Anna BELLAVITIS

Position
Visiting Professor
E-mail
anna.bellavitis@unive.it
Website
www.unive.it/people/anna.bellavitis (personal record)
Office
Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities

Anna Bellavitis
Born in Udine (Italy), 25.01.1960, French and Italian citizenship
Full Professor of Early Modern History, University of Rouen Normandy, Rue Lavoisier, 76821 Mont Saint Aignan
Married, two children
Personal address: 8, Cité Riverin, 75010 Paris, France
Cell phone. 0033679764784 http://grhis.univ-rouen.fr/grhis/?page_id=545
Education:
-2007: Habilitation à diriger des recherches in Early Modern History, University Lyon2- Louis Lumière, tutor: Serge Chassagne.
-1996 : PhD Nouveau Régime in Early Modern History, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, supervisor: Philippe Braunstein, (Très honorable et félicitations du jury à l’unanimité). (scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Research, 1988-1993)
-1987- Degree (Laurea) in History University of Bologna (110/110 summa cum laude).
Academic Career:
-2009-present : Full Professor of Early Modern History, University of Rouen Normandy -2001-2009 : Associate Professor of Early Modern History (Maîtresse de conferences) University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre
-1996-2001 : Associate Professor of Early Modern History University Lyon2-Louis Lumière -1994-96 : Lecturer of Italian University François Rabelais, Tours
Honours:
-2014-2019 : Appointed member of the Institut Universitaire de France
Prize
-Gisa Giani Prize, for the book: Il lavoro delle donne nelle città dell’Europa moderna, Rome, Viella, 2016
PhD Supervision and Tutorship for Habilitation à diriger des recherches:
Tutorship for Habilitation à diriger des recherches
-Monica Martinat, Des institutions aux individus (XVIe—XVIIIe siècles). Penser, faire et raconter l’histoire sociale, University of Rouen, 2015.
Completed Thesis
-Matteo Pompermaier: Le marché du crédit à Venise au XVIIIe siècle, (Rouen University/Padova University 2019)
-Louise Bonvalet, Etre sorcier à Venise à l’époque moderne, (Rouen University/Padova University 2021)
-Alexandra Amiot, L’éducation à Rouen à l’époque moderne, (Rouen University 2021)
-Emilie Fiorucci, Les merciers à Venise, XVe-XVIIe siècle (European University Institute 2020)
-Marie Malherbe: Le jeu de la pourpre et du bâtard. Les enfants illégitimes de patriciens face à l’aristocratie vénitienne à travers cinq procès en justice civile au dernier siècle de la République (1694-1780), (Rouen University/Padova University 2020)
-Lucie Guyard: Itinérance féminine et institutions: le vagabondage féminin dans la Généralité de Rouen au XVIIIe siècle(Rouen University 2019)
Current Supervision
-Pauline Menou, Princesses de Morée au XIIIe et XIVe siècles ((Rouen University 2022-2025).
-Audrey Gôme, Le genre du témoignage. Femmes et hommes comme témoins dans les sources de la justice civile vénitienne (deuxième moitié du XVe-début du XVIIe siècle) (Rouen University 2021-2024).
-Juliette Kotowicz, Les portes et les fenêtres des habitations citadines de 1510 à 1790: lieux de vie ou de passage? Une comparaison Rouen-Montpellier (Rouen University/ Montpellier University 2020-2023).
-Mathilde Bouttereux, Les femmes de Terres Neuves au début du XXe siècle, (Rouen University 2020-2023).
-Charlotte Godard, Le fait de consanguinité au XVIe siècle, à travers les archives de la Pénitencerie Apostolique, dans le diocèse de Rouen (Rouen University 2020-2023)
 
Other teaching experiences :
-2019, September-December: Adjunct Professor University of Venice-Ca’ Foscari. Course: Women and Gender History in Early Modern Europe. Seminar: The Archives for the Social History of Early Modern Venice.
-2017, April-May: Visiting Professor University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa. Seminar: Women & gender history in Early Modern Europe: work, rights & family
-2015-present: Member of the Teaching Staff of the Dottorato in Studi storici, geografici e antropologici (Universities of Padova and Venice Ca’ Foscari)
-2008-2015: Member of the Teaching Staff of the International PhD in Gender History of the University of Naples-L’Orientale
-2007-2016: Seminars at the Universities of Dundee, Madrid Autonoma, Udine, Venice and Vienna (Erasmus Teacher Staff Mobility).
 
