Supervisors

Loic Artiaga

Loïc Artiaga, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Pau, specializes in mass culture, media industries, and popular heritage. His research explores the intersections of consumption, memory, and cultural practices in contemporary societies

https://item.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-lartiaga001-fr.html 

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Riccardo Barontini

Riccardo Barontini is a junior professor at UPPA, where he holds the chair of "Contemporary Ecopoetic Issues." He is currently leading the research project "Literary Anthropocene: Circulations between Experimental Sciences and Literature in the Age of Environmental Crisis." Previously he has been Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at Sorbonne University (project "Digital Ecocriticism: Moving beyond anthropocentrism in the contemporary French novel") and he has been junior and senior postdoctoral researcher in French Literature at Ghent University ((2018-2023) and the coordinator of the research project “Literature, Nature and Ecology”. He holds a Ph.D. in French Literature from Sorbonne University, and he has been a visiting researcher at Stanford University. His main research topics are French contemporary literature, Ecocriticism and Digital Humanities. He recently edited, with Pierre Schoentjes and Sara Buekens the volume "L’Horizon écologique des fictions contemporaines", Genève, Droz, 2022. He published the monography "L’Imagination littéraire. Le modèle romantique au défi des sciences humaines" (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2020). 

https://alter.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-rbarontini-fr.html 

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Christine Bouisset

Chrisitine Bouisset is full Professor in Geography at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour. she received her Doctoral thesis in geography on forest fire management from the University of Avignon in 1998.  Her Habililation à diriger des recherches was defended at  the University of Grenoble Alpes in 2021. Her research lies in the thematics of risk management, heritage of natural areas, environmental transition and local implementation of public policies to combat climate change.

https://tree.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv-bouisset-fr.html 

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Laurent Dornel

Laurent Dornel is currently a lecturer in contemporary history at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, where he has worked since 2008. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure in Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, with an agrégation in history and a DEA in sociology, he has been qualified to direct research since April 2023.

His initial research led him to work on a sociohistory of xenophobia in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he has shown how a veritable 'xenophobic system' came into being during the first decades of the Third Republic, while examining the main figures of the foreigner and how they evolved. He also took an interest in migratory flows between south-west France and Argentina between 1850 and 1920, contributing to the study of elite migration. Finally, he also took an early interest in the history of colonial workers during the First World War and showed that the presence of these workers played a key role in the racialisation of French society.

In April 2023 he defended a habilitation to direct research, the dossier of which, "Altérités et circulations migratoires (France impériale, 1880-1920)", contained an unpublished work entitled Indispensables et indésirables. Les travailleurs coloniaux de la Grande Guerre. The jury was made up of Manuela Martini, Isabelle Merle, Anne Rasmussen, Isabelle Lespinet-Moret, Philippe Rygiel (guarantor), Emmanuelle Saada, Todd Shepard and Xavier Vigna.

He is currently supervising or co-supervising 5 doctoral students. He has published three monographs, (co-)edited six books and written around fifty book chapters and articles. He is currently working on the publication of his habilitation at La Découverte (to be published in early 2025).

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https://item.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-ldornel-fr.html 

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Caroline Fischer

Caroline Fischer, Full Professor in General and Comparative Literature at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour. Numerous publications on exciting literature, reception studies (codir. Konzepte der Rezeption, vol. 1. Réception productive; vol. 2. Esthétique de la réception; vol. 3. Réception et transferts culturels: Interactions entre deux processus de médiation littéraire Stauffenburg 2015, 2018, 2021), literary translation (La Traduction de la poésie entre imitatio et transfert poétique : langues, espaces, médias, with Beatrice Nickel, Stauffenburg 2012,) intermediality (Intermédialités, Poétiques comparatistes, with Anne Debrosse, Lucie Editions 2015; Intermedial Dante: Reception, Appropriation, Metamorphosis, with Mattia Petricola. Dossier dans Transmediality / Intermediality / Crossmediality: Problems of Definition, dir. Hans-Joachim Backe, Massimo Fusillo, Mirko Lino, Between, X.20 (2020), www.betweenjournal.it,) and literary plurilinguism (Choix esthétiques et enjeux politiques : Auteur.e.s plurilingues de langues romanes, with Bernard Franco, in print, Champion, 2024).

https://alter.univ-pau.fr/fr/_plugins/mypage/mypage/content/cfische1.html 

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Emilie Guyard

Emilie GUYARD is University Lecturer at the University of Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (ALTER UR7504). She is an expert on the Spanish detective genre. Since 2016, she has organised an annual scientific event at the University of Pau dedicated to the detective genre in collaboration with the festival “Un aller-retour dans le Noir”. As an extension of these events, she has already published four books: Emilie Guyard (ed.), L’imaginaire social dans le roman noir espagnol et portugais du XXIe siècle, Binges, Éditions Orbis Tertius (Collection Universitas), 2017, 236 p. Emilie Guyard (ed), Roman Noir: espaces urbains et grands espaces, Líneas [URL: https://revues.univ-pau.fr/lineas/2370; Emilie GUYARD et Myriam ROCHE (ed.), Roman noir et journalisme : enquête de vérité, Chambéry : PUSMB, 2020, 308 p., ISBN : 978-2-37741-055-2SB and COLIN, Christelle ; GUYARD, Emilie ; ROCHE, Myriam, Le polar dans la cité, Pau, PUPPA, 2022.  In December 2018 she gained her “Habilitation à diriger des recherches” by presenting a study entitled Carlos Salem: le polar déjanté ou la quête du sens.

 https://alter.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-eguyardc-fr.html

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Sébastien Laborie

Sébastien Laborie defended his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2008 at the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France). From 2008 to 2010, he was a post-­doctoral fellow at IRIT (Toulouse, France) working on the LINDO ITEA2 European project entitled "Large scale distributed INDexation of multimedia Objects". Since 2010, he became an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Laboratory (LIUPPA) in Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA). Since 2021, he is the Leader of the T2I Research team. He obtained his Accreditation to Direct Research the 29th August 2024. His research topics are at the crossroad of heterogenous data management, Information Systems and Semantic Web technologies. He co-supervised several theses and published research results in Computer Science International Journals and Conferences.

https://slaborie.perso.univ-pau.fr

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Mathilde Lamothe  

Mathilde Lamothe holds the PCITER Junior Professorship at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (ITEM laboratory). After completing an international cotutelle thesis, she obtained a PhD in ethnology and heritage (Université Laval, Quebec) and a doctorate in ethnology (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France). She has worked on inventories of intangible cultural heritage, traditional games and sports, and uses of water and forests in the Pyrenees. Her research focuses on the study of heritage processes, intangible cultural heritage and historical ecology in mountain environments.

https://item.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-mlamoth3-fr.html 

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Yves Landerouin

Yves Landerouin is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université of Pau et les Pays de l’Adour (France) and a Comité National des Universités' member (10th section).  He was Head of French in the Faculté de Bayonne. His research interest mainly lies in the fields of intermediality (literature and music, Literature and cinema) and “creative criticism” ( inspired by Oscar Wilde’s theory of “the Critic as Artist”), on which he published essays (ex. La critique créative, Paris, Honoré Champion, «  Dialogue des arts », 2016) and numerous papers. A large part of his work is also dedicated to Jean Giraudoux and especially to his theatre plays (he edited Electre and La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu for Garnier-Flammarion and Giraudoux's  essays and articles, 2 volumes, for Classiques-Garnier).

https://alter.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-landerou-fr.html 

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Hélène Laplace-Claverie

Hélène Laplace-Claverie is a full Professor at Université de Pau et des pays de l’Adour, where she mainly teaches French Literature. She also heads the ALTER research unit (Arts/Languages : Transitions et Relations, UR 7504), which brings together all the researchers of the Arts-Lettres-Langues field at UPPA. A former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), she worked for many years on performing arts from a literary point of view. More recently, her research has focused on the issue of writers’ houses in France. She is currently leading a research program funded by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, which focuses on literary house museums in this geographical area.

https://alter.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-hlaplace-fr.html 

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Pascale Peyraga   

Pascale Peyraga has been a full Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Pau since 2010, and is a member of the ALTER (Arts/Langages: Transitions & Relations UR 7504) laboratory at UPPA, as well as an associate member of the OIKOS Ecocriticism Research Workshop at the University of Perpignan. She specialises in the relationship between Literature and Visual Arts in the Iberian worlds, and has also taught Spanish Civilisation, which has given her an extensive knowledge of the historical contexts and ideological currents of the modern and contemporary periods in the Iberian Peninsula. Her research, initially devoted to the Theory of Literature and transgenericity, has gradually turned towards committed forms of Literature and Art, ecopoetics and ecofeminism. As such, she co-directed the projects "Femmes artistes, les formes de l'engagement" (2016-2018) and "L'art en partage citoyen" (2017-2019), at the intersection of the artistic, the political and the ecological, both of which resulted in collective publications. She co-coordinated the European Erasmus Mundus Design Measures project: PRI-ARTEC - 'Arts and ecologies: imaginaries, narratives and practices' (2022-2023), organised a study day in May 2023, 'Langues de terre et paroles d'eau', on environmental issues, and is currently coordinating, in collaboration with the UAEM (Mexico), a seminar on ecofeminism, ‘Enraizadas. Mujeres, creación, medioambiente y ecoterritorialidad'.

https://alter.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-peyraga-fr.html 

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Cécile Rochelois

Cécile Rochelois is an expert in the field of medieval scientific French. Since 2011, she has been engaged in the instruction of the history of the French language and French literature of the Middle Ages at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour.  Her inaugural thesis was a study of fish, both as an animal and as a source of nourishment, in medieval literature. She subsequently published a number of works on the representation of animals in medieval scientific and literary texts. She is currently engaged in several research projects pertaining to the history of science in medieval French literature, specialising in matters pertaining to nature. These include:- "The Dictionary of Medieval Scientific French" (in particular the sections on botany and zoology) can be accessed at https://dfsm.elan-numerique.fr/.- The collective edition of the "Livre des propriétés des choses" by Jean Corbechon, in collaboration with Joëlle Ducos (edition of the "Livre des eaux" and the "Livre des provinces")- The collective edition of the "Livre des profits ruraux et champêtres" by Pierre de Crescens, in collaboration with Fleur Vigneron. She is currently engaged in the final stages of preparing an unpublished work on the writing of books on herbs, beasts and stones in French from the twelfth century to the very beginning of the sixteenth century. She plans to submit her habilitation to direct research in 2025.

https://alter.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-crochelo-fr.html 

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Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

