Fabrizio BALDASSARRI

Posizioni:

• 2021, January-2024, January – Principal investigator with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, Global Fellowship, at Ca' Foscari University Venice and Indiana University Bloomington. Supervisors: prof. Marco Sgarbi, prof. Domenico Bertoloni Meli.
• 2020, October-2021, July – NEC Bucharest (Ro) --- renounced
• 2020, October-2020, November – Extension Post-doctoral Fellowship at University of Bucharest. Project title: “From the Vegetative Soul to Metabolism in Early Modern Philosophy and Biomedicine”
• 2018, October-2020, September – Principal investigator with a Post-doctoral Fellowship at University of Bucharest. Project title: “From the Vegetative Soul to Metabolism in Early Modern Philosophy and Biomedicine” 
• 2018, February-2019, February – Post-doc Fellow at Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Project title: “Transforming the Anima Vegetativa between 16th and 17th Centuries”.
• 2017, October-2018, September – Adjunct Professor at University of Padua, Italy. Teaching commitments in History of Medicine (24 hours).
• 2017, October-2018, January – Kristeller-Popkin Fellow Research period at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Project title: “Descartes’s Botanical studies and his Complex Collaborations with Reneri, Huygens, and Regius”. With the JHP Travel Fellowship
• 2017, February-September – Adjunct Professor at University of Padua, Italy. Teaching commitments in History of Medicine and Bioethics (60 hours).
• 2016, May-August – Post-doc Fellow at Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Tel Aviv, Israel. Promotor: prof. Ohad Nachtomy
• 2015, November-2016, April – DAAD Post-doc Fellow at the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt, Forschungszentrum Gotha (FZG) der Universität Erfurt, Germany.
• 2015, November-December – Extension IRH Post-Doc Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest (IRH-UB), Romania.
• 2015, May-October – IRH Post-Doc Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest (IRH-UB), Romania. Promotor: prof. Vlad Alexandrescu

Visiting presso altre università:

• 2023, March-April - Visiting Research at ENS Paris, promotor prof. Sophie Roux.
• 2021, November-December – Visiting Researcher at Scaliger Center, Leiden University, Leiden, promotor prof. Eric Jorink. 
• 2020, September-October – Visiting Researcher at Centre Interdepartmental for the History of Medicine (CISM), Università di Padova, Italy, promotor prof. Fabio Zampieri.
• 2020, April – Visiting Researcher at High School of Economics in Moscow (HSE), Moscow, Russia, promotor prof. Stefan Hessbruggen-Walter.  ----  CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
• 2020, January-March – Visiting Researcher at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, Germany, promotor dr. Katja Krause.
• 2019, October – Visiting Researcher at ‘Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi sulla Storia delle Idee’ (CIRSI), Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy, promotor prof. Berenice Cavarra.
• 2019, June-July – Visiting Researcher at ‘Centro Dipartimentale di Studi su Descartes Ettore Lojacono’, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, promotor prof. Franco Aurelio Meschini
• 2019, April-May – Visiting Researcher at the ‘Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités’, ENS Lyon, France, promotor prof. Delphine Antoine-Mahut.
• 2018, December – Visiting Researcher at ‘Centro Dipartimentale di Studi su Descartes Ettore Lojacono’, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, promotor prof. Igor Agostini.
• 2013, October-December – Visiting Researcher at Warburg Institute, London University, United Kingdom, with prof. Guido Giglioni.
• 2012, January-March – Visiting PhD Student at Utrecht University, Department of Philosophy, Utrecht, The Netherlands. With a grant from the University of Parma: 2000 €. Supervisor: Prof. Theo Verbeek.
• 2006, September-2007, March – Visiting Erasmus Student at Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. Erasmusm Socrates 081 Philosophy Grant (Università di Bologna). Tutors: prof. W. Tega, prof. P. Guenancia.

Attività editoriali:

• Attività Peer-review: JEMS, Notes&Records of the Royal Society, Centaurus, Esercizi filosofici, Garden&Landscape, International journal of Classical Tradition, Medicine et santé, Manuscripto
• Editorial advisory: PSMEMM

Formazione:

• February 1, 2022. Abilitazione in Storia della filosofia, Abilitazione scientifica nazionale, Professore II Fascia – MIUR
• February 1, 2022. Abilitazione in Storia della scienza, Abilitazione scientifica nazionale, Professore II Fascia – MIUR
• May 21, 2013. Ph.D. in Philosophy and Anthropology. University of Parma. Diss. Esperienza e metodo. Descartes e la storia naturale nell'ordine della Mathesis. Judgment: EXCELLENT. Supervisors: Prof. S. Caroti, Prof. Th. Verbeek. Jury: prof. G. Paganini, M. Savini, M. Torrini.
• March 25, 2009. M.A. in History of modern philosophy. University of Bologna. Diss. Memory or Ingenium. Descartes, Ancient's books and the science of intellect 110/110 cum Laude.
• July 17, 2006. B.A. in Political Philosophy. University of Bologna. Diss. The Measure of the Learned in Politics: The Aristotelian Case, Happiness or Uselessness?

