Beatrice GALLELLI

CURRENT POSITION
- Assistant Professor (RTT) at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy. Qualified as associate professor of East and Central Asian Cultures (sector: 10/N3) as per the Italian National Scientific “Habilitation” (valid from 07/03/2025 to 07/03/2037)

- Researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (International Affairs Institute), Rome, Italy.

EDUCATION
2015- 2019: PhD in Asian and African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy. Dissertation: “De-Framing a National Dream: Identity and Political Legitimacy in the Discourse on the Chinese Dream”, Awarded cum laude 

2011- 2014: MA in Languages, Economics, Legal Institutions of Asia and Mediterranean Africa, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy. 110 out of 110 cum laude. Dissertation: “Metaphors of a Metaphor: The Rhetoric of the China dream”

2007- 2011: BA in Oriental Studies, University of La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. 110 out of 110 cum laude. Dissertation: The Yuefu during the Six Dynasties

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
November 2022 – ongoing: Researcher in “ReConnect China: Generating Independent Knowledge for a Resilient Future with China for Europe and its Citizens”. Horizon Europe-CL2-2021-TRANSFORMATIONS.

2020 – ongoing: Participant to the research project “Sinophone Borderlands Europe Survey” (https://sinofon.cz/surveys/), organised and coordinated by Palacký University in Olomouc (UPOL), Czech Republic.

September 2022- August 2023: Project coordinator of the one-year project “Countering Chinese Disinformation in Italy”, funded through the U.S. Mission to Italy’s 2022 Annual Program Statement (APS), Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy. Scholars involved: Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Marina Rudyak, Maria Repnikova, James Millward.

February 9, 2022- March 18, 2022: Contributor to the “Media Alignment Project”, Doublethink Lab. 

August-December 2021: Project coordinator of the research project “When Italy embraces the Belt and Road”, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy: https://www.iai.it/en/ricerche/when-italy-embraces-bri.

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Taiwan Fellowship, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan (April 1st – July 24th, 2025). Visiting scholar at the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taipei. Research project: “Cross-Strait Relations In Xi Jinping's Era. The Role of Translation In (Re)Framing China's Official Narratives”

Erasmus+ – Staff Mobility for Teaching Assignment (STA) (March 10th-15th, 2025), Wien Universität.

Visiting Program for Young Sinologists funded by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China, Shanghai Academy of Social Science, Shanghai, PRC (June 2019 - July 2019)

Ph.D. full scholarship, Italian Ministry of Education, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (2015–2018)

Special allowance for research activities abroad, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Graduate School (October 13 -- November 2, 2017)

China Scholarship Council via the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for conducting research on Contemporary Chinese Political Discourse and Rhetoric, Peking University, Beijing, PRC (2016- 2017). Senior visiting student at the School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University, Beijing. Advisor: Prof. Chen Rudong 陈汝东

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Crafting, Negotiating and Resetting Temporal Borders: Patriotic Education Centres as the Site for the Discursive Construction of China’s New Era”, Association of Chinese Political Studies Annual Conference 2025, King’s College, London, UK (November 20, 2025). (Peer-reviewed)

“From crisis to achievements: Representing China's success in greening rural areas” 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Tallinn, Estonia. (August 27, 2024-August 30, 2024). (Peer-reviewed)

“China’s official narratives on Xinjiang”, “Xinjiang and Counterterrorism Discourse in China”, (February 8, 2023), Lancaster University, UK, (invited).

“China’s public diplomacy in and through texts: The role of translation in (re)framing China’s official narratives in the era of Covid-19”, Conference “The COVID-19 Pandemic and China’s Global Projection: Between Continuities and Changes”, (November 11-12, 2022) (invited).

“Techno-Orientalism in the 21st century: From the Japan threat to the China threat”, “Sinophone Borderlands Survey Workshop”, (September 5th, 2022), Olomouc, Czech Republic, (invited).

