University of Virginia, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Prof Raffaele Laudani presents: "UVA-Duke-Bologna Academy in Global Humanities & Critical Theory"

September 9, 2016

Professor Raffaele Laudani, Director of the UVA-Duke-Bologna Academy in Global Humanities and Critical Theory, in the U.S. to visit Duke and UVA, will be discussing this collaboration between the three universities, the program and its summer school, which has now matured into a year-round Academy in Global Humanities, as well as the various opportunities available. We encourage you to make every effort to attend on Friday, September 9, 10:30AM-12:00PM, in Nau Hall 342.

 

About Raffaele Laudani:

Raffaele Laudani is Director of the UVA-Duke-Bologna Academy in Global Humanities & Critical Theory, and Associate Professor in the Department of History and Human Cultures at the University of Bologna, where he teaches the History of Political Thought and Atlantic Studies. Prof. Laudani graduated in Political Science in 1998 at the University of Bologna and earned in 2003 a PhD in History of Political Thought and Political Institutions at the University of Turin and in Philosophy and History of Ideas at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. His research focuses on the history of modern and contemporary political thought. He has published several volumes and essays on the Frankfurt School, globalization, disobedience, African-American abolitionism. He is the editor of the Italian edition of Herbert Marcuse's uncollected papers. At the moment he is studying the Atlantic dimension of modern political thought. He has participated and organized several international meetings and seminars and participated in numerous collective national research projects. He created and edits the book series "Marcusiana" (Manifestolibri). He is member of the editorial board of the journals Filosofia politica and Storicamente, among others.  Since 2006, he is the director of the Bologna International Committee for the Cartography and Analysis of Contemporary World and of its website (www.cartografareilpresente.org). He was political columnist of the newspaper L'Alto Adige. He is a contributor for several cultural and political newspapers, such as Le Monde diplomatique and il manifesto. Among his recent works are: Politica come movimento. Il pensiero di Herbert Marcuse (Il Mulino, 2005); Disobbedienza (Il Mulino, 2011), Disobedience in Western Political Thought:  A Genealogy (Cambridge University Press, 2013); Secrets Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort (Princeton University Press, 2013). https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/raffaele.laudani/cv-en

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