Alberto FABRIS

Position
Adjunct Professor
E-mail
alberto.fabris@unive.it
Academic discipline
History of Philosophy [PHIL-05/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/alberto.fabris (personal record)

Teaching activity current year

Teaching activity previous years

FILOSOFIA [FTR2]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

SCIENZE FILOSOFICHE [FM61]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

FILOSOFIA [FT2]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

PHILOSOPHY, INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES [LT6]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Storia della filosofia [PHIL-05/A]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa, America Settentrionale
Known languages
English (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
French (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Filosofia moderna e contemporanea
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Filosofia politica
Giordano Bruno
Description:
Giordano Bruno
ATECO code:
[85.4] - istruzione post-secondaria universitaria e non universitaria
storia del pensiero e dei concetti politici
Description:
history of political thought and concepts
ATECO code:
[85.4] - istruzione post-secondaria universitaria e non universitaria
studio del pensiero rinascimentale e moderno
Description:
history of renaissance and modern philosophy
ATECO code:
[85.4] - istruzione post-secondaria universitaria e non universitaria
Machiavelli
Description:
Machiavelli
ATECO code:
[85.4] - istruzione post-secondaria universitaria e non universitaria
psicanalisi
Description:
psychoanalysis
"Francesco Ingoli (1578-1649) as Political Thinker and Global Theorist" - (PNRR Young Researchers Founds)
SSD:
M-FIL/06
Francesco Ingoli (1578-1649) as Political Thinker and Global Theorist’
Funding body:
PNRR Young Researchers Founds
Type:
Altri programmi ministeriali
Role in the project:
NS
Starting date:
Year: 2022 Length in months: 36

Publication highlights

Fabris, Alberto; Comacchi, Maria Vittoria Species of spaces in INTELLECTUAL HISTORY REVIEW, vol. 36, pp. 101-110 (ISSN 1749-6977)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5114088


Fabris, Alberto “Worldwide vigilance and pastoral care”: a genealogy of the concept of “propaganda” in INTELLECTUAL HISTORY REVIEW, vol. online, pp. 1-21 (ISSN 1749-6977)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5112111


Alberto Fabris Francesco Ingoli's Relazione delle Quattro Parti del Mon-do: Charting New Pathways in the History of Political Thought in PHILOSOPHICAL READINGS, vol. XVI.1 (2024), pp.38-46, pp. 38-46 (ISSN 2036-4989)
DOI 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5097088


Fabris A. Machiavelli e il materialismo delle passioni. Introduzione in PARADIGMI, vol. 2025-January-April, pp. 3-7 (ISSN 2035-357X)
DOI 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5104027


Alberto Fabris Ontology of Bonds. Sympathy, Desire and Matter in Giordano Bruno in JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY OF IDEAS, vol. 14, pp. 1-45 (ISSN 2280-8574)
DOI - URL correlato 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5110928


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

CURRENT POSITION

  • 20.12.2022-current: Assistant Professor (RTDa) in Philosophy Università Venezia Ca’ Foscari - Department of Philosophy & Cultural Heritage

PREVIOUS POSITION

  • 01.10.2022-30.06.2023: Adjunct Professor of Natural Law and Theories of Justice University of ULB-Mons (Belgium), School of Law
  • 01.09.2021-30.05.2022: Adjunct Professor of History of Political Thought Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Department of Philosophy 
  • 15.01.2021-30.07.2021: Visiting Researcher and Lecturer in Political Sciences Université Libre de Bruxelles, Departments of Philosophy/ Political Studies
  • 20.08.2018-30.08.2022: Researcher, Teaching Assistant and Research Events Coordinator Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA), Department of Modern Language & Literatures, Program of Italian Studies
  • 30.08.2018-3.05.2019: Editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal MLN – Modern Language Notes, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, USA)

