Carolina TOSO

Position
PhD Student
Dottorato
STUDI SULL'ASIA E SULL'AFRICA
40° Ciclo - Immatricolati nel 2024
Area tematica
Remembering an Imagined Homeland: Narratives of Postmemory and Home-Making in Second-generation Palestinian Authors
Supervisore
Simone Sibilio
E-mail
carolina.toso@unive.it
956872@stud.unive.it
Website
www.unive.it/people/carolina.toso (personal record)
Office
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam

Joint PhD Candidate between Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Universiteit van Amsterdam (AHM Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture), under the supervision of Simone Sibilio and Ihab Saloul

EDUCATION

  • 2022 Master’s Degree in Sociology and Social Research: Management of Organisations and of the Social Territory, University of Trento, 110/110 cum laude
    Thesis: Place-Making and Cultural Identity in the Diaspora: Ethnography of a Palestinian Concept-Store in Paris
  • 2021-2022 Erasmus+ Scholarship, M2 Pratiques de l’interdisciplinarité en sciences sociales, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales / École Normale Supérieure-Paris Sciences & Lettres, grade average: 17.4/20
  • 2021-2022 Académie Notre Europe, year-long training on EU affairs and institutions organised by Institut Jacques Delors
  • 2019 First-class Honours Degree, European and Middle Eastern Languages (Spanish and Arabic), University of Oxford, Pembroke College 
    Bridge Essay: Creation in Destruction in Prison Poetry: Writing in the Barzakh or Limbo
    Distinction in Spoken Arabic and Spoken Spanish; Domus Scholarship renewed twice; Christopher Pratt Memorial Prize; Collection Prizes
  • 2016-2017 Intensive Arabic Language Course, Institut Français du Proche-Orient of Amman 

PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS

  • ‘L'apport de la littérature à la conservation du patrimoine palestinien dans Arḍ al sulaḥfāh de Liana Badr' / 'The Contribution of Literature to the Preservation of Palestinian Heritage in Liana Badr’s Arḍ al-sulaḥfāh'6e congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans. Université de Strasbourg. 24-27 June 2025
  • 'Afterlives of Trauma and Literary Acts of Memory: Return Narratives in Palestinian Novels after the Oslo Accords'. Online Thesis Workshop, Palestinian Cultural Expressions: Supporting Critical Research and Creative Resistance in and Through Palestinian Arts. Universitat de Barcelona. 2-6 June 2025.
  • ‘On the Necessity for a Polyphonic Framework to Study adab al-ʿāʾidīn’. International Doctoral Workshop in Asian and African Studies (IDSAAS) V. Sapienza Università di Roma. 20-22 February 2025. 
  • ‘Return to/through Postmemories: ʿAraba qadīma bi-satāʾir by Ġassān Zaqṭān'. Le Giornate di studio di Maydan e SeSaMO. Riflessioni sui mondi arabi, semitici e islamici. Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy. 3-4 February 2025.

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