CALLONI MARINA

Marina Calloni

Curriculum Vitae

Address

Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale

Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca

Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo

I - 20126 Milan (Italy)

Email: [email protected]

ORCID: 0000-0001-6312-7074

Marina Calloni has always sought to integrate multidisciplinary and intercultural research activities with interactive teaching and training methods, pursuing an international perspective while maintaining a strong focus on local realities. Her work primarily covers political theory, human rights advocacy, and gender issues.

Current Position

• Since 2002: Full Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca. She was appointed following the national competition for the repatriation of Italian scholars working abroad (recruited for renowned merit).

Academic Qualifications

• 1985: Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Pavia.
• 1992: Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence.

Honors

• 2020: Awarded the title of "Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic", a recognition conferred by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.

Institutional and Scientific Roles

• 2023-2026: President of the Italian Society of Critical Theory.
• 2023-2024: Convener for the "Social Philosophy" section at the XXV World Congress of Philosophy, themed "Philosophy across Boundaries," Rome, August 1-8, 2024.
• 2021-2022: Delegate of Minister Cristina Messa (Ministry of Universities and Research) on matters related to combating gender-based violence and all forms of discrimination.
• 2021-2022: Delegate to the "Observatory on Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence," Ministry for Equal Opportunities and Family.
• 2020-2022: Consultant for the "Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on Femicide and All Forms of Gender-Based Violence," Senate of the Republic. Coordinator of the working group for the "Report on Language, School Education, and University Training to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: A Cultural Issue." In 2023, she was a witness at the new bicameral inquiry commission.
• 2020: Member of the "Committee of Experts in Economic and Social Matters" (Colao Committee), appointed by the Prime Minister for initiatives for the "Italy 2020-2022" relaunch.
• Since 2018: Collaborator with the Council of Europe - Committee for Equality and Non-discrimination for projects on the implementation of the Istanbul Convention and the development of the OCEAN - Open Council of Europe Academic Network.
• 2016-2022: Vice President of the Italian Society of Political Philosophy (SIFP).
• 2018-2021: President of the National Scientific Qualification Commission (ASN) in Political Philosophy.
• 2018-2019: Delegate of Rector Cristina Messa at the University of Milano-Bicocca for international cooperation.
• 2017: Consultant for the "Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on Femicide and All Forms of Gender-Based Violence," Senate of the Republic, for research on the "Domestic Homicide Review" at the Public Protection Bureau - Gloucestershire Constabulary.
• 2007-2013: Member of the Interministerial Committee for Human Rights (CIDU) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 2007-2010: Member of the Board of Directors of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA, Vienna) as co-representative for Italy.
• 2002-2012: Delegate of the University of Milano-Bicocca and coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the Collegio di Milano.

Fellowships and International Teaching Experience

• 2023: Guest Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York.
• 2020: Alexander Bodini Fellow in Transitions from Globalism to Nationalism and Populism at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America – Columbia University, New York.
• 2011: Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA), funded by the Fulbright USA-Italy Commission.
• 2004-2020: Erasmus Professor at universities in Łódź (Poland), Frankfurt (Germany), Cork (Ireland), Bucharest (Romania), and Skopje (North Macedonia).
• 1995-2004: Visiting Professor at various universities, including Bremen (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Lugano (Switzerland), Hannover (Germany), and Kurume (Japan).
• 1997-2000: Senior Research Fellow and Director of the "International Network for Research on Gender" at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
• 1995-1997: Marie Curie Fellowship at the London School of Economics.
• 1985-1987: DAAD Scholar at the University of Frankfurt under the supervision of Jürgen Habermas.