EDUCATION & TRAINING

  • 01.09.2022-present: Psychoanalytic Training, Association des Psychanalystes Européens
  • 1.11.2014-14.12.2018: PhD in Philosophy, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités (IHRIM). Dissertation : “Itinéraires du désir dans la philosophie de Giordano Bruno”
  • 20.08.201714.05.2021: Master (MA) in Italian Studies, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), Department of Modern Language and Literatures
  • 09.2012-08.2014: Élève de la Sélection Internationale de l’École Normale de Paris, École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Department of Philosophy
  • 09.2013-19.09.2014:Master (MA) in Political Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris (EHESS), Department of Political Studies
  • 09.2012-06.2013: Maîtrise (MA) in Philosophy, Paris I ‘Sorbonne’, Department of Philosophy
  • 25.08.2011-01.06.2012: Erasmus program, Université Montpellier 3 ‘Paul Valéry’, Department of Philosophy
  • 09.2008-13.07.2012: Laurea triennale (BA) in Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Philosophy

 
GRANTS & AWARDS

  • 2022: PNRR Young Researchers Founds: 3-year research funding for project awarded the ‘Seal of Excellence’ by the European Commission
  • 2022: Seal of Excellence for the project proposal ‘Francesco Ingoli (1578-1649) as Political Thinker and Global Theorist’ submitted under the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions call 2021
  • 2021:Krieger School of Arts & Sciences Dean Fellowship to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria (postponed to 2022 because of the pandemic)
  • 2020: Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation Summer Fellowship, Geneva University to participate to the workshop “La guerre à la Renaissance” and conduct bibliographic research at the Institute.
  • 2015-2017: ENS-Lyon funding for the 2-years research project “Représentations et Exercice du Pouvoir: l’Héritage Antique à l’époque Moderne”

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
 
2020: Qualification, section 17 - Qualified for the position of Professor in Philosophy within the French University System

 
TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • Fall 2023: "Introduction to Philosophy", University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Philosophy, International and Economic Studies (Teaching language: English)
  • Spring 2022: “Natural Law ant Theories of Justice”, University of ULB-Mons (Belgium), School of Law. (Teaching language: French)
  • Spring 2022: “The Skin I Live In: Desire, Metamorphoses and Bodily Hybridization in the Italian Renaissance”. Johns Hopkins University, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures. (Teaching language: English)
  • Fall 2021: “Italian Contemporary Politics and Society through Cinema, Music and Literature: a Possible Journey”. Johns Hopkins University - Department of Modern Languages & Literatures.  (Teaching language: English)
  • Spring 2021: “Genèse de la conceptualité politique moderne”. ULB-Bruxelles - Department of philosophy/political science, MA class. (Teaching language: French)
  • Summer 2019 (1-5 July): “Langue, magie et art de la mémoire dans le Cantus Circæus (1582) de Giordano Bruno”, NeolatinLyon 2019 Summer school, École thématique CNRS, Lyon, 1-5 July. (Teaching language: French)
  • Spring 2019: “Franco Basaglia and the anti-psychiatric movement in Italy”, lectures in a seminar on 20th century Italian society, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Modern Languages & Literatures. (Teaching language: English)
  • Fall 2017-Spring 2018: “Italian Elements”, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Fall and Spring semester 2017/2018. (Teaching language: English)

