such I review 30 papers a year in average. The journal’s Anvur evaluation is of
academic journals’ class ‘A’.
2013-: Member of the International Advisory Board of the Australian academic journal Settler
Colonial Studies.
4. EVENTS ORGANIZED
16th December 2014: First Annual symposium of InteRGRace (Interdisciplinary/Intersectional
Research Group on Race and Racisms) on ‘Intersectional costructions of the marked body’ –
University of Padua, Italy.
21st May 2014: (Round Table): live version of the round table included in Studi culturali journal
[‘The thin white line. Intersections of race, gender, and class in postcolonial Italy’, n. 2/2013]
organised by TrAme, InteRGRace, Dept. Philosophy and Communication (Unibo) and Studi
culturali with dr. Gaia Giuliani as chair and as paper givers and discussants: prof. Cristina
Demaria (University of Bologna); drs. Devi Sachetto (University of Padua), Sonia Sabelli
(University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’), Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh (Università di Macerata) and
Vincenza Perilli (InteRGRace).
May2013-April2014: (Booklaunches of) Bianco e nero. Storia dell’identità razziale degli
italiani (bookshops in Roma, Bologna, Florence, Torino; University of Padova, University of
Florence, University of Leeds and University of Newcastle).
26-30 April 2011: (Conference panel) ‘Colonialism, settler colonialism, indigeneity and
migration: new perspectives for Postcolonial Theory’ at the International EACLALS Triennial
Conference in Istanbul, Bogazici (Bosphorus) University. Co-panelists: prof. Nandita Sharma
(University of Hawaii), Dr. Kiran Grewal (University of Sydney).
3rd May 2010: (International Round Table) ‘Settler colonialism and colour line: a topicality’?,
UTS, Sydney. Co-panelists: Drs. Lorenzo Veracini (the Swinburne University of Technology,
Melbourne; Dinesh J. Wadiwel, Maria Giannacopoulos (Macquarie University), Kiran Grewal
(University of Sydney).
28th October 2009: (Book-launch of) Temporaneamente tua. Corpi, sessualità, potere (ex
Dept. Politica Istituzioni Storia, now Social and Political Sciences, University of Bologna).
5th March 2009: (National Symposium) ‘Tutti i colori del Bianco. Prospettive teoriche e sguardi
storici sulla whiteness’ (All colours of whiteness. Theoretical perspectives and historical
gazes on whiteness)(ex Dept. Politica Istituzioni Storia, University of Bologna).
October 2005: series of focus-group on Italian feminisms with a number of scholars and
activists (Feminist Review number on «Italian feminisms», n. 87 (3), 2007).
5. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
1. Books
Authored
1. 2017-2018: (Eng) Race, Nation and Gender in Modern and Contemporary Italy, Palgrave,
London, ‘Mapping Global Racism’ book-series, fortcoming Winter.
2. 2008: (It) Beyond curiosity. James Mill e la nascita del governo coloniale britannico in India
(Beyond Curiosity. James Mill and the Creation of British Colonial Rule in India), Aracne,
Rome.
Co-Authored
3. 2016: (It) co-authored Giuliani, G., Perilli, V., and Proglio, G, Un posto al sole.
Mediterraneità e bianchezza nella cultura visuale italiana 1948-2013, Le Monnier/Mondadori
Education, Firenze/Milano, forthcoming Winter.
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4. 2015: (It) Giuliani, G. Proglio, G., Distopie. Storia della paura nella narrazione
fantascientifica e horror dal dopoguerra a oggi (Distopias. History of Fear from WWII
Aftermath up to Today), Le Monnier-Mondadori Education, Milano (forthcoming).
5. 2013: (It) Giuliani, G. e Lombardi-Diop, C., Bianco e nero. Storia dell’identità razziale degli
italiani (Black and White. History of the Italians’ Racial Identity), Le Monnier-Mondadori
Education, Milano.
Translated
6. 2012: Mohanty, C.T. (2003), Feminism without Borders, It. Trans. Ombre Corte, Verona.
7. 2009: Asad, T. (2009), On Suicide Bombings, It. Trans. Raffaello Cortina, Milano.
8. 2009: Butler, J. (1987), Subjects of Desire, It. Trans. Laterza, Rome-Bari.
