Olivia Guaraldo

foto,  December 2, 2020
Position
Full Professor
Academic sector
SPS/01 - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Research sector (ERC)
SH5_12 - Ethics; social and political philosophy

Office
Palazzo di Lettere,  Floor 2,  Room 15
Telephone
+39 045802 8066
E-mail
olivia|guaraldo*univr|it <== Replace | with . and * with @ to have the right email address.

Office Hours

Tuesday, Hours 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM,   Palazzo di Lettere, Floor 2, room 10

Curriculum

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

Modules

Modules running in the period selected: 67.
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Course Name Total credits Online Teacher credits Modules offered by this teacher
Bachelor’s degree in Humanities Art, memory and terrorism: the duty to protect our cultural heritage (2023/2024)   1   
Bachelors' degree in Strategic studies for security and international policies Art, memory and terrorism: the duty to protect our cultural heritage (2023/2024)   1   
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies Cities and Freedom (2023/2024)   2     
Master's degree in Philosophy Politics and Theories of the Human (2023/2024)   6  eLearning (Esercitazione)
(Lezione)
Master's degree in Emergency Governance Risk, crisis, conflict: political analysis of emergencies (2023/2024)   6  eLearning
Bachelors' degree in Strategic studies for security and international policies Security and international politics (2023/2024)   1  eLearning
Bachelors' degree in Strategic studies for security and international policies Global risk-society and politics (2023/2024)   9  eLearning (Parte I)
Bachelors' degree in Strategic studies for security and international policies International emergencies and armed conflicts (2022/2023)   1   
Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism Media, culture and society (2022/2023)   12  eLearning FILOSOFIA POLITICA E GIORNALISMO (M)
Master's degree in Philosophy Politics and Theories of the Human (2022/2023)   6  eLearning (Esercitazione)
(Lezione)
Master's degree in Emergency Governance Risk, crisis, conflict: political analysis of emergencies (2022/2023)   6  eLearning
Bachelors' degree in Strategic studies for security and international policies The end of Globalization?: Dialogues on a changing world (2022/2023)   2   
Master's degree in Emergency Governance (1 CFU) WORKSHOPS AT “ARENDT” STUDIES CENTRE – 2021 (2021/2022)   1     
Master's degree in Emergency Governance (2 CFU) WORKSHOPS AT “ARENDT” STUDIES CENTRE – 2021 (2021/2022)   2     
Master's degree in Emergency Governance (3 CFU) WORKSHOPS AT “ARENDT” STUDIES CENTRE - 2021 (2021/2022)   3     
Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism Media, culture and society (2021/2022)   12  eLearning FILOSOFIA POLITICA E GIORNALISMO (M)
Master's degree in Philosophy Politics and Theories of the Human (2021/2022)   6  eLearning (Esercitazione)
(Lezione)
Master's degree in Emergency Governance Risk, crisis, conflict: political analysis of emergencies (2021/2022)   6  eLearning
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Laboratorio “Calendario di Memoria Civile – Giornata della Memoria” (2021/2022)   1   
Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism "Common world. 2022 Arendt Seminars (2020/2021)   3  eLearning
Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism Media, culture and society (2020/2021)   12  eLearning FILOSOFIA POLITICA E GIORNALISMO (M)
Master's degree in Philosophy Politics and Theories of the Human (2020/2021)   6  eLearning
Master's degree in Emergency Governance Risk, crisis, conflict: political analysis of emergencies (2020/2021)   6  eLearning
Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism "Common world. 2022 Arendt Seminars (2019/2020)   2  eLearning
Master’s degree in Historical Studies (interuniversity) Political philosophy I [Sede VR] (2019/2020)   6  eLearning
Master's degree in Philosophy Politics and Theories of the Human (2019/2020)   6  eLearning
Master's degree in Emergency Governance Risk, crisis, conflict: political analysis of emergencies (2019/2020)   6  eLearning
Master's degree in Emergency Governance (1 cfu) seminari centro studi arendt – 2019 (2019/2020)   1  eLearning  
Master's degree in Emergency Governance (2 cfu) seminari centro studi arendt – 2019 (2019/2020)   2  eLearning  
Master's degree in Emergency Governance (3 cfu) seminari centro studi arendt – 2019 (2019/2020)   3  eLearning  
Bachelor’s degree in Humanities Il realismo politico e l’impossibile (2019/2020)   1  eLearning
Master's degree in Philosophy Politics and Theories of the Human (2018/2019)   6  eLearning
