Curriculum Vitae
Maria Elena Indelicato
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Maria Elena Indelicato
Citation names
- Indelicato, Maria Elena
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 2A1D-E196-C96D
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4935-4745
Email addresses
- mariaelenaindelicato@ces.uc.pt (Professional)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 960002528 (Personal)
Websites
- https://coimbra.academia.edu/MariaElenaIndelicato (Scholar)
- https://twitter.com/ME_Indelicato (Social media)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Italian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Portuguese | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
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2009/07/23 - 2014/11/13
Concluded
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Gender and Cultural Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Gender and Cultural Studies
The University of Sydney, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, Australia
"International Students - a History of Race and Emotions in Australia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2006/10/21 - 2008/03/12
Concluded
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Teorie della Comunicazione e Ricerca Applicata ai Media (Master)
Major in Communication and Media Studies
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale, Italy
"The Body's Tales. Narrations, Media and Women Identities" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2001/11/11 - 2005/02/22
Concluded
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Scienze e Tecnologie della Comunicazione (Bachelor)
Major in Communication and Media Studies
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale, Italy
"Advertising Investment and Macroeconomic Variables" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
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Employer | |
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| 2015/09/11 - 2018/09/11 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | Zhejiang University Ningbo Institute of Technology, China |
Positions / Appointments
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Employer | |
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| 2015/01 - 2017/01 | Vice-President | Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University - Huallywood Film Research Center., China |
Others
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Employer | |
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| 2024/03/01 - Current | Book Review Editor, Journal of Intercultural Studies | Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom |
| 2020/09/16 - Current | Researcher | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
| Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal | ||
| 2022/05/20 - 2024/03/01 | Associate Editor, Journal of Intercultural Studies | Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom |
| 2023/09/15 - 2023/09/15 | Visiting Research Fellow | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany |
| Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Englisches Seminar, Germany | ||
| 2019/01/21 - 2019/12/23 | Visiting Research Scholar | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
| 2018/01/29 - 2019/07/31 | Endeavour Research Fellow | Australian Government Department of Education and Training, Australia |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2020/09/16 - 2026/09/15 | A Colonial History of Anti-Racism in Education: Anthropology, Race Displacement and Knowledge Transliteration.
CEECIND/03945/2018
10.54499/CEECIND/03945/2018/CP1549/CT0003
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2021 - 2024 | UNpacking POPulism: Comparing the formation of emotion narratives and their effects on political behaviour + –
PTDC/CPO-CPO/3850/2020
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2018/01/29 - 2018/07/30 | Natives, Settlers, and Migrants: a Historical Study of Social Relations in Australia
203282_2017
Post-doc Fellow
Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research (Griffith University), Australia
Center for Colonial and Settler Studies (University of Wollongong) , Australia Institute of Social Research (Swinburne University of Technology). , Australia |
ACT Department of Education and Training
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2020/01/02 - 2021/12/31 | (De)Othering: Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on migrants/refugees and ‘internal
Others’ in Portuguese and European mediascapes
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029997
Research Fellow
Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2012/04/05 - 2014/12/31 | More than family history: race, gender and the Aboriginal family in Australian history
Researcher
The University of Sydney, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, Australia
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Australian Research Council
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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| Encyclopedia entry |
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Activities
Oral presentation
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| 2023/12/12 | Masterclass 'Affect/Biopower, Communities/Populations' | Master Research Course 'Representing Imagined Communities'
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Münster, Germany)
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| 2023/11/23 | 'Sensible' Blackness. Hosea Easton's Engagement with the Affective Politics of 19th Century Race Science(s) | Guest Lectures in American studies Münster (GLAM)
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Münster, Germany)
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| 2023/06/12 | Invited Paper 'The ''Sensible' Black Body. Black Abolitionists' Engagement with the Affective Politics of 19th Century Race Science(s)' |
CRC Affective Societies - Dynamics of Living Together in Moving Worlds, Free University of Berlin: (Berlin, Germany)
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| 2023/01/18 | Approaching Anti-Racism through the Lenses of Disability: Hosea Easton and Black Abolitionists Engagement with Antebellum Racial Sciences | Science Beyond the West Working Group, Decolonial Pedagogies Workshop Series, Spring 2023