9. 2002: Guha, R. and Spivak, G.C. (1988), Subaltern Studies, It. Trans. Ombre Corte,
Verona.
Edited
10. 2015: (It) Giuliani, G. (ed.), Il colore della nazione (The colour of the nation), Ediesse,
Roma, forthcoming.
11. 2014: (It) Giuliani, G., Martucci, Ch., Galetto, M. (eds), L’amore ai tempi dello tsunami.
Affetti, Sessualità e Modelli di Genere in Mutamento (Love in the times of tsunami. Mutating
affectivities, sexuality and gender models), Ombre corte, Verona.
2. Special issues
12. 2013: (It) Giuliani, G. (ed.), ‘La sottile linea bianca. Intersezioni tra razza, genere e classe
nell’Italia postcoloniale’ (The thin white line. Intersections of race, gender, and class in
postcolonial Italy), special issue, Studi Culturali, 2.
13. 2010: (It) Giuliani, G. (ed.), ‘Tutti i colori del bianco. Prospettive teoriche e sguardi storici
sulla “whiteness”’(All colours of whiteness. Theoretical perspectives and historical gazes on
whiteness), special issue, Studi Culturali, 1.
3. Book chapters [PEER REVIEWED]
Single
14. 2015: (Eng) Giuliani, G., ‘Uneven whiteness. Images of Blackness and Whiteness in
contemporary (postcolonial) Italy (2010-2013)’ in Pecic, Z., Andersen, A., Suarez, J., Jensen,
L. (eds) After the Empires: Reflections of European Colonialism in a Globalised World
(forthcoming).
15. 2014: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘La zona d’ombra. Genere, agency e bianchezza nell’Italia
contemporanea’ (provisional title), in Proglio, G., Mari, L., Deplano, V. (eds), Subalternità e
agency: Percorsi di ricerca tra letteratura e storia, Aracne, Roma.
16. 2014: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘I nuovi confini della cittadinanza: segegazione, inclusione,
eliminazione’ (The new borders of citizenship: segregation, inclusion, elimination) in
bookseries MediAzioni by the Docucity project (University of Milano, Statale) Città confinate
(provisional title), Ed.it, Firenze.
17. 2013: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Per una’analisi intersezionale dell’orientalismo nella televisione
italiana contemporanea’ (For an intersectional analysis of Tv orientalism), in Proglio, G. (ed.),
Orientalismi italiani vol. 3, Antares, Castagnito.
18. 2012: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Bianchezza’ (Whiteness) in Mascat, J., Perilli, V., Marchetti, S.
(eds.), Femministe a parole. Grovigli da districare, Ediesse, Rome.
19. 2012: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Famiglie’ (Families) in Mascat, J., Perilli, V., Marchetti, S. (eds.),
Femministe a parole. Grovigli da districare, Ediesse, Rome.
20. 2011: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Dislocazione e transito perenne tra i generi e le sessualità’
(Constant dislocations and transit between genders and sexualities), in Fantone, L. (ed.),
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Genere e precarietà, Scriptaweb, Napoli.
21. 2010: (Eng) Giuliani, G., ‘Whose whiteness? Cultural dis/locations between Italy and
Australia, in Pugliese, J. (ed.), Transmediterranean. Diasporas, Histories, Geopolitical
Spaces’, Peter Lang, Brussels.
22. 2007: (Eng) Giuliani, G., ‘The body, sexuality, and precarity’, Feminist Review, 3(87).
23. 2007: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Donne Politica Istituzioni. Uno spazio “politico” in sé’ (Women,
Politics, Intitutions. A political space per se), Inchiesta, 1.
24. 2007: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Il principio di Color Blindness e il dibattito europeo su razza e
razzismo’ (The colour-blindess principle and the European debate on race and racism), in
Casadei, T., Re, L. (eds.), Società multiculturale, immigrazione, sicurezza: problemi di
integrazione sociale, Diabasis, Reggio Emilia.
25. 2007: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Fascismo e biopolitica. L’editoria emiliano-romagnola e la
questione della razza’ (Fascism and bio-politics. Publishing houses in Emilia-Romagna and
the race question), in Tortorelli, G. (ed.), Editoria e cultura in Emilia-Romagna dal 1900 al
1945, Compositori, Bologna.
