CURRICULUM VITAE
Lorenzo ZamponiPlace of birth Castelfranco Veneto (TV)
Date of birth 25/3/1983
Nationality Italian
CURRENT POSITION
2015 → Post-doc Research Fellow in Political Science and Sociology
Scuola Normale Superiore – Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Florence (Italy) Project: Living with Hard Times: Citizens’ Resilience in Times of Crisis
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2015 Ph.D. in Political and Social Science European University Institute, Florence (Italy)
Thesis: Memory in Action: Mediatised Public Memory and the Symbolic Construction of Conflict in Student Movements
2012 Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences
WZB, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Humboldt University (Germany)
2010 Master of Research in Political and Social Sciences European University Institute, Florence (Italy)
2008 M.Sc. in Communication - Laurea specialistica in Comunicazione delle organizzazioni complesse (110/110 cum laude)
Università degli studi di Padova (Italy)
Thesis: The circuits of memory: press, TV and the narrative of foibe 1946-2007 2005 Degree in Communication - Laurea triennale in Scienze della Comunicazione
(110/110 cum laude)
Università degli studi di Padova (Italy)
Thesis: Communicating class identity: the trade union press in Treviso 1952-1960
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
2014 - 2015 Research assistant in the LIVEWHAT project European University Institute, Florence (Italy)
Project: Living with Hard Times: Citizens’ Resilience in Times of Crisis 2015 Academic assistant - organiser
European University Institute, Florence (Italy)
2014 Academic assistant
Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (Humboldt University) Project: cooperation in applications for international grants
2014 Project leader in the “National report on students” (“Rapporto Nazionale sui soggetti in formazione”)
National Youth Forum (“Forum Nazionale dei Giovani”), c/o Office of the Prime Minister, Department of Youth.
Project: national survey on the condition of school and university students 2013 Academic assistant - organiser
European University Institute, Florence (Italy)
Project: ECPR Summer School on Methods for the Study of Participation and Mobilisation 2013 Visiting Researcher
Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (Humboldt University)
TEACHING
2013 -2015 Lecturer in Italian Politics
Elon University, North Carolina (USA), c/o Accademia Europea, Florence (Italy)
2012 – 2014 Guest lecturer in graduate seminars
Lectures:
28/2/2014 "Europe from below: social movements and public opinion”
in D. Lombardo’s seminar Italy, Europe and the European Union: The Making of EU Sarah Lawrence College, Florence (Italy)
7/3/2013 “Reactions in the protest arena II”
in H. Kriesi's seminar The Political Consequences of the Great Depression.
European University Institute, Florence (Italy)
29/10/2012 “Narratives and Social Movements”
in D. della Porta's seminar Changing Democracies: Social Movements and Beyond. European University Institute, Florence (Italy)
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Topics Social movements, Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, Memory Studies, Media Analysis.
Objects of research Anti-austerity mobilisation, student movements, social resilience, Italian politics, Spanish politics.
Methods Qualitative content analysis, qualitative interviews, political claim analysis, protest event analysis, discourse analysis, statistical analysis.
Organisational skills Experience as project leader, in research teams and in organising conferences, workshops and summer schools.
Software Office software (MS Word, Power Point, Excel, Access, OpenOffice, Libre Office), statistical research software (STATA), publishing software (QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign), graphic software (GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, InkScape), web publishing software (Wordpress, Joomla, etc.), web programming languages (HTML, PHP), Linux.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed articles
Bosi, L. and Zamponi, L. (2015) Direct Social Actions and Economic Crises: The relationship between forms of action and socio-economic context in Italy. Partecipazione e Conflitto 8(2), pp.367-391.
della Porta, D. and Zamponi, L. (2013) Protest and policing on October 15th, global day of action: the Italian case. Policing and Society 23(1), pp.65-80.
Zamponi, L. (2012) "Why don't Italians occupy?" Hypotheses on a failed mobilisation. Social Movement Studies 11(3-4), pp.416-426.
Essays in books
Zamponi, L. (f2015) Remembering Violence: Four Cases of Contentious Memory in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In: Bosi, L., Ó Dochartaigh, N., Pisioiu, D. (eds.) Political Violence in Context. Colchester: ECPR Press, pp.89-114.
Zamponi, L. and Vogiatzoglou, M. (2015) Organising workers’ counter-power in Italy and Greece. In: Buxton, N. and Bélanger Dumontier, M. (eds.) State of Power 2015. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute, pp.81-90.
Zamponi, L. and Daphi, P. (2014) Breaks and continuities in and between cycles of protest. Memories and legacies of the Global Justice Movement in the context of anti-austerity mobilisations. In: della Porta, D. and Mattoni, A. (eds.) Spreading Protest. Social Movements in Times of Crisis. Colchester: ECPR Press, pp.193-225
Zamponi, L. (2011) La rivolta della conoscenza: il movimento studentesco. In Maida, B. (ed.) Senti che bel rumore. Aaccademia Press, Torino, pp.153-168.