CONFERENCES, TALKS, SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
 
Conference convened

  • 24-25.01.2023: “Histoire de Florence : une topographie des passions”, ‘Shaping the City. Passions as a Structuring Force in Machiavelli’s Works’, ULB
  • 29.05-01.06 2022: “De-Europeanising Christianity. Francesco Ingoli’s Relazione delle Quattro Parti del Mondo” AAIS2022, Bologna conference.
  • 30.03-02.04 2022: “Francesco Ingoli: a worldwide ‘cura’ for the new universal Church”, RSA2022, Dublin. Panel: “Terra Universalis: New Perspectives on Early Modern First Globalisation”
  • 10-13.03.2022: "An Alterity withouth the Other. Girolamo Benzoni’s Historia del Mondo Nuovo”, NeMLA2022, Baltimore. Panel: “Italy’s Other: Alterity from the Middle Ages to Today”
  • 4.03.2021: “Vertu intellective et puissance. Incarnation de l’intellect possible de Dante à Bruno”, Rencontres du PHI. Centre de recherche en philosophie, Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • 15.02.2021: “Espace et politique dans l’Italie de la Contre-réforme”, Séminaire Polis. CTP – Centre de Théorie Politique, Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • 03.03.2020: “Giordano Bruno: The Frankfurt Poems”, RSA2020, Philadelphia. Cancelled (Covid-19)
  • 18.03.2019: “Circe’s Transformations: The Role of a female Figure in the Philosophy of Giordano Bruno”, RSA2019, Toronto. Panel: “Rewriting and Adapting Classical Women in the Italian Renaissance”
  • 29.03.2017: “Imagination as self-fashioning in Giordano Bruno’s ars memoriæ”, L’imagination efficace. Xve-XVIe siècle. Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
  • 25.11.2016: “Au-delà de la scène. Théâtre et littérature, spectateurs et lecteurs dans Il Candelaio de Bruno”, Le Pouvoir se met en scène. Le Pouvoir et ses publics à l’époque moderne (XVI-XVIII siècles). ENS-Lyon
  • 25-26.05.2016: “Totalité et finitude dans la pensée de Giordano Bruno”, Institution et destitution de la Totalité. Paris I Sorbonne
  • 19.03.2016: “Intellectus Juneex universi. Matter and Knowledge in Giordano Bruno’s De umbris idearum”, Making Knowledge in the Renaissance. Liverpool University
  • 11.12.2014: “Philosopher dans la mort, Les Essais comme exercice de congé du soi” Montaigne & Bruno : nature, liens, métamorphoses. ENS-Lyon

 
Organisation of Scientific Meetings

  • June 2022: ‘Shaping the City. Passions as a Structuring Force in Machiavelli’s Works’, International conference at the ULB co-organised with A. Panichi and V. Serio 
  • 30.03-02.04 2022: Terra Universalis: New Perspectives on Early Modern First Globalisation, Panel at the RSA2022 Annual Meeting, Dublin.
  • 26.022021: Fascismo e sovranismi. Conversazione con Antonio Scurati autore di M. Il figlio del secolo, Department of Modern Language and Literature, Johns Hopkins University
  • Fall 2019-Spring 2020: Lecture cycle in Italian Studies, Department of Modern Language and Literature, Johns Hopkins University
  • 29.03.2017: L’imagination efficace. XVe-XVIe siècle, Workshop at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
  • 25.11.2016: Le Pouvoir se met en scène. Le Pouvoir et ses publics à l’époque moderne (XVI-XVIII siècles). ENS-Lyon
  • 2013-2014: Journées d’études italiennes, Seminar cycle in Italian Studies, ENS-Paris

 
COORDINATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS 

  • 2015-2017: Co-foundation of the 2-years research unit REPHAM (Représentations et Exercice du Pouvoir: l’Héritage Antique à l’époque Moderne). ENS-Lyon
     
    TRAINING (A SELECTION)
  • 2021-2022:Johns Hopkins Teaching Academy: teaching practices and critical pedagogy.
  • Fall 2021:Public Speaking in Academia. AS Center for Language Education, Johns Hopkins University
  • Fall 2021: Advanced Grammar and Academic Writing. AS Center for Language Education, Johns Hopkins University
  • 2016-2017:Scuola di Politiche (School of Policies), AREL (Agency for research and legislation), Rome
  • 17.082016-02.09.2016: European Forum Alpbach
  • 07-08.2014: DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Scholarship for a linguistic course in Berlin
  • 09.2013: Apprenticeship in the German primary school ‘St. Laurentius’ in Wörth a.d. Isar, Bayern
  • 07-09.2013: InterDaf e.V. am Herder-Institut d. Universität Leipzig. Linguistic stay in Leipzig
     
    SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS
    -     Associated researcher at the Institut d’Histoire des Répresentations et des Idées dans les Modérnités (IHRIM-ENS Lyon)
    -     ARS RoSa. Centro studi su Ragion di Stato e Democrazia
    -     Collaborateur scientifique at the ULB Centre d’Études en Philosophie (PHI)
     
    MEMBERSHIP
    -     NeMLA – North American Modern Language Association
    -     RSA – Renaissance Society of America
    -     AAIS – American Association of Italian Studies
     
    LANGUAGES
    Italian: native
    French: fluent
    English: fluent (toefl certificate)
    German: B1/B2 certificate
    Spanish: good working knowledge
    Ancient Greek and Latin
     

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