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CURRICULUM VITAE

DR. ANNA BONCOMPAGNI

PERSONAL AND CONTACT DETAILS

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Born: 15 March 1973, Verona, Italy

Nationality: Italian

email: anna.boncompagni@gmail.com

website: https://unifi.academia.edu/AnnaBoncompagni

Affiliation: Department of Humanities, University of Florence, Italy

AOS: Wittgenstein, Pragmatism

AOC: Theoretical Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Social Epistemology,

Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Psychiatry

EDUCATION

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2014 (June) – PhD Filosofia e teoria delle scienze umane (Philosophy and Theory of the

Human Sciences), University of Roma Tre, Italy.

Thesis title: “Il pragmatismo nel tardo Wittgenstein” (“Pragmatism in the Later

Wittgenstein”).

Supervisor Prof. Rosa M. Calcaterra.

Examination committee: Prof. Luigi Perissinotto (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari), Prof.

Claude Gautier (ENS Lyon), Prof. Paolo Vinci (University of Rome La Sapienza).

2010 – Laurea specialistica (masters degree) Theoretical Philosophy, University of Florence,

110/110 e lode (full marks with honours).

Thesis title: “Il primato dello sguardo. Dire, parlare, mostrare nella filosofia di Wittgenstein”

(“The primacy of seeing. Saying, Talking and Showing in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy”).

Supervisor prof. Marino Rosso, co-supervisor prof. Roberta Lanfredini.

Special Mention at the National Philosophy Award “Viaggio a Siracusa”.

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2004 – Perfezionamento (Specialization School) “Scienza e filosofia. Temi di epistemologia

generale e applicata” (“Science and Philosophy. Themes in General and Applied

Epistemology”), University of Florence.

1998 – Master “Communication and Social Marketing”, Istituto superiore di comunicazione

(ISC), Milan.

1998 – Laurea quinquennale (five years degree) Communication Sciences, University of

Siena, 110/110 e lode (full marks with honours).

Thesis title: “L’economia non profit. Un’interpretazione alla luce della teoria del dono”

(“Non-profit Economy. An Interpretation Based on Gift Theory”).

Supervisor prof. Maurizio Franzini, co-supervisor prof. Piergiorgio Solinas.

Winner of the Fracassi Prize for innovative and interdisciplinary theses, University of Siena.

1991 – Secondary school leaving certificate, Liceo scientifico G. Fracastoro, Verona, 60/60

(full marks).

PUBLICATIONS

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Monographs

2016 – Wittgenstein and Pragmatism. On Certainty in the Light of Peirce and James. London:

Palgrave Macmillan (History of Analytic Philosophy Series).

2012 – Wittgenstein. Lo sguardo e il limite. Milan: Mimesis.

Edited works

Forthcoming, with Roberta Dreon – Special issue: “Immediacy and Experience. Between

Wittgenstein and Pragmatism” (provisional title), Pragmatism Today, Issue 2/2018.

2017 – Philosophical Inquiry, V (2): 57-148, Focus “Practicing William James”, featuring my

introduction and articles by Cheryl Misak, Paolo Tripodi, Harry Heft, Stéphane Madelrieux,

and Shannon Sullivan.

Articles in volumes and journals

Forthcoming – “William James and Wittgenstein”, in Klein, A. ed. The Oxford Handbook of

William James, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Forthcoming – “Wittgenstein on Meaning, Use and Linguistic Commitment”, in D.G. Stern,

ed. Wittgenstein in the 1930s: Between the Tractatus and the Investigations, Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

Forthcoming – “Common Sense, Philosophy, and Mental Disturbance: A Wittgensteinian

Outlook”, in J. Gonçalves, I.V. Hipólito and J. Pereira, eds. Schizophrenia and Common

Sense. Explaining the Relation between Madness and Social Values, London: Springer

Nature.

