Renata Badii

(Gruppo di Filosofia politica)

renata.badii@unifi.it

Post-doctoral Researcher (Assegnista) in Political Philosophy 

Dipartimento di Filosofia
via Bolognese, 52 
I-50139 Firenze, Italia
Phone: 0039-055-4622407
Fax: 0039-055-475640

Born in Arezzo (AR), 16/08/1975, Italian citizen.

1. Education

• 2001: Degree in Philosophy, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Florence, First-class honours degree. Thesis in Political Philosophy: "The political Theory of Norberto Bobbio. Philosophical and methodological Premises".
• 2002-03: First year of PhD in "History of Political Thought and Political Philosophy", University of Padova (without grant).
• 2003-07: PhD in "Philosophy", Dept. of Philosophy, University of Florence (3 years grant). Thesis in Political Philosophy: "The Age of Neutralisations and Depoliticisations. Origins of the Concept of Neutralisation in the political Thought of Carl Schmitt".

2. Current academic position

• Since July 2007: Post-doctoral Researcher ("Assegnista di ricerca") at the Department of Philosophy, University of Florence (Position including research and teaching duties).

3. Areas of interest

• theories of modernity and secularization
• politics and conflict
• political identity
• transformations of politics in the post-sovereign scenario
• biopolitics and bioethics

4. Grants

• January-June 2000: Erasmus Exchange at the University of Manchester, Department of Government, Master in Political Theory (Graduate Centre in Government, Graduate School of Social Sciences).
• September 2004-July 2005: Mobility Grant at the Humboldt Universität, Berlin, funded by the Dept. of Philosophy, Florence.
• January-April 2010: Visiting Researcher at the University of Sheffield, Department of Politics, Junior Researcher Mobility Grant funded by the European Network of Excellence GARNET (Contract n. 513330 with the European Commission, Sixth Framework Programme).

5. Research and additional academic activities

• 2002: Researcher in the project "Nazi-fascist slaughters in Tuscany", coordinated by Prof. Enzo Collotti (University of Florence), and funded by the Regione Toscana.
• 2002-03: Researcher in the project "Political order and globalization", funded by the University of Florence.
• 2004-05: Researcher in the national project "Roots of conflict and forms of war in the global age", coordinated by Prof. Furio Cerutti and funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research - MIUR.
• 2005-07: Researcher in the national project "Europe and the West: A Comparison", coordinated by Prof. Furio Cerutti and funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research - MIUR.
• 2004-07: Researcher in the project "Conflicts, identities and rights in the global age", funded by the University of Florence.
• Since 2002: Member of the Research Group in Political Philosophy (Dept. of Philosophy, Florence), coordinated by Prof. Furio Cerutti.
• Since September 2004: "Cultrice della materia" of Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy.
• 2005-09: Secretary of the Seminar of Political Philosophy, coordinated by F. Cerutti, D. D'Andrea, E. Pulcini, M. Toraldo di Francia, Dept. of Philosophy, Florence.
• May 2007-January 2008: Research Assistant in the Scientific Committee of the International Conference Extermination and Exterminations. Shoah and Mass Violence in the 20^th Century, promoted by Regione Toscana and Forum for the Problems of Peace and War (Florence, Aula Magna dell'Università, 28-30 January 2008).
• 2007-08: Research Assistant for the editing process of the collective volume The search for a European Identity. Values, policy and legitimacy of the European Union, edited by F. Cerutti and S. Lucarelli, Routledge, London 2008.
• October 2007-April 2008: Research Assistant in the Scientific Committee of the International Workshop Risk and Responsibility. Theoretical and Normative Issues of Environmental Governance, organized by the Political Philosophy Research Group (University of Florence) within the activities of JERP 5.3.1 (Freie Universität, Berlin), European Network GARNET (Florence, Dept. of Philosophy, 18-19 April 2008).
• January-June 2008: Scientific referent of the Dept. of Philosophy for the didactic project "Laboratori didattici", political and moral philosophy area, organized by the Istituto Stensen, Florence.

6. Membership

• Since 2005: Member of the Società Italiana di Filosofia Politica (SIFP).
• Since 2005: Member of the Forum for the problems of peace and war (Florence); member of the Executive Committee (since 2009).
• 2005-10: Member of the European Network of Excellence GARNET (Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: the Role of the EU, Contract n. 513330 with the European Commission, Sixth Framework Programme); member of the JERP 5.2.1 "Normative Issues of Regional and Global Governance", coordinated by Prof. F. Cerutti (University of Florence) and JERP 5.3.1 "Global Environmental Issues", coordinated by Prof. E. Altvater (Freie Universität, Berlin).

