Valentina CICILIOT

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Valentina Ciciliot

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9471-3471

15/01/1982

vciciliot@unive.it

 
RESEARCH ACTIVITY

My research and supervision interests are the modern (contemporary) history of Catholicism in Europe and in the United States, charismatic Christianities, and Christianity and Ecology.

I am currently writing a monograph for the University of Notre Dame Press entitled A new Pentecost: How the Catholic Charismatic Movement Made the Church Global

Other research and supervision interests are:

- Catholic sanctity/hagiography

- John Paul II's pontificate

- Catholicism and women

- U.S. evangelicalism

EDUCATION

08/05/2013

Ph.D., Female hagiographical models in the canonization policy of John Paul II (1978-2005)

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, Department of Modern Languages and European Studies, University of Reading, UK

Supervisors: Prof. Christopher Duggan and Dr. Francesca Medioli

11/03/2008

MA in Religious Studies, curriculum Modern and Contemporary Christianity

Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Padua and  Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (joint degree), Italy

Dissertation: La politica delle canonizzazioni di Giovanni Paolo II (John Paul II’s canonization policy), under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Vian

110/110 cum laude

02/03/2005

BA in History, curriculum Contemporary History

Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Dissertation: Il caso Montaner (1967-1969): un conflitto “politico” tra chiesa cattolica e chiesa ortodossa (Montaner 1967-1969: a “political” conflict between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church), under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Vian

110/110 cum laude


CURRENT POSITION

01/10/2020-current

Research assistant (Italian, Ricercatore Rdt-B)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

01/09/2019-30/08/2020

Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship +1

01/09/2016-31/08/2019

Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship, Project CAT-CAM, The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR): An Historical Analysis Between U.S. and Europe

Department of Humanities Ca’ Foscari University of Venice/ Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism

01/04/2015-31/08/2015

Four-months research contract work, Collection of data from the census of the population of Venice in 1869, necessary for georeferencing of demographic phenomena (Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)

01/06/2013-31/05/2014

Annual research fellowship, Female hagiographical models in the canonization policy of John Paul II (1978-2005): transforming the doctoral thesis in a book (Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)

01/10/2011-30/09/2012

Annual research fellowship, Female holiness patterns in Pius XI and Pius XII’s policies of canonisation (Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)


AWARDS

National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor, s.s.c. 11/A4 (s.s.d. M-STO/07) (2018)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship (Call 2014 and 2015)

Honorable mention for the Ph.D dissertation, “Premio Franca Pieroni Bortolotti”, XIX edition (07/12/2013)

AHRC Annual Study Visit Grant (2011)

AHRC Three Year Doctoral Award (2009-2012)


CONFERENCE PAPERS

 “Una nuova Pentecoste: il movimento carismatico cattolico tra diffusione globale, identità locali e politica vaticana tra la metà del XX e l’inizio del XXI secolo”, Global Religions. Fedi, comunità e politica nella mondializzazione contemporanea, convegno di studi, Università degli studi di Torino, 2-3 novembre 2022

“‘We moved from primarily trusting in and exalting Christ to focusing more on ‘our way of life’, ‘our teaching’, ‘our approach’”: U.S. charismatic covenant communities’ authority and governance in the 1980s and 1990s” “New ecclesial movements and/or ‘communautés nouvelles’ in Contemporary Catholicism: Innovations, Reinventions, Discontinuities and Regulation”, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 7-9/09/2022

 “Panel discussion” (organizzato da Ruthe Harris e Charles Mercier), Religions and Globalisation since the Turn of the 19th Century, ICHS, Poznań 21-27 agosto 2022

“The American and European Roots of Charismatic Catholicism”, Religious Social Forms in American Christianity Yesterday and Today Workshop University of Münster, Germany, June 23-24, 2022

“Christian Politics and Ecology in Europe between the late 1960s and 2015”,  Christian Politics in Europe 1945-2020, Villa Vigoni, 22-25 novembre 2021

“John Paul II’s Canonization Policy”, Centennial Discussion of Pope John Paul II (1920-2005): Roman Catholicism, Polish History, and the Cold War, NYU Remarque Institute, May 6, 2020 (on Zoom)

“Neo-evangelicali statunitensi e razzismo: la posizione della rivista «Christianity Today»”, Razzismi: retoriche e pratiche della discriminazione, Università degli Studi di Firenze, SAGAS, Firenze, September 30-October 1, 2019

"From Local to Global: The Catholic Charismatic Movement and Its Transnational Development", Global History and Catholicism, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame (IN, U.S.), April 4-6, 2019