"China's official narratives on Xinjiang: interethnic mingling, economic prosperity, and religious terrorism". Paper presented at the Conference "US-China Competition, COVID-19, and Democratic Backsliding in Asia: Implications for Europe" (September 28th, 2021), European University Institute, Florence, (invited).

“Dalla ‘civiltà spirituale’ allo ‘spirito cinese’: il ruolo politico della cultura nella RPC del XXI secolo” (From the spiritual civilization to the China spirit: the political role of culture in 21st century China), “’L’ircocervo e noi: spazi e prospettive per la sinologia critica’ Giornata di studi per il III anniversario in ricordo di Angela Pascucci (April 24th, 2021), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, (invited).

"'Whose dream?': Renmin (the people) as a floating signifier in contemporary China". CALA 2020 The Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology "Asian Texts, Global Contexts" (February 5th-8th, 2020), The University Putra Malaysia, Bintulu, Malaysia. (Peer-reviewed)

“An old dream for a globalised China: Retrotopia in contemporary Chinese political discourse”. “China’s Global Role in the New Era. British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies” 2019 BPCS Annual Conference. Cambridge University (9th-10th June 2019), Cambridge University, UK. (Peer-reviewed)

“Un antico sogno per una Cina globalizzata: Retrotopia nel discorso sul sogno cinese”. IV Convegno Dottorale, “Il meglio è passato”. Riflessioni su nostalgie, retrotopie e anacronismi”. (16th-17th May 2019) Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy. (Peer-reviewed)

“Doing things with metaphors in contemporary China: Analysing the use of creative metaphors in the discourse on the Chinese dream”. Workshop on "Eurasian Connection”, (May 25th-26th, 2018), Heidelberg, Germany.

“Old dreams for a new era? Analysing the discourse on the Chinese dream and on the belt and road initiative”. “The 5th International Conference: From Hegel to Mao and Beyond: The Long March of the Sinicizing Marxism”, (April 20th-22nd, 2018), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Peer-reviewed)

“Metafore e potere: Analisi del linguaggio figurato nel discorso politico di Xi Jinping sul sogno cinese” (Metaphors and power: Analysis the use of figurative language by Xi Jinping in the political discourse on the Chinese dream). "Inerzia e Solerzia del Testo: Genesi, Mezzi ed Esiti dell'Agire Testuale", (December 5th-6th, 2017), Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy. (Peer-reviewed)

“Building a community of shared destiny: The belt and road initiative in the political speeches of Xi Jinping”. “the Third International Forum on the 'New Silk Road' and Sino-European Cooperation”, (November 8th-9th, 2017), Duisburg, Germany. (Peer-reviewed)

精准扶贫 Precision in poverty alleviation: Le nuove tendenze del discorso politico cinese (精准扶贫 Precision in poverty alleviation: The new trends of Chinese political discourse). "XVI Convegno Associazione Italiana Studi Cinesi" (September 21st-22nd-23rd, 2017), Milan, Italy. (Peer-reviewed)

 “中国梦理论：中国国家话语的新形态” (The Chinese dream theory: The new shape of China’s national discourse), “The First Annual Conference of the Global Discourse Society & The International Academic Symposium” (September 9th, 2016), Wuhan, Hubei, China. (Peer-reviewed)

“中国梦：中国国家修辞传播的新趋向” (The Chinese dream: The new trends of China’s rhetorical communication), “The First High-Level Forum on National Communication Studies” (July 17th 2016), Wuhu, Anhui, China. (Peer-reviewed)

“The Rhetorical Construction of the Chinese Dream”, “‘Dynamic China’ British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies Annual Conference 2016” (June 23rd- 24th, 2016), King’s College, London, UK. (Peer-reviewed)

“论中国梦的修辞性建构” (On the rhetorical construction of the Chinese dream), “The Third Annual Conference of Cognitive Communication in China & the International Cognitive Communication Symposium of 2016” (April 8th- 10th, 2016), Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China. (Peer-reviewed)

INVITED PARTICIPATIONS TO ROUNDTABLES
Speaker at the Roundtable: “China as a partner? Climate Change as a Field of Collaboration and Competition between EU and China”, ReConnect China Dialog? Bridging Gaps, Charting Futures with Europe, Tartu, Estonia (October 24-26, 2024).

