Giacomo CACCIAGUERRA

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Sept.2024-ongoing: Ph.D.
International Double Degree Program between the Department of Asian and North Africa Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Supervisor: Sabrina Rastelli), and Institute of East Asian Art History, Universität Heidelberg (Supervisor: Sarah E. Fraser)
Research project: "Out of China, Where Then? Contemporary Sinophone Art Beyond Chineseness"

Sept.2020-Mar.2023: M.A. Degree in Asian and Mediterranean African Languages and Cultures
Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Thesis: "Art as Third Space: Third-Space Hybridity in Contemporary Art" (Arte come Terzo Spazio: ibridità terzospaziale nell’arte contemporanea)
110/110 cum laude

Sept.2019-Jan.2020: Exchange Student, Nankai University (南开大学), Tianjin, PRC
Intermediate-advanced Chinese Language

Jun.2019-Jul.2019: Persian Language Course, Ferdowsi University (فردوسی دانشگاه ), Mashhad, Iran
Intermediate Persian Language

Sept.2017-Oct.2020: B.A. Degree in Asian and Mediterranean African Languages, Cultures and Societies
Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Thesis: Translation from the Chinese of the article "Examples of the concept of non-standard character forms within Chinese riddles” 汉字谜语中的俗字观念例解, Liu Kai 刘凯 (Traduzione dal cinese dell’articolo “Esempi del concetto di forme non standard dei caratteri all’interno degli indovinelli cinesi)
110/110 cum laude

Sept.2012-Jun.2013: Classical High School Degree
Institute of Higher Education Liceo Classico V. Monti, Cesena (FC), Italy
88/100

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

Nov.2024-Jun.2025
Feb.2024-Sept.2024
Mar.2023-Oct.2024
Teaching Assistant Senior, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Collaboration and support for the course "History of Chinese Art"; assistance and support in the preparation and correction of the final tests; supervision of B.A. and M.A. theses

Oct.2023-Aug.2024: Chinese Language Teacher, Smiling International School of Ferrara, Italy
Teaching Chinese language at middle and high school levels (A1 to B1). Assisting other teachers in projects about Chinese literature and art

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Italian: native speaker
English: advanced (C1 level)
Chinese: advanced (HSK 5 level, Hanban-Confucius Institute, Venice)
Persian: elementary
Spanish: elementary

PRESENTED PAPERS

Jun.27, 2025: 3rd CCVA PhD Forum 2025, Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA), Birmingham City University, Birmingham (UK) - “Environmental Artivism: (New) Sinophone Identities in the Italian Context”

Apr.14-16, 2025: International PhD Symposium Interregnum: Delving into the Possibilities of the In-Between, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (Italy) - “In-Betweenness2: Young Researchers and the Quest for a Place”

Dec.13-14,2024: Sinophone Europe. Exploring Sinophone Cultural Expressions and Identities in Europe, University of Florence, Florence (Italy) - "Out of China...so where?"

Sept.16,2024: "Temporal Bodies: Paolo Peng Shuai’s Performative Action as Counter-Archival Practice", in Roots§Routes, no. 46 (Memorie Sottopelle), September 2024
https://www.roots-routes.org/temporal-bodies-paolo-peng-shuais-performative-action-as-counter-archival-practice-by-giacomo-cacciaguerra/ 

Jun.5-6,2024: British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, University of York, York, (UK) - "Economadic Identity: the Art-Life of Paolo Peng Shuai"

Feb.26-28,2024: International PhD Symposium Metaphors: Conceptualising Horizons of Meaning, Ca' Foscari University, Venice (Italy) - "Violent Metaphor, Metaphorical Violence: Po(i)etic Resistance in Contemporary Chinese Art"

Jun.19-20,2023: Exchange, Power(s) and Mediations: The Globalization of Cultural Fields Beyond Centers and Peripheries, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 & Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon (France) - "Significant individuality: the case study of the artist Paolo Peng Shuai"

Sept.15,2022: , "About the wanderings of an orphan and his father: San Mao son of Zhang Leping" (Del vagabondare di un orfano e di suo padre: San Mao figlio di Zhang Leping), in Roots§Routes, no. 40 (Graphic Realities), December 2022
https://www.roots-routes.org/del-vagabondare-di-un-orfano-e-di-suo-padre-san-mao-figlio-di-zhang-leping-di-giacomo-cacciaguerra/