Forthcoming – “Wittgenstein and Pragmatism: a Neglected Remark in Manuscript 107”, in

Baghramian, M. and Marchetti, S., eds. Pragmatism and the European Traditions:

Encounters with Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology before the Great Divide, London:

Routledge.

2017 – “The ‘Middle’ Wittgenstein (and the ‘Later’ Ramsey) on the Pragmatist Conception of

Truth”, in Misak, C. and Price, H. eds. The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long

20th Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Proceedings of the British Academy.

2017 – “Religious Experience, Psychology, and Healing in a Pragmatist Perspective.

Introduction to the Focus ‘Practicing William James’”, Philosophical Inquiry, V (2): 57-62.

2016 – “‘I’ll Show you Something We Humans Do’. Facts of Life in Wittgenstein and

Peirce”. Paradigmi. Rivista di Filosofia, XXXIV (3): 51-65 (Special Issue “Habits, Rules and

Forms of Life. Between Wittgenstein and Pragmatism”).

2015 – “Parole che ‘ingranano’. Le radici pragmatiste di un concetto wittgensteiniano”, in

Oliverio, S., Santarelli, M. and Striano, M., eds. Nuovi usi per vecchi concetti. Contributi per

la filosofia e le scienze sociali, Milan: Mimesis.

2015 – “Il naturalismo esteso di Sidney Hook e Morton White”, in Calcaterra, R. M.,

Maddalena, G. and Marchetti, G. eds. Pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi

contemporanei, Rome: Carocci.

2015 – “Elucidating Forms of Life. The Evolution of a Philosophical Tool”, in Nordic

Wittgenstein Review, Special Issue on Wittgenstein and Forms of Life, edited by Danièle

Moyal-Sharrock, Sandra Laugier and Piergiorio Donatelli.

2015 – “From Wheels Turning Idly to Meaning as Use. Pragmatist Tendencies in the

‘Middle’ Wittgenstein”, in Realism, Relativism, Constructivism. Contributions of the 38th

International Wittgenstein Symposium (pre-proceedings), ed. by C. Kanzian, J. Mitterer, K.

Neges. Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society: Kirchberg am Wechsel.

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2014 – “‘Le mie proposizioni illustrano così’. Scrittura e Mistico in Wittgenstein”, in

Bazzani, F., Lanfredini, R. and Vitale, S. eds. Scrivere di Dio, Florence: Clinamen.

2014 – “On Trying to Say What ‘Goes without Saying’. Wittgenstein on Certainty and

Ineffability”, Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica – Journal of Theories and Research in

Education, IX (1): 51-68.

2013 – “Enactivism and the ‘Explanatory Trap’. A Wittgensteinian Perspective”, Methode -

Analytic Perspectives, II (2): 27-49.

2013 – “The ‘Pragmatic Maxim’ in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty”, in Mind, Language and

Action. Papers of the 36th International Wittgenstein Symposium (pre-proceedings), ed. by

Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Volker Munz and Annalisa Coliva. Kirchberg am Wechsel:

Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society.

2012 – “Streams and River-beds. James’ Stream of Thought in Wittgenstein’s Manuscripts

165 and 129”, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, IV (2): 36-53.

2012 – “‘The Mother-Tongue of Thought’. James and Wittgenstein on Common Sense”,

Cognitio. Revista de Filosofia (São Paulo, Brazil), XIII (1): 37-59.

2011 – “From the Ground to the Background. Forms of Life as ‘the Given’ in Wittgenstein”,

L&PS – Logic and Philosophy of Science, IX (1): 451-460.

Other papers

2017 – “Spontaneità”. Entry for the “Qualitative Lexicon” of the Research Unit

QuaOntoTech, University of Florence.

2015 – “Let Me Tell You a Story: Heroes and Events of Pragmatism. Interview with Hilary

Putnam”, co-authored with Michela Bella, European Journal of Pragmatism and American

Philosophy, VII (1): 230-238.