Research Projects and Assignments

• From 2024: Coordinator of the "Theories, Cultures, and Politics" Unit for the international Silkway network, comprising universities, institutions, and private companies, focusing on sustainability and the green transition.
• 2023: Principal Investigator (P.I.) for the PRIN project titled: "Democracy and Wellbeing in Times of Emergency."
• 2024: Member of the Equal Opportunities Observatory at the University of Milano-Bicocca, appointed by the rector.
• 2023: Member of the interdisciplinary working group at the National Observatory of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI).
• Since 2022: Member of the scientific committee for the "No Women No Panel" project, funded by RAI for Sustainability, and presenter of the book When Women Count with RAI President Mariella Soldi at the 2023 Turin International Book Fair.
• 2021-2023: Head of network evaluation and guideline development for the U.O.MO Project (Men, Orientation, and Monitoring) to create an effective system for handling and monitoring male perpetrators of violence, aiming to reduce recidivism. The project, funded by the Lombardy Region, was managed by ATS (Health Protection Agency) of the Metropolitan City of Milan, in collaboration with CIPM, Fondazione Somaschi, Cooperativa Sociale Dorian Gray, and SAVID Service.
• Since 2022: External affiliate at the Center for Italian Studies, University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA).
• Since 2020: Director of the "Democracy" working group for the Excellence Project of the Department of Sociology and Social Research.
• Since 2020: President of the "Philosophy" section for the 100Esperte project – 100 Women Against Stereotypes, supported by Fondazione Bracco, GIULIA Giornaliste, and the Pavia Observatory.
• Since 2019: Principal Investigator (P.I.) and coordinator of the UN.I.RE. Academic Network (Universities in Network Against Violence) consisting of Italian and European universities implementing the Istanbul Convention in collaboration with the Council of Europe, the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on Femicide, the Ministry of Universities and Research, the Ministry of Equal Opportunities and Family, the Italian University Rectors Conference, the National University Council, ANVUR, and the European Parliament.
• In 2022, UN.I.RE. was recognized by the Council of Europe (Strasbourg) as the first Academic Network among the 46 member states involved in implementing the Istanbul Convention, serving as a model for other European universities (as noted by GREVIO) under the OCEAN project.
• Since 2013: Director of the department's research center ADV – Against Domestic Violence (formerly EDV Project), the first university center in Italy dedicated to combating domestic violence.
• Since 1995: Researcher on the history of anti-fascism and Jewish intellectual women, publishing previously unpublished works related to the Giustizia e Libertà movement, the Rosselli family, and Amelia Rosselli, the mother of Carlo and Nello Rosselli.
• 2019-2021: Coordinator of the university project Race and Education: The 1938 Anti-Jewish Laws, overseeing the creation of the website and the e-book of the same name (available at https://razzaeistruzione.unimib.it/).
• 2016-2019: Projects supporting Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad’s campaign for the Yazidi people, against the crimes of Daesh/ISIS.
• 2004-2019: Responsible for PRIN (Projects of National Interest) research funded by the Ministry of Education, on topics including genocide, war crimes, humanitarianism, and collective memory.
• 2014-2016: P.I. for projects on the right to food at Milan EXPO 2015.
• 2010-2012: Lead researcher on refugee issues in Italy, in collaboration with UNHCR, supporting university students seeking asylum.
• 2007-2012: Co-P.I. for the project "Eastern European Women as Immigrants in Western Trans-Regions," funded by the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg.
• 2007-2009: Member of the "Expert Group MASIS," appointed by the European Commission – DG Research.
• 2006-2007: P.I. for research on "Gender Stereotypes in Science: The Case of South-Eastern European Countries," funded by UNESCO, and co-founder of the "UNESCO Network of Women Philosophers."
• Since 2003: Director of the PRAGSIA Research Center – Public Reasoning and Global Society in Action, University of Milano-Bicocca.
• 2002-2005: Head of political theory for the project "Enlargement, Gender, and Governance: The Civic and Political Participation of Women in EU Candidate Countries," funded by the European Commission – DG Research, in collaboration with Queen's University, Belfast (UK).
• 2002-2004: Member of the "Expert Group to Report on the Situation of Women Scientists in Eastern and Central European Countries and the Baltic States" (ENWISE), appointed by the European Commission.
• 1999-2002: P.I. and project manager for the creation of a Gender Institute at the University of Tirana, funded by the United Nations (UNDP).
• 1998-2002: Co-founder of the "Aleksandra Kollontai" School of Politics at Pomor University in Arkhangelsk (Barents region, Arctic Russia), funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

Teaching and Training

• Since 2002: Professor of Political Philosophy at the Department of Sociology and Social Research.
• 2024: Director of the interdisciplinary and intraprofessional training course "Multi-Target Training on Male Violence Against Women" for the Autonomous Region of Valle d'Aosta.
• Since 2018: Instructor of the course "Training Social Workers to Combat Gender-Based Violence," funded by the Lombardy Region and supported by five departments (Sociology and Social Research, Medicine and Surgery, Psychology, Human Sciences for Education "Riccardo Massa," and Business and Law).
• 2019-2020: Director of the SFERA project (Development of Training for Anti-Violence Networks), funded by PoliS - Lombardy Region, in agreement with professional associations, for the ongoing training of law enforcement (carabinieri and State Police), municipal police, psychologists, social workers, journalists, volunteers and operators at anti-violence centers, healthcare personnel, educators and teachers, court-appointed technical consultants, and independent consultants, aimed at preventing and combating gender violence. The 2021-2022 edition planned to train 1,800 professionals.
• 2017-2020: Director of a postgraduate course on "Violence Against Women and Minors: Understanding and Combating the Phenomenon."

