EDUCATION
Degree summa cum laude in Political Sciences at the I.U.O. of Naples, thesis in Political and Economic Geography
PhD in Urban and Regional Geography at the University of Pisa
TEACHING
Currently teaching: Cultural Geography (First cycle degree/Bachelor in Cultural Heritage), Geography of Historic Towns and Landscapes (Second cycle degree/Two year Master in History and Preservation of the Artistic Heritage), Geography of the Euro-Mediterranean Region (Second cycle degree/Two year Master International cooperation on human rights and intercultural heritage), Geography of the Mediterranean from Middle Ages to contemporary era and Climate, landscape, and society in the Euro-Mediterranean Region (First cycle degree/Bachelor in Mediterranean societies and cultures: institutions, security, environment) at the Department of Cultural Heritage of University of Bologna.
Head of LABIRINTO — Interdisciplinary City-Landscape Lab of the Department of Cultural Heritage.
2022
President of Ravenna Campus Board.
2021
Scientific Coordinator of the Università di Bologna unit as partner of the INTERREG project Local Cultural Flavors. Spicing up authentic tourism in towns with rich heritage through reviving local cultural flavors (PGI05790).
Lecturing at the UniBo's PhD programme Future Earth, Climate Change and Societal Challenges.
2020
Scientific Coordinator of the Università di Bologna unit as partner of the INTERREG project Local Cultural Flavors. Spicing up authentic tourism in towns with rich heritage through reviving local cultural flavors (PGI05790).
Lecturing at the UniBo's PhD programme Future Earth, Climate Change and Societal Challenges.
2019
Scholarship in Advanced Research in New Methodologies at the Institute of Advanced Studies Köszeg, Hungary.
Invited speaker at the Management of Social Transformation (UNESCO MOST) Winter School in Kőszeg, Intercultural Heritage and the Complexity of Sustainability – A Future-Oriented Central European Approach, 11th – 14th February 2019.
Scientific Coordinator of the Università di Bologna unit as partner of the INTERREG project Local Cultural Flavors. Spicing up authentic tourism in towns with rich heritage through reviving local cultural flavors (PGI05790), carried out with Institute of Advanced Studies HU (Lead Partner), Harghita County Council RO, Municipality of ‘s-Hertogenbosch NL, Waterford City and County Council IE, Savonlinna Development Services Ltd. FI, Municipality of Vittorio Veneto IT, Riga Planning Region LV, Institute for Tourism HR.
2018
Visiting scholar at the East China Normal University, Shanghai.
Guest lecturer at the conference Luoghi comuni. Geografie della città tra estetica, politica e studi urbani, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", 13-14 giugno.
Guest lecturer at the seminar Forme di vita urbana, Urban Forms of Life - Sapienza Research Project, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", 15 giugno.
Keynote speaker of the opening conference of the 'seminaire d'été' Patrimoine culturel et naturel: socle d’une conscience européenne ?, Collège Européen de Cluny, Cluny, Bourgogne, France.
Guest lecturer at the 4th International Creative City – Sustainable Region (KRAFT) Conference, Institute of Advanced Studies Köszeg, Hungary.
2017
Programme Director of the international programme International cooperation on human rights and intercultural heritage) of the Department of cultural heritage, Università di Bologna.
Scientific Coordinator of the Università di Bologna unit as partner of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project European Citizenship, Heritage, Culture (ECHC, 2017-1-NL01-KA203-035238), carried out with Netherlands Business Academy (lead partner), Amsterdam Summer University, Fondazione Flaminia, Fundacion Academia Europea de Yuste, Institute for Social and European Studies, Stiftung Zukunft Berlin/A Soul for Europe.
2016
Programme Director of the Second cycle degree/Two year Master Cooperazione internazionale ,tutela dei diritti umani e dei beni etno-culturali of the School of Political Sciences.
Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies Köszeg, Hungary.
Delegate to the internationalisation of the Department of cultural heritage.
KRAFT Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies Köszeg, Hungary.
2015
Guest lecturer for a cycle of lectures about medieval European cities at the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai (December).
Lecturer of the Master in Mediterranean Studies of the University of Peloponnese (Greece).
Guest lecturer at the XX International Summer University of the Institute for Social and European Studies Foundation (ISES Foundation), Köszeg (Hungary).
Guest lecturer at the 1st International Conference "CreativeCities, Sustainable Region in Central Europe", Institute for Social and European Studies Foundation (ISES Foundation), Köszeg (Hungary).
2014
Excellent Researcher with Scholarship funded by European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Social Fund in the framework of the TÁMOP 4.2.4. A/2-11-1-2012-0001 ‘National Excellence Programme'.
Guest lecturer at the seminar organized by the Department of Humanities of Rome3, GEOGRAFIE CHE HANNO FATTO STORIA. Grandi libri nella geografia italiana contemporanea, https://www.academia.edu/6283137/GEOGRAFIE_CHE_HANNO_FATTO_STORIA_Grandi_libri_nella_geografia_italiana_contemporanea_I_-_Gli_anni_1980.
Lecturer at the Master Human Rights, Migrations, Development of the University of Bologna.