Responsibilities in administration and research
France
National level:
-2019-2023: Member of the Conseil National des Universités Section 22, Collège A
-2019-2024: Member of the Executive Council of the Université franco-italienne
-2017-present: Member of the board of the GIS-Institut du Genre
-2014-2017: President of the Admission Commission of the Ecole Française de Rome
-2014-2017: Member of the Scientific Council of the Ecole Française de Rome
-2003-2009: Member of the Conseil National des Universités Section 22, Collège B
 
University of Rouen:
-2018-2021: President of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
-2018-2021: Vice-director of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
-2017-present: Head of the History Research Group (GRHis-EA 3831)
-2017-present: Responsible, for Rouen University of the Consortium of academic collaboration in gender history : universities Madrid-Autonoma, Naples-Federico II, Naples- Orientale, Rome3, Rouen-Normandy, Vienna
-2015-present: Responsible of the Double Degree in History: University of Rouen/Universities of Udine and Trieste
-2015-2019: Responsible of the Double Degree in History: University of Rouen/University of Venice-Ca’ Foscari (project funded by the Université Franco-italienne)
-2014-2016: Co-director of the research ‘axis’ “Identities, inequalities, gender” of the l’Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire Homme Société (IRIHS) et du Grand Réseau de Recherche “Culture et Société en Normandie” (GRR-CSN)
-2011-2015: Director of the Master Degree in History
-2009-present: Co-director of the research ‘axis’ “Gender, families and generations” (GRHis)
 
Italy
-2021-present: Foreign member of the Deputazione di Storia patria per le Venezie
- 2020-present: Member of the Scientific board of the Research Center RI.VE.-Rinascimenti Veneziani Ca’ Foscari University Venice
- 2019-present: Member of the Scientific board of the Association Progetto Rialto
- 2015-present: Member of the Scientific board of the Research Center Gender History Research Center University of Naples-L’Orientale
-2013-2016 : Member of the Scientific board of the Società Italiana delle Storiche 
 
Responsibilities in journals and publishing series
-2021-present: Member of the Scientific board of Studi Veneziani
-2020-present: Member of the Scientific board of the series: Storia delle donne e di genere, Rome, Viella
-2017-present: Member of the Scientific board of the series Strumenti di storia del Friuli, Udine, Forum editrice universitaria
-2015-2018: Member of the scientific board of Genesis. Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche
-2015-present: Member of the scientific board of Rives méditerranéennes
-2013-present: Co-director of the series Genre à lire... et à penser (Rouen and Le Havre University Press)
-2009-2014: Member of the editorial board of Genesis. Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche
 
Funded Research Projects: Direction and participation
-2022-2024: direction of the project ‘RIN-Recherche 2022-Émergent’ funded by the Normandy Region: PerMA: Production and commerce of glass beads from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic 16th-20th centuries
-2020-2023: Cooperation partner of the project: The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spaces from 16th to the 18th Century (Univ. Wien)
-2019-2022: Member of the ANR Project: Processetti: Mariage et mobilité à Venise 
-2019-2021: direction of the RIN Project funded by Normandy Region MAR.VEN. : Digital editions of the statutes of the Venetian guilds
-2017-2019: co-direction of the Trilateral Project Villa Vigoni / Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft : Building the archives of women and gender history in Europe. Rights, work and bodies from Middle Age to present.
-2017-2019 : direction of the GRR-CSN Project funded by Normandy Region: TAG–Transmission, Apprenticeship, Gender (Early Modern Normandy and Europe).
-2015- 2018: participation to the Leverhulme Trust Project Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe.
-2015-2018: co-direction of the ANR-FNS Project GAWS. Garzoni: Apprenticeship, Work, Society,
-2012-2016- co-direction of the Project of the École Française de Rome: Family work, unpaid work. Forms and actors of productive domestic work in Europe, 15th-21st centuries
-2012-2014 – co-direction of the GRR-CSN Project funded by Normandy region: Women, work and rights (Early Modern Normandy and Europe)
-2008-2011 – co-direction of the Project of the École Française de Rome: Entail and mechanisms for conservation of properties between legal norms and social practices (Italy
and Europe, 15 -19 centuries),
-2008-2011 – co-direction of the Project of the École Française de Rome: Family models and political cultures in Early Modern times
-2005-2007 – co-direction of the Project of the École Française de Rome: Families, knowledge and social reproduction (Italy and Europe, 13 -18 centuries).
-2004-present: Member of the European Research Network Gender differences in the history of European legal cultures” (Universität Wien)
 
