Studi e titoli universitari
- PhD in Migration Studies, Sussex University,
UK, School of African & Asian Studies / Sussex Centre for
Migration Reseach – Conferito in Luglio 2002 – Supervisors: Prof.
Russell King, Dr. Richard Black; Examiners: Prof. Ralph Grillo, Dr.
Les Back - PhD thesis: “rappresentazione della diversità e
partecipazione culturale: ‘performances di multiculturalismo a
Bologna e Barcellona” – focus sul ruolo di festival ed eventi
culturali nella rappresentazione della diversità, per la creazione
di spazi per la partecipazione e il cambiamento sociale, per una
dinamica di empowerment e per una negoziazione di identità plurali
a livello locale e transnazionale.
- Master of Arts in International Relations and
Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich,
UK, School of Development Studies / School of Economic and
Social Science, conferito in Luglio 1997 – Supervisor: Dr. John
Cameron - MA thesis: Identità, dislocazione e conflitti in un mondo
globale
- Certificato in Communication Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
(conferito in Luglio 1994) - Studi indipendenti post-laurea in
Communication, Film Industry, Cultural Studies. internship a
istituzioni di cinema e arte.
- Laurea in Economia e Commercio, Università di
Bologna, Italia (conferito in Luglio 1993, 104/110) -
Specializzazione in Comunicazione, Marketing, Business
management
Insegnamenti Universitari
- Lecturer in Visual and Cultural Anthropology, School of Global Studies, Sussex University (2017/ongoing)
- Antropologia Visiva, Dip. Storie, Culture e Civiltà, Università di Bologna, (2017/ongoing)
- Cinema e Diritti Umani, Antropologia Culturale, Campus di Rimini, Università di Bologna (2014)
- Master in Diritti Umani e Intervento Umanitario, Polo di
Ravenna, Università di Bologna (2012)
- Free University of Bozen, Communication Studies
(2008-2011)
- Università di Bologna, Dipartimento Cinema, DMS (2009,
2012)
- Università Bologna, Antropologia Culturale, Dipartimento
Scienze Educazione (2004-06)
- University of Denver, Colorado US, Centre for Civic Engagement
Bologna, Italia (2003-09)
- European International University Centre, Master Human Rights,
Venezia, Italia (2004-06)
- Sussex University (European Studies Centre, Sussex Centre for
Migration Research (1999-00)
Visiting Fellowships / Premi per la Ricerca
- Research Associate / Visiting Research Scholar, School of Global Studies, Sussex University, UK (2016, now)
- Research Associate / Visiting Resarch Scholar, SOAS
University, Londra, UK (2011-2013)
- Visiting Professor Marisco Fellowship, Denver
University, Colorado, USA (2006)
- Certificate of Appreciations, University of California,
Bologna Center, Italia (2005, 2004)
- Assegno Ricerca di Antropologia Culturale, Università di
Bologna, Italia (2003-05)
- Visiting Research Socrates Fellowship in Antropologia
Sociale, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spagna (1999)
- ESRC Research Scholarship, Sussex University
(1998-2001)
- Visiting Research Scholarship – EAP in Communication
Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
(1993-95)
Professional Experience: Human Rights, Development and Social Campaigns
- Festival Director, Human Rights Nights, Bologna, Italy (2001-now) - international festival of cinema, art and music on human rights - www.humanrightsnights.org; Founding Member of Human Rights Film Network (2003-now) - www.humanrightsfilmnetwork.org
- Director, Green World Food Market, Bologna, Italy (2014, ongoing) - Creation and management of a Summer Street food market of gourmet world cuisine in Bologna - to promote cultural dialogue, community, identity and empowerment in a plural society. www.facebook.com/mercatinoverdedelmondo
- Senior Campaign Manager (2011-13) - Bologna, Italy, Bologna Municipality - AMITIE EU project transnational campaign on human rights, migration and development in Italy, Spain, Romania, Latvia, Brasil. www.comune.bologna.it/amitie/
- Coordinator NoiNo.org - Men against Women Violence, Fondazione del Monte (2011-13) Bologna, Italy Global Campaign Manager, Oxfam GB (August 2010 – March 2011) - Oxford, United Kingdom – Campaign Manager for global campaign Equals, started by Annie Lennox 100° International Women's Day.
