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Current Position
Marie Curie fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles/Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC)
Areas of Competence
Social Anthropology and Ethnology
Areas of Specialization
Anthropology of cultural policies, Intangible Cultural Heritage (UNESCO)
Education
2005 PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnology, jointly obtained (co-tutelle de thèse) from École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris and Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milan ; Daniel Fabre and Giovanni Puglisi, advisors. Obtained with honours. Dissertation title: L’eredità della sirena: percorsi transculturali di un’immagine popolare.
2001 Graduate specialization degree in Applied Anthropology, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
2000 Italian laurea (MA) in Classics, Università degli Studi di Milano. Obtained with honors.
Postdoctoral research
2010-2012 ULB (Bruxelles) Intangible cultural heritage policies in Europe: what “participation” of which “communities”?
2008-2009 EHESS (Paris). Inventaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel reconnu par les groupes d’origine italienne résidant en France.
2007-2008 EHESS (Paris). Inventaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel en Ile-de-France.
2007-2008 EHESS (Paris). Le patrimoine immatériel transnational des minorités parisiennes: enjeux et problématiques de l’institution de la diversité culturelle.
2006-2007 EHESS (Paris). La tradition au second degré: la patrimonialisation de l’immatériel selon l’Unesco.
2004-2006 Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM (Milan). Identità, memoria e patrimoni.
Coordination of international research projects
2008-2011 Institutions, territoires et communautés: perspectives sur le patrimoine culturel immatériel translocal, granted by Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Italo-German centre for European research excellence.
Organisation of research seminars and conferences
2012 (with Christoph Brumann) Panel «Culture Anxieties and Global Regimes: The Politics of UNESCO in Anthropological Perspective», EASA Biennial Conference: Nanterre, France 10-13th July.
2011 (with David Berliner) research seminar « La Fabrique du patrimoine », Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC), Université Libre de Bruxelles, 11-12 Mai.
2009 (with David Berliner). Panel «Unesco and the Politics of Cultural Heritage: Anthropological Perspectives», American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, 3-5 December.
2006-2009 Monthly research seminar in partnership with the Mission ethnologie (French ministry for Culture) « Patrimoine immatériel », Laboratoire d’anthropologie et d’histoire de l’institution de la culture, Paris.
2007 Conference «Le nuove frontiere del patrimonio: l’evoluzione delle categorie patrimoniali secondo l’Unesco» Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milan.
2002-2004 Series of four conferences on World Heritage in partnership with the Italian National Commission for UNESCO « Heritage of Humanity between tangible and intangible: re-elaboration of the past as a resource for the future», Rome,11 December 2002, 7 March 2003, 4 July 2003, 1 April 2004.
Courses Taught and students’ supervision
2002-2008 Course lectures «International organizations of cultural heritage». Master in Heritage management, Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milan (Italy). Supervised graduate students’ theses and served on MA examination committees.
Member of scientific committee
2012
«Les vocabulaires locaux du ‘patrimoine’», University of Évora (Portugal).
2011 «Droit et patrimoine culturel immatériel», musée du quai Branly, Paris (France).
2009 «Vivre du patrimoine », Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, Corte (France).
Fellowships and grants
2010-2012 European Commission, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (Belgium).
2008-2009 Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication/ Mission ethnologie (France). Research contract.
2007-2008 Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication/ Mission ethnologie (France). Research contract.
2007-2008 Ville de Paris. Postdoctoral fellowship.
2006-2007 Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche (France). Postdoctoral fellowship.
2004-2006 Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM (Italy). Postdoctoral fellowship (assegno di ricerca).
2005 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy). Short Term Mobility grant for a research period at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
2001-2004 Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM (Italy). Ph.D fellowship.
2001-2003 Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy). Borsa di studio di perfezionamento all’estero, (declined).
Expertise and Consulting
2010-2012 Expert for the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Regione Lombardia/Archivio di etnografia e storia sociale (Italy). Interreg project E.CH.I.
2011 Unesco expert: trainer in the capacity building workshops on Community-based inventory of Intangible cultural heritage, Cetinje, Montenegro, 24-31 October.
2011 Trained as a facilitator for capacity building for the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (Sophia, Bulgaria)
2009 Unesco expert in the capacity-building workshop for the mapping of ICH in the area of Kars, Kafkas Universitesi, Kars (Turkey), 8,9 October.
