Curriculum Vitae
ELISA BOSISIO – PHD in Political Philosophy
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
07/2024 – Genoa, Italy
SUMMER SCHOOL in Sociology of Law “Che "genere" di diritto?”
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Paper title: “Sex Selection and Gender Selection. How Pre-Implantation and Technologically Mediated Choice of Unborn Chromosomes Maps the Exploitation of Female Sexed Bodies.”
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01/2020 – 06/2024 (Covid-19 extension)
PHD IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (with scholarship)
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, COMMUNICATION AND SPECTACLE - Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
Grade: Summa Cum Laude, Commission-Recommended Publication.
Research project entitled: “Feminist Earth Politics. Reproductive Labor as Symbiogenesis in Times of Socio-Environmental Crisis.”
Tutor: Prof. Federica Giardini, Full Professor - Political Philosophy, Director of the Master in Gender Studies and Politics - Roma Tre University, Rome.
Areas of research: social reproduction; relations between exploitation and domination, between Marx and Foucault; relations between technoscience, law, new technologies and labor; ecological economics; feminist economics; feminist political ecology.
Keywords: reproductive labor; care work; domestic labor; labor of love; emotional labor; coloniality of labor; transnational chains of care work; feminization of labor; biolabor; ecosystemic labor; hybrid labor; value chain; metabolic value; porous bodies.
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03/2023 – 09/2023 – Santiago de Compostela, Spain
VISITING - CISPAC - Centro de Investigación Interuniversitario das Paisaxes Atlánticas Culturais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Tutor: Prof. Stefania Barca
On-site conference before the CISPAC board: “Feminist
eco-logy/-nomy: Social Reproduction in a More-Than-Human World within the Socio-Environmental Crisis.”
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06/2021– Pisa, Italy
SUMMER SCHOOL “POE – POLITICS, ONTOLOGIES, ECOLOGIES”, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Paper Title: Marxist Feminism and New Feminist Materialism: Two Paradigms Converging in the Anthropocene.
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10/2019 – 06/2020 – Milan, Italy
MASTER COURSE in “TEORIA CRITICA DELLA SOCIETA’"(with scholarship), University of Milan Bicocca
Final paper title: Peer-to-Peer Surveillance through City Facebook Groups: How Neoliberal Devices Transformed Care in Surveillance.
Tutor: Annalisa Dordoni (University of Milano-Bicocca).
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08/2019 – Belgrade, Serbia
SUMMER SCHOOL “Sexuality, Cultures and Politics”
IPAK Centar (Research Center Cultures, Politics, and Identities), Sigidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia
Paper Title: Material Agency and Technological Mediation in Women's Global Clinical Labor.
Discussant: Prof. Karen Barad.
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09/2017 – 03/2019 – Milan, Italy
MASTER'S DEGREE IN PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES
University of Milan
Grade: Magna Cum Laude.
Thesis title: The Promises of the Monsters. An ethics of bodies between monism and individualism.
Tutor: Prof. Gianfranco Mormino, Full Professor - Moral Philosophy, University of Milan – Milan.
Co-Tutor: Prof. Angela Balzano, RTDB - University of Turin; Science Module Holder of the Master in Gender Studies and Policies - University of Rome Tre.
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01/2018 – 09/2018 – Leuven, Belgium
ERASMUS - 9-month scholarship
KU-LEUVEN
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07/2017– Utrecht, The Netherlands
SUMMER SCHOOL “NOISE” (Network of Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies in Europe), University of Utrecht
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09/2013 – 03/2016 – Milan, Italy
BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN PHILOSOPHY, University of Milan
Grade: Magna Cum Laude.
Thesis title: Women's Politics and Plural Action. From Hannah Arendt to the Women's Revolution in Kurdistan.
Tutor: Prof. Laura Boella, Full Professor - Moral Philosophy, University of Milan - Milan.
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TEACHING ACTIVITIES
13/11/2024 – 20/12/2025
Adjunct professor in “WOMEN AND LAW”, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures – Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
https://www.unibo.it/en/study/phd-professional-masters-specialisation-schools-and-other-programmes/course-unit-catalogue/course-unit/2024/328518 .
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2020 – 2024
Lecturer for the “SCIENCE MODULE” of the Master in Gender Studies and Policy Roma Tre University
2020 edition: https://www.masterstudiepolitichedigenere.it/moduli_didattici/scienze-2020/ .
2021 edition: https://www.masterstudiepolitichedigenere.it/moduli_didattici/scienze-2021/ .
2022 edition: https://www.masterstudiepolitichedigenere.it/moduli_didattici/scienze-2022/ .
2023 edition: https://www.masterstudiepolitichedigenere.it/moduli_didattici/scienze-2023/ .