Discussant at the Roundtable: "How to ReConnect China while De-Risking?" organized by Anastasia Sinitsyna (University of Tartu) and Elo Süld (University of Tartu), 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies a Tallinn, Estonia. (August 27, 2024-August 30, 2024).

Speaker at the Roundtable: “In Xi’s Image: An Assessment of the 20th CCPC”. Reset-DOC, November 7th, 2022. Other participants include Prof. Sean Golden, Dr. Runya Qiaoan, Dr. Zongyuan Zoe Liu.

Speaker at the Roundtable: “Can the EU and China cooperate on the Ukraine crisis?”. European University Institute; organized by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, March, 31 2022. Other participants include Prof. Lanxin Xiang; Dr. Ding Yifan; Philippe Le Corre; Steven Everts.

INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS
Harmony Between Humanity and Nature? Applying the Discourse of Eco-Civilisation to China’s Green Rural Revival Programme”, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan, June 5th, 2025.

“La Cina di oggi in 8 parole”, rassegna Orizzonti, con la partecipazione del Liceo Giuseppe Veronese di Chioggia, Chioggia, October 18, 2024.

“La Cina del XXI secolo. Tra continuità e discontinuità”, Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici, December 14, 2023.

“Rimboccati le maniche per realizzare il sogno cinese. La traduzione del discorso politico nell’era di Xi Jinping”, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, November 30, 2023.

“Fare cose con le parole: Continuità e rotture nel discorso politico cinese sotto Xi Jinping”, Università degli Studi di Milano, November 18, 2022.

“China’s development in the 20th and 21st century: a discursive approach.” Libera università internazionale degli studi sociali Guido Carli (Luiss Guido Carli), 11 April 2022.

“La Cina di Xi Jinping: Tra continuità e discontinuità”, Circolo ACLI Geopolitico, Milan, Italy, April 2, 2022.

“La Cina di oggi in otto parole”, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, March 3, 2022.

“Popolo, Nazione, Civiltà: La costruzione identitaria di una Cina in transizione”, Università Cattolica, Milan, February 17, 2022.

“Studying contemporary Chinese political discourse”, PhD course, Training and Teaching Block 3. Ca’ Foscari University, 17 January 2021

“Italian health care system under coronavirus pressure: systemic features, political issues and old contradictions”. Global Online Conference on COVID-19: Fallout & Future, Bennet University, April 9th, 2020.

“La struttura del Partito Comunista Cinese e il Pensiero Politico da Mao a Xi” (The Structure of the Chinese Communist Party and its ‘Political Thought’ from Mao to Xi). Verona University, October 9th, 2018.

La ‘Nuova’ Via della Seta: ‘Vecchie’ Istanze per una ‘Nuova Era’? (The ‘New’ Silk Road: ‘Old’ Appeals for a ‘New Era’?). Ca ‘Foscari University, Venice, November 15th, 2017.

“Da 'il pensiero di Mao Zedong' al ‘sogno cinese’: L'evoluzione del pensiero politico nella Cina contemporanea” (From ‘Mao Zedong Thought’ to the ‘Chinese dream’: The evolution of political thought in contemporary China. Verona University, October 12th, 2017.

“Le metafore del sogno cinese: Il linguaggio figurato nei discorsi di Xi Jinping” (The metaphors of the Chinese dream: Figurative language in Xi Jinping's political talks and writings). Ca' Foscari University in Venice, December 7th, 2015.

ORGANISED CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND OUTREACH EVENTS
Lecture: Federico Picerni, “Dai poeti oscuri al covid: attori, temi e “tifoserie” nella poesia cinese contemporanea”, March 25, 2025.

Lecture: Gaia Perini, “Padri operai, figli precari: la narrativa dei Nuovi Scrittori del Nordest della Cina”, March 18, 2025.