2013
Speaker at the international seminar Città creative e patrimonio culturale. Esperienze a confronto, organized by the Department of cultural heritage of University of Bologna, by Flaminia Foundation, and the Institute for Social and European Studies Foundation (ISES Foundation).
Presentation at the IV EUGEO Congress (Rome, September 5-7), Session 29 "Spatialities: topography and/versus topology in contemporary spatial thinking - Slot 2: Geographies of philosophies".
Guest lecturer at the 18th International Summer University – Who is Sovereign? Citizenship in Europe and Beyond – organized by the Institute for Social and European Studies Foundation (ISES Foundation) Kőszeg, Hungary (gallery).
Responsible contact person on behalf of the Department of Cultural Heritage for the programme Enterprise University – Cultural Heritage, proposed by CNA-Ecipar with the support of Flaminia Foundation.
Member of the Department's Commission for the Internationalization.
Delegate to the Quality Assurance for the second cycle degree/two year master in International Cooperation, Protection of Human Rights and Cultural Heritage.
Delegate of the Department of Cultural Heritage to the Ravenna Campus Council.
Delegate of the Department of Cultural Heritage to the Committee for the Internationalisation of the School of Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage.
2012
Guest lecturer at the conference
Esthétique et politique des cartes, INHA (Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art, Paris), Paris, scientific board: Manola Antonioli (École Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Valenciennes - École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles), Alain Milon (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense), Hervé Regnauld (Université de Rennes 2).Guest lecturer at the XXXI Italian Geographic Congress (Milan, 11-15 June).
Guest lecturer at the International Conference Morfogenesi e individuazione/ Individuation et morphogenèse/ Individuation and morphogenesis – ed. by Luciano Boi (EHESS, Paris), Francesco Garofalo (IED, Milan), , Francesco Marsciani (University of Bologna), Federico Montanari (University of Bologna), Alessandro Sarti (CREA, CNRS, and University of Bologna) (Urbino, International Center of Intercultural Studies of Semiotics and Morphology).
Guest lecturer at the lecture series L'Università non va in vacanza, organized by Fondazione Flaminia in collaboration with the Banca Popolare di Ravenna.
Member of the Department Commission for the Additional Learning Requirements.
2011
Research group member of the international project Atlas des bords méditerranéens, coordinated by the universities of Paris 8, Urbino, Bologna (Ravenna campus).
Guest lecturer at the conference
C
artographies (et) sensibles, dans le cadre du séminaire
Clarifier, Lire, Écrire, Master en Arts Plastiques de l'Université Paris 8, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Salle Walter Benjamin, 26 novembre
.
Guest lecturer at the international Conference
La Mediterranée en mouvement, Université Paris 8, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Salle Vasari, 3, 4, 5 novembre.
Member of the scientific committee of IGU's
Borderscapes III (Trieste 28-30 June 2012).
Co-editor of the series
Kosmos (Mimesis publisher).
Coordinator of the School of Geography of AGeI -
Geogovernance and cosmopolitan city (Centro Residenziale Universitario di Bertinoro)
Guest lecturer at MA Program in Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Institute for Social and European Studies Foundation
(ISES Foundation).
2010
Lecturer at the closing international conference of the Research Program of Prominent National Interest (PRIN 2007ZKPPSM):
Territorial System and Ideology in the Achaemenid State: Persepolis and its Settlements, Viterbo, Università della Tuscia, 16th-17th December.
Coordinator of the conference
XIV Giornate della Geografia of AGeI (National Association of Italian Geographers):
RavennaWebTV or
YouTube.
Guest lecturer of the 15th International Summer University –
Diversity Management in Politics, Culture and Society – organized by the Institute for Social and European Studies Foundation (ISES Foundation) Kőszeg
Hungary.
Guest lecturer at the
Lunedì della pace, organized by IsIAO Emilia Romagna and the Ravenna provincial administration.
Lecturer of the University of Bologna's Summer School
Secularization and/or Theologizing of Politics: Religious Radicalisms and Socio-Cultural Disintegration's Processes Within the Context of Globalization.
Lecturer of the University of Bologna's Summer School
On the Track of Money. Coins, Commerce and Exchange of Goods and Ideas between East and West in Antiquity, Late Antiquity and early Middle Age.
2009
Invited lecturer at the XVIth edition of the Course
Scuola e Museo on the topic
Musei e paesaggio. Da tema di ricerca a prospettiva d'impegno organized by the Ravenna provincial administration with the patronage of ICOM Italia and IBC (Ravenna).
Lecturer at the International Conference
Borderscapes II - Another brick in the wall? organized by the International Geographical Union Commission on Political Geography, the University of Milano Bicocca, and the University of Palermo (Trapani).
Invited lecturer at the Conference
Governo delle città, governo dei territori. Ricerche e interpretazioni al di fuori dei luoghi comuni, Ravenna, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna.
Lecturer of the Bologna University's Postgraduate vocational training course
Beni culturali, ambientali e gestione del paesaggio.
2008
Seminar at the Department of Philosophy, University of Pisa.
Lecturer of the University of Bologna's Summer School
Natural Hazards: Prevention, Risk and Civil Protection Management.