2011 – “La vita come sfondo. Alle radici di un dialogo possibile tra le culture”, Diogene

Magazine – Filosofare Oggi, Issue 22: 72-74.

2010 – “Le vite degli altri. Conoscenza e alterità in Wittgenstein”, available online,

https://www.academia.edu/521038/Le_vite_degli_altri._Conoscenza_e_alterit%C3%A0_in_

Wittgenstein

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Book Reviews

2014 – Review of Wittgenstein, l’estetica e le arti, by E. Caldarola, D. Quattrocchi and G.

Tomasi (eds.), Rome: Carocci, 2013, Aphex – Portale italiano di filosofia analitica, Issue

10/2014.

2012 – Review of Shifting Ground. Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and

Trustworthiness, by Naomi Scheman, Oxford University Press, 2011, Humana.Mente Journal

of Philosophical Studies, Issue 22/2012.

2011 - Review of New Perspectives on Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy, by Rosa M.

Calcaterra (ed.), Rodopi, 2011, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy,

III (2), 2011.

2011 – Review of Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy, by Eugen Fischer, Routledge

2010, Aphex – Portale italiano di filosofia analitica, Issue 4/2011.

2011 – Review of L’albero del Tractatus, by Luciano Bazzocchi, Mimesis, 2010;

Humana.Mente - Journal of Philosophical Studies, Issue 18/2011.

TALKS

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International Events

Forthcoming, 21-26 May 2018, Minas Gerais, Brazil, V Middle Wittgenstein Symposium.

Invited talk: “‘A Gap in his System’: The Middle Wittgenstein and Ramsey’s Pragmatist

Criticism of the Tractatus”.

Forthcoming (to be confirmed), 28-31 March 2018, San Diego, CA, Annual Meeting of the

APA Pacific Division: participation in the Author Meets Critics Session sponsored by the

Charles S. Peirce Society on the volume “Cambridge Pragmatism” by Cheryl Misak (OUP

2016). Paper title: “Wittgenstein’s Pragmatism? Some Notes on Cheryl Misak’s Reading”.

17-18 October 2017, University of Milan, international conference for the 10th anniversary of

Associazione Pragma, “The Pragmatist Attitude. Habits, Practices, and Gestures in a

Pluralistic Landscape”. Participation in the Round Table with the short paper: “The Topicality

of Pragmatism for Hinge Epistemology”.

9-10 September 2017, University of California Irvine, First “Hinge Epistemology

Conference”. Paper title: “Religious Beliefs as Hinges?”

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6-7 June 2017, New University of Lisbon, 6th Symposium of the International Ludwig

Wittgenstein Society (ILWG) on Wittgenstein and applied epistemology. Contributed paper:

“When World Pictures Collide. Hinges, Prejudice and Epistemic Injustice”.

5-7 April 2017, University of Parma, International Conference “The Pragmatist Turn and

Embodied Cognition”. Contributed paper: “Gesture as Embodied Normativity. A Pragmatist

Perspective”.

5-7 September 2016, University of Florence - Pistoia Campus, XII Conference of the Italian

Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA). Call for Papers Session, talk: “Hinge Epistemology

and Pragmatism”.

2 June 2016, University of Lancaster, UK, Work-in-Progress Day connected to the

International Conference “Does the philosophy of psychiatry need a metaphysics? ”. Call for

Papers Session, talk: “Doubting the Indubitable. Philosophy and the Loss of Common Sense”.

17-18 February 2016, University of Oslo, International Workshop “Reinventing Pragmatism”,

organized by Bjørn T. Ramberg and David Macarthur. Invited talk: “What’s the Use of

Usefulness? From Pragmatism to Success Semantics and Return”.

5-6 November 2015, New University of Lisbon, Schizophrenia and Common Sense

International Workshop.

Call for Papers Session, talk: “Common Sense, Philosophy and Mental Disturbance: a

Wittgensteinian Outlook”.