Conferences

She has delivered lectures in numerous Italian cities at universities, research centers, associations, and institutions, and internationally in 48 countries, including Albania (Berat, Durres, Tirana), Austria (Strobl, Vienna), Azerbaijan (Baku), Belgium (Brussels, Louvain-la-Neuve), Bolivia (La Paz), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo), Brazil (Salvador de Bahia, São Paulo), China (Guangzhou, Beijing), Vatican City, Costa Rica (San José), Croatia (Kres), Denmark (Aalborg, Copenhagen), Egypt (Cairo), United Arab Emirates (Dubai), Estonia (Tallinn), Finland (Helsinki, Joensuu, Oulu, Rovaniemi), France (Paris, Strasbourg), Germany (Bad Homburg, Berlin, Bremen, Duisburg, Essen, Frankfurt, Gießen, Göttingen, Hannover, Hamburg, Hildesheim, Loccum, Oldenburg), Japan (Fukuoka, Kurume), Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki), Kazakhstan (Almaty, Astana, Karaganda), Kenya (Nairobi), Kyrgyzstan (Unut Resort - Osh University), Kosovo (Pristina), Latvia (Riga), Maldives (Faafu Atoll - Magoodhoo Island), Mexico (Mexico City), Mozambique (Maputo) (online), Norway (Oslo, Tromsø), Netherlands (Amsterdam, Antwerp, Utrecht), Poland (Wrocław, Łódź, Warsaw), Puerto Rico (San Juan), Portugal (Villa Real), Qatar (Doha), United Kingdom (Belfast, Bristol, London, Oxford, Southampton), Czech Republic (Prague), North Macedonia (Skopje), Romania (Bucharest), Russia (Arkhangelsk, Moscow, Saint Petersburg), Slovakia (Banská Bystrica), Slovenia (Bled, Ljubljana), Spain (Barcelona, Bilbao, Granada, Madrid, Oñati, Salamanca, San Sebastian, Tenerife), United States (Chicago, New York, Notre Dame, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Seattle), Sweden (Linköping, Lund, Stockholm), Switzerland (Lausanne, Lugano, Montagnola, Salecina), Tunisia (Sfax), Turkey (Istanbul), Hungary (Budapest), and Yugoslavia (Dubrovnik, Zagreb).

• 2023: Co-organized the pan-European conference Implementing the Istanbul Convention: The Role of the Educational and Academic System with the Council of Europe (University of Milano-Bicocca, October 27-28, 2023).

Editorial Activities

• Since 2022: Editor of the “RiGenerAzioni” series published by Castelvecchi.

Academic Societies, Associations, and Collaborations

• Co-founder of the Italian Society of Critical Theory, Italian Society of Political Philosophy, ATGENDER, the European Platform of Women Scientists, and the Critical Theory Seminar.
• Co-founder of the journal Reset and member of the Board of Directors of Reset DOC – Dialogues on Civilizations, as well as member of the Scientific Committee of the Milan Human Rights Festival.
• Member of the editorial boards of Politica & Società (co-founder), Reset (co-founder), Quaderni del Circolo Rosselli, and Philosophy and Public Issues. She also serves on the scientific committees of the book series Social Theory, Philosophy and Social Sciences, and Critical Theory.
• Member of the editorial associates board of the international journal Constellations.
• Since 2002: Registered journalist with the Order of Journalists – Lombardy Council, as a publicist.
• Collaborates with Corriere della Sera, contributing articles on public philosophy, political theory, and current affairs.

Publications

She has authored 35 books (monographs and edited volumes), contributed 139 chapters to various volumes, published 64 articles in academic journals, and produced 12 research reports. Additionally, she has published 172 articles for printed and digital journals and newspapers.

Her publications cover the following topics: social philosophy and political theory, human rights and fundamental freedoms, gender issues, critical theory of society, critique of violence, citizenship and the public sphere, and research networks and international cooperation. For a complete list of publications, visit the following page: 

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