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, United States)
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| 2022/09/23 | Reproductive racism in Italy. Georgia Meloni's exclusion of non-white women from the family of the nation | Populist Politics in the Post-Pandemic Landscape, 6th Populism Specialist Group (PSA) Workshop
University of Brighton (Brighton, United Kingdom)
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| 2022/07/15 | Racial Grief, Redress and Disability: from Abolitionism to Brown v. Board | Global Meeting on Law&Society 'Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy'
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2022/07/07 | Queering populism: far-right women leaders, non-normative heterosexual families, and (white) national belonging in Italy | European Conference on Politics and Gender
University of Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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| 2022/06/17 | Queering the far-right in Italy Giorgia Meloni's modern motherhood, non-normative heterosexual families, and the white nation | 1th European Feminist Research Conference 'Social Change in a Feminist Perspective', Strand 10 - 'Citizenship, Nationalism(s)
and Racism(s)'
University of Milano, Bicocca (Milano)
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| 2022/02/17 | Seeing Slavery through the Lenses of Sensibility: Hosea Easton and Black Abolitionists' Engagement with Racial Sciences | 12th Annual Interdisciplinary African, African American & Diaspora Studies (AAAD), Conference ‘Voices of Race, Modes of Advocacy,’
James Madison University, Harrisonburg ( Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States)
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| 2021/08/09 | History of Anti-Racism: from Antebellum Abolitionism to the Sociology of Race Relations, Roundtable 'History and Sociology of Sociology' | 116th Virtual American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting 'Emancipatory Sociology: Raising to the Du Boisian Challenge
American Sociological Association (ASA) (United States)
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| 2021/05/14 | Decolonize Historiography, Unsettling Colonial Archives | COST Working Group 1- Decolonize Development Knowledge
Online Zoom Event
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| 2020/01/31 | The Gender of Conquest: Chinese Miners, Irish Women and the Making of Victoria | Intersectional Conference – Imprisonment and Society
Faculty of Letters, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2020/01/20 | The Colonial Legacy of Interculturalism | Roundtable: ‘Interculturalism and Populism’, 2020 Migrating Rights | Keywords Series,
Inter-Thematic Group on Migration (ITM), Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2019/10/25 | Communist Future of China: Cinema, Anthropology and Modernity | International Seminar ‘Science and Cinema'
Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2019/06/21 | The Myth of the Negro Past: Cultural Anthropology's Role in the Era of Racial Liberalism and Colonial Indirect Rule | Slam Seminar, Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra
Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2018/08/02 | Neither Black Nor White: Colonial Violence, Chinese's Respectability and Making of Rural Victoria. | Workshop: Empire, Race and Violence.
Centre for the History of Violence, University of Newcastle (Newcastle, Australia)
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| 2018/04/26 | Violence and the Archive: Land and Labour in the Sugar Towns of North Queensland. | Center for Colonial and Settler Studies' Seminar Series.
Center for Colonial and Settler Studies (CASS), Wollongong University. (W, Australia)
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| 2018/04/03 | International Students: Race, Gender and Emotions in Australia. | Guest Lecture, Module: Introduction to Sociology.
School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, Wollongong University. (Wollongong, Australia)
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| 2018/03/26 | Frontier/ Borderlands: Violence in the Sugar Towns of North Queensland. | 2018 Visiting Scholars Seminar Series
Griffith Center for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia)
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| 2018/03/03 | Legacy of Lynching: Violence in the Inside Districts of North Queensland. | Northern Links: Protecting Their Interests and Pushing Back, The Seventh ‘no fuss’ Conference
Chinese Heritage in Northern Australia (Townsville, Australia)
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| 2017/11/01 | The Legacy of Yellow Peril: Cold War Epistemology, Academic Panic and the Chinese International Student. | 5th Annual Foundation of Australian Studies in China (FASIC) “Transnational Connectivity’ Conference.
Jangsu Normal University (Xuzhou, China)
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| 2017/10/25 | The Performativity of Orientalism: Asian International Students, Whiteness and the Australian Border. | Edward Said Lecture Series
Center for Global Studies and History, Shanghai University (Shanghai, China)
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| 2017/03/09 | OMGYes: from the Rape Continuum to Affirmative Consent. | Gender, Culture and Identities Dialogues Series
University of Nottingham Ningbo China (Ningbo, China)
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| 2016/12/06 | The Continuum of Sexual Harassment: from Sex to Gender Discrimination. | Guest Lecture
Student Affairs Office and Diversity Students Association, University of Nottingham Ningbo China (Ningbo, China)
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| 2016/12/06 | How to Write an Academic Essay: Structure, References, and Conventions. | Guest Lecture, Module: Introduction to New Media.
Department of Media and Communication, School of Media and Design, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University. (Ningbo, China)
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| 2016/11/03 | 'No Such a Thing as Standard Beauty:' Race, Gender, Class and Emotions in America's Next Top Model. | Guest Lecture, Module: Gender and Media.