10 August 2015, Kirchberg am Wechsel (Austria), International Wittgenstein Symposium.

Call for Papers Session, talk: “From Wheels Turning Idly to Meaning as Use. Pragmatist

Tendencies in the ‘Middle’ Wittgenstein”.

14 May 2015, Rome, International Conference “New Uses for Old Concepts. Contributions to

Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences”. Invited paper: “Usefulness and the

‘Eingreifen’ of Words. The Pragmatist Roots of a Wittgensteinan Concept”.

21 January 2015, Madrid (Uned), International Workshop “Experience and Obedience.

Wittgenstein Revisited”. Invited talk: “‘Beyond all reasonable doubt’. Philosophy, Normality

and Mental Disturbance in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty”.

2 October 2014, London, British Academy, Dawes Hicks Symposium “The Practical Turn:

Pragmatism in Britain in the Long 20th Century”. Invited talk: “The ‘Middle’ Wittgenstein

(and the ‘Later’ Ramsey) on the Pragmatist Conception of Truth”.

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26-27 November 2013, New York University, New York: “Wittgenstein and Pragmatism. A

Survey of his Remarks from 1930 to 1948”. Two invited lectures given during prof. Cheryl

Misak’s graduate course on “Cambridge Pragmatism” (History of Philosophy).

12 August 2013, Kirchberg am Wechsel, International Wittgenstein Symposium. Call for

Papers Session, talk: “The ‘Pragmatic Maxim’ in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty”.

20-21 June 2013, University College Dublin, International Conference “Philosophical

Revolutions. Pragmatism, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (1895-1935)”. Call for

Papers Session, talk: “Wittgenstein and Pragmatism: A Neglected Remark in Manuscript 107

(1930)”.

3 to 5 October 2012, University of Macerata, Italy, International Conference “The

Communication of Certainty and Uncertainty”. Call for Papers Session, talk: “On Trying to

Say What ‘Goes without Saying’”.

14 to 17 September 2012, Reykjavik, Iceland, International Conference “In Wittgenstein’s

Footsteps”. Call for Papers Session, talk: “Elucidating Forms of Life”.

7 to 10 November 2011, São Paulo, Brazil, 13th International Meeting on Pragmatism. Call

for Papers Session, talk: “‘The Mother-tongue of Thought’. James and Wittgenstein on

Common Sense”.

15 to 17 December 2010, Bergamo, International Triennial Conference of the Italian Society

for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS). Call for Papers Session, talk: “Dal fondamento

allo sfondo. La forma di vita come 'il dato’ in Wittgenstein”.

Other Presentations and Lectures

2017 Introduction to the Conference “Immediatezza ed Esperienza. Tra Wittgenstein e il

pragmatismo”, University of Florence, 28-29 September 2017.

2017 “La parte II delle Ricerche Filosofiche di Wittgenstein in relazione a William James”,

University of Florence, 10 February 2017 (Seminar).

2017 “Evidenza imponderabile”, University of Florence, 20 January 2017 (II° Panel of the

Research Unit on Qualitative Ontology).

2016 “Il fascino discreto della naturalezza. Wittgenstein e la psicopatologia del senso

comune”, University of Roma Tre, 26 May 2016 (Seminario “Tonalità emotive e riflessione

filosofica”).

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2015 “‘Ti mostrerò una cosa che facciamo noi umani’. I fatti della vita in Wittgenstein e

Peirce”, University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice, 29 January 2015 (workshop “Abiti, regole e forme

di vita. Tra Wittgenstein e il pragmatismo”).

2014 “Immagini che intrappolano e immagini che liberano. Metafora e vedere aspettuale in

Wittgenstein”, University of Florence, 23 October 2014 (Permanent Seminar on Philosophical

Writing).

2013 “‘Le mie proposizioni illustrano così’. Scrittura e Mistico in Wittgenstein”, University

of Florence, 31 October 2013 (Permanent Seminar on Philosophical Writing).

