Olivia Guaraldo

Curriculum

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Olivia Guaraldo is Associate 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

 

Projects

Title	Starting date
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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Istitutional duties

• member - Equal opportunities commission
• Delegata alla Valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale e dei beni culturali, public engagement - Delegates and Advisers to the Rector

Olivia Guaraldo

Office	Collegial Body
member	Council for the Philosophy Degree Course - Department Human Sciences
member	Collegio didattico di Governance dell'emergenza - Department Law
	Teaching staff council for the Research doctorate in Philosophy - Teaching staff council for the Research doctorate in Philosophy
member	Equal opportunities commission
Direttore Vicario	The QA Management Group - Department Human Sciences
member	Philosophy Department Council
vice director	Consiglio del Dipartimento di Scienze Umane - Department Human Sciences
Delegata alla Valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale e dei beni culturali, public engagement	Delegates and Advisers to the Rector
member	Board of the Educational Science Department - Department Human Sciences