Collective
26. 2013: (It) Giuliani, G. Martucci, Ch., ‘The Love Word. Autonarrazioni a confronto 19932013’ (The Love Word. Selfnarratives 1993-2013), in Giuliani, G., Martucci, Ch., Galetto, M.
(eds), L’amore al tempo dello Tsunami. Affetti, Sessualità e Modelli di Genere in Mutamento
(Mutating affectivities, sexuality and gender models), Scriptaweb, Napoli, forthcoming in
December.
4. Articles in academic journals [PEER REVIEWED]
Single authored
27. 2013: (Eng) Giuliani, G., ‘L’Italiano negro. The Politics of Colour in Early 20th Century
Italy’, Interventions, vol. 16 (4).
28. 2013: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Non ci sono italiani negri. Il colore legittimo nell’Italia
contemporanea’ (There ain’t black Italians. The legitimate colour in contemporary Italy), in
Studi Culturali, 2.
29. 2012: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Lombroso, l’Australia e il Duce: nazione, migrazione e bianchezza’
(Lombroso, Australia and the Dux: nation, migration and whiteness), Zapruder – Storie in
movimento, 28.
30. 2012: (Eng) Giuliani, G., ‘Matching-Colours. Settler Colonialism and Its Colour Lines’,
Arena journal.
31. 2012: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Colonialismo settler e razza. Per una mappatura del colore nel
Pacifico’ (Settler colonialism and race. For a carthography of race in the Pacific), Politica e
società, 2.
32. 2012: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Assegnazione del colore e agency’ (Colour assignment and
agency), Filosofia politica, 1.
33. 2011: (Eng) Giuliani, G., ‘Throwaway Labour. Blackbirding and a white Australia’, JEASA
ejournal.
34. 2011: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Assegnazione del colore e lavoro servile. Il fenomeno del
Blackbirding nel contesto australiano’ (Colour assignment and indentured labour. Blackbirding
in the Australian context), La società degli individui, 42.
35. 2011: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Il bianco negro. La bianchezza in Italia dall’Unità al Fascismo’ (The
black white. Whiteness in Italy from the Unity to Fascism), il Mulino, 456 (4).
36. 2010: (It) Giuliani, G., (introduction to the special issue), ‘Tutti i colori del bianco.
Prospettive teoriche e sguardi storici sulla “whiteness”’ (All the colours of white. Theoretical
perspectives and historical angles on ‘whiteness’) – special issue of Studi Culturali, 1.
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37. 2010: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Fantasie di bianchezza nell’Australia indipendente’ (White fantasies
in federal Australia), Studi Culturali, 1.
38. 2009: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Due sotto l’impero. India e Australia nel XIX secolo’ (Two under the
Empire. India and Australia in 19th century), Scienza e politica, 41.
39. 2008: (Eng) Giuliani, G., ‘The body, sexuality, and precarity’, Feminist Review, 3(87).
40. 2007: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘“Responsibility implied superiority and inferiority”. La History of
British India di J. Mill e il nuovo immaginario imperiale britannico’ (J. Mill’s History of British
India and the new British imperial imaginary), Filosofia politica, 3.
41. 2007: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Donne Politica Istituzioni. Uno spazio “politico” in sé’ (Women,
Politics, Intitutions. A political space per se), Inchiesta, 1.
42. 2006: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Il concetto di impero nel pensiero politico inglese tra il XVII e la
prima metà del XIX secolo’ (The concept of empire in the English political thought, 17th-first
half of 19th century), Il pensiero politico, 1.
43. 2003: (It) Giuliani, G., ‘Paul Gilroy e il dibattito contemporaneo sul razzismo’ (Paul Gilroy
and the contemporary debate on racism), Filosofia politica, 2.
5. Book reviews (in Italian and international academic journals)
2002-2014: published in Feminist Review (UK (forthcoming); Borderland e-journal (AUS);
Journal of Postcolonial Networks JPN (UK); Ricerche di Storia Politica, Studi Culturali,
Pensiero politico, Filosofia politica, Nuova informazione bibliografica (IT).