Organisation of Panels and Sessions in International conferences:
-2017, 2-4 November, Paris, European Labour History Network Conference: Session Work, apprenticeship, creation in Early Modern Europe, org. with Valentina Sapienza
-2017, 30 March-1 April – Chicago: Annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America: org. of the Panel: The Economy of a Renaissance City: Venice, 15th–17th Centuries
 -2016, 24-27 August –Helsinki: European Association for Urban History Conference: Session: Gender, credit and creditworthiness in premodern cities (1200-1800), org. with Andrea Bardyn (Leuven University) and Cathryn Spence (Vancouver Island University)
-2012-14 April –Glasgow: European Social Sciences and History Conference: Panel: Working with kin in Early Modern and Modern Europe, org. with Manuela Martini (University Paris- Diderot)
– 2010, 8-10 April – Venice: Annual conference of the Renaissance Society of
America: Panels: Women and men in the economy of Venice Thirteenth to Eighteenth century), I-II, org. with Linda Guzzetti (Technische Universität, Berlin).
 
Organisation of PhD Training Weeks:
-2021, 4-8 october: Naples, Istituto di studi sul Mediterraneo, CNR: Scientific Committee of the PhD Training Week in History and Economy of the Mediterranean : Women in European monarchies (13th-19th c.) (CNR-ISMed, CNR ISEM, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, GRHis, Istituto storico italiano per il Medioevo, Università dell’Aquila, Universitat de Barcelona, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, University of Crete)
-2021, 29 september-1er october: University of Naples-Federico II: PhD Training Week in Gender History : Freedoms, (Universities Madrid Autonoma, Napoli Orientale, Napoli Federico II, Roma3, Rouen-GRHIS, Wien)
-2019, 30 september-4 october: Naples, Istituto di studi sul Mediterraneo, CNR: Scientific Committee of the PhD Training Week in History and Economy of the Mediterranean : The notary in the societies of Mediterranean Europe (14th-19th c.) (CNR-ISMed, CNR ISEM, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Rouen-GRHis, Istituto storico italiano per il Medioevo, Universitat de Barcelona)
-2018, 1-5 octobre, Naples, Istituto di studi sulle società del Mediterraneo, CNR: Scientific Committee of the PhD Training Week in History and Economy of the Mediterranean : Religious Landscapes in Mediterranean Europe (14th-19thc.) (ISSM-CNR, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, GRHis, Istituto storico italiano, MMSH-Aix Marseille)
-2018, 5-8 June: University of Rouen, Organisation of the PhD Training Week Gender and public space in history
-2017, 2-7 October, Naples, Istituto di studi sulle società del Mediterraneo, CNR: Scientific Committee of the PhD Training Week in History and Economy of the Mediterranean: Credit, solidarity and citizenship (14 -19 c.)
-2017, 3-7 July, Arezzo, Fraternita dei Laici: Scientific Committee of the PhD Training Week in Sources for the History of European Economy (12 -17 c.) Apprenticeship and transmission of knowledge
-2016, 3-7 October, Naples, Istituto di studi sulle società del Mediterraneo, CNR: Scientific Committee of the PhD Training Week in History and Economy of the Mediterranean: Women and Work: activities, roles and complementarities
-2015, 22-24 June, University of Naples – L’Orientale : Scientific Committee of the PhD Training Week: Gender and crisis in history .
-2013, 9-12 September, University of Rouen: Organisation of the PhD Training Week : Gender, rights and work in past and present societies. Interdisciplinary approaches.
-2008 22-27 September, University Paris Ouest-Nanterre : Organisation of the International PhD Summer School in Gender History.
 