2024 edition: https://www.masterstudiepolitichedigenere.it/moduli_didattici/scienze-2024/ .
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01/11/2023
Lecturer for the Course “WOMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES” Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
https://www.unibo.it/it/didattica/insegnamenti/insegnamento/2023/328520 .
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18/04/2023
Lecturer for the Course “CITTADINANZA, DIRITTI SOCIALI, GIUSTIZIA” University of Turin
https://www.didattica-cps.unito.it/do/corsi.pl/Show?_id=mlu8 .
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2020 - 2021
Lecturer for the Course "DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT" Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna 2020 edition: https://www.unibo.it/it/didattica/insegnamenti/insegnamento/2020/430271 2021 edition: https://www.unibo.it/it/didattica/insegnamenti/insegnamento/2021/430271 .
PUBLICATIONS
- Curatorships
Balzano Angela, Bosisio, Elisa, Santoemma Ilaria. 2022. Conchiglie, pinguini e staminali verso futuri transpecie, Rome: DeriveApprodi.
- Articles in Journals
Bosisio, Elisa. Forthcoming 2024. Who the Worker is? For a Feminist Updating of the Marxian Category in Technomediated, Globalized and Ecologically Ruined Times. Commissioned by the editors of CIRSDe - University of Turin, series “Gender Studies.” (by invitation).
Bosisio, Elisa. 2024. Casalinghe e animalesse. Sul lavoro ri/produttivo tra natura e tecnica, «aut aut», 401, pp. 102-112. (by invitation).
Bosisio, Elisa. 2024. The House, the Neighborhood, The Earth. Per una topografia femminista della riproduzione, «Quaderni del dipartimento di sociologia e ricerca sociale», 8, pp. 151-162. (by invitation).
Bosisio, Elisa. 2023. Ecologia delle mestruazioni, «DWF - donnawomanfemme», 136, pp. 32-40. (by invitation).
Bosisio, Elisa e Cirillo, Valeria. 2022. Zone di Contatto. Le epistemologie femministe e l’immersione dei corpi umani nelle relazioni multispecie, «DWF», 132, 41 - 48. (by invitation).
Bosisio, Elisa. 2021. Care as a “New” Feminist Rationality, «Femina Politica», 30, 109-116. (call for papers).
Bosisio, Elisa. 2021. Corpi-donna nella metropoli. Per un hackeraggio femminista della deriva, «Tracce Urbane», 9, 272-286. (call for papers).
Bosisio, Elisa. 2020. Gender Before Sex | Population Before Subject. Gender Selection and SDL (Sexualizing Division of Labor vs TechnoQueer Futures, «S&F -Scienza e Filosofia», 23, 47-62. (by invitation).
- Book’s Chapters
Bosisio, Elisa, Cirillo Valeria. Forthcoming 2024. Extractivism of Bodyminds and Territories. Rethinking Collective Suffocation Starting from our Lungs. In Górska, Magdalena, Trakilović Milica (edited by) Social and Political Suffocation, Vol II, NY and London: Routledge. (call for chapter).
Bosisio, Elisa, Balzano Angela, Santoemma Ilaria. 2022. Com/pensare la cura transpecie, A. Balzano, E. Bosisio e I. Santoemma (edited by), Conchiglie, pinguini e staminali verso futuri transpecie, Rome: DeriveApprodi, 5-36.
Bosisio, Elisa. 2021. Antropopoiesi, E. Baioni, L. M. Cuadrado Payeras e M. Macelloni (edited by), Abecedario del postumanesimo, Milan: Mimesis, 68-69. (by invitation).
Bosisio, Elisa. 2021. Naturale, E. Baioni, L. M. Cuadrado Payeras e M. Macelloni (edited by), Abecedario del postumanesimo, Milan: Mimesis, 274-275. (by invitation).
- Translations from English to Italian
Puig de la Bellacasa, MarÍa. 2022. Pensare con (la) cura, A. Balzano, E. Bosisio e I. Santoemma (edited by), Conchiglie, pinguini e staminali verso futuri transpecie, Rome: DeriveApprodi.
Sturgeon, Noël. 2022. Valori familiari tra pinguini: la dimensione planetaria della giustizia riproduttiva ambientale, A. Balzano, E. Bosisio e I. Santoemma (edited by), Conchiglie, pinguini e staminali verso futuri transpecie, Rome: DeriveApprodi.
Braidotti, Rosi, Goda Klumbyte, Chad Weiner. 2022. Per una riprogettazione dell’immaginario sociale, M. Armiero, F. Giardini, D. Gentili, D. Angelucci, D. Balicco, I. Bussoni (edited by), Environmental Humanities. Scienze sociali, politica, ecologia, Rome: DeriveApprodi.