6. Conference papers all single-authored by Gaia Giuliani
Between 2008 and 2014 I have presented papers at national and international conferences
and symposia, which exemplifies the transnational and global contributions that I offer to the
European and extra-European debates on colonial and postcolonial, critical race and
whiteness, gender issues. These events have been held at the following universities:
2014 (It) “Mediterraneità e bianchezza. Il razzismo italiano tra fascismo e articolazioni
contemporanee” at the two days symposium on Cultura, transcultura, razza. Categorie della
differenza, dinamiche di differenziazione e razzializzazione transnazionali, University of
Macerata (Ita), 10-11 June.
2014 (It) “People or perish: leggere Lombroso in Australia dopo l’approvazione della White
Australia Policy” at the symposium Global Lombroso? Eredità e persistenze del discorso sulla
“razza” nella costruzione delle scienze sociali, at the Biblioteca di Storia moderna e
contemporanea, Roma (Ita), 13 May.
2014: (Eng) “The future (past?) boundaries of citizenship: elimination (War of the worlds,
2005), inclusion (Monsters, 2010), contamination (District 9, 2009)” at the International
conference Memories of the Future, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL and the Institute of
Modern Languages Research (UK), 2-3 May.
2013: (Eng) “Fears of disaster and white fantasies in European popular culture (2001-2013)"
at the Cultures of Disasters. An international conference on humanistic disaster studies,
University of Oslo (Nor), 6-8 November.
2013: (Eng) “Critical Whiteness Studies, Intersectionality and Emotional coding as the
fundational analytical scheme for an anti-Racist university and society” at the international
Building an Anti-Racist University, University of Leeds (UK), 18 October.
2013: (Eng) “Fears of disaster and (post-)human raciologies in European popular culture
(2001-2013)” International Conference The Posthuman: differences, embodiments,
performativity, University of Roma 3 (Ita), 11-14 September.
2013: (Eng)
“Omino bianco. Images of Blackness and Whiteness in contemporary
(postcolonial) Italy, 2010-2012”, International Conference After the Empires Reflections of
European colonialism in a globalized world, Roskilde University (Den), 29-31 May.
2012: (Eng) “European self-representation(s) in a time of crisis” at the International
Conference on Implications of the Eurozone crisis for perceptions, politics and policies of
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migration, University of Malmö (Swe), 29-30 November.
2012: (Eng) “The Construction of Italianness: Race and whiteness in Liberal and early
Fascist Italy”, 2nd Global Conference Images of whiteness. Exploring critical issues Mansfield
College, University of Oxford (UK), 7-9 July.
2012: (Eng) “The Construction of Italianness: Masculinity and Race in Liberal and Early
Fascist Italy” at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s conference on Reimagining
White Ethnicity. Expressivity, Identity, Race, City University of NY (USA), 27-28 April.
2011: (Eng) “Prior-ness, In-sidedness and Out-sidedness: Colour-assignment at the
Foundation of the Settler Body-Politic” at the International Graduate Conference on Colonial
Legacies, Postcolonial Contestations: Decolonizing The Social Sciences And The Humanities,
Frankfurt Research Center For Postcolonial Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt (Ger), 1618 June.
2011: (Eng) “Postcolonial Theory and the construction of Otherness in settler colonialism” at
the EACLALS Triennial Conference, Bogazici University, Istanbul (Tur) 26-30 April.
2011: (Eng) “Coloring geographies of power. The color line in settler colonialism” at the
“Critical
Ethnic
Studies
and
the
Future
of
Genocide:
Settler
Colonialism/Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy” Conference, University of California
Riverside (USA), 10-12 March.
2010: (Eng) “Relocating blackness. The construction of the Italian whiteness 1861-1945” at
the “Reconceptualising postcolonial national identities in the Nordic countries – and beyond”,
Third Workshop in the Series Decoding the Nordic Colonial Mind, Oslo University College
(Nor), 13-14 October.
2010: (Eng) “The politics of colour in Liberal and early Fascism Italy” at the International
Seminar on Postcolonial Europe, Dept. Culture and Identity, Roskilde University (Den), 12
October.
2010: (Eng) “Throwaway Labour. Blackbirding and a white Australia”, at the European Society
for the Study of English (ESSE) 10th Conference, University of Turin (Ita), 24-28 August.