7. Membership to editorial boards

• Quaderni Forum, Pisa: ETS (since 2008).

8. Teaching activities

• 2005-06: teaching assistant in the undergraduate course "Political Identity and European Union", Dept. of Philosophy, Florence, with Prof. Furio Cerutti.
• 2006-07: teaching assistant in the undergraduate course "Theology and Politics by Carl Schmitt", Dept. of Philosophy, Florence, with Dr. Dimitri D'Andrea.
• 2007-08: teaching assistant in the undergraduate course "Modern Politics and its End", Dept. of Philosophy, Florence, with Prof. Furio Cerutti.

9. Organization of conferences and workshops 

• A Brainstorming Exercise on Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union, first Workshop of the JERP 5.2.1 "Normative Issues of Regional and Global Governance" - European Network of Excellence GARNET, Florence, Dept. of Philosophy, September 23-24, 2005.
• International Conference The Europeans. The European Union in Search of Political Identity and Legitimacy, final Conference of the JERP 5.2.1, Florence, Dept. of Italian Studies, May 25-26, 2007.
• Sterminio e stermini. Shoah e violenze di massa nel XX secolo, International Conference promoted by Forum for the Problems of Peace and War (Florence) and Regione Toscana, Florence, University of Florence, January 28-30, 2008. 
• Risk and Responsibility. Theoretical and Normative Issues in Environmental Governance, International Workshop organized by the Political Philosophy Research Group (University of Florence) within the activities of JERP 5.3.1 (Freie Universität, Berlin), European Network GARNET, Florence, Dept. of Philosophy, 18-19 April 2008.

10. Publications

10.1 Monographs

• Il rischio del politico. Opposizione e neutralizzazione in Carl Schmitt, AlboVerosorio, Milano 2009.

10.2 Chapters in books and articles

• «Il problema della giustizia nella ‘tragedia della libertà': Les Mouches di Jean-Paul Sartre», in Dike polypoinos. Archetipi di giustizia fra tragedia antica e dramma moderno, a cura di G. Bombelli - A. Mazzei, Introduzione di F. Todescan, Cleup, Padova 2004, pp. 69-104.
• «Neutralizzare il conflitto: è ancora possibile dopo la modernità?», in R. Badii (a cura di), Guerra e conflitto. Trasformazioni nell'età globale, «Quaderni Forum», XIX (2005), n. 3, ETS, Pisa, pp. 49-76.
• Voci del Glossario: Convenzioni dei diritti umani; Globalismo; Globalizzazione; Imperialismo; Impero; Intergovernativo / internazionale / regionale / sovranazionale / transnazionale; McDonaldizzazione; Movimento New Global; Multiculturalismo; New Medievalism; Reti, teoria delle - ; Villaggio globale; Welfare State, crisi del -, in Le parole per dirlo: breve dizionario della globalizzazione, a cura di A. Cantini - P. Meucci - D. Spini, ETS, Pisa 2008.
• «EU red biotechnology regulation and European values», in F. Cerutti and S. Lucarelli (eds), The Search for a European Identity. Values, Policies and Legitimacy of the European Union, Garnet Book Series, Routledge, London and New York 2008.
• «La lettura foucaultiana della biopolitica e la politica della tarda modernità», in A. Amendola et al. (a cura di), Biopolitica, bioeconomia e processi di soggettivazione, Quodlibet, Macerata 2008, pp. 41-52.
• (with D. D'Andrea) «Introduzione», in Sterminio e stermini. Shoah e violenza di massa nel Novecento, a cura di D. D'Andrea e R. Badii, Il Mulino, Bologna 2010, pp. 14-49 (forthcoming).

10.3 Editorships

• Guerra e conflitto. Trasformazioni nell'età globale, «Quaderni Forum», XIX (2005), n. 3, ETS, Pisa.
• (with Daniela Belliti and Guido Calamai) Dalla sicurezza nazionale alla sicurezza globale: nuovi rischi, ricerche, tecnologie, «Quaderni Forum», XX (2006), n. 4, ETS, Pisa.
• (with Dimitri D'Andrea) Sterminio e stermini. Shoah e violenza di massa nel Novecento, Il Mulino, Bologna 2010 (forthcoming).

10.4 Translations

• From German: Carl Schmitt, L'opposizione tra comunità e società come esempio di distinzione binaria. Considerazioni sulla struttura e sul destino di simili antitesi, in R. Badii, Il rischio del politico, AlboVersorio, Milano 2009, pp. 99-116.
• From English: (with M. Pascucci) Ivan Illich, I fiumi a nord del futuro. Testamento raccolto da David Cayley, prefazione di Charles Taylor, edizione italiana a cura di Milka Ventura Avanzinelli, Quodlibet, Macerata 2009, pp. 298.