Since 2015, Professor at the English Department, UFR LLSH, UPPA, Director of the Internal Component of the Masters LLC, Director of the Research Masters in English Studies - PSDDA Chair of Expert Committee (Sections 11 and 12) Since 2018: Elected member of the ALTER Laboratory Council (EA 7504) . Research themes: The voice in literature and the arts, Study of text/image relationships in Victorian literature and painting, Study of the relationship between science, art and museums, promotion of scientific heritage. Publications:« Comforting Creatures: Changing Visions of Animal Otherness in the Victorian Period », (codirigé avec Sara Thornton), Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens [online], Volume 88 Automne | URL : http://journals.openedition.org/cve/3790"Mediating Ruskin" (codirigé avec Fabienne Gaspari), Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, Volume 91 Spring 2020

https://alter.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-lroussi1-fr.html  

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Fabienne Plazolles Guillen

Fabienne Plazolles Guillen is a Senior Lecturer, Teacher in the Department of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies (UFR LLSHS) and member of the ALTER laboratory. Her research focuses on Spanish Kingdoms from the 14th to the 16th centuries, history and anthropology of urban societies, history of slavery, judicial history, history of the first sugar islands, picaresque literature.

https://alter.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/membres/cv_-fguillen-fr.html 

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Éric Schall

Éric Schall is a senior academic with over three decades of research, teaching, and leadership in energy engineering, fluid mechanics, and sustainable development. He earned his PhD in Energetic Mechanics from the University of Provence in 1995, after an engineering degree in Thermal Engineering and a DEA in Fundamental Energetic Mechanics.
He began his career as a researcher at ENPC-CERMICS-INRIA and later as an expert engineer at INRIA, collaborating with major French industrial stakeholders such as CEA-CESTA, Dassault Aviation, EDF, Ariane-Espace, and Hispano-Suiza. In 1999, he joined UPPA as Associate Professor. His career includes leading major research projects, such as the OPTIMAL aeronautics project endorsed by the French aerospace clusters, and the regional “Large Capacity Airship” project. He has served as Special Advisor to two UPPA Presidents on Energy Transition and Sustainable Development (2017–2024), demonstrating strong expertise at the interface of science, policy, and organizational strategy.
A dedicated teacher, he delivers ~290 hours per year in mechanics and energetics, and has co-supervised 7 PhD theses and 11 Master’s/Engineering internships. His academic contributions include 31 peer-reviewed journal articles, 37 international conference presentations, and numerous research reports.
Regularly engaged in scientific evaluation, he has served as expert reviewer for the French National Research Agency (ANR) and international bodies, as well as multiple peer-reviewed journals.

https://siame.univ-pau.fr/fr/organisation/liste-des-membres/cv_-schall-fr-2.html 

Emma Bell

Emma Bell is full Professor of Contemporary British Politics. She initially trained in law before undertaking post-graduate research in penal policy, drawing on political science, criminology and sociology to understand the political impetus behind punishment. Her current research focuses on new forms of emancipatory democratic praxis.

http://www.llseti.univ-smb.fr/web/llseti/257-bell-emma.php

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Carmelo Caggegi

Carmelo Caggegi is Full Professor at Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB). His research activities concern the reinforcement of existing buildings. He works on the development of composite materials for the rehabilitation of masonry structures by developing eco-friendly solutions compatibles with the historical constructive elements. Prof. Caggegi made a Phd in the framework of an international agreement between University of Catania and University Paris Est. He had been ATER at University Paris Est from 2013 until 2014, Associate Professor at University Lyon 1 from 2014 to 2024. From September 2023 to August 2024, he had been Visiting Scholar at Northumbria University (UK). Carmelo Caggegi is co-responsible of the research axis BASE (BAti durable: Structure et Enveloppe) at the laboratory LOCIE. He participates to the activities of several scientific committees concerning the rehabilitation of historic building. He contributed to the redaction of technical guidelines RILEM TC 250 CSM (« Composites for Sustainable Strengthening of Masonry ») for the testing of TRM composite materials. He is an active member of the RILEM international Committee 290-IMC (“Durability of Inorganic Matrix Composites used for Strengthening of Masonry Constructions CSM”). He is the representative of the LOCIE at the College Doctorale of USMB and at the Ecole Doctorale SIE. He had been Co-responsible of international relations of Civil Engineering department of IUT Lyon during 9 years. At present he is involved in several UNITA activities. He organized with Pr Minelli and the teams of UNIBS/USMB/UNIZAR a BIP-UNITA on Rehabilitation of historic buildings in September 2025.

https://www.univ-smb.fr/locie/carmelo-caggegi-membre-du-locie/ 

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Muriel Fadairo

Dr. Muriel Fadairo is a Full Professor of Management Science and a research fellow at the IREGE Lab., University Savoie Mont Blanc, in the French Alps. A specialist in entrepreneurship, her research focuses on the “humanistic turn” in entrepreneurship, an emerging field that highlights the interconnections between entrepreneurs’ life paths and their personal spheres. She has extensive experience supervising PhD students and international collaborative research projects. Her work appears in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Small Business Management, Research Policy, Small Business Economics, and the Journal of Business Research.

https://www.irege.univ-smb.fr/membres-permanents/  

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Jacques Ibanez Bueno

Jacques Ibanez Bueno, assistant in Switzerland at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Geneva, is preparing his PhD in Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Grenoble, France, on the synergies between television and the recording industry.

A contract researcher at the GRESEC laboratory, he works on research contracts for private and public players. As a lecturer at the University of Burgundy, he took part in the creation of new training courses, in particular an institute in Enterprise Documentation, Networks and Image Engineering, as project leader and first director. He contributed to the creation of a new research team, LIMSI (Laboratory on Image, Mediation and International Communication). From 2003 onwards, as a lecturer and then professor at the Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, he was responsible for the creation of a complete interdisciplinary degree program (Bachelor Master Phd), being the first director of a Hypermedia and Communication Department and the first head of a research team (G-SICA Inter-Laboratory Group on Image, Communication and Digital Arts) before joining the LLSETI Research Group. He is a regular guest at European and American universities.

In 2010-11 at the University of North Texas, he developed research with USA colleagues on the appropriation of emerging uses of iconic technologies (using Visual Methods). In 2016, he published a book entitled "the commutative body: from television to videophony".

In 2022, he was awarded a one-year CNRS delegation to carry out research in Marseille at La Fabrique des Écritures Ethnographiques within the Centre Norbert Élias laboratory. This research, which is being carried out in four countries (Switzerland, Mexico, Spain and France), examines digital worlds through a re-reading of Michel de Certeau's work. As the centenary of de Certeau's birth approaches (2025), he is spearheading the creation of an international network in support of this commemoration.

In 2022, he became the first President of the learned society VISUAL MODI (International Association for Research in Visual and Multimodal Methods): https://visualmodi.hypotheses.org

http://www.llseti.univ-smb.fr/web/llseti/525-ibanez-bueno-jacques.php  

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Élodie Manthé

Elodie Manthé holds a PhD in Marketing and is Associate Professor at USMB – France for four years. She carried out research in collaborative finance, collaborative donation and contributive tourism from a consumer point of view (i.e. what are the trigger and consequences of tourist charitable contribution to a destination). Her research has been published in top-rated Journal such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practices and Current Issues in Tourism. She regularly presents her results to international conferences such as TTRA, ERNOP, American Marketing Association Congress.

https://www.irege.univ-smb.fr/membres-permanents/ 

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Émilie-Anne Pépy

Émilie-Anne Pépy is professor of Modern History at the Languages, Literatures and Human Sciences Department in the University Savoie Mont Blanc. Her research expertise lies in environmental and cultural history in the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, with a particular focus on cultural transfers and circulations. 

https://www.llseti.univ-smb.fr/web/llseti/260-pepy-emilie-anne.php 

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Cristina Vignali

Cristina Vignali is Professeur des Universités in Italian Studies at Université Savoie Mont Blanc. Her research focuses on the perception of the contemporary world by writers, playwrights and directors between the 20th and 21st centuries (Dino Buzzati, Anna Maria Ortese, Guido Morselli, Dario Fo, Goliarda Sapienza, Erri De Luca, Liliana Cavani, Marco Tullio Giordana, ...) and on the study of literary text in translation. Her mor recent monography is « Scrivere è un appoggio che si dà al mondo». De Angelici dolori à L’Iguana : le parcours littéraire et idéologique d’Anna Maria Ortese » (PUSMB, 2020).

http://www.llseti.univ-smb.fr/web/llseti/265-vignali-cristina.php 

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Yajing Yan

Yajing Yan received Ph.D. degree in geosciences and environment from the Laboratoire d’Informatique, Systèmes, Traitement de l’Information et de la Connaissance (LISTIC) and the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Annecy-le-Vieux, France, in 2011. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Institut d’Électronique et des Télécommunications de Rennes, France, from January 2012 to June 2012, and with the Geo-Hydrodynamics and Environment Research group, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, from July 2012 to August 2014. Since September 2014, she has been an Associate Professor with LISTIC, Université Savoie Mont Blanc. Her research interests include multitemporal interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) processing, data fusion, data assimilation and ML.

https://www.univ-smb.fr/listic/presentation/membres/enseignants-chercheurs/yajing-yan-fr/ 

Jorge Angás Pajas

Dr. Jorge Angás is a Senior Permanent Researcher in the Department of Antiquity Sciences in the ARAID - University of Zaragoza (Spain).

He is specialized in Geospatial Sciences applied to Digital Cultural Heritage (LiDAR, Photogrammetry, GIS, VR, aerial imagery, multispectral sensors). He is a member of the “First Settlers and Archaeological Heritage Research Group (P3A)” and the IPH Research Institute at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He has carried out research stays in the Dipartimento di Archeologia e Storia delle Arti (Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy) and at the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles DRAC Midi-Pyrénées (Toulouse, France). He completed his PhD thesis with a European mention, cum laude and received the first Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2015-16).

Since 2014, he has worked on archaeological campaigns in the Sultanate of Oman, Emirate of Sharjah (UAE) and Uzbekistan. His contributions have allowed him to develop extensive scientific activity in the publication of over 70 papers and books. Likewise, he has made 80 contributions, the majority as a guest speaker, in congresses and workshops. He is a member of ICOMOS-Spain and founder member of the Scientific National Committee for Rock Art ICOMOS-Spain.

Currently, He is the principal investigator (PI) of a research project (DiGHER, 2023-2026) of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation on Digital Twins and their application to Cultural Heritage.

https://iphunizar.com/jorge-angas-pajas/  

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Francisco Beltran Lloris

Full professor of Ancient History. Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Cooperation. Member of the Government of Aragon research group HIBERUS, and of the ‘Instituto de Patrimonio y Humanidades’ (IPH).

