Isabella Damiani's profile

Affiliation: University of Trieste
Full title: Phd Candidate
Address: 91, rue de la Tombe Issoire, 75014, Paris, France
Tel.: 0033 - 66 - 7161023
E-mail: isabella.damiani@phd.units.it

 

Main scientific activities

• Fields of research: Central Asia area (Geopolitics, Political Geography, Geography of borders). 
• PhD Candidate in Transborder Policies for the daily life (University of Trieste) with the dissertation "Geopolitics of a transborder region: the Cultural Regionalism in the Ferghana Valley".
• Honorary Fellowship in Political Geography (University of Roma "Tor Vergata").
• Member of AGeI (Associazione Geografi Italiani), ASIAC (Associazione per lo Studio in Italia dell'Asia Centrale e del Caucaso) and Action Member of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) for the Action IS0803 "Remarking Eastern Borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe's Eastern Peripheries.

Books and other main pubblications

• Central Asia, Turkestan, Turan: many words for a single land" in COST official site http://www.eastbordnet.org/      (next exit).
• Identità, confini e nascita di nazioni: i territori dell'Asia Centrale" in Quaderni di Geografia, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata "  (March 2010).
• Primavera 1989: il paradosso del multirazziale che rigetta il multiculturale" in Quaderni dell'ISIG, Gorizia. (June 2009).
• Identities and borders: the territories of Central Asia" in COST official site http://www.eastbordnet.org/ (May 2009).
• Le enclave della valle del Fergana" in Eurasia. Rivista di studi geopolitici. n.2/2008. (July 2008).

Projects

• Didactic activity in the course Political and Economic Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", 20 class hours (March 2010).
• Scholarship for research period at Institut Français de Géopolitique (IFG), University of Paris 8 Saint Denis - Vincenne (October 2009 - June 2010). 
• Lecture "Geografia socio-politica di una regione trasnfrontaliera: il Regionalismo culturale della valle del Fergana" III Convegno Nazionale dell'Associazione per lo Studio in Italia dell'Asia Centrale e del Caucaso (ASIAC), Trento, Italy, 10-12 December 2009.
• Lecture "Central Asia, Turkestan, Turan: many words for a single land" Work Shop 1 2009 COST, Action IS0803, Brno, Czech Republic 12-13 November 2009.
• Seminar "Géographie socio-politique d'une région transfrontalière: Le Regionalisme Culturel de la vallée di Ferghana" Institut Français des Etudes sur l'Asie Centrale (IFEAC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 17 August 2009.
• Scholarship for research period at Institut Français des Etudes sur l'Asie Centrale (IFEAC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan, June-August 2009.
• Lecture "Identities and borders: the territories of Central Asia" Work Group 2 2009 COST, Action IS0803, Rome, Italy, 27-28 April 2009.
• Didactic Activity in the course Geography of the Tourism, Faculty of Arts, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", 20 class hours (April 2009).
• Didactic Activity in the course Political and Economic Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", 20 class hours (March 2009). 
• Didactic Activity in the course Spatial and territorial analysis and strategic cartography, Faculty of Arts, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", 8 class hours (November 2008).
• Conference "Una geografa in Uzbekistan: tra viaggio e ricerca" Rotary International District 2090, Ortona (CH), 7 May 2008.
• Didactic Activity in the course Geography of the Tourism, Faculty of Arts, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", 10 class hours (May 2008).
• Lecture "Geopolitics and Policies of development in Italy and European Union" School of Economy and Finance - Italian Ministry fo Economy and Finance, 50 class hours (January - April 2008).
• Scholarship for research period at Institut Français des Etudes sur l'Asie Centrale (IFEAC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan (January-February 2007).