EDUCATION
B.A. Political Science, University of Bologna, 1998
PhD. History of Political Thought, University of Turin; Philosophy and History of Ideas, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 2003
THEACHING AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
T.A., Department of Sociology, University of Bologna, 1999
Adjunct Professor, Master in Foreign Languages for International Business, University of Parma, 2005
Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, 2005
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Bologna, 2006-2011
Lecturer (with tenure), Department of History, University of Bologna,
2011
National Scientific Qualification to Associate Professor in History of Political Thought
2013
Associate Professor in History of Political Thought, Department of History, University of Bologna
2016
Director, The Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory
2017
National Scientific Qualification to Full Professor in History of Political Thought
Courses offered: Theories of Globalization, Theories of Disobedience, History of Political Thought, Atlantic Studies
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
University of Bologna Grant for Distinguished Undergraduate Student, 1995
University of Bologna Grant for Distinguished Undergraduate Student, 1996
University of Bologna Research Grant for Distinguished Undergraduate Student, 1997
University of Bologna Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Student, 1998;
“Carta Si Campus” Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Student, 1998
Minister of University Ph.D. Scholarship, 1999-2002
Minister of Foreign Affairs Scholarship for Ph.D. joint program between the University of Turin and the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 2000
Post-doctoral Fellowship, Department of Politics, University of Bologna, 2003-2005
Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Columbia University, 2004
“Marco Polo” Grant for research mobility, University of Bologna, 2004
“Marco Polo” Grant for research mobility, University of Bologna, 2005
Short Residency, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, 2012
Short Residency, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, 2016
Short >residency, Centro Sur Global, UNSAM, Buenos Aires, 2017
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Associazione Italiana degli Storici delle Dottrine politiche (Member)
I.R.E.S.-CGIL Emilia Romagna (scientific board)
Fondazione Gramsci (board)
Comitato Internazionale di Bologna per la Cartografia e l’Analisi del Mondo Contemporaneo (director)
Bologna Seminar on Atlantic and Global Studies (co-director with Paolo Capuzzo)
Italian editor of the uncollected papers of Herbert Marcuse
Editor of the series “Marcusiana” for the publisher Manifestolibri
Editorial board of the journals Filosofia politica, Storicamente, Critical Times
Editorial services and review manuscript for scholarly publications: Il Mulino, Laterza, Feltrinelli, Manifestolibri, Dedalo
International Herbert Marcuse Society (member)
INVITED SPEAKERS TO INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS OR CONFERENCES (selections)
Tempo da Desobedienca. Por uma teoria politica do poder destituente, Simposio Internacional “Tempo e Subjetividades”, Universidade do Estato do Rio de Janeiro, 2-3-4- oct. 2012
The Time of Disobedience: Elements for a Political Theory of Destituent Power, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, 30 oct. 2012
"'In the Beginning, All the World Was America': Colonial Power, State and Resistance in Locke's Second Treatise of Government.", John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, 31 oct. e 5 nov. 2012
Foundations of Global Disobedience: Reading La Boétie’s Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, Global Liberal Studies Program, New York University, 16 nov. 2012
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis: Modern theory of sovereignty and the neutralization of Atlantic Disobedience, International Workshop on “Rebellion, resistance and revolution between the Old and the New World”, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia culture e civiltà, 2 oct. 2013
The German Enemy: Nazism, war effort and critical theory. A discussion on F. Neumann, H. Marcuse, O. Kirchheimer, Secrets Reports on Nazi Germany. The Frankfurt School contribution to the war Effort, ed. by Raffaele Laudani, Princeton, 2013, with A. Honneth, Jean Cohen, I. Katznelson, N. Urbinati, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, 22 oct. 2013;
Sea and Land. On the Relationship Between Disobedience and Sovereignty in Modern Political Thought, University of Pittsburgh, Humanities Center, 25 oct. 2013
Disobedience. A conversation with Roberto Dainotto and Micheal Hardt, Duke University, 28 oct. 2013
Deconstructing Rawls. A critique of “civil” disobedience, UCLA, 31 oct. 2013
The Relevance of an Untimely Book, One-Dimensional Man, Critical Theory and Radical Movements in the Age of Capitalist Globalization, Columbia University, 29 sept. 2014, Speaker at Keynote Panel, International conference on: One-Dimensional Man at Fifty. Herbert Marcuse & the Legacy of the Book that Inspired a Generation)
Black Critique of Modern Political Concepts: Two Examples, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, May 2016
Beyond Destituent Power: Rethinking Disobedience and Activism Today, Keynote speaker at conference, University of Amsterdam, 29 may 2017
Màs allà del poder destituyente. Actualidad y límites de la desobediencia hoy, seminars, University San Martin, Buenos Aires, 2-4 august 2017.