Main research interests: the ancient epigraphic cultures, and the history of Hispania and the Roman western Mediterranean, including irrigation.

Leader of the research team TITVLVS devoted to the multidisciplinary study of the ancient —Palaeo-European, Palaeo-Hispanic and Roman— epigraphic cultures, approached as organic systems of knowledge and communicative practice combining language, script, and support in order to record or transmit messages in well-defined social and ideological contexts. We study inscriptions as sources for history and linguistics but also as social media, paying attention to their role in the different ancient written cultures and literacies. We are committed to open science and to the preservation of this important part of the European cultural heritage and its integration in the modern European cultural discourse through the cooperation with museums, schools and cultural institutions and technological companies.

Leader of the network Ancient European Languages and Writings - AELAW (arising from a European COST Action: http://aelaw.unizar.es/, 2015-2020), coordinator at Zaragoza of the research group Hesperia, involved in the management of the homonymous Palaeo-Hispanic online database (http://hesperia.ucm.es/ ) and member of the international committee for the organisation of the Coloquios de Lenguas y Culturas Paleohispánicas. Founder and co-director of the journal Palaeohispanica, including among its last volumes a handbook and introduction to the ancient Palaeo-European languages and epigraphic cultures (F. Beltrán, B. Díaz, M. J. Estarán y C. Jordán eds., https://ifc.dpz.es/ojs/index.php/palaeohispanica/index), a topic to which is also devoted the multilingual series AELAW Booklets (https://puz.unizar.es/277-aelaw-booklet ). Contributor to the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (Berlin).

As PI, I lead projects of basic investigation funded by the Spanish authorities since 2003 —the latest: Everyday Writing. Literacy, Cultural Contact and Social Change in Hispania Citerior Between the Roman Conquest and Late Antiquity (EsCo)—, but I am also involved in projects funded by other institutions —Fundación Ibercaja: edition of the Celtiberian inscriptions of Peñaba, Villastar— and in projects funded by European programmes focusing on schools, museums and citizens in collaboration with technological companies, as SELECT (Self-learning Atlas of Ancient European Cultures, KA201 - Strategic Partnerships for school education, https://www.selecteplus.eu/ ) or xFORMAL (Informal and Non-Formal E-Learning for Cultural Heritage, H2020-MSCA-RISE-2020, https://xformal.eu/).

Editor of 15 books and author of 14 monographies and c. 270 publications and papers in Spanish and international journals (https://dialnet.unirioja.es/metricas/areas/2113, https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/autor?codigo=29105).

Visiting professor at the École Normale Superieure (Paris). Research periods at Munich, Heidelberg, Rome, or Oxford. A member of the Committee of the Association Internationale d’Epigraphie Grecque et Latine (1998-2002 and 2013-2017) and a corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia.

Supervisor of eleven PhD thesis, the latest of them dealing with epigraphic supports, bilingualism, compared epigraphy, the transformations of epigraphic cultures or Roman family galleries. I am supervising now three more PhD thesis, two of them in co-tutelle with the universities of Pau and Bari.

http://aelaw.unizar.es/people/francisco-beltran-lloris 

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Miguel Angel Benitez Castro

http://filologiainglesa.unizar.es/personal/miguel-angel-benitez-castro 

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Anna Biedermann

Anna Biedermann is an interdisciplinary academic with a strong design, sustainability, and historical memory background. Her career spans international research and projects that connect engineering and architecture with cultural and social aspects. Her focus on sustainability has led her to lead multiple initiatives related to impact assessment and applying sustainable principles in multidisciplinary contexts. The exhibitions with museography designed by her have been shown in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, Kansas City, Seattle, Charlotte(USA), Toronto (Canada), Brisbane (Australia), Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg (South Africa), Madrid, San Sebastian, Valencia, Zaragoza (Spain), London (UK) and Paris (France), Malmö (Sweden) and other European cities.

Dr. Biedermann is a co-principal investigator in the consolidated research group “Aragonese Observatory of Art in the Public Sphere”,  where she promotes interdisciplinary collaboration to address contemporary issues. She has led 24 knowledge transfer contracts, consolidating links between academia and society. Her research has been funded by university and regional calls for proposals and public-private partnerships, and she has participated in 15 regional and national research projects.

Her research results have been presented in over 45 international congresses and collected in 25 scientific articles and 34 book chapters published by prestigious publishers such as Springer. In addition, it has published books that explore the intersections between art, technology, and sustainability, such as Arte y Tecnología en Aragón (Art and Technology in Aragon).

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Sara Catalàn

Sara Catalán is Senior Lecturer of Marketing at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and member of the research group GENERES, recognised by the Government of Aragon. Her research interests include the application of gamification strategies in tourism, cultural heritage, mobile apps and companies. Her work has been published in journals such as International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Tourism Research, and Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology.

https://generes.unizar.es/es/members/catalan-gil/ 

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Giulia Fasano

Giulia Fasano è Docente di Lingua Italiana presso l’Università di Saragozza. Dopo le lauree in Lettere Moderne e Filologia Moderna presso l’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, ha conseguito il dottorato internazionale di ricerca in Filologia Italiana all’Università di Salamanca, con una tesi dedicata allo studio dei marginalia figurati presenti nei codici della tradizione manoscritta più antica della Commedia. Nel corso degli anni di dottorato e successivamente, ha svolto attività di ricerca in diversi atenei europei. Attualmente collabora con il gruppo di ricerca HUM-344 della rete PAIDI (Piano Andaluso di Ricerca, Sviluppo e Innovazione) nell’ambito della ricezione dei topoi erotici latini nella letteratura andalusa contemporanea, ed è membro della Società Spagnola degli Italianisti. Ha, inoltre, collaborato con l’Università Complutense di Madrid in qualità di relatrice nei seminari di Filologia Dantesca destinati agli studenti del Master in Studi Letterari. La sua attività scientifica si è concentrata in particolare sulla ricezione della Commedia dantesca, la sua divulgazione e sulla letteratura comparata. Di seguito alcune pubblicazioni:

Fasano, G. (2017). La ricezione della Commedia: Studio dei marginalia nei manoscritti medievali. RSEI: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Italianistas: 11, 2015/2017, 91-109.

Fasano, G. (2018). La filosofía política nelle epoche di crisi: A se stesso di Marco Aurelio e monarchia di Dante a confronto. In Laguna Mariscal, G. e Monterroso, A. (ed.) Marco Aurelio y la Roma Imperial: las raíces béticas de Europa. Ayuntamiento de Espejo, 185-192.

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Javier Ibáñez Fernández

Javier Ibáñez Fernández is Full professor of History of Art and History of Architecture in the Departamento de Historia del Arte - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the University of Saragoza. He developed an intense teaching work, mainly at the Univ. of Zaragoza, where he is Full Professor, but also at the Université de Toulouse II le Mirail (now Jean Jaurès) in the Master's courses in History of Art, the Università degli Studi di Palermo (PhD School and Faculty of Architecture), the Università IUAV of Venice (PhD School in History of Architecture and Town planning). He has also been invited speaker at various courses and seminars at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art - Centre André Chastel, and many other prominent institutes and universities in Europe and Italy. His wide research activity, developed in different research groups and projects funded by regional, national and international entities, has been reflected in several monographs, book chapters and scientific articles, and has been recognised by the award of three six-year research periods (CNEAI / ANECA). He has deepened the medieval and modern Spanish and Aragonese architecture, with special regard to the architectural techniques, the circulation of the building knowledge and Spanish gothic architectural drawings. He is PI of the Diputación General de Aragón Research Group on Medieval and Modern Art in Aragon. He has been Scientific advisor for the Master Plans for the restoration of the Santo Sepulcro and Santa María de Calatayud in Zaragoza.

https://janovas.unizar.es/sideral/CV/javier-ibanez-fernandez 

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Conception Lomba Serrano

Full Professor of Art History and director of the Institute for Research in Heritage and Humanities (‘Instituto de Patrimonio y Humanidades’ ) at the University of Zaragoza, she is the leader of the consolidated research group Vestigium, funded by the Government of Aragon since 2009.

She also belongs to the State Corps of Curators of Museums (on voluntary leave of absence) and worked at the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art and the Reina Sofía National Museum in Madrid (1987-1992). In 2005 she was elected a numerary member of the San Luis Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Zaragoza, and has held various positions at the University of Zaragoza, such as Vice-Rector of Culture and Social Policy (2008-2012).

Research interests

• Contemporary art, with a clear vocation for social constructions and the artistic avant-garde.
• Cultural heritage.
• Gender studies.

Research and career achievements

She has six six-year research periods to her credit (the last one 2014-2019).

Principal investigator of different research projects obtained in competitive calls, the most recent being Las artistas en la escena cultural española y su relación con Europa, 1803-1945 (2021-2024).

Member of different research projects of special relevance with companies and/or public administrations.

Supervisor of seven doctoral theses and is currently supervising another five.

She has organised courses and congresses in different institutions and private entities; has given conferences in different European and American cities (Barcelona, Florence, Havana, León ―Nicaragua―, Madrid, Nantes, Pisa, Trodheim, Turin, Valencia, Zaragoza...).

Member of different scientific committees of specialised and indexed journals.

Member of some thirty doctoral thesis tribunals.

Director of the De Arte collection of ‘Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza’.

She has been a member of various juries, including the National Photography Prize and the Research Prize.

https://iphunizar.com/concepcion-lomba-serrano/ 

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Jesús Pedro Lorente

J. Pedro Lorente is Full Professor of Art History at the University of Saragossa (Spain), where he leads the research group Aragonese Observatory of Art in the Public Sphere. After his studies of Art History in Saragossa, he completed postgraduate training in Rome, Florence, Paris and Leicester, where he submitted his doctoral dissertation at the Department of Museum Studies (supervisor: Eilean Hooper Greenhill). His last book in English, Reflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums, was published in 2022 by Routledge. The same publishers released in 2019 his previous book: Public Art and Museums in Cultural Districts. Ashgate published in 1998 the book based on his PhD (supervised by Eileen Hooper-Greenhill at the Department of Museum Studies of Leicester University): Cathedrals of Urban Modernity: The First Museums of Contemporary Art, 1800-1930, which was the prequel of his best-known publication, The Museums of Contemporary Art: Notion and Development (also available in Spanish, French and Turkish).