10.5 Work in progress:

• La neutralità impossibile. Carl Schmitt interprete della modernità politica (monograph)
• The meaning of the Shoah for the EU's political culture (Garnet Working Paper)
• Jacob Taubes (a cura di), Il principe di questo mondo. Saggi su Carl Schmitt, La Casa Usher, Firenze 2010 (translation from German, with M. Alagna)
• Il Grande Inquisitore nella cultura del Novecento (editorship, with E. Fabbri - Introduction, with E. Fabbri, plus a chapter on Carl Schmitt's interpretation of the figure of the Grand Inquisitor).

11. Conferences and Guest Lectures

• 14 February, 2003: "Human Rights", guest lecture held at the undergraduate course in Bioethics, Dept. of Philosophy, Florence.
• 17 October, 2005: Seminar of Political Philosophy, Dept. of Philosophy, Florence, discussant of the lecture held by Prof. Vivien Schmidt (Boston University/Sc. Po - Paris) on "Democracy and discourse theory".
• 16 January, 2006: Seminar of Political Philosophy, Florence, discussant of the lecture held by Prof. Pietro de Marco (U. of Florence) on "Religions, citizenship and public sphere".
• 16 February, 2006: Seminar of Political Philosophy, Florence, Guest Lecture on "The Age of Neutralisation: Politics and Modernity by Carl Schmitt".
• 15 March, 2006: Laboratory of Epistemology and Ontology, Dept. of Philosophy, Florence, discussant of the lecture held by Prof. Enrico Donaggio (U. of Turin) on "Radical Evil Today".
• 12 January, 2007: Seminar of Political Philosophy, Florence, discussant of the lecture held by Prof. Laura Bazzicalupo (U. of Salerno) on "Biopolitics".
• 7 March, 2007: "Theories of the Just War and the Law of the People", lecture held at the Master in Bioethics, U. of Florence.
• 15 March, 2007: Laboratory of Epistemology and Ontology, Florence, discussant of the lecture held by Prof. Stefano Berni (U. of Siena) on "Politics and Human Nature".
• 8 June, 2007: Seminar of Political Philosophy, Florence, discussant of the lecture held by Prof. Kurt Bayertz (Universität Münster) on "The Birth of post-liberal Biopolitics".
• 27-28 September, 2007: Seminar "Biopolitics, bioeconomics, processes of subjectivation", Dept. Of History of Law and Politics, University of Salerno, Communication on: Biopolitics and late modernity in Michel Foucault.
• 17-19 Januar, 2008: International Workshop "Money and Finance in Global Environmental Governance", GARNET, JERP 5.3.1, Freie Universität, Berlin, representative of JERP 5.2.1 (PolPhil Group, University of Florence).
• 28 Februar, 2008: Seminar of Political Philosophy, Florence, discussant of the lecture held by Prof. Joao Rosas (Universidade do Minho) on "From Popper to Rawls: Justice in the Open Society".
• 18-19 April, 2008: International Workshop Risk and Responsibility. Theoretical and Normative Issues of Environmental Governance, GARNET, JERP 5.3.1, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Florence, discussant of Prof. Axel Gosseries (Université Catholique de Louvain) and Prof. Maria Paola Ferretti (Centre of European Law and Politics - ZERP, University of Bremen).
• 19 May, 2008: Laboratory of Epistemology and Ontology, Florence, discussant of the lecture held by Prof. Marco Geuna on "War".
• 24 June, 2008: Seminar on "Political Theology by Carl Schmitt", promoted by Prof. Gian Enrico Rusconi and Prof. Michele Nicoletti (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento).
• 8-9 September, 2008: XIX Seminar of Critical Theory, "Politics and global challenges", Cortona (AR), Villa Aurea; discussant of the panel "What is politics, today", dedicated to the discussion of the book Lo sguardo di Giano. Saggi su Carl Schmitt by Prof. Carlo Galli, Il Mulino 2008.
• 16 Januar, 2009: Seminar of Political Philosophy, Florence, discussant of the lecture held by Prof. G. Duso (U. of Padova) on "Power and political obligation today".
• 20 October, 2009: Seminar of Political Philosophy, Florence, discussant of the lecture held by Prof. G. Sissa (University of California, Berkley) on "Passions and democracy".

12. Languages

Italian (mother tongue), English (fair), German (fair), French (basic), Spanish (basic).