“From Local to Global: The Catholic Charismatic Community The Word of God”, Histoire globale et histoire religieuse contemporaine : quel dialogue?, AFHRC Journée d’études annuelle, Paris, September 29, 2018

“The Catholic Charismatic Renewal: Origins and Transmission of a Transnational Movement”, ACHA, Washington D.C., January, 4-6, 2018

“Inculturation, new evangelization, and saints: Victoire Rasoamanarivo (1848-1894) and Laura Vicuña (1891-1904)”, Cantieri agiorgrafici, Roma, January 17-18, 2018

“Cattolicesimo globale”, CISC, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, May 30, 2017 and June 14, 2017

“John Paul II’s Canonization Policy: The Italian Case”, The Italian research seminar, University of Notre Dame (IN, U.S.), January 26, 2017

“The Catholic Charismatic Renewal: A New Form of Spirituality within the Catholic Church”, Old Religion and New Spirituality: Continuity and Changes in the Background of Secularization, ORNS, University of Tartu (Estonia), May 26-29, 2015

“La strategia canonizzatrice di Pio XI (1922-1939) tra femminismo, Francia e fascismo”, ll pontificato di Pio XI nel contesto della crisi europea. Problemi storiografici, Villa Vigoni (Como, Italy), May 4-6, 2015

“L’immaginario devoto tra organizzazioni mafiose e lotta alla mafia”, discussant, Roma, 20th-21st November 2014, V settimana Scuola di Studi Agiografici, CESA and AISSCA, Rieti (Italy), June 3-6, 2013

“Concilio e santità: la politica delle canonizzazioni di Giovanni Paolo II”, Il Concilio Vaticano II: svolgimento, applicazioni, interpretazioni, Venice (Italy), May 31, 2013

“John Paul II’s Canonization Policy as a New Instrument of Ecclesiastical Government”, AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme, in collaboration with SSHRC (Canada), New Forms of Public Religion, Cambridge (UK), September 5-7, 2012

“Alcuni esempi della politica delle canonizzazioni di Giovanni Paolo II in Italia”, Post-graduate Summer School, ASMI, London (UK), June 28-29, 2012

“La politica delle canonizzazioni di Giovanni Paolo II”, international workshop on Catholic Church, Modernization and Modernity in Contemporary Europe: The Roman Pontificate, University “Ca’ Foscari” of Venice (Italy), June 8-9, 2012

“John Paul II’s Canonization Policy”, Joint Postgraduate Training Course in Italian Studies, University of Cambridge-Oxford-Reading, London (UK), May 4, 2012

“L’episcopato di Albino Luciani a Vittorio Veneto (1959-1970)”, Luciani dal Veneto al mondo, Istituto per le ricerche di storia sociale e religiosa of Vicenza, in partnership with Fondazione per le scienze religiose of Bologna, Vicenza (Italy), September 24-27, 2008

“Giovanna Faè”, Storia di donne in guerra e nella Resistenza, Istresco (Istituto per la storia della Resistenza di Treviso), Treviso (Italy), March 8, 2005

BOARDS AND COMMITTEES

Organizer,  “Global Catholicism and the Catholic Charismatic Movement”, Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy (June 14, 2019)

Steering Committee, “Global History and Catholicism”, University of Notre Dame, USA (April 4-6, 2019)

Editorial Board, Sanctorum. Scritture, pratiche, immagini. Collana dell’Associazione per lo studio della santità, dei culti e dell’agiografia (AISSCA) (since 2018)

Scientific committee, “L’immaginario devoto tra organizzazioni mafiose e lotta alla mafia”, at Casa della Memoria, Roma (November 20-21, 2014)

Steering Committee, “Roman Pontificate in Contemporary Age”, network “Catholic Church, modernization and modernity in contemporary Europe”, at Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy (June 8-9, 2012)



OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

2009-2010  Frintaneum Project (Istituto di storia sociale e religiosa (ISSR), Gorizia, Italy, and Universitaet Wien) – Series of short biographies of nineteenth-century students from the Lombardo-Veneto (Italy), who attended the educational institution Frintaneum in Vienna


MEMBERSHIPS IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

Consulta univeristaria per la storia del Cristianesimo e delle Chiese (CUSSC) (socio simpatizzante)

American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA)

Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità, dei culti e dell’agiografia (AISSCA)

Association Française d’Histoire Religieuse Contemporaine (AFHRC)

Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Storici sul Cristianesimo (CISSC), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

 
Hobbies: Italian opera, aromatherapy, vegetarian cuisine