More information in https://unizar.academia.edu/JesúsPedroLorenteLorente

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Alberto Montaner Frutos

Professor of Spanish Literature at UNIZAR, Department of Spanish Philology and Assistant Director of its Institute on Heritage and the Humanities. Departmental secretary (2003-2004), assistant chair (2004-2009), and Department chair (2012-2019). Also the assistant director of Section of Emblem Studies - Institución «Fernando el Católico» (DPZ-CSIC). Director Institución «Fernando el Católico» (1997-2007), Director of the Arab and Islamic Studies division of the now defunct Instituto de Estudios Islámicos y del Oriente Próximo, a joint venture of Cortes de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza and CSIC (2004-2011).
 
Invited Professor in many universities, Saint Petersburg (1990), Oxford (1992), UNAM (2002), Puebla (2002, 2004, 2013 and 2015), ENS de Lyon (2003, 2005, 2006 et 2010), Buenos Aires (2005), Berkeley (2007), the Sorbonne (2006, 2010 and 2016), Zürich (2015) and Stanford (2017). Since 2013, philological Consultant for Real Academia Española’s Nuevo Diccionario Histórico del Español. 

Research áreas: hispanic and comparative epic poetry; the relationships between literature, history, and juro-political thought in the Middle Ages and Golden Age; medieval and renaissance magic and its treatment in literature; Arab-Hispanic literary and cultural relations; the history of the lexicon of Ibero-Romance and its borrowings from Semitic and other languages of the Middle East; General Emblematics, with special attention to Heraldry; the conceptual and material problems of the edition of texts and the epistemology of the Human Sciences. 

His publications include 52 books, 9 booklets, 307 articles and book chapters, 16 reviews and 11 audiovisual productions, in addition to 38 expert reports on his research areas.

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Pedro Rujula

Full Professor of Contemporary History

Director of ‘Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza’

Pedro Rújula is a Professor of Modern History at Zaragoza University (Spain). Among his main research interest are political, social and cultural phenomena at the origins of the contemporary world, especially the birth of politics and the processes of politicisation, public opinion, the civil wars of the 19th century and counter-revolutionary phenomena. He has also favoured the study of historical texts, with a special focus on biographical or autobiographical texts and historiographical studies.

He is the author of many articles and has published some books like Contrarrevolución (1820-1840) (1998), Constitución o Muerte (1820-1823) (2000), El Trienio liberal. Revolución e Independencia (1820-1823) (2020) or Religión, Rey y Patria. Los orígenes contrarrevolucionarios de la España contemporánea (1793-1840) (2023).

He is editor of Guerra de Ideas. Política y cultura durante la Guerra de la Independencia (2012) (with Jordi Canal), Los Sitios en la Guerra de la Independencia: la lucha en las ciudades (2013) (with Gonzalo Butrón), Historia de la Universidad de Zaragoza (2016) (with Concha Lomba) and El Trienio liberal, una mirada política (2020) (with Ivana Frasquet), and is the coordinator of monographics issues like Jerónimo Zurita (2008 e 2012), Ayer (2014), Pasado y Memoria (2014) or Bulletin d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Espagne (2020).

Also is the literary editor of the works of Antonio Pirala (2005), Faustino Casamayor (2008), Louis-François Lejeune (2009 y 2015), Louis-Gabriel Suchet (2012) or Wilhelm von Rahden (2013). He is also director of the publishing house Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza.

https://historia.unizar.es/personal/pedro-victor-rujula-lopez

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Raquel Ortega

Raquel Ortega, Ph.D. is a Professor of Management at IEDIS, Research Institute of Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability, University of Zaragoza, Spain. Her current research focuses on the well-being of entrepreneurs and SME managers. She has extensive experience supervising PhD students and international collaborative research projects. She publishes her work in leading peer-reviewed journals.

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Maria Josefa Tarifa Castilla 

Bachelor's degree in Geography and History (1997) and PhD in Art History (2003) from the University of Navarra with a thesis on 16th-century religious architecture in Navarra, which won the Extraordinary Doctorate Award.
She has been a senior lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Zaragoza since 2020.
She has carried out her research activity in research groups at the University of Zaragoza and, since 2023, as Co-IP of TRAZA. Research Group on Medieval and Modern Art Development in Aragon, together with Professor Javier Ibáñez Fernández. Since 2017, she has been a member of the Thematic Network for Cooperative Research on Late Gothic Art (15th-16th Centuries) and, since 2019, of the University Institute for Research in Heritage and Humanities at the University of Zaragoza.
Her main areas of work focus on art from the Modern Age, Jesuit architecture, architectural treatises and architectural designs, conducting research stays at national and international centres. Some of her studies have been carried out within the framework of projects under the Ministry's National R&D Plan, such as “Architectural designs in the Iberian Peninsula between the 15th and 16th centuries. Inventory and Cataloguing” (HAR2014-54281-P).
Her publications include six monographs, around a hundred book chapters, and more than fifty articles that have appeared in various scientific journals. This work has been recognised with four six-year periods of research by the CNEAI of the ANECA (2000-2005; 2007-2012; 2013-2018; 2019-2024).

https://www.unav.edu/web/catedra-patrimonio/quienes-somos/profesorado/maria-josefa-tarifa-castilla 

Maria Elena Aramendia-Muneta

Maria Elena Aramendia-Muneta, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Business Management Department and Vice-dean of Internationalisation and Communication in the Faculty of Economics and Business at Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain. Her primary research fields are digital marketing, circular fashion, sustainable tourism, and marketing history. She has participated as a researcher and project manager in calls for proposals such as Horizon 2020 (Honest - History of Nuclear Energy and Society), Interreg IVC (ORP - Open Research Platform) and Leonardo Da Vinci- Innovation Transfer (PIA2 - Project management).

https://www.unavarra.es/pdi?uid=6579 

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Alfredo Asiáin

Profesor Contratado. Doctor en el Departamento de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación. Trabaja en el área de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura castellanas. Asimismo, trabaja en el área de la educación patrimonial y del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial.Ha impartido clases en la Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA) de Proyectos de Lengua y Literatura, Proceso de lecto-escritura, Habilidades comunicativas y TIC (para alumnos autóctonos y extranjeros), Didáctica de la lengua y Didáctica de la literatura infantil. También ha impartido dos asignaturas en el Máster de Formación del Profesorado de Secundaria: Intensificación disciplinar y Aprendizaje basado en proyectos.Ha sido tambien profesor del Curso electivo (título propio de la UPNA) de "Gestión cultural en el ámbito local", tutor de proyectos y examinador. Ha sido invitado a cursos de verano organizados por la Universidad Pública de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, Universidad del País Vasco y Universidad Don Bosco (El Salvador).

https://www.unavarra.es/pdi?uid=8901

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José-Miguel Lana Berasáin

José-Miguel Lana Berasáin (ORCID 0000-0002-9277-4227). PhD in History (1997) by the University of Zaragoza. Since 2021, Full Professor of Economic History and Institutions at the Department of Economics of the Public University of Navarre. Previously, he was part of the department of Economics of the University of Zaragoza (1991-97) and the department of Geography & History of UPNA (1997-2001). He supervised two doctoral thesis (one of them awarded with the Doctorate Extraordinary Prize in 2023) and two more are in progress. He performed management tasks as Deputy Head of the Department of Economics (2016-2018) and Deputy Head of the Navarrese Doctoral School - EDONA (2021-2025). From September 2019 to December 2023, he served as Editor-in-chief of the indexed journal Historia Agraria (JCR Q1 History 2023), whose Editorial board he joined in 2014. Between 2000 and 2005, he chaired the Navarrese Institute for Economic and Social History "Gerónimo de Uztariz". He has been principal investigator (IP) in six consecutive projects of the Plan Nacional de I+D+i related to communal resources, collective action and social capital, and collaborated in other international projects (COST A35 PROGRESSORE; COST CA22155 EU-PoTaRCh). He coordinates the UPNA-315 "History and Economics" Research Group, positively evaluated by ANEP (National Agency for Evaluation and Foresight) in 2022 (90/100). He has published in indexed journals such as the International Journal of the Commons, Rural History, Continuity & Change, European Review of Economic History, Histoire & Mesure, Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, Ayer, Historia Social, Revista de Historia Económica, and Revista de Historia Industrial.

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Gemma Piérola Narvarte

After completing a degree in History and Geography at the University of Navarra in 1997, she initiated a doctoral program at the Public University of Navarra under a grant from the Ministry of education and additional funding from the Professor education program. This provided the means to dedicate five-year research on the construction of gender discourse under Franco's regime. This laborious period was a fruitful experience resulting in a doctoral thesis.

In addition to this, she was privileged to participate as a researcher  and collaborator in five research projects under national and regional funding, which were directed by María Cátedra Tomás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Sagrario Anaut Bravo and Maria del Juncal Campo Guinea (Public University of Navarra ).

Subsequently, after a period of 11 years of teaching in Secondary Education, in 2016 she returned to university research, participating as a contract researcher in the Documentary Fund of Historical Memory in Navarre and as a lecturer in the areas of Contemporary History and Gender History at the Public University of Navarre, where she continues as a permanent lecturer.

Since attaining her undergraduate degree, she has been linked to the Institute of Economic and Social History Gerónimo de Uztáriz, an association of historians in which she has collaborated in different ways and is currently its president. Here she  has found a place to reflect and debate on history, the didactics of history and other social sciences, to carry out research among a network of leading researcher.

As a researcher, she has directed her interest towards the study of the history of women during Franco's regime by analyzing everyday life during the post-war period, gender discourses during these years, the forms of violence affecting women during the dictatorship, everyday resistance, and the memory of repression at a regional level. As a result, she has published several articles such as: The moralizing discourse of customs during the dictatorship, the Patronage of Women Protection, repression and types of violence and social control directed towards women, the violation of human rights during Franco's regime and biographies of women under repression. In addition, two books have been published: the first, the result of her doctoral thesis, entitled Mujer e ideología en la dictadura franquista. Navarra (1939-1960) (2018) [Women and ideology during Franco’s dictatorship] and the second, recently published, Historias silenciadas: vida y olvido de diez mujeres navarras represaliadas durante el franquismo. Silenced stories: the forgotten lives of ten women from Navarra:  A biographical proposal for their recognition in public spaces (2023). The latter was an OTRI project signed between Pamplona City Council and the UPNA in which she participated as the main researcher.

This research has been possible thanks to the support of the UPNA research group History and Economics, the agreements signed between the Documentary Fund of Historical Memory in Navarre, the Navarra government and the Parliament of Navarra (2017-2024) Here she has participated as a project collaborator, while in other projects of a more interdisciplinary nature she has collaborated as a researcher: Legajos en la mochila: Patrimonio y enseñanza de la Historia. Nuevos textos históricos navarros comentados (UNED Pamplona, 2019-20), La desigualdad económica en el muy largo plazo, 1250-1850. El caso de navarra en el espejo europeo (UPNA, 2020-2021) and Historia y presente del control social, las instituciones punitivas y los cuerpos de seguridad en España (siglos XX-XXI): prácticas, discursos y representaciones culturales (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. State Research Agency, 2022-2024).

