Piera ROSSETTO
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Telephone
- 041 234 8856
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piera.rossetto@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Hebrew [STAA-01/H]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/piera.rossetto(personal record)
- Office
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Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam
Where: Ca' Cappello
Office hours
Office Hours – First Semester 2026/27
Weekly office hours will be held on Thursdays, 2:30–4:30 p.m., Office 2A Ca' Cappello, starting September 17, 2026. Students are kindly asked to send an email in advance to piera.rossetto@unive.it
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
STUDI TRANSMEDITERRANEI: MIGRAZIONE, COOPERAZIONE E SVILUPPO [LM80]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA PER L'IMPRESA E LA COOPERAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE [LMR40]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STUDI TRANSMEDITERRANEI: MIGRAZIONE, COOPERAZIONE E SVILUPPO [LMR80]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Laurea
LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LTR40]
Laurea
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Ebraico [STAA-01/H]
- Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
- DISCIPLINE DEMOETNOANTROPOLOGICHE [M-DEA/01]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Europa, Medio Oriente, Africa Caraibi e Pacifico
- Known languages
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(scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
- Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, Editorial Staff
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Lingue e letterature dell’Africa settentrionale e del Vicino oriente Linea:
ebraica
Area: Storia e Antropologia Linea: Antropologia
Area: Studi culturali Linea: Studi culturali
Area: Studi storici e relazioni internazionali Linea: Vicino e medio oriente
- Ageing and Migration: Memory and Jewish Masculinities from North Africa and the Middle East
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- SSD:
- L-OR/08
- Europe’s (In)Visible Jewish Migrants
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- SSD:
- M-DEA/01
- Mapping Living Memories. The Jewish Diaspora from Libya across Europe and the Mediterranean
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- SSD:
- M-DEA/01
- The Libyan Jewish Diaspora (1948-1967): (Re)constructing a “Libyan-Jewish” Migration Identity between Israel and Italy? (PhD)
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- SSD:
- L-OR/08
- “Vectors that scratch the history of his time”. Militarism, pacifism and objection of conscience in Israel (and Palestine) (1960-2010)
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- SSD:
- M-STO/04
- Across Borders and Boundaries: Jewish Belongings in the Mediterranean and Beyond
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- Funding body:
- European Association for Jewish Studies
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Sito di progetto:
- Venezia
- Starting date:
- Year: 2021 Length in months: 3
- Other members of the research group:
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Dario MICCOLI
- Ageing and Migration: Memory and Jewish Masculinities from North Africa and the Middle East
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- Funding body:
- MUR
- Type:
- Programma Rita Levi Montalcini
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Sito di progetto:
- https://www.pierarossetto.eu/projects/gam-gender-ageing-and-migration/
- Starting date:
- Year: 2022 Length in months: 36
- Europe’s (In)Visible Jewish Migrants
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- Funding body:
- FWF (Austrian Science Fund) - Grant T1024-G28
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Sito di progetto:
- https://www.pierarossetto.eu/projects/eijm-europes-invisible-jewish-migrants/
- Starting date:
- Year: 2018 Length in months: 40
- Mapping Living Memories. The Jewish Diaspora from Libya across Europe and the Mediterranean
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- Funding body:
- Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe; Fondazione CDEC
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- SB
- Sito di progetto:
- https://www.cdec.it/collezioni/le-interviste/
- Starting date:
- Year: 2012 Length in months: 16
- Mapping Living Memories. The Jewish Diaspora from Libya across Europe and the Mediterranean
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- Funding body:
- Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe; Fondazione CDEC
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- SB
- Sito di progetto:
- https://www.cdec.it/collezioni/le-interviste/
- Starting date:
- Year: 2012 Length in months: 16
Publication highlights
Rossetto Piera Mapping as the Art of Listening to Jewish Mediterranean Migrations , Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities, Routledge, pp. 301-310 (ISBN 9781032355931)
2024,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5043440
Rossetto Piera The AesthEt(h)ics of the Fragment. Jewish Memories and Co-Creative Mapping Practices , Erinnerungskultur und Holocaust Education im digitalen Wandel Georeferenzierte Dokumentations-, Erinnerungs- und Vermittlungsprojekte, Transcript Verlag, pp. 55-72 (ISBN 978-3-8376-6415-7)
2024,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5042320
Piera Rossetto Juifs de Libye. Constellations de mémoires , Effigi (ISBN 978-88-5524-639-2)
2023,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5040060
Piera Rossetto Shimon Ballas, Be-guf rishon [In prima persona]: iniziazione e poetica dell’alterità in BABEL, vol. 48, pp. 357-377 (ISSN 1277-7897)
2023,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5046980
Rossetto Piera ‘We Were all Italian!’: The Construction of a ‘sense of Italianness’ among Jews from Libya (1920s-1960s) in HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 34, pp. 409-435 (ISSN 1477-2612)
DOI 2023,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5012752
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
In 2011, I graduated in Southwest Asia: Language, Culture and Institutions at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (modern Hebrew language and literature). I hold a PhD in Social and Historical Anthropology (EHESS Toulouse, 2015) and in Languages and Civilisations of Asia and North Africa (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2015). As shown in my publications, I am interested in performances of memories and identities (literary sources and oral sources) in the context of postcolonial migrations, in particular from the Middle East and North Africa region (Jews from Iraq, Jews from Libya). I have a passion for stories and creative mapping, art-based research and co-creation (creative mapping). I am committed to study migrations in the past to better understand contemporary issues of borders and boundaries, human mobility, and multiple belongings.
Appointments, fellowships, research themes:
2026/01/01- present: Associate Professor SSD Ebraico [STAA-01/H] - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e l’Africa Mediterranea.
2023/01/01- 2025/31/12: Programme Rita Levi Montalcini for young researchers(call 2020), Italian Ministry for University and Research: Assistant Professor (RTD-b) [PI-36 months] Principal investigator "Gender, Ageing and Migration: Memory and Jewish Masculinities from North Africa and the Middle East", Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies.
2022/04 "GLOBAL_AT_VENICE – Research and training for Global Challenges" Marie Skłodowska-Curie – COFUND Research Fellowship [PI-24 months], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Declined.
2018/01/10-2022/31/01: Hertha Firnberg Postdoc Research Fellow and Lecturer [PI-40 months], FWF (Austrian Science Fund) Principal Investigator "Europe’s (In)Visible Jewish Migrants", Centre for Jewish Studies - University of Graz (Austria).
2014: Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe, Doctoral Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies [12 months]
2012-13: CDEC Foundation (Milan, Italy), Research Fellow "Mapping Living Memories. The Jewish Diaspora from Libya across Europe and the Mediterranean" [Co-PI - 16 months]
2011-12: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Research Fellow "Militarism, pacifism and objection of conscience in Israel (and Palestine) (1960-2010)" [PI - 12 months]
Before joining the academia, I have been working with asylum seekers and refugees in Austria.
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