Born in Milan on August 14, 1967, I received a classical
education at the high school Cesare Beccaria of Milan and graduated
with Professor Giorgio Vecchio at the Faculty of Political Science
University of the Sacred Heart of Milan with a specializacion in
Political-History and a thesis about the Atomic matter and
nuclear conflict in politics and in the collective imagination of
the Italians: 1953-1963. Since the academic year 1998-1999, at
the same faculty at the Catholic University of Milan, I was
appointed visiting lecturer in Contemporary history and,
subsequently, also in History of the constitutional system and
public opinion in contemporary age and in Economics
development: a historical-institutional perspective. After
winning the competition in the academic year 2000-2001, I played a
Ph.D. in Contemporary and Modern History (Peoples, cultures and
religions in modern and contemporary History), at the Catholic
University of Milan, fifteenth cycle, which ended October 31, 2003,
wirh the final examination: the April 5, 2004. Title of my PhD
thesis is: Relationships between culture, religion and politics
in Mexico's first century. 1900-1930. The study focuses
on the relationship between state, church and nation in Mexico and
the special circumstances of indigenous social presence and
indigenous forms of Christianity, from the Porfiriato to the
post-revolutionary season. After years of research, was published
in the summer of 2007 the volume Mexico 1900-1930. State,
Church and Indigenous Peoples (Morcelliana, Brescia) who in
2009 won the Desiderio Pirovano Prize of the Luigi Sturzo Institute
of Rome, for historical research published in 2007-2008.
Since the 2003-2004 academic year I got a scholarship to the
University Iulm research and educational training, lasting two
years, in Contemporary history, as part of the undergraduate degree
in Communication sciences and technologies. Since the 2005-2006
academic year I won the competition for the research grant at Iulm
University of Milan, with a project entitled The Third World in
Italy. The grant was renewed for 2007-2009. During this period
I conducted research in various archives in Italy and worldwide. At
the same university Iulm, I had taught modules in International
Contemporary History in the First Level Master's Degree in
Conference Interpreting and in Media and in Media and
Contemporary History in the degree in TV, film and multimedia
production. For the academic years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012, by the
IULM University, I instead got a postdoctoral research fellowship
for a project entitled Italy and the relations between North and
South (1960-1980): politics, society, information and I
have been teacher of the course of Internationl history since
1890 in the International Master in Communication for
International Relations (Micri).
With regard to my teaching experiences, in the academic year
2004-2005 I was also assigned the post of lecturer at the
University of Bologna, Ravenna, in the course of Contemporary
History (and international organizations), by the next year
changed in History of international organizations in the
specialization of International cooperation, Regulation and
Protection of Rights, then changed in master's degree in Human
Rights Protection and International Cooperation in Eurasia and the
Mediterranean, at the Faculty of Cultural Heritage. At the
University of Parma I taught Contemporary History at the
Faculty of Humanities and the University of Parma and History of
Globalization, at the Faculty of Political Science, Master of
Science in International Relations and European. From 2006 to 2008
I also held classes in Contemporary History (Italy and the
World) in the Lab of Communication of Gemona, organized
by Udine University and Catholic University of Milan, with the
support of the region Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Udine
province.
Continuing with the theme of teaching, from autumn 2007 to summer
2011 I was invited regularly (once or twice a year) from the
direction of the Ph.D. in history and Ethno-history of the National
School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) of Mexico City as a
“visiting professor” (profesor Invitado) to hold a series of
seminars and courses including: The indigenous matter, Estate
and Church in the building of contemporary Mexico; War and
Peace. For an International history during the Twntieth
Century...