Work on a regional scale must be open to dialogue with similar realities in other areas.  She has attempted to do so by participating in teaching exchange programs,  such as one held at the University of Wentzao (Taiwan, 2019), and in colloquia and/or scientific meetings, such as the one given as part of the I Central American Forum of Students of Anthropology Schools Migrations, social change and Central American identity entitled "The Documentary Fund of Historical Memory in Navarre: presentación de un modelo de investigación y base de datos sobre la represión franquista" (El Salvador, 2017). In addition she participated at a conference in Rouen in 2002 presenting a paper entitled "Pour la dignité des femmes: l'hygiène morale publique et privée dans les arrêtés du maire pendant le franquisme" and offered a presentation at the University of Savoie-Mont-Blanc as part of the cycle of conferences of the international research project UNITA Heritage and Gender Studies (Université de Pau, Univ. de Turin and Univ. Savoie Mont-Blanc) under the title: "Être femme sous le franquisme: construction et diffusion de modèles de genre à partir des sources écrites de l'époque" (Chambéry, 2022).

https://www.unavarra.es/pdi?uid=811203

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Daniel Oviedo Silva

Daniel Oviedo Silva (Segovia, 1988) holds a PhD in Hispanic and Latin American Studies from the University of Nottingham. He completed his undergraduate studies in History at the Complutense University of Madrid and has been a visiting researcher at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the University of Nottingham. He has taken part in projects funded by the Spanish Government, the Parliament of Navarre and the European Union, such as 'Memosur: A Lesson for Europe: Memory, Trauma and Reconciliation in Chile and Argentina' (MC-IRSES). He is also a member of the 'Group for the Study of the History of Prisons and Punitive Institutions'. His main publications include the monograph 'El Enemigo a las puertas. Porteros y prácticas acusatorias en Madrid (1936-1945)', and the edited volumes 'Madrid, una ciudad en guerra (1936-1948)' (together with Alejandro Pérez-Olivares) and 'Relatos Infames: Breves historias de crimen y castigo' (together with Ignacio Mendiola). His research interests include uncomfortable heritage and range from the history of political violence to the study of social conflict and control in the contemporary urban world. He has dedicated part of his postdoctoral work to researching the traumatic past of Navarre as a member of the project 'Fondo Documental de la Memoria Histórica en Navarra'. These endeavours have resulted in numerous scholarly publications, knowledge transfer initiatives, and the supervision of research projects and dissertations by undergraduate and postgraduate students. He is currently employed at the Universidad Pública de Navarra as a profesor Ayudante Doctor.

https://www.unavarra.es/pdi?uid=811667&dato=descripcion 

Filippo Barbera

Filippo Barbera is full Professor of economic sociology at the CPS Department of the University of Turin and Fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Torino). Current research projects focus on the role of democratic populism in marginal areas, the regeneration of the public sphere and the analysis of foundational economy experiments in the provision of citizenship goods and services.

https://www.itcilo.org/fr/staff/filippo-barbera 

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Gabriella Bosco

Full Professor of French Literature (SSD L-LIN/03), Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures, University of Turin. 
Languages Department. Her areas of research: narrative theory, first-person writing (autobiography, autofiction, “I” novels), Baroque literature, modernity/postmodernity, theater of the absurd (with a particular focus on Eugène Ionesco), French literary reception in Italy. She teaches French literature (bachelor's and master's courses). She edits or contributes to journals (notably Studi Francesi), editorial collections, and organizes seminars on Narrative Autobiographical Perspectives.

https://www.sififr.unito.it/membres/membres-du-d%C3%A9partement-de-langues/gabriella-bosco 

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Franca Bruera

Franca Bruera is a university Professor of French literature at the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin, where  she is the Principal Investigator of a PRIN research project, “Declinations of Risk: Toward an Archaeology of Aesthetic-Literary Imaginaries from the 20th Century to the Present in French-Language Literature. A specialist in 20th-century French-language literature, she has published several studies on poetic, theatrical, and novelistic language throughout the 20th century, on literary avant-gardes in France, and their collaborative relationships with the Italian avant-gardes. She works on contemporary Quebec novels and French-language Lebanese poetry. Among her studies in this field are the volumes Apollinaire & C (Bulzoni, 1991), Guillaume Apollinaire: 202, boulevard Saint Germain, Paris (Bulzoni, 1992), Plurilinguisme et avant-gardes (co-edited, Peter Lang, 2011), and Le Troisième sexe des avant-gardes (co-edited, Classiques Garnier, 2017). Her research also focuses on the epistemology of myth rewritings (cf. “Interférences Littéraires” http://interferenceslitteraires.be/index.php/illi/issue/view/6) and on literary translingualism (cf. “CosMo” https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/issue/view/268). She is also a translator and has published the complete edition of Apollinaire's plays in Italian (Teatro, Carocci, 2020), an anthology of poetry by Salah Stétié (Bulzoni, 1996), and André Salmon prosateur (Modigliani, Nardini, 2020).

https://www.studium.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?franca.bruera#tab-profilo 

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Carmelina Concilio

Carmelina Concilio is Full professor of English and Postcolonial literature at the University of Turin: Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures. She is the recipient of Canada-Italy Innovation Award 2021. She is President of AISCLI (www.aiscli.it) and she has recently published Imagining Ageing. Representation of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literature (Transcript 2018) and New Critical Patterns in Postcolonial Discourse. Historical Traumas and Environmental Issues (2012). She has co-edited Trees in Literatures and the Arts. Humanarboreal Perspectives in the Anthropocene (2021). Her research fields include Postcolonial anglophone literature and the Environmental Humanities.

https://www.languages.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?carmen.concilio#tab-profilo 

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Paola Cifarelli

Paola Cifarelli is full professor of History of French Language. Her research focuses on literary texts in Middle French and pre-Classical French. She is interested in brief genres (Aesopic fable, novella, facetia) and in this field, she published a thematic catalogue of French Aesopic fables of late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, a critical edition of G. Corrozet Second Livre des fables d’Esope, 1547 and several studies on specific collections, like Marie de France’s Ysopet. She is also interested in the transition of medieval literary works to print ; she has collaborated on two national projects on this topic, contributing to the Nouveau Répertoire des Mises en prose (2014 and 2024) and the EMAF database (Editer le Moyen Age en Français).She is currently engaged in two research projects concerning, respectively, the acclimation of humanistic facetia in France (15th and 16th century) and the activities of early scholarly philologists in establishing a French literary canon in the mid-sixteenth century. 

https://www.didattica-cps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?paola.cifarelli#tab-profilo 

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Anna Ciotta

Anna Ciotta is Associate Professor of History of Contemporary Art at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures of the University of Turin. Her research interests focus primarily on landscape painting in the second half of the 19th century in Italy and Spain; Spanish and Italian women artists between the second half of the 19th century and the 21st century; and gender studies applied to Contemporary Art. In line with this latter area of study, she will hold the course Questione di genere e arte contemporanea, in the 2025/2026 academic year at the Scuola di Studi Superiori Ferdinando Rossi of the University of Turin. Her monographs include La forma della luce nella pittura di Francesco Lojacono. Una lettura della sua opera nel quadro di alcune esperienze della pittura di paesaggio italiana ed europea del XIX secolo and La cultura della comunicazione nel piano del Centro Mondiale di Hendrik Ch. Andersen e di Ernest M. Hébrard. She has published many articles in Italy, Spain and the United States, including seven articles in Class A journals. She has been the scientific and organisational director of an international conference and has given many lectures in Italy and abroad on historical and artistic topics related to her areas of research. She is co-director of Filarti, Collana di Storia dell'Arte e dell'Architettura contemporanee, published by FrancoAngeli in Milan. She has participated in several national and international research projects. She is a member of the teaching staff of the Doctoral Programme in Patrimonio culturale e produzione storico-artistica, audiovisiva e multimediale of the University of Turin. She is the academic coordinator of the Erasmus agreements between the University of Turin and the Universities of Zaragoza, Valencia and Oviedo. 

https://www.lingue.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?anna.ciotta#tab-profilo 

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Massimiliano Demata

Massimiliano Demata is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin. He has published extensively on computer-mediated communication, social media discourse, political and media discourse, nationalism, populism and conspiracy theories in the UK and the USA. His latest publications include Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA, published by Routledge in 2022, and Conspiracy Theory Discourses, edited with Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola and published by John Benjamins in 2022. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow twice (at Yale in 1999 and at Indiana University in 2014). He is the co-editor of the Journal of Language and Discrimination, published by Equinox, He was visiting professor and gave courses at Saarland University, the University of Regensburg, Luxembourg University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sciences Po Lyon and Sciences Po Bordeaux. In 2023 he was Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Lyon. 

https://www.dcps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?massimiliano.demata#tab-profilo 

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Sandra Garbarino

Sandra Garbarino is a senior Researcher in Language Didactics at the Department of Languages, at the University of Turin where she is in charge of Intercomprehension and collaborates in the UNITA project activities. She was Maître de Conférences at the Université Lyon 2 (2006-2021) where she taught and did research on Italian L2 and Intercomprehension for 16 years. She is interested in multilingual didactics and communication in intercomprehension, telecollaboration platforms, language policies and translanguaging.Among her latest publication, the volume "Intercomprensione" written with Elisabetta Bonvino (Università Roma 3) and published by Caissa Italia and a chapter on Intercomprehension written with Maddalena De Carlo, published in the Routledge "Handbook of plurilingual language education".Thesis co-supervisor:Géraldine Lesparre, Modélisation de l’apprentissage de l’intercompréhension interactive : vers le perfectionnement des apprenants (UPPA/UNITO) Elem Alp, Bilinguisme, bilittératie, biculturalisme des étudiants dans les départementsde langue des universités turques : le cas des jeunes issus des familles de l’immigration turque en Europe »  (ROUEN/UNITO).

https://www.lingue.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?sandra.garbarino#tab-profilo 

