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Dr. Alessandro Testa

Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Vienna
Participates in 2 items

Alessandro Testa (Isernia 1983) is a Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna.
He has a background in Classics (Liceo Classico), History (Bachelor) and Religious Studies (Master) and has studied at several Italian and French Universities (Universities of Florence, Rome “Sapienza”, and Messina; École Pratique des Hautes Études and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Messina.
In 2012, he was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Tallinn, Estonia, where he taught a course in Historical Anthropology, and in 2014 he was for a short period Visiting Scholar al Max Planck Institute di Halle, Germany. Between 2013 and 2015, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, where he also taught Anthropology of Religion and Anthropology of Cultural Heritage.
Alessandro Testa has so far published three books: Miti antichi e moderne mitologie(Rome 2010), Il carnevale dell’uomo-animale (Naples 2014), and Introduzione alla religiosità dei Sanniti (Isernia 2016). He is also the author of a conspicuous number of articles, chapters in volumes, and reviews. He has furthermore presented the outcomes of his research through lectures and oral contributions at universities and for conferences in numerous countries.
His main ethnographic fieldworks have been undertaken in Central Italy (2010-2011) and in the Czech Republic (2013-2014) and he is about to start a new one in Catalonia (2016-2017).

Alessandro Testa (1983) est Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Research Fellow auprès du département d’ethnologie de l’Europe à l’Université de Vienne.
Il a étudié à Isernia (Lycée Classique), à Florence (Université de Florence), à Rome (Université « La Sapienza »), à Paris (École Pratique des Hautes Études et École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) et à Messine (Université de Messine). Il a obtenu une Licence en Histoire (2007), un Master en Histoire des Religions (2009) et un Doctorat en Anthropologie (2013).
Ses travaux de recherche portent sur différents domaines tels que les religions du monde ancien, la méthodologie des sciences historiques et anthropologiques, l’anthropologie historique médiévale et moderne, l’anthropologie comparative des cultures populaires européennes, l’anthropologie des religions, l’anthropologie du patrimoine, l’anthropologie des rituels publiques et des fêtes.
Tout en continuant de s’occuper de problématiques historiques, à présent sa recherche ethnographique porte principalement sur la mémoire sociale et sur la construction des identités en Europe, et sur les phénomènes de reconfiguration, revitalisation et patrimonialisation du folklore – notamment dans l’Europe du sud et dans les pays postsocialistes. Jusqu’à maintenant, il a entrepris des enquêtes de terrain en Italie centrale (2010-2011) et en République Tchèque (2013-2014). Sa prochaine enquête ethnographique aura lieu en Catalogne (2016-2017).
Il a été Visiting Lecturer à l’Université de Tallinn en 2012. En 2014, il a passé une courte période de recherche comme Visiting Scholar auprès du Max Planck Institut for Social Anthropology de Halle/Saale. Entre 2013 et 2015, il a été chercheur postdoctoral à l’Université de Pardubice, en République Tchèque, tandis que maintenant il travaille à l’Université de Vienne.
Une liste de ses publications – qui comptent trois livres et plusieurs dizaines d’autres écrits – est consultable via le lien suivant.

Sessions in which Dr. Alessandro Testa participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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11:00
11:00

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00

Sessions in which Dr. Alessandro Testa attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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11:30
11:30
Mr. Craig Bennett Jr.
Participant
Bennett Preservation Eng...
Founder and President
Martine Lizotte
Moderator
École internationale d’h...
Directrice
Pierre Mathieu
Participant
Explorateur Voyages
Consultant, guide accomp...
France Lessard
Participant
Stratégiste en tourisme
David Mendel
Participant
Mendel Tours
17:00
17:00
  • Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
  • Signup required
  • Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
  • 17:00 - 19:30  | 2 hours 30 minutes
  • Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
  • Cocktail
    Festive Event

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00
Lucie Morisset
Moderator
Canada Research Chair in...
Event manager
11:00
11:00
  • Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
  • UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320
  • 11:00 - 17:00  | 6 hours
  • Since the beginning of the 19th century religious buildings and artefacts of the West have been involved in a continuous process of musealization. ...
  • Regular session
    Changes in Heritage (New Manifestations)Notions of HeritageReligious Heritage
    Changes in heritageNew manifestations of heritageNotions of heritage
18:30
18:30
  • Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
  • Signup required
  • UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
  • 18:30 - 20:00  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
  • Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
    Public event
    Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée
Prof. Michael Herzfeld
Participant
Harvard University
Ernest E. Monrad Profess...
Prof. Laurajane Smith
Moderator
Australian National Univ...
Professor and Head of th...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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14:00
14:00
Prof. James Count Early
Participant
Smithsonian Center for F...
Director, Cultural Herit...
Prof. Michelle L. Stefano
Moderator
University of Maryland, ...
Visiting Assistant Profe...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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15:30
15:30
Prof. Xavier Greffe
Participant
University paris I
Professeur de sciences é...
Luc-Normand Tellier
Moderator
UQAM
Professeur émérite
18:00
18:00
  • Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
  • Signup required
  • Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
  • 18:00 - 19:00  | 1 hour
  • To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
  • Cocktail
    Festive Event

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00
13:30
13:30
19:00
19:00
  • Pawâ
  • La Scena - La Scena (intérieur)
  • 19:00 - 23:00  | 4 hours
  • The closing dinner of the conference, called “Pawâ” according to a French-Canadian tradition borrowed from the Native American lexicon, will be an ...
  • Repas
    Festive Event