I've been included in various national and international
research projects, including some inter-university (Prin), promoted
by the Ministry for University and Research. Of these I remember
the one coordinated by Giorgio Vecchio (University of Parma) and
Alfredo Canavero (University of Milan), Thoughts and actions of
peace. International perspectives, actions and debates in
Italy, between the late nineteenth century and the Second World
War. In this project I was part of the IULM- research-unity
that investigated the transformations of Italian pacifism after
World War II. Another Prin, coordinated by Luciano Pazzaglia and
Fulvio De Giorgi of the Catholic University of Milan, was instead
on the social history of publishing in Italy in 900; I followed the
events of publications related to the issues of peace, development
and italian relationships with countries outside Europe during the
Thirdworld age. Also on the research front, in 2008 the Universidad
Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM) invited me to join the
permanent seminar Policy, Culture and Religión in contemporary
Latin America y Mexico, while the El Colegio de Mexico
invited me as part of the permanent seminar of Social History. In
March 2010 I got from Secreteria Relaciones Exteriores de Mexico
(the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs), under the special
program Indipendiencia y Estudios sobre la la Revolución
Mexicana, a grant to organize and coordinate (with the support
of ENAH/INAH) a research-study entitled Relaciones entre poderes
politicos, religiosos y comunidades indígenas durante la etapa
revolucionaria. This research has continued during 2011, with
particular attention to relations between Catholics and the
Zapatista movement during the revolution. The posdoctoral direction
of History y Ethno-History of ENAH also invited me in 2010 to
coordinate the research project aimed to the erection of historical
Cupilco Community Museum, in Tabasco, which will be inaugurated in
the autumn of 2012. In 2012 I was invited instead by the Colegio de
Puebla as a speaker at the congress El 5 de mayo en perspectiva
internacional and member of the Puebla University Poliforum. On
the sidelines of the conference have been appointed, correspondent
for Italy of the Academia Mexicana de Historia Geografía sponsored
by the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). Among the
affiliations, since 2008 I also part of the European Network of
Peace Historians, the Association of Historians of Latin America
(Ahila) and, since 2009, the Red de investigadores the religious
phenomenon (Rifrem) and in 2012 the Association Italian
Iberoamerican Studies. On the occasion of 150 anniversary of the
Unification of Italy, I have been called instead to be part of the
research group of Christians in Italy project, coordinated
by Alberto Melloni, dealing theme of Horizons missionaries,
colonial, Third World.
At the center of my study and research interests include the
issue of relations between international history and local history
in the contemporary world, with particular attention to the
dynamics of non-European, the popular movements, social, religious
and peace, between the political, cultural and impact on public
opinion. In particular, I am dedicated to two main issues: the
relationship of politics-religion-culture-society-public opinion in
Italy and Latin America and the movements for peace and social
development and protection of human rights and their political and
cultural impact globally, with particular attention to the cases of
Italy, in its relations with countries outside Europe. About these
subjects I have published various monographs studies, essays,
articles... I am currently working with Hilda Iparraguirre, Maria
Benzoni and Anamaria Gonzalez at the volume Otras Miradas de
la Revoluciones Mexicanas, which will be published in
late 2012 by the Instituto Nacional para el Estudio de la Historia
de las Revoluciones Mexicanas (Inehrm), together with the ' Juan
Pablos and ENAH publishing, under the research program Promep. I'm
also coordinating a research project on behalf of the Fondazione
Giorgio La Pira of Florence about major Giorgio La Pira and the
extraeuropean countries (Africa, Latin America, Asia), during the
Third world age and I'm working on a project on behalf of Rial
(Network Italy Latin America) on the international dimension of the
Salvadoran civil war (subjet that I've worked for many years).
In addition to essays, books and conferences mentioned, point
out that since 1997 I have worked with the publisher Federico Motta
and Grolier for writing the history of the International Decade of
History and (since 2005) I've the coordination of the international
history and politics parts of the series of Yearbooks (2000-2011).
In 2002 I contributed to the volume Globalization and Peace
in the part devoted to the history of international institutions.
From 1995 I wrote a series of articles on history, international
relations and public opinion for various Historical and Political
Research Magazines, like «Ricerche di storia politica»,
«Contemporanea», «Italia Contemporanea», «Quaderni della Biblioteca
Ballestrieri», «Il Mulino-Lettera internazionale», «Appunti di
Cultura e politica», «Istor. Revista de Historia Internacional»,
«Historia Mexicana», «Strumenti», «Impegno», «Popoli»... I've
collaboreted for some years with the Ngo Mani tese, for which I
attended the UN World Social Forum held in Copenhagen in 1995.
Finally, from 2007 I joined the editorial board of «The craft of
history», the Yearbook, now magazine, of the Italian Society for
the Study of Contemporary History (SISSCO).
Major conferences and interventions
· «Adesso» e
la giustizia sociale, in convegno Don Mazzolari e «Adesso»,
Cinquant'anni dopo, Brescia, Centro Paolo VI, june 1999.
- Giorgio La Pira, la pace e l'impegno per lo sviluppo in
La politica, la pace, la città. Giorgio La Pira e Giuseppe
Lazzati tra utopia e senso della storia, Milano, Fondazione
Lazzati, june 2002.
