Elisa MOZZELIN

Research interests

Philosophy of (social) space, philosophy of the city, Politics of Walking, Feminism, Political Ecology.

Education

2025. PhD in Philosophy. PON R&I scholarship for "Green" PhD Programmes. Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice.

2025. Fellow in Landscape Studies. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples. 

2025. Advanced Course (corso di perfezionamento) in Gender History, globalization and democracy of care, Università degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo.

2024. Visting. Center for Mobility Studies (CeMoRe), Lancaster University, Lancaster (UK). Supervisor: Prof. Lynne Pearce. 

2023-2024. Visiting. Center for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Coimbra (PT). Supervisor: Prof. Tiago Castela.

2020. Fellow in Political Ecology.  Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples. 

2019. MA in Philosophical Sciences. Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice.

Final Dissertation: Henri Lefebvre: the production of space, the critics of everyday life, the right to the city.

2015. BA in Philosophy. Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna.

Final Dissertation: Herbert Marcuse and the Society as Artwork.

2014. LLP Erasmus for Study. Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland.

Publications

(2025) Mozzelin, E. Camminare (alle Grave di Ciano, in Acque Contese. Un glossario per le Grave di Ciano, a cura di G. Fava, F. Melina, M. Savoldelli. Ventura edizioni, Pescara. ISBN: 9791282196093.

Mozzelin, E. (2024). The Psychogeographic Fotoromanzo as an Urban Affective Mapping Practice. Notes on Ralph Rumney’s The leaning Tower of Venice. In Public Art, Urban Arts: Aesthetics, Practices and Languages in the City. Edited by A. Borchi, F. Fimiani, E. Chinellato, F. Sabatini. Vol. 6, (n.2/2023). ISSN 2612-0496 

Mozzelin, E. (2022). Camminare è prendere posizione. Per un’ecologia politica del transito pedonale. In Fare Mondi. Quaderni di Ecologie Politiche del Presente. A cura di Capone, N. e Valisena, D. Introduzione di J.W. Moore. Naples: Tamu. ISBN: 9791280195104.

Mozzelin, E. (2021). Quarantine Symptomatology: is a naked running body an heterotopy? In Urban Corporis X Unexpected. Eds. Milocco Borlini, M., Califano, A. Treviso: Anteferma. ISBN: 978-88-32050-96-7.

Mozzelin, E. (2021). Toward a critic of space as orthos paideia. Reading Le Corbusier through Henri Lefebvre’s philosophy of
space. In Quantifying bodies and health. Interdisciplinary approaches. Eds. Braga, J. & Guidi, S., Coleção eQVODLIBET 8, Coimbra: IEF. ISBN: 978-989-54328-7-55. 
 

Conferences (as a speaker)

2025

•                 L’irruzione del soggetto imprevisto: Carla Lonzi e la radicalità della Differenza. Percorsi: Ricerche di empowerment e indipendenza in prospettiva di genere tra passato, presente e futuro possibile. University of Urbino, Urbino, (IT), 04/07/2025.

•      Riverbody: Walking the Edge of a Fading Fluvial Landscape. CeMoRe Summer Seminar. Center for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster (UK). 20/07/2025.

2024

• Reading Walking as a Political Practice. Community, Politics and Creativity in Mobilities Research. CeMoRe Summer Seminar. Center for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster (UK). 20/07/2024.
• The Enclosed Body: Notes on Women's Spatial Situatedness. Care, Commons, Reproduction, 2024 CRMEP Graduate Conference, Kingston University, Londra (UK). 23-24/05/2024.
• Reading Walking as a Political Practice. Notes on urban everyday life, situatedness and spatial agency. Discussant: Carlos Fortuna, Moderator: Tiago Castela. Center for Social Studies (CES), Coimbra (PT), 02/05/2024.

2023

• Body, walking, surface. Roundtable with Joaquim Braga (UC) and André Barata (UBI). Universidade de Beira Interior, (UBI) Covilha (PT), 04/12/2023. 
• The production of space and its foundation of inequality. How commons can draw a third way. Segregation, Social and Spatial Inequalities. 62nd ERSA Congress, Alicante (SP), 28/08-02/09/2023.
• Walking the space. Political perspectives on interactions and contrasts between social products. CeMoRe's 20th Anniversary Colloquium, Center for Mobilities Research, University of Lancaster, Lancaster (UK), 17/07/2023.
• The Psychogeographic Fotoromanzo. The case of Ralph Rumney's "The Leaning Tower of Venice". The politics and poetics of walking ethnographies Panel. 9th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference, Trento, 08-10/06/2023. 

2022

• Walking through the enclosures. Transformation of space and metamorphosis of the walking practice from the process of original accumulation. Mobilities: Disruptions and Reconnections. T2M 20th Annual Conference, organized by the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Humanities. Padova, 21-24/09/2022. 

Conferences (as chair and organising committee)

2025

• Turns and Revolutions. VIIth Phd Congress, Ca' Foscari University - Paris 1 (Pantheon Sorbonne) University, 12-14 February 2025. 

2024

• Kathrin Yusoff, The Geophysics of Space, 11/09/2024, Venezia, Ca’ Foscari.
• Venice Issues on Matter. VIth PhD Congress, Ca' Foscari University - Paris 1 (Pantheon Sorbonne) University, 21-23 February 2024. 

2023

• Environmental Issues. Vth PhD Congress, Ca' Foscari University - Paris 1 (Pantheon Sorbonne) University, Venice, 1-3 March 2023. 

2022

• Eco-political Epistemologies. Histories of Knowledge: Political, Historical and Cultural Epistemologies in Intellectual History, organized by the International Society for Intellectual History. Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice (IT), 12-15 September 2022. 

Academic Trainings

2025. Landscape Design Workshop, Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche sul Paesaggio, Treviso (Italy)

2024. Postcolonial Transtextual Dialogues, Università di Padova, Padova (Italy)

2023. Mobility Justice and Climate Reparations: Reflection on 20 Years of Mobilities Research with Mimi Sheller. University of Lancaster, Lancaster (UK).

2022. Gender and Capital: history and theoretical perspectives. Società Italiana delle Storiche. Fiesole, Florence (IT).

2022. Environmental Humanities, VIU, San Servolo, Venice (IT).

Teaching Assistantship and Tutorship

2023-2025 Academic Tutor. 

2023. Examination assistant. Zero Lecture on Sustainability. Social Dimension (Anthropocene, Feminism and Social Inequalities). Spring Semester. 

Scientific Journal Peer Reviewer 

2024. Forum Sociologico. https://journals.openedition.org/sociologico/. 

Languages

Italian: mother tongue

English: advanced