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Francesca Geymonat

Francesca Geymonat insegna Grammatica e Storia della lingua italiana a Torino, dal 2019 nel ruolo di Professoressa Associata; si è formata alla Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa e ha trascorso due anni in Spagna con borse di studio, insegnando nell'a.a. 1996-97 all'Università di Granada; ha lavorato alla redazione del GRADIT (Grande Dizionario della Lingua italiana dell'uso, diretto da Tullio De Mauro, Torino, Utet, 1999, 7 voll.). I suoi interessi di ricerca vertono sulla tradizione della Commedia di Dante e sui testi di carattere filosofico e scientifico dei primi secoli; ha curato l'edizione critica con commento linguistico delle «Questioni filosofiche» in volgare mediano dei primi del Trecento (Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2000) e saggi sul testimone di Francesco di ser Nardo, sull'Ottimo commento e sull'Anonimo fiorentino. È membro dell'unità principale del progetto Prin ArDiRe, dedicato allo studio dei testi e del lessico dei ricettari artistici di area italiana (XIV-XVI secolo) e finanziato dal Ministero italiano dell'Università e della ricerca. Gli studi di carattere settoriale e lessicologico si sono poi arricchiti di una indagine in età contemporanea dedicata a varie figure e principalmente all'attività di Carlo Cattaneo al quale è dedicato il volume Carlo Cattaneo linguista, Roma, Carocci, 2021.

https://unifind.unito.it/resource/person/2085 

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Chiara Giachino

Chiara Giachino, PhD, is Associate Professor in Marketing at the Department of Management,University of Turin, Italy. Her most recent researches concern the consumer behavior with focus on young generations, tourism marketing and strategy. Recently, she started to research on social media influencer marketing. She teaches marketing, industrial marketing and business management and she is involved also in some masters’ courses. She is the coordinator of the Marketing Sig in SIMA (Italian Management Association) and she recently was visiting researcher at the Columbia Business School.

https://www.management.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?chiara.giachino#tab-profilo 

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Silvia Giorcelli

Silvia Giorcelli is Full Professor of Roman History at the University of Turin (from 2016), where she has held several institutional positions. Her work mainly covers: Roman history from the Late Republic to the Early Empire; institutional changes and social developments between the Republic and the Empire; the Romanization of Cisalpine Gaul and the history of the Alps in Antiquity; the reception of Antiquity in modern culture, especially from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century; the history of Roman women with special attention to gender studies. She has chaired the Equal Opportunities Committee at the University of Turin for 9 years.

Career

From 2011: member of Deputazione Subalpina di Storia Patria (TO).

From 2022: member of Accademia delle Scienze (TO).

She was a member of the evaluating commission of the National Qualification Procedure in the Ancient History field (ASN 2021-2023).

Institutional Responsibilities

Current positions within the University of Turin:

• Member of the Directorial Council of the Department of Historical Studies
• Member of the Scientific Board of the PhD in Scienze Archeologiche, Storiche e Storico-Artistiche
• Departmental appointee for Equal Opportunities
• Coordinator of the Ancient History section of the Department of Historical Studies
• Delegate of the Department of Historical Studies in the international university network ‘UNITA-Universitas Montium – WP4’
• Delegate of the Department of Historical Studies in the University network MINDtheGEPs (Modifying Institutions by Developing Gender Equality Plans).

Major Collaborations (only from 2015)

She has participated to the following national and international research projects:

• PRIN 2022: EtiamEgo. Violence against women in ancient Rome: historical perspectives and symbolic constructions (Torino PI, Venezia, Padova, Bologna, Firenze); she is PI.
• PRIN 2015: False testimonianze. Copie, contraffazioni, manipolazioni e abusi del documento epigrafico antico.

Track Record

She is author of about 80 publications including peer-reviewed monographs, journal articles and chapters in edited volumes. Her latest book ‘L’impero in quota. I Romani e le Alpi’ (Turin, Einaudi, 2019) was awarded with 3 prestigious Prizes (ITAS 2020; Rigoni Stern 2020; Leggi Montagna 2020). She gave several conference presentations, as invited speaker, and organized international scientific meetings and seminars.

Research interests

• She currently studies the romanization of Cisalpine Gaul and the Alps in Antiquity, with specific reference to the institutional shape and social setting from the Republic to the Empire;
• 2) she cooperates on the redaction of “Supplementa Italica” for the critical edition of inscriptions from Liguria and Transpadana (Alba Pompeia 1999, Vercellae 2002, Augusta Praetoria 2019) and to the Epigraphic Database Roma (EDR);
• 3) she studies use and reception of the Past from Modern Age to 20^th century, among historiography and philosophical thought.
• 4) The history of Roman women has been at the centre of her research activities since several years; she studies the reception of Antiquity in connection with gender studies: her monograph on Hannah Arendt (Florence, Le Monnier, 2010) opened new paths for the study of the relationship between 20th-century Female Thought and Classical Scholarship.

Contact : silvia.giorcelli @ unito.it

https://storia.campusnet.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?silvia.giorcelli#tab-profilo 

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Chiara Lombardi

Chiara Lombardi is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Torino. Her essays have appeared in many international reviews and in several volumes of collected essays edited by Italian and international scholars. Her main fields of research, publication and teaching are the modern reception of Classical Literature, European Renaissance Literature, Comparative Literature of the Twentieth Century. Her books include Troilo e Criseide nella letteratura occidentale (Roma, Storia e Letteratura, 2005); La passione e l’assenza. Forme del mito in poesia da Shakespeare a Rilke (Torino, Academia University Press, 2018), Reading Shakespeare and the Classics (with C. Ragni and L. Marfè, Alessandria, Dell’Orso, 2021).

https://www.unito.it/persone/clombard 

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Vincenzo Lombardo

Vincenzo Lombardo, born 1964, PhD in Computer Science, is a Full Professor of Informatics at the University of Turin, Department of Informatics, Italy (www.di.unito.it/~vincenzo).
He is the Coordinator of the PhD programme in "Technologies for Cultural Heritage" (https://www.tech4culture2020.unito.it) and the President of CIRMA (Centre for Research on Multimedia and Audiovisuals - www.cirma.unito.it). He is co-founder and current vice-President of the School of Media and Arts (DAMS) of the University of Turin. 

He has been the principal investigator and workpackage leader in international and national projects. The EU-funded project VEP (Virtual Electronic Poem - www.cirma.unito.it/vep) has regained Le Corbusier’s Poème électronique in virtual reality, with worldwide installations, scientific awards, and webdoc included into the Performing Arts Web Archive of the US Library of Congress. The EU-project BeArchaeo (Beyond Archaeology, www.bearchaeo.unito.it): Horizon – RISE EU-Japan project on modern archaeological practices, with active database and virtual reality installation (see trailer at https://vimeo.com/762372879), hosted in public exhibitions. 

His research concerns methodologies, models and applications for interdisciplinary challenges of cultural heritage, such as tangible and intangible heritage communication, archaeological and historical research, preservation and management of landscapes, earth science cartography. He has also worked on natural language processing and cognitive science. His papers are published in international journals, books, conference proceedings, with several awards and nominations. 

He is also active as a curator and multimedia designer for cultural heritage projects. He has run the Art-Science Alliance Laboratory at public company Virtual Reality & Multi Media Park, (2004 - 2012, see videos at vimeo.com/vrmmp). 

https://tech4culture.unito.it/person/vincenzo-lombardo/ 

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Anna Mastromarino

Anna Mastromarino holds a PhD in Constitutional Law from the Università degli Studi di Milano (2005) and is Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza of the Università di Torino (Italy). She is a member of the editorial board of scientific journals such as ‘Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo’, ‘Diritti regionali’ and ‘De Europa’. She is also co-director of the journals ‘Osservatorio dell'AIC’ and ‘Diritti comparati’. She has held leading positions in academic and professional associations such as ‘Istoreto’, the ‘Commissione di Garanzia della Regione Piemonte’ and the ‘Sezione italiana dell'Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Constitucional’. Furthermore, she is a member of other networks such as the ‘Memory Studies Association’ and ‘Gruppo di Pisa’.  Her research interests include decentralisation, ethno-national conflicts and transitional justice, with a special focus on the role of the state in the implementation of memory policies. She has participated as a panellist in various national and international conferences and has published numerous books on the subject. These include the books ‘Memoria y políticas públicas. Como se construye un relato público del pasado' (2023), 'Stato e Memoria' (2018), 'Belgio' (2012) and ‘Il federalismo disaggregativo. Un percorso costituzionale negli Stati multinazionali' (2010). Additionally, she possesses substantial experience managing international mobility programs, such as Erasmus.

https://www.didattica-cps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?anna.mastromarino#tab-profilo 

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Ilario Meandri

Ilario Meandri is associate professor of ethnomusicology at the Department of Humanities, University of Turin. He brings research on classical topics of ethnomusicology together with the development of advanced technologies involving documentation and analysis of sound repertories (immersive audio recording, analysis through re-synthesis, virtual instrument development). He has carried out field research in Italy (alpine carnival traditions); Kosovo, Macedonia and Greece (on Rom wedding repertoires and on Albanian epic singing); Liguria and northern Italy (on the paraliturgical polyvocality of oral tradition). He has furthermore carried out extensive ethnomusicological studies on film soundtracks in mainstream contemporary North American cinema and the worldwide circulation of musical topoi coming from Hollywood film music, applying an ethnographic approach to the profession of the Hollywood composer. He has carried out pioneering work on the history of production techniques and sound recording in Italy from the post-War period to the present day, applying innovative methodologies to a systematic research on oral sources. His research has been published by the most prominent national and international editors in the discipline. His main line of research is knowledge representation in ethnomusicology, semantic interoperability and open data for the domain of ethnomusicology and anthropology of music.

https://cdsdams.campusnet.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?ilario.meandri#tab-profilo 

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Simone Natale

Simone Natale is Associate Professor in Media Theory and History at the University of Turin, Italy, and Editor of the journal Media, Culture & Society. He is the author of two monographs, most recently Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test (Oxford University Press, 2021, translated into Chinese, Italian and Portuguese), as well as more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in international journals including New Media & Society, the Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, and Convergence. He has taught and researched at Columbia University, US, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, Humboldt University and the University of Cologne in Germany, and Loughborough University in the UK. His research has been funded by international institutions such as the AHRC and ESRC in the UK, the Humboldt Foundation in Germany and Columbia University’s Italian Academy in the US. 

https://comunicazione.campusnet.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=snatale#tab-profilo 

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Sabrina Negri

Sabrina Negri (Ph.D. 2017, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies) is Assistant Professor (RtdB) in Cinema Studies at the University of Torino, Italy, where she is also a Rita Levi Montalcini Fellow. Prior to moving back to her home country, she held a tenure-track position at the Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A.. Her research interests center around the digitization of analog film materials and its consequences on film archival holdings. At the University of Torino, she teaches Film History and Film Preservation Theories and Practices.