·
L'America di
Turoldo, in
Laicità e profezia. David Maria Turoldo a dieci
anni dalla scomparsa, Milano, Sala delle colonne Banca Popolare
di Milano, 28 novembre 2002.
- Métodos de investigación en historia contemporánea.
Educación intercultural en la Tarahumara, visión desde
Italia, Universidad del Valle de México, Campus Tlalpan, Mexico
City, april 2003.
· L'educazione
rurale nel Messico postrivoluzionario, in Sissco Conference,
Cantieri di storia II, Lecce, Università degli studi,
september 2003.
· La Pira operatore
di pace: l'America latina, in La guerra impossibile
nell'era atomica. Dialogo delle città bombardate, Centenario
della nascita di Giorgio La Pira, Valmontone, Palazzo Doria
Pamphilj, april 2004.
· Monsignor
Casaroli, l'America indigena e la spiritualità guadalupana, in
Casaroli e l'America latina fra Pio XII e Paolo VI. Le politiche
vaticane in una Chiesa che cambia, Bedonia, Seminario
vescovile, june 2004.
· Mazzolari, «Tu
non uccidere» e il pacifismo tra anni '50 e '60, in A
cinquant'anni da «Tu non uccidere», Modena, Palazzo Europa,
april 2005.
· L'America latina;
dittature e «seguridad nacional» negli anni '70 in Principi
di giustizia e transizioni alla democrazia in America Latina,
Ravenna, Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni culturali, may 2005.
- The «Indio Gabriel» in the postrevolutionary Tabasco. A
pacifist resistant and a new religious perspective from the
indigenous world in the age of Garrido Canabal
(1927-1930), in God's Revolution? Faith and Impiety
in Revolutionary Mexico 1910-1940, Belfast, Queen's University,
october 2005.
- Latin America in Italy, through Peace and Social Movements'
Action: From the 1960s to the 1980s, in Peace Movements
since 1945 in Comparative Perspective: Symbolism,
Patterns of Mobilization, Political Culture, University of
Bochum, Historical Peace Research Centre, 28-30 october 2005.
· Il Centroamerica
nella «nuova Guerra fredda», in Oscar Romero e il
Centroamerica 25 anni dopo. Tra storia, memoria e attualità,
Milano, Auditorium San Carlo, november 2005.
- Cambio y resistencia cultural indígena, frente a la
modernización cultural-religiosa en la «nueva misión» de los
jesuitas en la Sierra Tarahumara (1900-1930), in Religions.
Valeurs et Developpement dans les Ameriques, organizzato dalla
Societé Suisse des Américanistes (SSA) e dal Centre de Sociologie
des Religions et d'Ethique Sociale (CSRES), Strasburgo, Università
Marc Bloch, Palais Universitarie, Salle Tauler, march 2006.
· ¿Católicos de
maíz o indios enemigos? Imagenes y utopías del mundo indígena en
México, entre revolución y posrevolución nella sessione
Utopías y pensamientos del 52° Congreso Internacional
de Americanistas, Pueblos y culturas de las Américas: Diálogos
entre globalidad y localidad, Università di Siviglia, Siviglia,
july 2006.
· Entre razón y
utopía: génesis y desarollo de la «nueva misión» de los jesuitas en
la Sierra Tarahumara in XXVIII Congreso Internacional de
Americanística, Mérida (Mx) 25-29 october 2006.
· Cultura
mediterranea y América contemporanea, conference for Faculdad
de humanidades de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
(Uaem), Cuernavaca, november 2006.
· Impacto de la
guerra fría en Europa y América latina (de la fin de los '40 a las
guerras civiles centroamericana de los '80), conference for the
Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Enah), Mexico City,
november 2006.
· La «redención» de
los rarámuris. La disputa Stato-Chiesa, tra educazione
indigena e nuove missionarietà (1922-1929) in XXIX Congresso
Internazionale di Americanistica, Perugia may 2007.
· Guerra fría,
tercermundismo y organizaciones internacionales, in
Violencia en América latina. Segunda mitad del siglo XX,
Enah, Mexico City, october 2007.
· Actores y
dimensión religiosa en los movimientos sociales
latinoamericanos in Congreso de Historia económica, Uaem,
Cuernavaca, october 2007
· Seminario: La
cuestión indígena entre Estado e Iglesia en la construcción del
México contemporanea. Caminos de investigación, Enah, Mexico
City, november 2007.