Department of Media and Communication, School of Media and Design, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University (Sydney, Australia)
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| 2016/09/15 | Violence and Settler Colonialism: Notes towards a Reassessment of Race Relations in Australia and the United States. | Summer School “Concurrences and Connections: Beyond Eurocentrism
Linnaeus University (Vaxjio, Sweden)
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| 2016/04/29 | What is wrong with internationalisation?: a genealogy of ‘cultural distance’ in higher education. | Comparative and International Education Research Network's Seminar Series
Comparative and International Education Research Network, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
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| 2016/04/29 | Why is history important?: a question of method to analyse critically international education policies. | Masterclass
Comparative and International Education Research Network, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
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| 2016/04/06 | Queer Phenomenology: or What We Missed Out by Be(com)ing Straight. | Guest Lecture, Module: Cultural Analysis.
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo China; (Ningbo, China)
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| 2015/12/18 | Marco Polo in Movieland: Amerigo Enrico Lauro and the Making of Chinese Films in the Early Twentieth Century. | Interconnecting East Asian Cities and Beyond: Reframing the Early History of Chinese Cinema
Shanghai Theatre Academy (Shanghai, China)
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| 2015/12/02 | The Difficulty of Being Marco Polo: Italian Filmmakers in the History of Transnational Chinese Cinema. | Invited Seminar
Department of Chinese Culture, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
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| 2015/05/03 | Behind the Mask of Market: Transnational Co-productions between China and Italy. | Huallywood Film Research Center’s Annual Conference: Transnational and Transcultural Construction of Huallywood Cinema
Huallywood Film Research Center, School of Media and Design, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University (Ningbo, China)
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| 2015 | International Students: Race, Gender and National Identity in Australia (repeated in 2016). | Guest Lecture, Module: Culture and Communication.
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo China (Ningbo, China)
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| 2014/12/03 | Backdoor Entry to Australia: International Education as a Risk of Illegal Migration. | Cultural Studies Association of Australasia’s Annual Conference (CSAA): ‘Provocations’
School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong. (Wollongong, Australia)
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| 2014/11/03 | International Students in Australia: Ideal or Bogus Migrants?. Panel: “Migration Futures: Emerging Migration Cultures in Dynamic Economies”. | Knowledge/Culture/Economy International Conference.
Institute of Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney (Sydne, Australia)
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| 2014/09/24 | Aboriginal-Italian Families: Encountering a History of Love and Labour in North Queensland. | European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) International Annual Conference: Encountering Australia: Transcultural
Conversations.
Monash University Prato Centre (Prato, Australia)
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| 2012/12/13 | Governing International Students. | Seminar Series: Politics, Colonialism, Borders
Cross-Border Collective (Sydn, Australia)
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| 2012/12/07 | Racist violence and International Students' Anger. | ustralian Critical and Race and Whiteness Studies Association’s Annual Conference Directions and Intersection
Australian Critical and Race and Whiteness Studies Association (Gold Coast, Australia)
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| 2012/11/21 | The Making of International Students' Vulnerabilities: Race, Gender and Space. | Australian Women and Gender Association’s Biannual Conference (AWGSA): Interventions: Reflections, Critiques, Practices
School of Humanities, University of New South Wales. (Sydney, Australia)
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| 2011/11/22 | Feeling like an International student: investment into the politics of suffering. | Cultural Studies Association of Australasia’s Annual Conference (CSAA): Cultural ReOrientation and Comparative Colonialities.
