Olivia Guaraldo

Curriculum

•   cv english   (pdf, en, 242 KB, 12/09/24)
•   cv italiano 2024   (pdf, it, 483 KB, 12/09/24)

Olivia Guaraldo is Professor of political philosophy at the Department of Human Sciences. Her field of expertise focuses on modern and contemporary political thought. She has worked extensively on the thought of Hannah Arendt and at present she is the director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies at the University of Verona, department of Human Sciences. She has also worked in the field of contemporary feminist political theory, investigating the theoretical and political relationships between the thought of sexual difference and gender theory. She has edited and introduced the Italian translations of Judith Butler’s works, Precarious Life (Rome 2004, Milan 2013) and Undoing Gender (Rome 2006, Milan 2014). Among her most recent books: Comunità e vulnerabilità. Per una critica politica della violenza, 2012;  She has have co-edited, with Angie Voela, the Gender and Education special issue “ ‘If Not Now When’: Feminism in contemporary activist, social and educational contexts” (2016). She is currently working on the Arendtian theme of Public Happiness in order to rethink democracy in light of new participatory practices and a new affective lexicon that enables to frame political action in generative terms. Her latest article:  "Public happiness: revisiting an Arendtian hypotesis", Philosophy Today, 62:2, 2018, pp.395-416.
She is also regularly engaged in public conferences on women's issues (equality, violence, political participation) in extra-academic contexts and She is also member of the comittee for equal opportunities of the University of Verona (CUG).

Her research projects relate to the following research frameworks of the department:

• ethics, politics, social responsibility
• gender and cultural studies

Di seguito sono elencati gli eventi e gli insegnamenti di Terza Missione collegati al docente:

• Eventi di Terza Missione: eventi di Public Engagement e Formazione Continua.
• Insegnamenti di Terza Missione: insegnamenti che fanno parte di Corsi di Studio come Corsi di formazione continua, Corsi di perfezionamento e aggiornamento professionale, Corsi di perfezionamento, Master e Scuole di specializzazione.

• Eventi
• Insegnamenti

Chair

• Commissione AQ Laurea in Studi Strategici per la Sicurezza e le Politiche Internazionali

Istitutional duties

• Delegata/o al Public Engagement - Commission - third mission

Other positions held

• Direttrice  Hannah Arendt Center