· La Pira e il
ruolo delle città, tra dimensione locale e politica
internazionale, in Giorgio La Pira: le città sono vive,
Palazzo Vermexio, Siracusa, dicember 2007.
· Los Laicos frente
a la Cuestión Indígena en la Primera Parte del Siglo XX in
Religión y Laicos en el México Moderno, Joint Initiative for
the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (JISLAC)
Regional Seminar, Queen's University, Belfast, dicember
2007.
· Movimenti
pacifisti e aperture terzomondiste, in Prin conference Le
sfide della pace. Istituzioni, movimenti, intellettuali e politici
tra Otto e Novecento, Università di Parma, january 2008.
· Volti del
Messico, Milano, Palazzo Greppi, Sala Napoleonica, february
2008
· El Salvador: un
quadro storico dalla guerra fredda alla globalizzazione, in
Marianella García Villas e i diritti umani nel Salvador di ieri
e oggi, Bologna- Palazzo Accursio, Roma, Fondazione Basso,
march 2008.
· La distensione
Est-Ovest dal punto di vista del Mediterraneo, in La Russia
e l'Asia viste da Giorgio La Pira, Prin congress Da Roma
alla terza Roma. Seminari internazionali di studi storici,
Roma, Campidoglio, april 2008.
· Las políticas de
«defanatización» en el México indígena. La experiencia callista y
del maximato (1926-1932), in El anticlericalismo entre
Europa y América latina, XV Congresso internazionale
dell'Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericansitas Europeos
(Ahila), 1808-2008: Crisi y Problemas en el Mundo Atlántico,
Università di Leiden (Nl), august 2008.
· Luigi Sturzo e la
comunità internazionale: l'antifascismo, la pace e la guerra,
in Dialogo sul riformismo. Riscoprire don Sturzo, Gradara,
castello, october 2008.
· Guerra y paz.
Para una historia internacional de la guerra y de la paz en el
siglo XX. Procesos, fuentes, historiografía, caminos de
investigación, in Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia
(ENAH), México, november 2008.
· La casa del
estudiante indígena: un experimento del gobierno
callista, in Educación y cuestión indígena, Centro de
investigaciones y Estudios superiores en Antropología social
(Ciesas-Occidente), Guadalajara, dicember 2008.
· De aquí la frase
«Fare l'indiano». Misioneros italianos en México entre el
porfiriato y la revolución, in I Encuentro de Antropología e
Historia: Diálogos entre Italia y México, Salón Augustín Yañez,
Feria Internacional del Libro, Guadalajara, dicember 2008.
· Le relazioni tra
Italia e Terzo mondo: l'esperienza dell'Ipalmo, in Milano
tra ricostruzione e globalizzazione. Dalle carte dell'Archivio di
Piero Bassetti, Milano, Palazzo Greppi, sala Napoleonica,
dicember 2008.
· El catolicismo
social y la cuestion indígena en México: el congreso de Oaxaca de
1909, mesa Catolicismo y sociedad civil en XII Enceuntro de la
Red de estudiosos del fenómeno religioso, Casa de la Cultura,
Aguascalientes, junio 2009.
· Las identidades
escondidas. Los pueblos indígenas y la competición curas-maestros
en el México posrevolucionario in Política-religión e
identidad en México: entre la crisis colonial y la crisis de la
modernidad, 53° Congreso Internacional de Americanistas,
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, july 2009.
· Impact of Atomic
and H-Bomb on Italian Cultural Community in Machines of
Thruth. The Impact of technological Innovations on the
Representation and Image of War in the Media and Arts,
Erich-Marie Remarque Peace Centre/University of Osnabrück,
Osnabrück, Germany, september 2009.
· Guerra fredda nel
Caribe. Dall'Alleanza per il progresso al vertice di Punta del Este
(1961-1966), in Juan Bosch, tra Italia e Repubblica
Dominicana, Fondazione Casa America, Genova, november 2009.
· Il progetto
politico di Giorgio La Pira e l'orizzonte extraeuropeo in
Giorgio La Pira e Julius Nyerere, Istituto Calafato
(Lumsa)/Palazzo dei Normanni, Caltanissetta-Palermo, february
2010.
