Dissertation topics suggested by the teacher.
- The role of the interpreter within the history of anthropology
- On the other side of sleep: toward an anthropology the night and of insomnia (see https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/653691)
- The Magic of Conversational Automata: ChatGBT and other digital enchantments (see https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/the-magic-of-conversational-automata/)
- Techno-failures and communicative capitalisms
- Capitalism's magic (see https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/capitalisms-magic-act/?utm_source=MarketingCloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-09-4+AN+Email&utm_content=https%3a%2f%2fwww.anthropology-news.org%2farticles%2fcapitalisms-magic-act%2f)
- Fieldwork Confessionals: reflections on intimacy, collaboration and representation in anthropological fieldwork practice (see the recent special issue of American Anthropologist: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1433.fieldwork-confessionals)
- Corporate Wokeness: how companies support progressive causes in order to maintain their influence in society (https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/heritage-explains/woke-corporate-capitalism)
- Ethics and etiquette (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-books-in-southeast-asian-studies/id425214664)
- Political correctness: towards a global ethos? (see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/global_ethos?view=default&listby=date)
- For an anthropology of practice: comparing the work by Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu
- Translating worlds: Anthropology as cross-cultural and cross-linguistic description
- Monolingual Nationalism and Polyglot nations
- The linguistic market in Ferruccio Rossi-Landi and Pierre Bourdieu
- Post-Truth and the Semiotics of Infographics
- The anthropology of drinking: I drink spritz ergo sum
- Philippe Bourgois vs. Alice Goffman
- Anthropology of kissing: Is romantic kissing a cultural universal? (see https://www.sapiens.org/culture/is-romantic-kissing-a-human-universal/)
- Decolonizing the anthropological canon? A contemporary debate on the transmission of anthropological knowledge
- Decolonizing the museum: colonialism and repatriation of museum objects
- Post-Truth, police brutality, and techno-optimism
Recent dissertations supervised by the teacher.
First cycle degree programmes dissertations
- Abbigliamento e corpo nella comunicazione sociale
- Capitalismo woke - Il capitalismo woke come terreno d'incontro tra brand e pubblico
- Dal denaro alla criptovaluta: una riflessione sulla transizione dal capitalismo industriale al capitalismo finanziario
- Dominio: una parola al maschile. Un caso o una realtà?
- Il Blackface: la maschera del razzismo. Storia della rappresentazione nera tra Stati Uniti e Italia.
- L’oggetto, la pratica e il consumo:
le nuove culture e le nuove identità nei social media
- La decolonizzazione in antropologia: il Presidential Address di Akhil Gupta e la polemica con H.S. Lewis, per il futuro della disciplina
- La meditazione mindfulness come skill e tecnologia del sé
- Lo squalo nell’immaginario collettivo: un’analisi antropologica del rapporto uomo-animale
- NELLA TRAVERSATA DEL MEDITERRANEO L'UNICO BAGAGLIO È QUELLO CULTURALE. Le interazioni nei contesti di accoglienza in Italia. Criticità, prospettive e contributo dell'antropologia
- Problematizzazione della cultura nell'incontro dei contesti sociali
- Sentirsi soli: la solitudine, tra antropologia delle emozioni e contemporaneità
- Slow Food e fast food: un viaggio tra due linee parallele nella storia della nuova gastronomia.
Second cycle degree programmes dissertations
- "It's a masa-piece!"
Il razzismo come fenomeno linguistico tra Messico e Stati-Uniti
- Collisioni Senza Nome. Interazioni e improvvisazioni comunicative in un bar bolognese.
- The Power of Images and Words: The Performativity of Language and New Forms of Mediatization in the Context of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
