Associate Professor
SDEA-01/A Discipline demoetnoantropologiche
pietro.vereni@uniroma2.it
Other professional positions
1994-1997 PhD Candidate Sapienza
1998-1999 Research Fellow School of Anthropological Studies Belfast UK
2003-2004 Research Fellow Università della Calabria
2006 (gennaio-dicembre) Research Fellow Università della Calabria
2007-2008 Lecturer Università della Calabria
2008 Lecturer (tenure track) Roma Tor Vergata
Education
1998 Dottorato di ricerca in Discipline etnoantropologiche – Università di Roma La Sapienza
Teaching Positions
1999-2000 Adjunct professor Ca’ Foscari Venezia
1999-2000 Lecturer in Modern Anthropology Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (Graduate School of Social Sciences) – Ljubljana (Slovenia).
2003-2005 Adjunct professor Istituto Universitario “L’Orientale” Napoli
2003-2007 Adjunct professor Università di Firenze
2003-2004 Adjunct professor Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
2007-2008 Adjunct professor Università della Calabria
2007-2008 Adjunct professor Università di Teramo
2007-2008 Adjunct professor Istituto Universitario “L’Orientale” Napoli
2009-Today Adjunct Professor of Urban and Global Rome (Political Science) at the Roman campus of Trinity College, Hartford (CT)
2015-2017 Adjunct professor Università di Roma LUISS
Editorial boards
Meridiana. Rivista di storia e scienze sociali
RAC. Rivista di antropologia contemporanea
Peer Reviewer for the following journals
Lares
Meridiana
Anuac Rivista
Antropologia pubblica
Current Anthropology
Antropologia
Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo
RAC Rivista di Antropologia Contemporanea
Critique of Anthropology
Easa Social Anthropology
Human Organization
Immagine
Semestrale di Studi e Ricerche di Geografia
Studi culturali
Tracce Urbane
Research training and grants
February 2014: Research team member for PRIN triennale Ministero della Ricerca Scientifica (bando 2012, PI Cristina Papa) “Migrations, family bonds and religious belonging: links, negotiations, boudaries”
2016-2017. “Consolidate the Fundations” dell’Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, principal investigator Alessandro Ferrara, Project “NEW2US New Emerging Worships To open Up Urban Spaces”
Selected international colloquia and papers
July 2012 0710-13. EASA (European Association of Social Anthropology) – PARIS. Paper: “Don’t bring your kids to that school! From social to ethnic notoriety in a primary school on the periphery of Rome”
November 2012. International Workshop Contested Social Spaces. Debating Postsecular Social Spaces in Italy and Turkey – ROMA (Tor Vergata e Istituto Tevere). Paper: “Spaces in-between. Squats and religious practice in Rome”
January 2013 0124-26. International Conference “New PostMigrant Socialities” A FRANKFURT AM MAIN Goethe University. Paper: “Self-defined ‘multi-ethnic’ squatters and the construction of neighborhood in Rome”
November 2014. Conference Cibi in movimento. NAPOLI 21-23 novembre. Paper: “Lots of free lunches. Ovvero: un ricettario di strada come critica culturale”
July 2015. Keynote speaker international workshop “Im/mobilities and boundaries: an ethnographic approach”. Ludwig Maximilian University – Institute of European Ethnology, MUNICH, GERMANY. “Roman Neighbourhoods. Patterns of Urban Immobilization in the Eternal City”
July 2016. EASA (European Association of Social Anthropology) in MILANO-BICOCCA. Paper: “Welfare from below. Perspectives and contradictions among Roman squatters”
November 2016. Seminar ALL SOULS COLLEGE – OXFORD part of the Programme for the Future of Cities Seminar Series Michaelmas 2016. Seminar title: “Racialised Citizens, Security and the Paradox of Exclusion and Inclusion”
December 2016 5-6. Paper international conference “Men in movement”, ROMA, 5-6 dicembre 2016: “Uomini di strada. Messa in scena della violenza maschile tra Dacca e Roma”
February 2018. 13th Doha Interfaith Conference “Religions and Human Rights”, DOHA – QATAR, 20-21 February. Paper: “Spatial rights for religious expression in Rome”
April 2018 04 17-18. With Valeria Fabretti Interdisciplinary Conference “Emergent Religious Pluralism(s)” at the WOOLF INSTITUTE – CAMBRIDGE 1718 April. Paper: “A Solid Space dotted with Vague Places. Sacred Territories and Religious Pluralism in Rome”
27 September 2019, “Prisons and social sciences”, International Workshop The limits of confinement, ROMA 25-27 settembre
12 December 2019, “Lo spazio comune appartiene al passato. Epica sociale, periferia e comunità nelle narrazioni di Torbellamonaca”, paper presentato al VII Convegno della Società Italiana di Antropologia Applicata, FERRARA 10-12 dicembre.
29 January 2020, with Simone Cerulli, “Fatherhood, Education and Cosmopolitanism. The Bangladeshi Diaspora between Rome and London”, International Conference Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures, Roma, Tor Vergata
22 November 2020, Lectio Magistralis “Il Globalismo Di Torbellamonaca”, Azienda Speciale Palaexpo Rif Museo Delle Periferie (Online)
18 September 2021, Soggettività E Antropologia, Paper Presented At The 66th Conference Of Philosophical Inquiry Ripensare La Soggettività. Oltre La Critica Del Soggetto, Fondazione Centro Studi Filosofici Di Gallarate, ROMA Tor Vergata (Online)
3 November 2021 with Simone Cerulli, “Learning How To Squat”, Paper Presented At The Joint Programme “Linking Research and Education in Migration Studies”, ROME – Tor Vergata University