· La encrucijada
entre guerra fría y tercermundismos, a través de la experiencia
latinoamericana , Escuela nacional de antropología e historia,
Mexico City, march 2010
· Los puentes
colgantes. Reflexiones acerca de una historia global de
México , Posgrado de Historia y Etnohistoria de la Escuela
nacional de antropología e historia, Mexico City, march 2010
· Il problema della
pace e il sorgere del pacifismo in convegno Le inquietudini
della fede. Don Primo Mazzolari e il cattolicesimo italiano prima
del Concilio, Università degli Studi di Milano-Fondazione
Mazzolari, Sala Napoleonica, Milano, april 2010
· Cattolici,
organizzazioni popolari e sinistre, tra guerra civile e guerra
fredda: il caso di El Salvador, in Le sinistre in America
latina: passato e presente, Università di Bologna, Facoltà di
Scienze politiche, Aula Poeti, Bologna, may 2010
· Relaciones entre
poderes políticos y comunidades indígenas durante la etapa
revolucionaria, Posgrado de Historia y Etnohistoria de la
Escuela nacional de antropología e historia, Mexico City, august
2010
· El Tabasco
racionalista frente a lo indígena: entre laboratorio social y
experimentación cultural (1922-1934), Seminario permanente de
Historia social de El Colegio de México, Città del Messico, august
2010
· De Nación y
fé. I cattolici messicani alla prova della rivoluzione: la
terra, gli indigeni, la violenza e la chimera della classe
media, in Cento per cento. 1810, 1910, 2010: l'America
Latina tra indipendenza, emancipazione e rivoluzione,
Università degli studi di Napoli, L'Orientale, Napoli, october
2010
· La cuestión
social en la Revolución mexicana , Instituto Cervantes di
Milano nell'ambito del ciclo México 1810-1910 Proceso
histórico-cultural de la Indipendencia a la Revolución, Milano,
october 2010.
· La
Revolución escindida e il fantasma di Zapata. «Cattolici» e
«indigeni» tra guerra e pace, in México 1810-2010. Las
Revoluciones entre historia y literatura, Sala Napoleonica
dell'Università degli studi di Milano, november 2010
· “Piedad para el
indio”, “el Átila del sur” y “las banderas de Guadalupe”: los
católicos y el fenómeno zapatista durante la Revolución , in
Iglesia, Estado, Nación, Jornadas de Historia, Instituto
Superior de Estudios Eclesiásticos, Mexico City, march 2011
· Las relaciones
entre el Zapatismo, la Iglesia y los católicos en la Revolución
mexicana, Posgrado de Historia y Etnohistoria de la Escuela
nacional de antropología e historia, Mexico City, march
2011
· La Pira-Capitini.
I cattolici di fronte al pacifismo non-violento negli anni della
guerra fredda in Il seme e l'albero. Aldo Capitini e Giorgio
La Pira, Predappio (FC), may 2011
· Las izquierdas y
la opción por los pobres posconciliar en América latina. El caso de
Mons. Romero y de las crisis centroamericanas in XVI
Congreso Internacional de la Ahila, San Fernando-Cadiz, september
2011
· «¡A la
solidaridad cristiana!». I cattolici europei e il caso
salvadoregno: mobilitazione, diritti umani e reti di solidarietà
durante la «nuova guerra fredda» centroamericana e coordinamento
del panel Cristiani e guerra fredda in America latina. Esperienze
regionali e reti di solidarietà da metà anni Sessanta a metà anni
Ottanta, in Sissco Congress Cantieri di storia VI. La storia
contemporanea in Italia oggi: tra linee di ricerca e tendenze,
Forlì, september 2011
· Léopold Senghor,
Giorgio La Pira e la cultura terzomondista, in convegno
Léopold Senghor e Giorgio La Pira oggi, Palazzo Vecchio,
Sala de Dugento, Firenze, november 2011
· La disputa
sull'educazione religiosa nel Messico postrivoluzionario, in
Prin Congress La religione istruita nella scuola e nella cultura
dell'Italia contemporanea, Auditorium S. Margherita, Università
di Ca' Foscari, Venezia, january 2012
· «Una visión desde
Italia». Garibaldínos, monárquicos y católicos frente a la
intervención francesa en México y al Imperio. Primeros pasos de una
política exterior y reflejos americanos de la cuestión romana
in Simposio, El 5 de mayo en perspectiva internacional,
Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla, may 2012
· «Más allá del fin
del mundo». Dinamiche di resistenza religiosa nel Tabasco
indigeno tra XIX e XX secolo, in II convegno nazionale della
Associazione Italiana di Studi Iberoamericani (Aisi), Villa
Feltrinelli, Gargnano, june 2012