2010: (Eng) “L’italiano negro”, at the 8th Crossroad in Cultural Studies Conference at
Lingnan University of Hong Kong (HK), 17-21 June.
2010: (Eng) “Matching-colours: settler colonialism and colour line" at the Settler colonialism
and colour line: a topicality? Round Table, Transforming Culture Research Centre, University
of Technology Sydney (NSW), 5 May.
2010: (Eng) “Politics of Colour in early 20th century Italy”, at the Transcultural Mappings.
Emerging Issues in Comparative, Transnational and Area Studies at the University of
Sydney (NSW), 9-11 April.
2009: (Eng) “Sovereignty and colonialism. From national sovereignty to anticolonial
sovereignties”, at 10th Biennial EASA Conference Dis/solutions. The Future of the Past in
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, University of Balearic Islands (Spain), 22-25
September.
2009: (Eng) “Whose whiteness? Cultural dislocations between Italy and Australia” at 2nd
IAIRF, Borders. Theory. Art. And Power, University of Bari (Ita), 17-19 June.
2009: (It) “Fantasie di bianchezza nell’Australia indipendente”, at “Tutti i colori del bianco.
Prospettive teoriche e sguardi critici sulla Whiteness” (Symposium), University of Bologna
(Ita), 5 March.
2008: (Eng) “Selecting Whites. The Sovereign Subject in Early Independent Australia”, at
ACRAWSA Annual Conference, University of Melbourne (VIC), 3-5 December.
2008: (Eng) “Selecting Whites. The Sovereign Subject in Early Independent Australia”, at
Relational Dis/locations: Mediterranean Cultures in Translocal and Transnational Contexts
(Symposium), Macquarie University (NSW), 28 November.
2008: (Eng) “The Double Face of Sovereignty”, at Lex of Somatechnics (Symposium),
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Somatechnics Research Centre & Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie
University (NSW), 4 July.
7. Collaborations/publications in non-academic journals, e-journals, newspapers
2013-2014:
weblogs
Marginalia
(marginaliavincenzaperilli.blogspot.it);
(distopie.wordpress.com); Betty&Books betty-books.com.
Distopie
2006-2009: Italian newspaper Liberazione (as author of a series of articles on gender issues).
2008: ‘Traiettorie pornografiche attraverso il confine virtuale/reale’ (Pornographic
trajectories through actual/virtual boundaries), Quaderni d’altri tempi, n. 16.
2007: ‘Donne Politica Istituzioni. Uno spazio “politico” in sé’ (Women, politics, Institutions. A
‘per se’ political space), Inchiesta (Italian trimestral journal), 1.
2006: ‘Il principio di Color Blindness e il dibattito europeo su razza e razzismo’ (The colourblindness principle and the European debate on race and racism), Jura Gentium, 2.
website of the Centre for Philosophy of International Law and Global Politics
(www.juragentium.org/forum/race/it/giuliani.htm).
8. Translation of essay/articles for academic books and journals.
2013: Bacchetta, P., Haritaworn, J., ‘Molti sono i transatlantici: omo-nazionalismo, omotransnazionalismo, teorie e pratiche femministe-queer-trans di colore’, in Fantone, L.,
Bacchetta, P. (eds.), Trans-Q Fem: Elementi per una critica femminista queer e
transnazionale, Rome, Ediesse (forthcoming 2014).
2013: Stoever-Ackerman, J., W.E.B. Du Bois e la linea del colore sonora, Studi culturali, 1,
pp. 71-88.
2012: Grewal, I., Kaplan, C., ‘Identità globali. Per una teoria degli Studi transnazionali sulla
sessualità’, in Fantone, L., Bacchetta, P. (eds.), Trans-Q Fem: Elementi per una critica
femminista queer e transnazionale, Rome, Ediesse (forthcoming 2014).
2011: Chen, K.-H., ‘“Riflessioni su Asia as Method” di Takeuchi Yoshimi (1960)’, Studi
culturali, 1, pp. 33-44,
2010: Glaude, E., ‘Il melodramma della razza. L’Esodo e l’Underground Railroad’, Filosofia
politica, 3, pp. 431-446.
