Eugenio Capitani
Eugenio Capitani obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy from the University of Bologna with a thesis entitled: «Vivere beate». La corrispondenza tra Descartes e la principessa Elisabetta di Boemia. He studied piano and composition from 2000 to 2013 at the music institute “Achille Peri” of Reggio Emilia before earning a Master’s Degree in Philosophical Sciences at the University of Bologna with a thesis entitled: Si può spiegare il tutto? Il dibattito attorno alla teoria delle stringhe tra scienza e filosofia. He obtained a First Level Master at the University of Padua and taught in high schools in Reggio Emilia. He is also an active member of the Matildic International Association Ami-Mia. His main fields of study include the History of Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Sociology, Political and Labor Philosophy, European and American Literature, and Medieval history.
PhD Research’s title: New Forms of Contemporary Alienation in the Italian Digital Market
Tutor: prof. Matteo Rinaldini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Giuseppe Chiavaroli
After his Bachelor’s Degree in History at the University of Macerata, Giuseppe Chiavaroli graduated in Modern Philology at the University of Pavia with a thesis on the relations between photographic archiving and industrial archaeology. He published: Industria e fotografia. Il caso della Bottega Fotografica Chiolini di Pavia (Univers, Pavia 2022) and, with Claudia Trentani, Luigi Trentani. Fotografo. Tecnica e Creazione per la Pavia del Novecento (Cisalpino – Istituto Editoriale Universitario, Milano 2023). His main research interests concern the relationship between photographic images and collective memory, industrial archaeology intended as corporate heritage and the archival organization of the national industrial heritage starting from the photographic traces of the workshops of photographers active in the territory under consideration.
PhD Research’s title: Industrial Photography and its Archives as the Foundation of Italian Corporate Heritage. The Case of the Provinces of Modena and Reggio Emilia as a National Paradigm
Tutor: prof. Luca Stefanelli (University of Pavia)
giuseppe.chiavaroli@unimore.it
Matilde Operato
Matilde Operato obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Ancient Studies at the University of Milan – Statale with a dissertation entitled: The Epigraph of Larino and the Gladiatorial Games during the Julio-Claudian Dynasty (Supervisor: prof. Simonetta Segenni), and her Master’s Degree in Medieval History at the University of Milan – Statale with a dissertation entitled: From the Rediscovered Manuscript to the Printed Editions. For a Bibliographical History of the De rerum natura (Supervisor: prof. Roberta Cesana). Her main research interests concern Digital Humanities, LIS – Italian Sign Language, Librarianship, Archival, Diplomatic, History, Latin Literature, Italian Literature.
PhD Research’s title: A New Step towards the Valorization of the Italian Cultural Heritage. The Digitization of the Archival Fonds of the Archivio Storico Diocesano of Pavia
Tutor: prof.ssa Serena Feloj (University of Pavia)
Piero Sansò
Piero Sansò graduates in Philosophical Sciences at the University of Bologna with a thesis in History, Science, and Society titled: The Lineage of CRISPR: New eugenics in historical perspective, between science, technology, and public debate. His research interests lie at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies and Critical Theory of Society, with a focus on the development and implementation of new technologies, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence. The current research project aims to critically analyse (from a social, ethical, and legal perspective) the issue of black boxes, both technological and social, that have emerged in the development, implementation, and utilization of the latest AI technologies, serving as a crucial node for the establishment of a genuinely trustworthy and human-centered artificial intelligence.
PhD Research’s title: Black Boxes. Critical Theory Studies for a Human Centered AI
Tutor: prof. Gianluigi Fioriglio (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Claudia Severi
Claudia Severi graduated with honors in Law at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, with a thesis in Theory and Practice of Human Rights titled: Right to Climate and Climate Migrants. She spent four months of research stay at Maynooth University (Ireland), where she followed courses and took exams, notably: Food, Nutrition and Climate Security; International Development Challenges, and The Surveillance Society. Among her main interests of study and research, there are the forms of violations of Human Rights; Philosophy of International Law; Climate Issues; Policies and Rhetoric of Sustainability; Migrations, with particular regard to “climate migrants”; relations between Law and Digitalisation. She also collaborates with CRID – Interdepartmental Centre of Research about Discriminations and Vulnerabilities and, in particular, to the activities of the Cyber Workshop DET – Law, Ethics and Technologies, established at the Centre.
PhD Research’s title: Climate Issue, Learning and Digitalisation. The Strategic Role of Education and Technologies for the Contrast to the Effects of the Climate Crisis.
Tutor: prof. Thomas Casadei (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Caterina Zamboni
Caterina Zamboni earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice with a dissertation entitled: La bellezza e le pietre. Analisi dell’Iliade di Simone Weil e Rachel Bespaloff. She earned a Master’s Degree in Philosophical Sciences at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice with a research thesis entitled: La più piccola repubblica d’Europa. L’eredità filosofica delle Décades di Pontigny. Her main research interests concern: Moral Philosophy, History of Ancient Philosophy, History of Contemporary Philosophy, Contemporary History, Philosophy of Rootedness, Philosophical Archives.
PhD Research’s title: Intellectual Microsocieties between Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity. History and Actuality of the Decadist Avant-Garde.
Tutor: prof. Franco Ferrari (University of Pavia)