Prof. Luisa Passerini at the Centre for the Humanities, 4-6 October 

Luisa Passerini has been Professor of Cultural History at the University of Torino, and is External Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence, and Visiting Professor in the Oral History Master Program at Columbia University, New York. She has been Director of the research group « Europe : Emotions, Identities, Politics » at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, as the recipient of the Research Prize of Nordrhein-Westfalen for 2002-4. Her present trends of research are: European identity; the historical relationships between the discourse on Europe and the discourse on love; gender and generation as historical categories; memory and subjectivity.

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