Master's degree in Emergency Governance Risk, crisis, conflict: political analysis of emergencies (2018/2019)   6  eLearning
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies Felicita' pubblica. genealogie, percorsi, prospettive (2018/2019)   3   
Master's degree in Philosophy Politics and theories of the human (2017/2018)   6  eLearning
Master's degree in Emergency Governance Risk, crisis, conflict: political analysis of emergencies (2017/2018)   6  eLearning
Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism Political philosophy and journalism (m) (2016/2017)   6  eLearning
Master's degree in Philosophy Politics and theories of the human (2016/2017)   6  eLearning
Master's degree in Emergency Governance Risk, crisis, conflict: political analysis of emergencies (2016/2017)   6  eLearning
Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism Political philosophy and journalism (m) (2015/2016)   6   
Master’s degree in Historical Studies (interuniversity) Political philosophy I (2015/2016)   6   
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political philosophy (p) (2015/2016)   6   
Master's degree in Emergency Governance Risk, crisis, conflict: political analysis of emergencies (2015/2016)   6   
Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism Political philosophy and journalism (m) (2014/2015)   6   
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political philosophy (p) (2014/2015)   6   
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies Political philosophy SC (p) (2014/2015)   6   
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political philosophy (p) (2013/2014)   6   
Master's degree in Pedagogical Sciences Public ethics (2013/2014)   6   
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political philosophy (p) (2012/2013)   6   
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political philosophy (p) (2011/2012)   6   
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political philosophy (p) (2010/2011)   6   
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political philosophy (p) (2009/2010)   6   
Degree in Communication Science: publishing and journalism Political philosophy (p) (2008/2009)   6   
Degree in Communication Science: publishing and journalism Political philosophy (p) (2007/2008)   6   
Degree in Philosophy Political Philosophy (p)FI (2007/2008)   6   
Specialized Degree in Philosophy Political theory (s) (2007/2008)   6   
Degree in Philosophy Modern political philosophy (2006/2007)   3   
Degree in Communication Science: publishing and journalism Political philosophy (p) (2006/2007)   6   
Degree in Philosophy Political Philosophy (p)FI (2006/2007)   6   
Degree in Communication Science: publishing and journalism Political Science (i) (2005/2006)   6   
Degree in Communication Science: publishing and journalism Political Science (i) (2004/2005)   6     
Degree in Communication Science: publishing and journalism Political Science (i) (2003/2004)   6     
Degree in Communication Science: publishing and journalism Political Science (i) [Cognomi A-K] (2002/2003)   6     
Degree in Communication Science: publishing and journalism Political Science (i) [Cognomi L-Z] (2002/2003)   6     

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Research interests
Topic Description Research area
Politics and Vulnerability Rethinking political subjectivity in the light of the perspective of vulnerability and care. The background is the thought of sexual difference and feminist political and legal theories. Inclusive societies and citizenship practices
Social and political philosophy
Political Theory and Public Happiness The political concepts of modernity and their transformations are analyzed with specific reference to the Arendtian concept of 'Public Happiness' with the aim of redefining political freedom and participation. Inclusive societies and citizenship practices
Social and political philosophy
Projects
Title Starting date
Geophilosophy of the Balkans 12/1/20
Che cos’è la felicità pubblica? Hannah Arendt e l’invenzione di un concetto What is public happiness? Hannah Arendt and the invention of a concept 9/1/17
Soggetto di diritto e vulnerabilità: modelli istituzionali e concetti giuridici in trasformazione 2/5/17
Tecnica governamentale come tecnica inclusiva: problematiche di partecipazione sociale, sicurezza e qualità della vita 1/1/13
La differenza sessuale: teorie e pratiche di una politica dei corpi. (2006) 1/1/06
- Le politiche della violenza: dallo Stato moderno alla guerra globale. 7/1/05
Logos as phoné semantiké: history and interpretation 1/1/01




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