Lecture: Martina Codeluppi “"Pianeti invivibili: la climate fiction nella Cina contemporanea”, 6 marzo 2025.

Lecture: John Delury, “Ideals of Empire. Beijing, Washington, Rome” Università Ca’ Foscari, February, 17 2025.”

Outreach event: “Il Terzo Plenum e le prospettive future della Repubblica Popolare Cinese”, OPRI, Ca' Foscari University, Venice (organised with Guido Samarani), Novembre15th, 2024,

Outreach event: "Il conflitto dello stretto di Taiwan: origini storiche, sviluppo e prospettive future", OPRI, Ca' Foscari University, Venice (organised with Guido Samarani), February 23rd, 2024,. 

Outreach event: "Oltre il mito di Chimerica: Stati Uniti e Cina in un mondo complicato" OPRI, Ca' Foscari University, Venice (organised with Duccio Basosi) April 4th, 2023.

Lecture: Christian Göbel, “The Paradox of Control: How State Dominance on Weibo Facilitates Online Protest”, Ca’ Foscari Universiy, Venice, April 8th, 2024.

Workshop: "Deconstructing China's official narratives: a toolkit". Sponsored by Istituto Affari Internazionali and Ca' Foscari University, March 10th, 2023. 

Roundtable: "China's story: Party rhetoric and State disinformation". Speakers: Una Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Marina Rudyak, James Millward; discussant: Beatrice Gallelli. Sponsored by Istituto Affari Internazionali, March 9th, 2023.

Roundtable: “Unpacking State-Society Relations in the Urban Space: What are the Limit(s) of Compromise?” Speakers: Silvio Cristiano, Mona Harb, Subrata Mitra, Runya Qiaoan; discussant: Beatrice Gallelli. Venice Seminars. Reset-DOC Venice seminars “Between State and Civil Society: Who Protects Individual Liberties and Human Dignity?”, May 26th-28th, 2022.

Lecture: Dr. Florian Schneider “China’s Networked Spectacles: Lessons on Public Discourse Management from Hu to Xi”, Ca’ Foscari Universiy, Venice, April 29, 2022.

Conference Panel: "Keywords in contemporary China", chaired by Marco Fumian, with Adrian Krawczyk, Bettina Mottura, Federico Picerni, Runya Qiaoan and Natalia Riva, 23rd Biannual Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, Germany, Leipzig, August 26th, 2021.

Outreach event: “La Cina in Italia” (China in Italy). Co-organised conference between the Istituto Affari Internazionale and Marco Polo Centre of Ca’ Foscari University, December 13th, 2021.

Outreach event: China’s presence in Italy: challenges and opportunities. Public event at the Istituto Affari Internazionali’s premised, Rome, December 17th, 2021,

Book Presentation: Buonanotte Signor Mao (Goodnight Mister Mao) by the Italian Journalist Gabriele Battaglia. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy, January 24th, 2018.

 Outreach event: “Lavoro e ambiente in Cina a partire dalle inchieste di Angela Pascucci” (Work and environment in China, starting from the Angela Pascucci’s research), Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy, February 18th, 2019)

 Outreach event: “Sulle trace di Michelangelo Antonioni: La Cina di ieri e di oggi attraverso gli occhi dei protagonisti di Chung Kuo, Cina” (following Antonioni’s footprints: Yesterday and Today’s China through the eyes of the protagonists of Chung Kuo, China). Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy (May 10th, 2019).

MEMBERSHIPS
- since 2025 ACPS (Association of Chinese Political Studies)

- since 2016 EACS (European Association for Chinese Studies)

- since 2016 AISC (Associazione Italiana Studi Cinesi/Italian Association for Chinese Studies)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-        Member of the editorial board of Sinosfere, Sinica Venetiana – Ca’ Foscari University Press, and Sulla via del Catai.

-        Peer Reviewer for the journal Sociology and Anthropology, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie orientale and other national and international journals.

-        Computer Skills:

(2018) European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) Full Standard Certificate

(2017) ECDL IT Security Specialised Level