- Consultancy, Capacity Building and Tutoring for International Human Rights Film Festivals (2005-now) - Africa at the Pictures, London, UK (2005-08), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2007), Pravo Ljudski, Sarajevo (2006), Soweto Arts Festival, South Africa (2007), El Septimo Ojo, Bolivia (2008), AfricanBamba Human Rights Festival, Senegal (2012-14)
- Outreach European Director - Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation (May – October 2011) - London, United Kingdom - networking and promotion European partners, films for social change - www.goodpitch.org
- Film Advisor for Venice Film Festival, responsible for film selections in Africa and the Arab World, La Biennale, Venice, Italy (2004-06) - www.labiennale.org/en/cinema
- Film curator / Project Manager, Fondazione Cineteca Bologna, Italy (2000-09) Consultant, Curator for diversity and world cinema projects, archive research – www.cinetecadibologna.it
- Production Consultant for Film and Creative projects: AfricanBamba (Senegal, 2008-ongoing); Ateliers Julieta Manassas (Bologna, Luanda, 2013-ongoing); Clam - African Fashion magazine, creative agency (Lagos, Nigeria, Paris, NY 2005-09); Ouarzazate Film (Ouarzazate, Morocco 2004-09)
Conferences organised on Human Rights, Development, Diversity: New Poverty: human rights, life dignity, duties and responsibility, rights to culture and citizenship, Bologna, 2014; A Wonderful idea! Awareness and Social Change: the best communication campaigns on migration, development and human rights. Bologna, 2013; The Body and Human Rights: a conversation on bioethics, diversity, health and violence. Bologna, 2012; Ingrid Betancourt, Welcoming Gala after her liberation by FARC Columbia, Bologna, 2009; Wislawa Szyimborska, Nobel Prize for Literature, Bologna, 2009; Roles of Festivals for Community building and peace - Rwanda, Bolivia and South Africa, Bologna, 2008; Arab Mediterranean Film Archives, Cineteca di Bologna / Euromed Audiovisual II, Bologna, 2007; Dario Fo, Nobel Prize for Literatures, Bologna, 2007; Pino Solanas, Master Lecture in Cinema, Bologna, 2008; Migration and Diversity, Bologna, 2007; Luis Sepulveda, Nobel Prize for Literatures, Bologna, 2006; Terrorism of War and Structures of Peace, Bologna, 2006; Anthropology and Cinema, Sussex University, UK, 2005; Journalism and Human Rights, Communication Deparment, University of Bologna, 2005; African Cinema: Dinamics of Production, Cineteca Bologna, Italy, 2003; Migrant Cinema = Accented Cinema – Production and Representation, Sussex University, UK, 2000
Contributions as speaker at international conference: El Septimo Ojo, Facultad de Sciencias de Communicacion, Universidad de Sucre, Bolivia, June 2008 / Paper: Human Rights Festivals and Networks as sites for cultural resistance and community building; Addis Ababa Int. Film Festival, Film Directing and Production Workshop, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, January 2007 / Paper: Human Rights Films and Festivals as a Post-colonial Transnational Communication Strategy; ASN Conference on Globalization, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflicts in The Balkans, Belgrade, Serbia, September 2006 / Paper: Human Rights Films in a Post-Conflict Resolution Context; Frontiers of Visual Anthropology, Oxford University, UK, September 2005 / Paper: Visual Representations of Human Rights, Displacement and Resistance in Apartheid South Africa: Come Back Africa by Lionel Rogosin; Anthropology and Cinema, Sussex University, UK - May 2005 Paper: Post-conflict Dialogue and Human Rights Films; Utrecht Summer School Human Rights Bologna, Italy, July 2005, Paper: Indigenous People, Human Rights and Representations - July 2004 Paper: Stereotypes and Prejudice in Advertising in Italy