Piera ROSSETTO

Position
Researcher
Telephone
041 234 8856
E-mail
piera.rossetto@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
Ebraico [STAA-01/H]
Website
www.unive.it/people/piera.rossetto (personal record)
Office
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam
Where: Palazzo Vendramin

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:

2023/01/01-present: 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.