Organizzazione di convegni/seminari/panels:

• Workshop organization at CREMT (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
  Title: Life and Infinity in Leibniz - co-organized with Filippo Costantini. March 23, 2023.
• Workshop organization at CREMT (Ca’ Foscari University Venice)/HPSH (Indiana University)
  Title: “Andrea Cesalpino: an Aristotelian Natural Philosopher in the Renaissance – towards the publication of a volume” co-organizer: Craig Martin. February 25-26, 2022. Online.
• Seminar organization at CREMT (Ca’ Foscari University Venice)/HPSH (Indiana University)
  Seminar title: “2nd Plants in Early Modern Knowledge (and Before): History, Philosophy, and Medicine” (Winter seminar)
  Speakers: Tommaso Alpina, Georgiana D. Hedesan, Amalia Cerrito, José Pardo Tomas, Emma Spary, Minakshi Menon, Alexandra Cook
• Seminar organization at CREMT (Ca’ Foscari University Venice)
  Seminar title: “Plants in Early Modern Knowledge: History, Philosophy, and Medicine” (Spring seminar)
  Speakers: Antonio Clericuzio, Florike Egmond, Iolanda Ventura, Oana Matei, Elisa Andretta, Jaya Remond, Valentina Pugliano
• Panels organization for the RSA Conference Online 2021.
  Panels title: “Andrea Cesalpino (1519-1603): A Physician, Philosopher, and Botanist in Renaissance Italy I & II”
  Speakers: Quentin Hiernaux, Corentin Tresnie, Fabrizio Baldassarri, David McOmish, Elisa Andretta, Julie Heideklang, Elisabeth Moreau, Carmen Schmechel. RSA Discipline Sponsor: Medicine and Science (Caroline Petit)
• Session Organization for the European Society for the History of Sciences (ESHS) 9th Annual Meeting, Bologna (It).
  Panel title: “Gardens-Laboratories in Early Modern Botany, Chymistry, and Physiology”
  Speakers: Maria M. Carrion (Emory University, Atlanta), Fabrizio Baldassarri (ICUB Bucharest), Matteo Fornasier (Ca’ Foscari), Julie Davies (University of Melbourne).
• International Conference Co-Organization, with Fabio Zampieri. Conference title: “Medicine in the Philosophy of Descartes: Lights & Shadows”. Online event (Pisa, Fondazione Comel). November 19-20, 2020.
• International Conference Co-Organization, with Matthias Roick. Conference title: “Telling a Different Story: Non-Linear Narratives in Early Modern History”. At University of Bucharest. March 19-20, 2020.   ----  Postponed due to COVID-19
• Seminar on plants. Invited speaker, Alain Touwaide (UCLA). Seminar title: “There are Traditions and Traditions: A Comparative Study of Byzantine Materia Medica”. At ICUB-University of Bucharest. March 18, 2020.
• International Conference Co-Organization, with prof. Berenice Cavarra. Conference title: “Anti-Mechanicism and Neo-Vitalism”. At University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). October 9-10, 2019. (Member of programme committee.)
• Session Organization for the History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting, Utrecht (NL).
  Panel title: “Herbs, Plants, and Vegetal Bodies: Botanical Knowledge in Medical, Naturalistic, and Philosophical Contexts”  ---  Co-Organization with Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions.
  Speakers: Dominic Olariu (Erfurt University), Sara R. Kyle (University Central Oklahoma), Florike Egmond (Leiden University), Federica Rotelli (Firenze), Alain Touwaide (UCLA)
• Session Organization for Scientiae 2019, Belfast (GB-NIR).
  Panel title: “Seeds, Plants, and Fruits: Early Modern Investigation of Vegetal Bodies”.
  Speakers: Francesco Luzzini (Max Planck Institüt, Berlin), Lucie Cermakova (Charles University, Prague),  Fabrizio Baldassarri (Bucharest University), Christoffer Basse Eriksen (Aarhus University).
• Session Organization for the History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting, Seattle (US).
  Panel title: “Plants as Case Study in the History of Philosophy, Science, and Medicine”.
  Speakers: Marilena Panarelli (Università del Salento), Marimer Carrion (Emory University), Fabrizio Baldassarri (HAB/Bucharest University), Gabriel Finkelstein (University of Colorado), Norbert Peeters (Leyden University).
• International Conference Co-Organization, with PD. Dr. Andreas Blank, prof. F. Zampieri. Conference Title: “Vegetative Powers”. September 12-13, 2018.
• Symposium organization for the British Society for the History of Philosophy Conference, Sheffield (UK).
  Panel title: “Rethinking The Vegetative Soul in 16th and 17th-century Philosophy. Vegetative Forms, Potencies, Operations, and (Vital) Energy”.
  Speakers: Andreas Blank (Paderborn/Bard College), Anna Tropia (HU-Berlin), Fabrizio Baldassarri (Bar-Ilan), Raphaële Andrault (ENS Lyon).
• Panel organization for the RSA Conference, Chicago. March 30-April 1, 2017
  Panel title: “Disclosing the Vegetative Soul. Metaphysical, Physiological, and Botanical Intersections from Late Scholastics to Early Modernity”.
  Speakers: Dr. Martin Klein (Topoi/HU Berlin), Dr. Andreas Blank (Paderborn/Bard College), Dr. F. Baldassarri (Bar-Ilan).
• International Conference Co-Organization, with prof. Dana Jalobeanu, Dr. Oana Matei. Conference Title: “Manipulating Flora. Gardens as Laboratories in the Renaissance and Early Modern Europe”. January 20-21, 2016.