https://people.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=sabnegri

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Alessandro Perissinotto

Alessandro Perissinotto is not only University Lecturer in the Humanities Department at the University of Turin, where he teaches creative writing and storytelling, but he is also the author of some twenty crime novels, translated in France (Gallimard "Série noire", Odile Jacob thriller, La Fosse aux ours), the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Romania, Estonia - under the pseudonym Arno Saar -, Russia and Japan. Finally, he is the artistic director of a literary festival in Rivalta di Torino called the RiStory Festival, in homage not only to its location but also to the process of restoration and narrative recycling that is characteristic of literature.

https://www.unito.it/persone/alessandro.perissinotto 

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Pietro Pinna

Pietro Pinna is professor of Contemporary History at the Cultures, Politics and Society Department, one of the largest departments at the University of Turin. He is a member of the scientific board of the PhD programme in Global History of Empires. His research expertise focuses on Italian Migration and transnational fascism.

https://www.sissco.it/soci/pinna-pietro/  

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Silvia Pireddu

Pireddu Silvia received an MA in Modern Foreign Languages and Literature from Università degli Studi di Pavia (Italy), specialising in History of the English Language. She holds a PhD in English and American Cultures from IULM University, Milan and worked with post-doctoral grants at Università degli Studi di Pavia on issues related to culture, translation, and the history of ideas. From 2005 to 2017, she taught in seminars and courses about English history and language at IULM, Milan, and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. She is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Università di Torino and teaches English Linguistics and communication to MA students in Cultural Heritage. She is also a member of the scientific committee for the PhD in Cultural Heritage and Historical-Artistic, Audiovisual, and Multimedia Production. Her research interests include history of culture museum communication with particular reference to the intersection of the theoretical principles and the practical frameworks of art, media and history.

https://www.dipartimentolingue.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?silvia.pireddu#tab-profilo

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Margherita Quaglino

Margherita Quaglino is Associate Professor in Italian Linguistics (L-FIL-LET/12) at theDepartment of Humanistic Studies of the University of Turin since October 2019. She coordinates, in collaboration with the Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Renaissance Italienne (CIRRI) de l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, the project La langue de la peinture en Italie, France, Espagne (XIVème - XVIIème siècles) / The language of painting in Italy, France, Spain (XIV-XVII centuries) and is a member of the Équipe Génétique et histoire des arts, coordinated by Nadejda Podzemskaia within the ITEM (Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes) in Paris. She is a member of the editorial board and responsible for the linguistic section of the database of the critical edition project of Catherine of Siena's epistolary, coordinated by the Historical Institute for the Middle Ages in Rome. She is a member of the Turin research unit of the PRIN project Amargine. Digital archive of the annotated books of Italian poets of the second half of the 20th century (national responsible national Andrea Aveto). 

https://cdslettere.campusnet.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?margherita.quaglino#tab-profilo 

Giorgio Bertanza

Prof. Bertanza graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Brescia (1990) and obtained his PhD in Sanitary Engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan (1996). In 2001, he became Associate Professor in tSanitary-Environmental Engineering at the University of Brescia and, on March 1, 2005, he took up a position as Full Professor. His teaching activities have included various courses (on the design and management of water and waste treatment plants) at various universities (Brescia, Pavia, Mantua), as well as teaching in over seventy specialization courses. He has been the supervisor or co-supervisor of more than 200 master theses and tutor of PhD theses. Research activities (as a participant in research groups, or as principal investigator of projects funded by ministerial or European funds) concern the following areas: the presence and removal of micropollutants from water, functionality checks and management criteria for wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), industrial wastewater and landfill leachate treatment, innovative wastewater and sludge treatment technologies, assessment of WWTP environmental footprint and management strategies using an integrated chemical-ecotoxicological approach, and audits of industrial symbiosis interventions. Research results have been the subject of over 380 scientific publications and presentations (including invited presentations) at over 130 national and international conferences. Prof. Bertanza is also the co-inventor of seven patents.

https://giorgio-bertanza.unibs.it/ 

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Paolo Borin

Paolo Borin is an Associate Professor at the University of Brescia, with extensive experience in the field of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and digital representation for architecture and cultural heritage. As a BIM consultant, he has led various projects, specializing in BIM management, parametric modeling, and the "scan to BIM" workflow for complex structures. His academic career includes significant research roles focusing on the application of digital tools to architectural history. His doctoral research explored the work of Guarino Guarini, using advanced digital modeling to analyze his stereotomic principles and their role in the history of representational science. This expertise is at the core of his current work, which aims to create a digital knowledge base for European stereotomy treatises by formalizing their geometric operations through scripting and ontology development. The work on Historic BIM (HBIM) has been presented at numerous international conferences and workshops. He is a key participant in major international collaborations, including the "Visualizing Venice" and "Digital Bomarzo" projects, demonstrating his expertise in using digital surveys, GIS, and BIM to reconstruct and analyze historical urban and architectural transformations. Borin is also a member of the technical-scientific committee for buildingSMART Italia, advocating for open BIM standards. His teaching and research consistently bridge the gap between historical theory and modern digital practice, providing a valuable framework for the preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage.

https://www.unibs.it/it/ugov/person/206390 

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Irene Giustina

Irene Giustina is Associate Professor of History of Architecture in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Territory and Environment, and Mathematics - DICATAM at the University of Brescia and she holds the National Scientific Qualification for the role of Full Professor. She is a member of the teaching boards of the PhD programme in Civil, Environmental, International Cooperation and Mathematical Engineering of the University of Brescia, curriculum Restoration of historical and contemporary buildings, and of the National PhD programme in Heritage Science, Sapienza University of Rome - Curriculum Science and technologies for architectural heritage, Politecnico di Milano. At DICATAM she teaches History of Architecture, History of Contemporary Architecture and History of Architectural Techniques; she co-coordinates the Digital Humanities cross-disciplinary course in the University of Brescia. Through participation and coordination in many national and international scientific projects and congresses, and circa 150 scientific publications including monographs, contributions to books and articles in scientific journals (list at https://iris.unibs.it), she devoted her scientific interests to the history of architecture and the history of architectural techniques in the modern and contemporary age. She especially deepened baroque, neoclassic and eclectic architecture with topics mainly concerning Lombardy, in particular Milan and Brescia, and their relations with the broader national and European context. She is the scientific coordinator of the University of Brescia research team in the international project Digital Cultural Heritage Twins Connections (HerOn), Starting Grant UNITA on Tourism and Cultural Heritage in a Digital World 2024-2025, PI University of Zaragoza.

https://www.unibs.it/it/ugov/person/1618 

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Giovanna Grossi

https://www.unibs.it/it/ugov/person/1309

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Fausto Minelli 

Fausto Minelli is a Full Professor in Structural Engineering at the University of Brescia, Department DICATAM. His research interests include mechanical characterization of fibre reinforced concrete and high-performance concrete, concrete and reinforced concrete structures, high performance concrete structures, non-linear modelling of r.c. structures and rehabilitation and restoration of existing buildings. The following research topics can be outlined: - Mechanical characterization of FRC and HPC materials; - Shear behaviour of RC and PRC members without transverse reinforcement; - Structural Applications of Fibre-Reinforced-Concrete. - Structural retrofitting of existing buildings, with special emphasis on r.c. and masonry structures. - Reinforced and prestressed reinforced concrete bridge design, assessment and retrofitting; - Structural aspect in Cultural Heritage. - Fausto Minelli is author of more than 150 scientific papers, 90 of which published in international journals or in international conferences; - His conference paper got the price “Best Student Paper: Structures Category” during the International conference ConMat ’05, Vancouver, Canada, August 22-24, 2005; - He was the advisor of about 100 master theses and co-advisor of about 90 master theses discussed at the University of Brescia, some of which with the support of foreign Universities; - He has been a member since 2008 of fib TG 4.2 “Ultimate Limit State Models”; - He has been a member since 2013 of fib TG 8.3: “Design of FRC Structures”. - He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD Program “Civil and Environmental Engineering” University of Brescia; he is the scientific secretary of the CV in “Preservation and structural rehabilitation of historical and modern buildings".

https://fausto-minelli.unibs.it/ 

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Roberto Ranzi

Roberto Ranzi is full Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics of university of Brescia (UNIBS). Currently, he serve as Vice Rector for International Affairs in UNIBS. Professor Ranzi Graduated cum laude in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and finished the PhD studies in Hydraulic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy (1994). His main field of research is the modelling of the space-time variability of hydrological processes. Professor Ranzi is author of over 80 publications refereed on Web of Science with H-index 24 (2024) and over 270 publications including books, conference proceedings and book chapters. He is member of the Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital of the ICA-International Cartographic Association Is National Coordinator in the "ASEA-UNINET" University network. He has been advisor of 8 PhD, coadvisor of 3 PhD, currently 3 PhD students in Water Engineering. 

https://roberto-ranzi.unibs.it/ 

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Barbara Scala

Associate professor of architectural restoration at the University of Brescia and member of the Society scientific SIRA, has long dealt with the seismic problems of the historic building in the Garda area, in particular addressing the case of the city of Salò (BS) in the study of urban aspects and techniques historical anti-seismic constructions, identifying forms of local seismic culture. In recent years he has deepened the application of HBIM, specifically studying technical solutions and operational for the management of the project and the restoration site in the historical architecture, activating specific agreements with the protection bodies (Superintendence of the Aosta Valley) for testing operating in particular in monuments of the Roman city. He has participated in numerous calls for funding of banking foundations (Fondazione Cariplo) for the study construction techniques of the mountain architecture of the valleys of Brescia drafting "Guidelines" for the restoration and planned conservation of rural architecture, adopted as tools operating from the local Mountain Communities. At the University of Brescia he teaches the course Architectural restoration and conservation, the course of International degree of Civil and Environment Engineering and a module to the course of History of Techniques of the degree course in Building Engineering-Architecture. Since 2020 he has been teaching at the HBIM master’s degree Politecnico di Milano, seat of Mantova for the courses Managerial processes in HBIM in historical assets. She is the author of over a hundred publications, in journals conference proceedings and monographs.

https://www.unibs.it/it/ugov/person/4353

Petruta Maria Coroiu

Petruta-Maria Coroiu is a musicologist, professor at the Transylvania University of Brasov (Romania), composer and pianist. She is the author of 35 volumes of musicology (analyses, courses and essays) and she is specialized in the music of one of the great Romanian composers of the twentieth century, Aurel Stroe. The areas of interest are musicological analysis, semantics and musical aesthetics, religious music.  