Organisation of conferences and workshops (selection)
-2021, 18-20 november: Casa internazionale delle donne, Roma: Member of the scientific committee of the Conference Casa dolce casa? Dal lavoro a domicilio allo smart working.
-2021, 8 october: Ateneo di Brescia: Member of the scientific committee of the Conference: L’associazionismo femminile in Italia in età contemporanea 
-2021, 9-12 june: University of Verona: Member of the scientific committee of the Conference Società Italiana delle Storiche 
-2019, 4-5 november Fondazione Giorgio Cini Venezia et Archivio di Stato di Venezia: international conference Garzoni. Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice, 16th-18th centuries, with Valentina Sapienza (University Ca’ Foscari Venice/Lille University).
-2019, 22 march: Ateneo di Brescia: conference: Il lavoro delle donne nelle città europee tra età moderna e età contemporanea, with Nadia M. Filippini, Paola Lanaro, in collaboration with Società Italiana delle Storiche, Camera del Lavoro, Comune di Brescia.
-2019, 16-17 january: University of Venice-Ca’ Foscari: workshop Producing Change: Gender, Work and Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe, in collaboration with IUF, Project GRR-CSN TAG-Région Normandie, Project ANR/FNS GAWS and Leverhulme Trust. 
-2018, 20-21 november: Second workshop (Work) of the Atelier Trilateral Villa Vigoni / Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft : Construire l’Archive de l’histoire des femmes et du genre en Europe. Droits, travail et corps du moyen âge à l’époque contemporaine,  with  Simona Feci and Sandra Mass.
-2017, 4-7 décember: First workshop (Rights) of the Atelier Trilateral Villa Vigoni / Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft : Construire l’Archive de l’histoire des femmes et du genre en Europe. Droits, travail et corps du moyen âge à l’époque contemporaine, with  Simona Feci and Sandra Mass
-2016, 17-19 November: University of Rouen, 8th Conference of the European Network: “Gender diffeerences in the history of European legal cultures”: North vs South. Gender, Righst and Economy in Early Modern and Modern Europe org. with Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (University of Cambridge).
-2016, 12-14 May – Ecole Française de Rome: Scientific Committee of the conference Vint- cinq ans après/Vent’anni dopo. Les femmes au rendez-vous de l’histoire, hier et aujourd’hui.
-2008, 8-10 May, University of Venice-Ca’ Foscari, Scientific Committee of the conference
Women in Venice. Spaces of freedom and forms of power (16 -18 c.).
-2006, 4-5 December, University of Paris-Nanterre : international conference The constraints of transmission in Early Modern times. Symbolic and patrimonial issues, org. with Laurence Croq (University of Paris-Nanterre) and Monica Martinat (University of Lyon2)
-2005, 9-11 June, Istituto storico Lucchese – Lucques: Scientific Committee of the international conference Families and powers in medieval and Early Modern Italy.
 
Papers and lectures in international conferences (selection)
-2018, 29 July-3 August–World Economic History Congress, MIT Boston-MA Papers : “Women in urban guilds”, session Global Conversations: Gender, Work, and Economic Development; “Crisis, immigration and the labour market in Early Modern Venice”, session Coping with Crisis ;”Women’s work in the Italian silk industry”, session Weaving Links: Cloth Production, Trade and Consumption in the Renaissance Mediterranean
-2018, 19-21 July – German Historical Institute London: 9th Conference of the European Network Gender Differences in the History of European Legal Cultures Paper: “From Movable to Immovable and Back: The Mutability of Women’s Property in Renaissance Venice”
-2018, 16-18 May – University of Glasgow: International conference Invisible Hands: Reassessing the History of Work ; Paper: “Urban markets”
-2016, 30-31 May – University of Barcelona, Key-note speaker at the XVI Jornadas de Historia del Trabajo Lecture: “Women’s work and guilds in France and Italy, 16th – 18th c”
-2016, 31 March-2 April – Boston, Renaissance Society of America Annual Congress :
Chair for the panel: Apprenticeship in Early Modern Venice: Extracting, Representing and Exploiting Data from the Accordi dei Garzoni; Paper: “Transmission of Goods, Skills and Responsibilities in Early Modern Venice: When Gender Matters, in the Panel: Aspects of Women’s Lives in Renaissance Venice
-2015, 3-7 August – Kyoto, World Economic History Congress Paper : “Gender and Citizenship in Early Modern Venetian Guilds” in the Panel : Institutions of Exclusion? Guilds, Citizenship, Inequality in Early Modern Europe and Asia
-2014, 24-28 March, New York, Renaissance Society of America Annual Congress
Paper : “Gender and the Family in Renaissance Venice” in the session : Venice, Land and Sea: Between Historiography and Research; Roundtable: Early Modern Venetian Studies in the Twenty-First Century.
-2013, 1-2 November, Hsinchu (Taiwan, Republic of China) National Tsing Hua University: International conference: Dialogues between European and Asian Documents. Trade, Cultural Exchanges and Knowledge Making in Modern East Asia. Paper : “Beyond Marco Polo: from Venice to Asia in the 15th and 16th centuries”
-2012, 28 April. Hsinchu (Taiwan, Republic of China) National Tsing Hua University : international workshop From Mediterranean to Pacific Paper: “From Mediterranean to Pacific in the Early Modern Times : what about Italy ?”
 
PUBLICATIONS: See the CV in French.