2007
Invited lecturer at the
Seminario interdisciplinare sulla città contemporanea, Advanced School of Humanistic Studies, University of Bologna.
2006
Invited lecturer at the lectures cycle in history of cartography
Dallo sguardo al segno: la cartografia della città e del territorio in età moderna organized by the Municipal Library of Imola.
2006-2008
Lecturer at the 2nd Level Degree Course
Archives, Librarianship and Documental Information Sciences of the Faculty of Preservation of the Cultural Heritage.
2005 - to date
Lecturer at the 2nd Level Degree Course
Conservation and Enhancement of the Archaeological Heritage of the Faculty of Preservation of the Cultural Heritage.
2005
Invited lecturer at the 33rd AISS Annual Meeting (San Marino).
Invited lecturer at the Academy of Architecture of the
Swiss Italian University (Mendrisio).
Invited lecturer at the Conference
Volti di un territorio. Sassuolo e le sue trasformazioni attraverso il Novecento (Sassuolo).
Invited lecturer at the International Conference
Arts, Sciences and Ethics: the new disciplinary borders and philosophical challenges, under the patronage of the European Commission, Teatro del Palazzo Mediceo, San Leo.
2004-2005
Invited lecturer at the Courses for operators in peacekeeping, organized by Isiao, Emilia Romagna Region, Province of Ravenna.
2004 Paper presented at the Meeting "Local development: methodologies and policies" organized by the AGeI's Work-team on Local Development and the University of Naples "L'Orientale" 's Postgraduate Programme of Geography of Development (Naples).
2003
Invited lecturer at the seminar
Questione di sguardi. Il ruolo dell'osservazione nelle scienze matematiche e sociali, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
2002
Seminar at the Doctorate in Geography of Development at the Università
degli Studi L'Orientale of Naples.
Guest lecturer at the international conference
The genesis of forms in the sciences and the arts, University of Urbino.
2001
Visiting Professor at the University of Modena.
2000 - to date
Lecturer in Geography and Cultural Geography at the University of Bologna.
1998-2001
Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the University of Urbino.
1997
Seminar at the University of Rome II.
1995
Invited lecturer of Cultural Geography at the University of Bologna for a post-graduate course concerning international cooperation.
Seminar at the University of Rome II.
1991 1994
Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the S.S.L.M.I.T. of the University of Bologna.
1993
Paper presented at the International Conference
Fonder le lieu - instaurer l'espace, 30 September-2 October, Gibellina.
1991
Paper presented at the International Conference
The Limits of Representation, 24-30 June at Bagni di Lucca (Study Centre «Sorelle Clarke», University of Bologna).
1989
Paper presented at the International Conference
Les transformations de l'environnement quotidien: représentations et pratiques (Fribourg, Switzerland).
1988
Seminar at the University of Siena.
1987
Lecturer (under the direction of Professor F.Farinelli) on a training course in Bologna under the patronage of the University of Bologna and the Superintendency of Fine Arts.
Seminar at the University of Siena.
Paper presented at the International Conference Les langages des représentations géographiques (Venezia).
Paper presented at the 5th European Colloquium on Quantitative and Theoretical Geography (Bardonecchia).
1986
Paper presented at the XXIV Italian Geographic Congress (Torino).
RESEARCH
2007 - to date
Member, Board of Referees of Rivista Geografica Italiana.
2005
Project manager and co-ordinator of the workshop La Darsena di città e il futuro di Ravenna, held in Ravenna with the participation and support of: Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, Ravenna; Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali; Corso di Laurea in Scienze Ambientali; Comune di Ravenna, Assessorato all'Urbanistica; Boeri Studio, Milano; Fondazione Flaminia.
2003
Co-ordinator of the International Conference Limits of the world, sense of space, Urbino.
2002-2008
Member of two research groups of AGEI.
2002 to date
Consultant for the Italian public stock corporation Nomisma in relation to geographical researches.
2002 Visiting scholar at the Faculty of Arts (Program in Canadian Studies) of the University of British Columbia (Vancouver).
2000
Visiting scholar at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies of the York University (Toronto).
1995
Member of the research group of Cresme for a report about the Mediterranean development.
1987 1989
Member of a research group of Cnr for a report about the Italian urban system.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019
Senior Researcher Scholarship "Advanced research on new methodologies" - Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg, Hungary.
2016
KRAFT Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies Köszeg, Hungary.
2014
Excellent Researcher with Scholarship funded by European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Social Fund in the framework of the TÁMOP 4.2.4. A/2-11-1-2012-0001 ‘National Excellence Programme'.
2005
Residential fellowship awarded by The Bogliasco Foundation - Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities.
2002
Visiting scholar at the Faculty of Arts of University of British Columbia of Vancouver (Program in Canadian Studies) funded by the Area della Ricerca e Relazioni Internazionali of the University of Bologna.
2000
Visiting scholar at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies of York University of Toronto with a fellowship awarded by the Canadian Studies Faculty Research Award.
1987
Scholarship awarded by the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici of Naples for a seminar hold by Professor L. Benevolo.
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