2013 “Una specie di Weltanschauung tra i piedi. Il pragmatismo in Della Certezza”,

University of Roma Tre, 11 june 2013 (Wittgenstein Seminar).

2012 “Il riempimento e l’intenzione passiva in Husserl, Analysen zur Passiven Synthesis, §§

16-20” (prof. Mariannina Failla’s PhD seminar on Passive Synthesis).

2011 “Il concetto di tempo in David Hume” (prof. Mauro Dorato’s PhD lessons on

Philosophy of Time).

2011 “Hilary Putnam lettore di William James” (prof. Rosa Calcaterra MA lessons on

Theoretical Philosophy; report based on Calcaterra’s essay “Il James di Putnam”).

2011 “L’intersoggettività e la cultura in Husserl, Kartesianische Meditationen §§56-59” (prof.

Mariannina Failla’s PhD seminar on the Cartesian Meditations).

GRANTS AND PRIZES

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Sept. 2017 – University of California Irvine, “Hinge Epistemology Conference” (organized by

Annalisa Coliva and Duncan Pritchard): paper winner of a grant for early career philosophers,

with travel and accommodation expenses covered by UCI.

Feb. 2016 – University of Oslo, invitation to the international workshop “The Future of

Pragmatism”: travel and accommodation expenses covered by the University of Oslo.

Oct. 2014 – British Academy, London, invitation to the Dawes Hicks Symposium “The

Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long 20th Century”: travel expenses covered by

the British Academy.

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Nov. 2013 – New York University, New York, invited lectures on Wittgenstein and

Pragmatism: travel expenses covered by the New York University.

Dec. 2010 – MA Thesis in Theoretical Philosophy, “The Primacy of Seeing. Saying, Talking,

and Showing in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy”, Special Mention at the National Philosophy

Award “Viaggio a Siracusa”.

Feb. 2000 – 5-year Degree Thesis in Communication Sciences, “Non-profit Economy. An

Interpretation Based on Gift Theory”, winner of the Fracassi Prize for Innovative and

Interdisciplinary Theses, University of Siena. Amount: 5 million lire.

ACADEMIC AND EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

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From 2015 - today – cultore della materia (research & teaching assistant) in Theoretical

Philosophy (undergraduate and graduate courses), University of Florence.

From 2011 to 2014 (3 academic years) – cultore della materia (research & teaching assistant)

in Theoretical Philosophy (graduate) and in Philosophy of Knowledge (undergraduate),

University of Roma Tre.

Since 2016 – Member of the Advisory Board of the University of Iowa Tractatus Map

Project, directed by David G. Stern (http://tractatus.lib.uiowa.edu/).

Since 2016 – Participation in the activities of the Research Unit QuaOntoTech – Qualitative

Ontology Technology, University of Florence, coordinator prof. Roberta Lanfredini.

Since 2016 – Member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Cognitio – Revista de Filosofia”

(São Paulo, Brazil).

Since 2014 – Member of a research group on Wittgenstein and pragmatism, coordinated by

Luigi Perissinotto and Roberta Dreon (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari) and Rosa M.

Calcaterra (University of Roma Tre). By now, the group has organized three main

conferences and edited two journal special issues (a third issue is forthcoming).

From 2013 to 2014 – Member of the Interuniversity Research Center ‘Pragmatismo,

Costruzione dei Saperi e Formazione’ (Università di Roma Tre, Università degli Studi di

Milano, Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’, Università degli studi del Molise, Università degli

studi di Cagliari, Università degli studi di Perugia).