2008: Pugliese, J., ‘L’etica irriconoscibile del terrorismo. Necroetica e sollecitazione della
violenza’, Studi culturali, 1, pp. 31-50.
2007: Several essays in Santoro, M., Sassatelli, R. (eds.), Studiare la cultura, Bologna, Il
Mulino, 2009.
2007: Hall, S., ‘Un dialogo con C.L.R. James, Studi culturali’, 2, pp. 237-267.
2007: Eyerman, R., ‘L’assassinio come performance pubblica. L’omicidio di Theo van Gogh’,
Studi culturali, 1, pp. 27-54.
2006: Guillaumin, C., ‘Il corpo costruito’, Studi Culturali, 2, pp. 117-132.
2005: Fanon, F., ‘Tunisi 1959. Un esperimento di ospedalizzazione diurna in psichiatria’, Studi
culturali, 2, pp. 291-312.
ACTIVITIES
1. TEACHING EXPERIENCE (2001-2013)
Teaching tools
Full expertise in Apple and Windows systems, and in the following programs: Office (word,
excel, power point); Spss; NeoOffice; Firefox, Safari, Explorer; dropbox, wetransfer; Skype;
Google chat; Facebook, Academia.edu, Linkedin; Acrobat, textedit, photoshop; VLC,
QuickTime player, Realplayer; iMovie, iChat, iCall.
Records (as sessional lecturer)
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2009: Award for Graduate Student Excellence in teaching (2008-2009) issued by the
University of California representative at the University of Bologna (University of California,
Centro Studi di Bologna) for my lectureship in the Graduate course of Colonial and
Postcolonial Studies. I have been invited to lecture at the course by virtue of my extensive
experience and great skills in Postcolonial Theory, Gender and Global Feminism Theories,
Critical Whiteness Studies and approaches, and Political Theory background. It involved
overseas students from UC (2008-2009). The nature of my collaboration to the course led by
Prof. Sandro Mezzadra was as a guest lecturer (medium scale: around 30 students attended
the course).
Courses (as teaching assistant, guest lecturer and supervisor at graduate level)
2013-2014: for my skills in postcolonial, critical race and whiteness studies, and gender
studies readings of visual texts (as evidenced by my project with abriele Proglio distopie.
worldpress.org and the academic research that will be soon published as a book by Le
Monnier/Mondadori education), I have been invited as teaching assistant and guest lecturer to
the undergraduate course of Gender Studies (career in Sociology ans Semiotics) led by
Prof. Cristina Demaria at the Faculty of Filosofia e Comunicazione, University of
Bologna – Bologna campus (large scale: around 70 students).
2012-2013: for my skills in a reading of Italian gender construction through an intersectional
viewpoint (as evidenced by my last book Black and white (§ 1. Books, n.2), I’ve been invited
as teaching assistant and guest lecturer to the undergraduate course of Gender Studies
(career in Sociology ans Semiotics) led by Prof. Cristina Demaria at the Faculty of
Filosofia e Comunicazione, University of Bologna – Bologna campus (large scale:
around 70 students).
2001-2009: for my skills and expertise in Postcolonial Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies and
Political Theory, I have been invited as teaching assistant and guest lecturer, collaborator in
the supervision of presentations, essays, and BA thesis to the undergraduate course of
‘Colonial and Postcolonial Studies’ led by Prof. Sandro Mezzadra at the Faculty of Political
Sciences, University of Bologna – Bologna campus (medium scale: around 30 students per
year).
2006-2007; 2004-2005; 2002-2003; 2001-2002: for my skills and great expertise in
contemporary Italian and Global History and Historiographical methodologies I have been
invited as undergraduate teaching assistant to the course of ‘Contemporary Global and Italian
History’ (led by Prof. Giuseppe Maione) at the Faculty of Political Sciences (University of
Bologna, Bologna campus). (very large scale: 200 students per year)
2005-2006: for my focus on gender and global feminism theories and skills in Gender
Studies, I have been invited as teaching assistant at the Undergraduate and
Postgraduate course ‘Donne Politica Istituzioni’ led by Prof. Maria Laura Lanzillo) at the
Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bologna - Forlì campus (large scale: around
70 students).