International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslims Understanding. University of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia)
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| 2011/07/15 | On being othered and other multicultural discontents: international students in Australia | Limina Conference
University of Western Australia (Perth, Australia)
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| 2010/07/01 | Toward a revaluation of the concept of ideology within Feminist Media Studies: women’s subjectivities between The Tyra Banks Show and Marie Clarie. | Australian Women and Gender Association’s Biannual Conference (AWGSA): Emerging Spaces: New Possibilities in Critical Times
University of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2021/03/08 - Current | Presention of 'The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution' (2021/03/08)
Other
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Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal |
| 2021 - Current | Restitution and Memorialization in the Shadow of Decolonization (2021/01/29)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
| 2023/06/26 - 2033/06/30 | Second Edition CES Summer School 'Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Race Theory in the Age of Ultra-Violence' (2023/06/26 - 2023/06/30)
Other
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
| 2024/09/26 - 2024/09/29 | With Angeliki Sifaki, Andromachi Koutsoulenti, Liz Ablett, and Maria do Mar Pereira, co-organiser of the Theme-Stream 3:
Unequal Power Relations within Gender Studies, AtGender Spring Conference 'Gender Studies and the Precarious Labour of Making
a Difference: (Un)paid Jobs, Internships, and Volunteering in the Worlds of Activism, Profit, and Non-profit', Utrecht University
, 26 to 29 September by 2024 (2024/09/26 - 2024/09/29)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Universiteit Utrecht Departement Filosofie en Religiewetenschap, Netherlands |
| 2024/06/12 - 2024/06/14 | With Silvia Schultermandl and Marion Christin Rohrleitner, Co-organiser of the Organizing Committee of the Triple Panel 'Beyond
Sentiment: ''Otherwise'' and 'Outlaw' Feelings of Belonging, 13th Biennial Conference of The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies:
Europe and the Americas (MESEA), University of Eastern Finland. (2024/06/12 - 2024/06/14)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Finland |
| 2023/12/07 - 2023/12/07 | Workshop 'Hijacking Solidarity. Affective Networking of Far-Right Publics on Twitter' with Ana Makhashvili from the Free University
of Berlin. (2023/12 - 2023/12)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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| 2022 - 2023 | ITM Seminar Series 'Migration(s) and Global Crises': Reckoning with the urgency of approaching migration(s) through an interdisciplinary
lens, the ITM Series: Migration(s) and Global Crises dedicates each seminar to a disciplinary standpoint or a situated manifestation
of broader trends concerning the management of national borders, processing of refugee claims, and the socio-cultural inclusion
of populations with a migrant background. URL: https://ces.uc.pt/en/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2022/migration-s-and-global-crises/apresentacao. (2022/05/12 - 2023/12/12)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
| 2022/07/18 - 2022/07/22 | CES Summer School 'Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Race Theory in the Age of Ultra-Violence' (2022/07/18 - 2022/07/22)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
| 2016/05/14 - 2016/05/15 | Third Annual Huallywood Film Research Center's Conference: Situating Huallywood: Cinematic Interconnections in the Asia-Pacific.
(2016/05/14 - 2016/05/15)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University - Huallywood Film Research Center., China |
| 2015/10/01 - 2016/03/31 | International Seminar Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Cinemas. (2015/10/01 - 2016/03/31)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University - Huallywood Film Research Center., China |
| 2015/05/03 - 2015/05/04 | International Symposium: Childhood and Nation in World Cinema. (2015/05/03 - 2015/05/04)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University - Huallywood Film Research Center., China |
| 2015/05/03 - 2015/05/04 | Second Annual Huallywood Film Research Center's Conference: Transnational and Transcultural Construction of Huallywood Cinema.
(2015/05/03 - 2015/05/04)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University - Huallywood Film Research Center., China |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2023 - Current | German Association of Postcolonial Studies | Member |
| 2019/09/13 - Current | Inter-Thematic Group on Migration (ITM) | Member |
| 2018/10/21 - Current | Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies (ACRAWSA). | Blog Editor |
| 2014 - Current | The European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) | Member |
| 2010 - Current | Australian Women and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA). | Member |
| 2010 - Current | Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA) | Member |
| 2011 - 2019 | Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA). | Member |
| 2011 - 2013 | Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA). | General Councillor |
| 2010 - 2012 | Australian Women and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA). | Postgraduate Representative |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2019/09/13 - Current | Organising and Scientific Committee, 2020 Migrating Rights | Keywords Series
Member
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Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2017/09 - 2018/01 | Queer Race: a Decolonial Approach to the Study of Gender and Media. | Media and Communication (Bachelor) | Zhejiang University Ningbo Institute of Technology, China |
| 2015/09 - 2016/01 | Cinema, Race and Nation | Media and Communication (Bachelor) | Zhejiang University Ningbo Institute of Technology, China |
| 2015/03 - 2015/07 | Art Across Media: Advertisement, Photography and Cinema | Media and Communication (Bachelor) | Zhejiang University Ningbo Institute of Technology, China |
| 2014/03/01 - 2014/07/15 | Introduction to Cultural Studies | Gender and Cultural Studies (Bachelor (1st cycle)) | The University of Sydney, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, Australia |
| 2013/11/21 - 2014/01/08 | Gender, Violence and Transgression | Gender and Cultural Studies (Bachelor) | The University of Sydney, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, Australia |
Distinctions
Award
| 2015 | Commendation, Outstanding Postgraduate Thesis on a Topic Related to International Education
International Education Association of Australia, Australia
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| 2014 | Dean's Citation for Excellence in Tutorials (AUD 500)
The University of Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Science., Australia
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| 2009 | University of Sydney International Scholarship (USydIS) (AUD 93.387) |
| 2008 | Special Merit Award (EUR 2.000)
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
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| 2007 | Research Travel Bursary (EUR 2.000)
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
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