CONFERENCES
International on selection of abstracts
Participation in the conference “Beyond Genders. Intersectionality Between Theory and Practice. Interdisciplinary Gaze” for the strand ‘Questioning Identities,’ on selected abstracts entitled Who the Worker is? A Marxist Feminist Genealogy of Labor Beyond Anthropocentrism. University of Turin, Turin, November 24-25, 2023.
Participation in “AtGender Conference 2023” for strand 5 ‘Bodies and Boundaries in More-Than-Human Worlds’ on selection of abstracts entitled Marxist Feminism in Front of Melting Glaciers. How Reflection on Unrecognized and Unpaid Forms of Labor Incentivizes Multispecies Alliances in Times of Socio-Environmental Crisis. Kadis Has University, Istanbul, Turkey September 4-6, 2023.
Participation in the “11th European Feminist Research Conference” for strand 4 “Feminist Art, Technological Practices, Literature, New materialism, Posthumanities,” on selection of abstract entitled Symbiogenesis and Sympoiesis as Feminist Tools for the Multispecies Earth. University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, June 15-18, 2022.
Participation in the “PLOTINA Final Conference - Regendering Sciences. For an Inclusive Research Environment” for the strand ‘The Inclusion of Sex/Gender Variable in Research - Gender in Social and Human Sciences’, on selection of abstract entitled Gender Based and Queer Contributions in Rethinking HIV, A Political Challenge Through Immunology, Public Health, and Feminist Science Fiction. Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Bologna January 20-21, 2020.
Participation in “11th Beyond Humanism Conference” on selection of abstract entitled The Ethics of the Bodies in a Postnatural and Postcultural Epoch. University of Lille, France, July 9-10-11, 2019.
National
Participation in the conference “Gender R-Evolutions: immaginare l’inevitabile, sovvertire l’impossibile” for the strand “Cambiamenti necessari e resistenze profonde”, on selected abstracts entitled The House, The Neighborhood, The Earth. Per una topografia femminista della riproduzione sociale: dai Gruppi per il salario al lavoro domestico a Care Income Now. University of Trento, Trento, Italy, November 25-26, 2022.
Participation in the XII convegno nazionale dei sociologi dell’ambiente “Politica ecologia e società nell’Antropocene” for the strand “La città come spazio più-che-umano”, on selection of abstracts titled Spazi e tempi trans*: i corpi nella dimensione tecno-bio-info mediata dell’urbano. University of Salerno, September 26-27, 2019.
SEMINARS
Title: “Le epistemologie femministe: l’onto-etico-epistemologie del tatto. Saperi immersivi e conoscenza affettiva tra Karen Barad, Arundhati Roj e María Puig de la Bellacasa.”
Where:
doctoral seminar organized and curated by Prof. Daniela Angelucci for the academic year 2021/2022 entitled “Aisthesis, tatto e visione,” Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy. When: Thursday, April 28, 2022.
CHAIR -
DISCUSSANT
Discussant for the seminar GENDERS “Eva Virale. La vita oltre i confini di genere, specie e nazione” with Angela Balzano (UNITO) and Carlotta Cossutta (UNIMI), by invitation of Prof. Annalisa Murgia (UNIMI), University of Milan, June 20, 2024. Discussant for the seminar GENDERS “Dialoghi postumani per un’ecologia transfemminista” with Angela Balzano (UNITO) and Anna Antonia Ferrante (Université de Liège), by invitation of Prof.ssa Annalisa Murgia (UNIMI), University of Milan, December
14, 2023. Chair
for the il panel “Composting Feminist Methodology” during the “11th European Feminist Research Conference”, University of Milano-Bicocca, by invitation of Prof.ssa Federica Timeto (Cà Foscari University of Venice), June 18, 2022.
PEER REVIEW
Peer reviewer for: Studi Culturali; Matter – Journal of New Materialist Research; mappaemundi – una collana di ecosofia; HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies.
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
Organizing and conducting a workshop on Care Income and Care Income Now campaign, at Floating University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, during the “Climate Care” Festival. (Invited by festival curator Gilly Karjevsky at the suggestion of Prof. Stefania Barca, a signatory of the Care Income Now campaign.)
https://floating-berlin.org/programmes/climate-care/climate-care-2023/.
Speaker for the podcast packaged by the research center CIRSDE - Interdisciplinary Center for Research and Women's and Gender Studies, based at the University of Turin, titled Femministe si diventa! on the topics of “feminism” and “work.” (At the invitation of Prof. Cristina Solera (UNITO) and Prof. Angela Balzano (UNITO).
https://www.unitonews.it/index.php/it/news_detail/femminista-si-diventa-la-morning-routine-cambiare-il-mondo .
LANGUAGES
Mother Tongue: Italian
English: Full Professional Proficiency
French: Limited Working Proficiency
Spanish: Limited Working Proficiency