2001/2002: undergraduate teaching assistant (one of four teaching assistants) for the course
of ‘History of Political Thought’ (led by Prof. Carlo Galli) at the faculty of Political Sciences,
University of Bologna, Forlì campus (very large scale: around 350 students).
Guest lectures/seminars at postgraduate level
For my extensive teaching experience, skills in methodological training and records, and great
expertise in Postcolonial Theory, Colonial and Postcolonial History, Gender Theory, Critical
Race Theory and Critical Whiteness Studies approach ad methodologies I have been invited
worlwide to give guest lectures:
2014: (Eng) Guest seminar on “How Italians became white: an intersectional analysis of
Italians' racial identity”, Dept. Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London (UK) 7th
May.
2014: (Eng) Guest seminar on “Black and white. An intersectional and postcolonial approach
to Italians’ racial identity (1861-2011)”, CEHUM, Universidade Do Minho (PG), 20th March.
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2014: (Eng) Workshop_Programa de Doutoramento em Modernidades Comparadas on
“Critical Whiteness Studies, Intersectionality and Emotional coding as the fundational
analytical scheme for scholarly research and intellectual understanding of culture, history and
society”, CEHUM, Universidade do Minho (PG), 20th March.
2013: (Eng) Guest seminar on “Black and white. History of the Italians’ racial identity 1860s2010” at the Department of Sociology, University of Newclastle (UK), 12 November.
2013: (Eng) Guest lecture on “Bianco che più bianco non si puó. Color-assignments in
contemporary (postcolonial) Italy (2010-2012)” at the Summer school ‘The power of colour’,
Humboldt University, Berlin (Ger), 22-26 July.
2013: (Ita) Guest lecture on “Le radici storiche e culturali del razzismo in Italia” (The cultural
and historical root of Italian racism) at the Scuola di Dottorato in ‘Scienze Sociali:
Interazioni, Comunicazione, Costruzioni Culturali’ (PhD School in Social sciences:
Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions), University of Padua, 10 June.
2011: (Eng) Guest lecture on “Assigning colour in the Pacific: For a racialised political
anthropology of settler colonialism”, Dept. of Sociology and Athropology, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC), 17 March.
2011: (Eng) Guest lecture on “The construction of Italianness: Masculinity and race in late
Liberal and early Fascist Italy” at the seminar on Nations, Art and Darkness: Visions of PostColonial Citizenship and Race, UCBerkeley (CA), 9 March.
2010: (Eng) Guest lecture on “Lombroso and Australia” at the Institute for Social Research,
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne (VIC), 28 April.
2010: (Eng) Guest lecture on “Aren’t Italians White? The Italian way to whiteness”, at the
Bagel Seminar Series, Transforming Culture Research Centre, University of Technology
Sydney (NSW), 31 March.
2010: (Eng) Guest lecture on “Not enough white: Mediterraneans, Lombroso and the making
of White Australia”, at the Bagel Seminar Series, Transforming Culture Research Centre,
University of Technology Sydney (NSW), 3 March.
2009: (Eng) Guest lecture on “Cesare Lombroso and the making of White Australia”, ISR
2009 Seminars and Public Lectures Series at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne
University of Technology, Melbourne (VIC), 19 November.
2009: (Ita) Guest lecture on “Colonial stereotypes in the Italian public discourse on gender
and violence”, Seminar Series “Relazioni pericolose. Sicurezza, diritti ed autodeterminazione
nella metropoli contemporanea”, coordinated by prof. Alisa del Re at the Faculty of Political
Science, University of Padova (IT), 5 May.
2008: (Eng) Guest lecture on “The Body, Sexuality and Precarity”, at the Bagel Seminar
Series, Transforming Cultures Centre, University of Technology Sydney (NSW), 24 July.
2007: (Eng) Guest lecture on “Beyond curiosity. James Mill’s History of British India and the
new colonial imaginary”, at the South Asian Seminar series coordinated by prof. Devleena
Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney (NSW), 31 August.
2007: (Eng) Guest lecture on “Precarity of the femaleness and feminisms of precarity”, at the
Dept. of Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC), January.
2007: (Eng) Guest lecture on “The precarious subject and European women’s activism” at the
Dept. of Comparative Studies, University of Columbus (Ohio), 16 January.
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