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Referee for the following journals and publishers (in parentheses are the years of requested

article reviews):

European Journal of Philosophy (2017)

European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy (2017, 2014)

Nordic Wittgenstein Review (2016, 2016)

Springer Nature (2016)

Cognitio – Revista de Filosofia (2016, 2016)

Diametros, Online Journal of Philosophy (2016)

Ermeneutica Letteraria (2015)

Aphex – Portale italiano di filosofia analitica (2013)

Organized events

28-29 September 2017, University of Florence – Conference “Immediatezza ed esperienza:

tra Wittgenstein e il pragmatismo” (“Immediacy and Experience: Between Wittgenstein and

Pragmatism”), with Luigi Perissinotto, Roberta Dreon, Roberta Lanfredini, Guido Baggio,

Andrea Pace Giannotta, Michela Bella.

30 May 2016, University of Florence – International Workshop “William James.

Philosophical Connections”, speakers Cheryl Misak and Paolo Tripodi, with Paolo Parrini

(chair), Roberto Gronda (discussant) and myself (discussant); co-organized with Prof. Roberta

Lanfredini and Dr. Silvano Zipoli Caiani.

2013, University of Roma Tre – Graduate Seminar “Il fiume e la roccia. Logica ed esperienza

nel pensiero di Ludwig Wittgenstein” (“The River and the Rock. Logic and Experience in

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Thought”), from 30 April to 18 June 2013 (co-organized with PhD

fellows Valerio Carbone and Stefano Oliva).

Courses and events attended (selection):

10-11 April 2017, University of Roma Tre, International Conference “Pragmatism between

Past and Present”.

6-8 June 2016, University of Siena, discussant at the “IX Summer School in Mind and

Language on ‘Form and Style in Wittgenstein’s Work’”.

30 May 2016, University of Florence, discussant at the Workshop “William James.

Philosophical Connections”, speakers Cheryl Misak and Paolo Tripodi.

22-24 January 2016, Brief Corse on Psychopathology and Clinical Practice, organized by the

European Psychiatric Association (EPA) Section on Philosophy and Psychiatry and the

Scuola di Psicoterapia e Fenomenologia Clinica, Florence, Italy.

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9 April 2015, University of Roma Tre, discussant at Cheryl Misak’s seminar on “The

Subterranean Influence of Pragmatism on the Vienna Circle”.

13-15 June 2013, University of Siena, discussant at the “VI Summer School in Mind and

Language on “The ‘Tree’ of the Tractatus: form and Development”.

19-21 September 2012, “The First European Pragmatism Conference”, University of Roma

Tre, Rome, Italy.

7-8 July 2012, Fifth British Wittgenstein Society Annual Conference: “Wittgenstein,

Enactivism and Animal Minds”, University of Hertfordshire, UK.

31 May - 1 June 2012 “Cambridge Pragmatism” workshop, Cambridge University, UK.

MEMBERSHIPS

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Since 2017 – Charles S. Peirce Society

Since 2016 – SIFA (Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy).

Since 2016 - ESAP (European Society of Analytic Philosophy).

Since 2016 – Research Unit “QuaOntoTech”, University of Florence.

Since 2015 – Nordic Wittgenstein Society.

Since 2014 – European Pragmatism Association.

Since 2011 – British Wittgenstein Society.

Since 2011 – Pragma cultural association, Rome.

Since 2010 – Epistemologica research group, University of Florence.

NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE

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From January 2014 – today – Civil Servant as expert functionary for communication activities

at the Consiglio regionale della Toscana (Tuscany Regional Council), Communication

Department.

From September 2000 to December 2010 – Civil Servant as journalist for the Consiglio

regionale della Toscana (Tuscany Regional Council), Press Office.

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From 1998 to 2000 – Freelance communication consultant for non-profit organizations,

including Banca Poopolare Etica, Associazione Mani Tese Firenze Onlus, Associazione

Progetto Arcobaleno Onlus, Cesiav, Cooperativa Progetto 5 Arezzo, and for the company

“Giuditta Blandini Stile Biologico”.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

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From 2002 to 2013 – Member of the Ordine nazionale dei Giornalisti, Albo Professionisti

(National Association of Journalists, Professional Journalists’ Register).

Last updated: 28 October 2017

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