https://www.unitbv.ro/contact/comunitatea-unitbv/1986-coroiu-petruta-maria.html

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Mihai Ivanovici

Prof. Mihai Ivanovici holds a PhD in electronics from Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. He is a full professor at Transilvania University of Brașov, România and has 17 years of experience in managing various research projects (funded by EU structural funds and the Romanian Government, the Ministry of Education and Research or by Romanian private companies) and participating as researcher in national, European and international research projects (e.g. The ATLAS Experiment at LHC, AI4AGRI); he is the author of more than 50 scientific papers published in international conferences and journals. He is head of Multispectral Imaging and Venture Laboratory, within Department of Electronics and Computers, Transilvania University of Brașov, România and member of the IEEE Signal Processing and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing societies. He is a member of the Reviewers Board for MDPI Remote Sensing journal. His research interest and expertise are in the field of data acquisition, processing and analysis (including colour, multispectral and hyperspectral images, remote sensing data, data from particle physics experiments), as well as electronic system design and implementation. Currently he is supervising PhD in the field of electronics, telecommunications and information technologies.

https://www.unitbv.ro/contact/comunitatea-unitbv/2120-ivanovici-mihai.html 

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Carmen Maftei

Carmen Maftei is full Professor at the Building Services Department of Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania (UNITBV). Currently, she serve as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in Civil Engineering Faculty. She attended Polytechnic Institute of Iasi where she majored in Land Reclamation in 1988 and from 1996-1998 she attends a specialization in Water resources and protection of water resources, equivalent of Master of Science at Technical University of Construction Bucharest. In 2002 she finished the PhD studies in Water Science in Continental Environment in joint supervision at Montpellier University and Ovidius University. Starting from 2016, she can supervise doctoral theses. She’s research activity is focused on: (i) hydrology and hydraulic modelling; (ii) Geographic Information Systems applications in environmental sciences. As a result of research, she holds 12 books and books chapter, over 100 scientific papers published in different journals or conference proceedings, 1 patent, 3 international projects, 18 national grants, 10 research contracts with economic partners. She is a member in many editorial boards of scientific journals. Prof. Carmen Maftei has Chaired International Conferences, has been a member of the Scientific Committee of numerous others, presented keynotes and invited lectures and is a reviewer in numerous scientific journals.She has been advisor of 2 PhD, currently 3 PhD students in Civil Engineering. 

https://www.unitbv.ro/contact/comunitatea-unitbv/4018-maftei-carmen-elena.html 

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Alexandru Matei 

Alexandru MATEI holds a joint doctorate from the University of Bucharest and EHESS Paris (2007) on La Représentation de l'espace dans les romans de Jean Echenoz. Teaches French modern/contemporary culture and literature at the Faculty of Letters, University “Transylvania”, Brașov. He has published extensively on Roland Barthes (in French, English and Romanian), French contemporary literature (Jean Echenoz and autofiction, in French and English) and, lately, on ecological thought applied to literature (in French and English). He has translated from French into Romanian (Jean Baudrillard, Bruno Latour, Roland Barthes, Michel Serres, Jacques Derrida). Books published : Theory in the "Post" Era. A Vocabulary for the 21st-Century Conceptual Commons, London, Bloomsbury, 2021 (co-authored); Roland Barthes, Romanian Mythologies (Bucharest, 2017); Jean Echenoz et la distance intérieure (Paris, 2013). The Last Days of Literature. Small and Huge in French Contemporary Literature (Bucharest, 2008). Last publications:  ”What Jean Échenoz Knew. Pockets and Postcritique in 1980s France”, in James Patrick Charles Brown, Anna Jamieson, and Naomi Segal, The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces. Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers, Leiden, Brill, 2024; “The Paradox of Modernism after Latour”, in Philobiblon. Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities, Vol. XXVIII, nr. 2, 2023, p. 331-348.

https://www.unitbv.ro/cercetare/doctorat-postdoctorat-si-abilitare/abilitare-2/teze-de-abilitare/3902-alexandru-matei.html 

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Bianca Tescasiu

I am a professor at Transilvania University of Brașov – Department of Marketing, Toursim and International Business, since 01.03.1999. During the 21 years of my academic career I followed a series of courses to develop my skills and, also, I was a visiting professor in universities from Germany, Finland, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Sri Lanka. My research includes studies in the field of Tourism – sustainability in tourism, organic growth, security in tourism, innovation in tourism, urban development, cultural tourism – , Education – responsability in education, gender equality in education –, Marketing in European Union – regional strategies, urban development, etc. My main areas of PhD supervision are Marketing for tourism, Education and Educational Marketing, Marketing in European Union and related fields.

https://www.unitbv.ro/contact/comunitatea-unitbv/1930-tescasiu-bianca.html 

Remus Cretan

Remus Cretan is Professor of Human Geography at West University of Timisoara, Romania. His recent research includes urban, regional and cultural geographies, more specifically he has studied ethnic identities, historical geographies, place naming, urban tourism (museum, souvenir selling and changes in destination tourism) and environmental politics in Central and Eastern Europe.  His key topics are geographies of inequality (e.g. social marginalization and stigmatization, social risk) and issues connected to development and (post)communist studies. Previous work has appeared in journals such as International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban
Geography, Cities, Area, Environmental Politics and Identities.

https://geografie.uvt.ro/?page_id=9880 

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Otilla Hedesan

Otilia HEDEȘAN is a Romanian ethnologist, professor of Romanian Culture and Civilization at the West University of Timișoara. She is the head of the Research Center for Heritage and Cultural Anthropology, RHeA (https://www.rhea-uvt.org/). Since 2014, she is the president of the Romanian Association of Ethnological Sciences (ASER).

Otilia HEDEȘAN has a rich experience in coordinating research teams in the field of intangible cultural heritage. In this regard she has coordinated field research campaigns in different countries from Eastern part of Europe: Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine. Her main research topics are everyday life in multi-ethnic communities, folklore and mythology, storytelling and narrative genres, food heritage. She is equally interested in the history of Romanian ethnology in European context and preoccupied by current state of art of Romanian folklore archives particularly those situated in Banat cross-border region.

https://www.rhea-uvt.org/echipa/otilia-hedesan 

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Alin Speriusi-Vlad

Alin Speriuși-Vlad is an Associate Professor of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law, West University of Timișoara (WUT), where he has been teaching since 2002. He is expected to defend his Habilitation to Supervise Doctoral Research (HDR) in 2026. He holds a PhD in Civil Law from WUT (2013, Magna cum Laude), a Master’s degree in Business Law (2004), and a Law degree (2002, valedictorian).
His academic career includes visiting positions at leading European universities, such as Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Université de Poitiers. He has also been actively involved in several national and European projects on intellectual property, consumer law, and judicial capacity building, serving as both project director and expert.
A practicing lawyer since 2003 and managing partner of his own law firm since 2008, he combines professional expertise with academic research and teaching. He regularly teaches Intellectual Property Law, Civil Procedural Law, and Judicial System Organization.
Dr. Speriuși-Vlad has supervised numerous theses, participated in PhD committees, and contributed to academic examination boards. He has also played a key role in organizing major conferences on intellectual property law in Romania and abroad.
His research focuses on intellectual property, civil law, and procedural law, with recognized expertise as a scientific consultant to the Romanian High Court of Cassation and Justice, where his opinions have contributed to landmark decisions. Multilingual (Romanian, French, English, Italian), he is a member of professional associations such as ASDPI and ALAI.

Antonio Albuquerque

António Albuquerque is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DECA) at the University of Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal) and the Scientific Coordinator of the GeoBioTec@UBI research unit. He has over 30 years of experience in the following areas: drinking water treatment and distribution; drainage, treatment, and reuse of wastewater; treatment and reuse of rainwater and stormwater; integrated use of multiple water sources in urban and rural areas; and the valorisation of mineral and industrial waste. In recent years, he has held the following positions: President of the College of Environmental Engineering, member of the Admiayions and Qualification Council, and member of the Assembly of Representatives of the Portuguese Order of Engineers; Scientific Coordinator of the FibEnTech research unit; Vice-President of the Portuguese Water Resources Association (APRH); and Vice-President of the Portuguese Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (APESB)Current research interests: 1) Nutrient removal in porous-based systems. 2) Microalgae technology for wastewater treatment and biomass recovery. 3) Decentralized nature-based solutions for water cleaning and reuse. 4) Upcycling industrial waste in soil applications. 

More information and publications @: UBI: https://www.ubi.pt/Pessoa/antonio.albuquerque
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/António-Albuquerque-2
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7099-0685

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Renata Ferraz

Renata Ferraz holds a PhD in Arts (CAPES International 4 years grant nº 000795/2014-03) from the University of Lisbon. She is a master in Multimedia-Audiovisual Art (FBAUL) and has a degree in Performing Arts (Instituto de Artes-UNESP). She worked simultaneously and continuously as a teacher and actress for 15 years. Very early in her career, she got two positions as Adjunct Teacher, working in public primary and secondary school. In polytechnics she taught Acting, Staging, History of Theater. She worked as theater advisor in Ademar Guerra Project (around 70 students of decentralised São Paulo cities) and as an artistic-pedagogical coordinator in Nucleo Vocacional (12 teachers team, 650 students), with a high cultural impact and social engagement in peripheral areas in São Paulo. In 2009, she starting moving to cinema and research fields, including the creation of video art productions, the co-founding and coordinating of the international multimedia collective Corrosive (BR)| Roundabout (PT), with artists from Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, UK and Spain. She started an art-based research during the Master degree. Her PhD project, completed in December 2018, highlights possibilities of shared creation in cinema. As additional outcomes, she made EVO and Ádito, two short films with the UK based visual artist RUBI (Portugal)ane Maia. They also explored shared creation and feminine social issues. Since the beginning of her PhD program, she have reinforced the international scope of her work, including collaborations with C4AA (USA), integrating the research group Artistic Action: Sex worker Rights in Dublin, presentations of academic work in UK, Brazil and at international conferences in Portugal, screenings and panel discussion of her films in international cinema festivals in in Portugal, Brazil, UK, France, USA, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina and Mexico. and a showcase at Cerveira International Art Biennial. She has also been invited to lead lectures as an expert in art based research and to present the results of her scientific-artistic work. Since 2019, she has been part of DGArtes Evaluation Committee (Performing Arts and Interdisciplinary Projects). In 2020, she was awarded a grant by the Electric Central Residence Programme. This grant supported a digital residency project, in co-creation with Flavio Almeida, (artist-Labcom scholar), resulting in a film and a publication. She has developed her research at Labcom - Communication and Arts (UBI (Portugal)) and CIEBA (FBAUL) in cinema, multimedia and investigation in arts since 2016. She coordinated the post-production of Rua dos Anjos with research funding from CAPES and post production funding from ICA (Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisua). Rua dos Anjos premiere will be hold in 2022, at Ann Arbor Film Festival, the oldest and one of most important avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America.

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