Zamponi, L. (2006) Comunicare l'identità di classe. La stampa sindacale a Treviso 1952-1960. In Ceschin, D. (ed.) Dai campi alle officine. Storie e lotte del sindacato nel Trevigiano. ISTRESCO, Treviso.
Voices in encyclopaedias
Milan, S. and Zamponi, L. (2014) Demonstrations, Organizing. In: Harkey, K. and Golson, J.G. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics (vol.4). Sage, Thousand Oaks, pp. 370-373.
Zamponi, L. (2013) Collective memory and Social Movements. In: Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B. (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Wiley-Blackwell, London, pp.225-229.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Organisation
(2015, with P. Daphi) Before and after Taking the Streets: Social Movement Continuity and Social Movement Outcomes, panel in the 12th ESA General Conference, Prague.
(2014, with L. Bosi) Political Violence in Times of Crisis, panel in the ECPR general conference, Glasgow. (2014, with P. Daphi) Social Movement and Memories, panel in the ECPR general conference, Glasgow.
(2014, with. J. Fernández and M. Portos) Contentious Politics in Times of Crisis, section in the ECPR Graduate Student Conference, Innsbrück.
(2013, with J. Fernández) A Global Dissenting Youth? Student movements and youth activism in the austerity and anti-corporate mobilisations: relevance, role, strategies and effects, panel in the 11th ESA General Conference, Turin.
(2012, with M. Vogiatzoglou) Linking collective identity and agency: Social movements, organizations and strategic choices, panel in the 4th ECPR Graduate Conference, Bremen.
Presentation (selected list)
(2015, with L. Bosi) Which crisis, which protest, which politics? The public discourse on the crisis and political outcomes in Southern Europe, presented at the 12th ESA General Conference, Prague.
(2015, with P. Daphi) “We've been occupying for 10 years”. Repertoire (dis)continuity and activists' memories from the Global Justice Movement to anti-austerity mobilisations in Italy and Germany, presented at the 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, Paris.
(2015) Imagined continuities and embedded memories: legacies of the past and strategic choices in the Italian and Spanish student movements, presented at the ESA Research Network on Social Movements Conference, Madrid.
(2014, with L. Bosi) Direct Social Action in Italy Across Time, presented at the ESA Research Network on Political Sociology Conference, Copenhagen.
(2014) Gramsci a Tahrir, tra spontaneismo e la teoria dei movimenti sociali, presented at the conference “Antonio Gramsci classico del Novecento e le nostre letture del presente”, Università di Bari.
(2013) “Like it's always been done”: Memory, tradition and habitus in the strategic choice of repertoires of contention in the Italian and Spanish student movements, presented at the SISP conference, Florence.
(2013) Remembering (beyond) Violence: Contentious Memories of the Student Movement of the 60s and 70s in the Italian Public Sphere, presented at the ECPR General Conference, Bourdeaux.
(2013) Students against the crisis: antecedents of the anti-austerity mobilisations in the Italian schools and universities, presented at the 11th ESA General Conference, Turin.
(2013) Memoria, medios y conflicto. El papel de la representación del pasado en los movimientos estudiantiles de Italia y España, presented at the XI FES (Federación Española de Sociologia) conference, Madrid.
(2013) Pre-occupied. Italian anti-austerity protests and the failed diffusion of the indignados framework, presented at the 20th International Conference of Europeanists, Amsterdam.
(2013, with P. Daphi) Breaks and continuities in and between cycles of protest. Memories and legacies of the global justice movement in the context of anti-austerity mobilisations, presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Mainz. (2012) Memorias conflictivas. Representaciones publicas de los movimentos estudiantiles de los años 60 y 70 en los medios de Italia y España, presented in a seminar organised by the Centre d'Estudis sobre els Moviments Socials (CEMS), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
(2012, with M. Vogiatzoglou) Labour as a movement issue in the precarity era: multiples dimension of precarity as a contentious resource in Italy and Greece, presented at the 26th SISP (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica) conference, Rome.
(2012) Mediatised Public Memory and the Symbolic Construction of Conflict in the Student Movement: Italy and the «long '68», presented at the 19th International Conference of Europeanists, Boston.
(2012) Precarious Present, Uncertain Future: Multiple Dimensions of Precarity as a Symbolic Tool and Resource in the Italian University Mobilization, presented at the conference "From Social to Political. New Forms of Mobilization and Democratization", Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao.
(2011) Narrative of insurrection and conceptualizations of rage. Accounts of the riots of December 14th in the self produced media of the Italian student movement, presented at the 6th ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) General Conference, Reykjavik.
(2011) The walls of the political city: Mediatised Public Memory and the Symbolic Construction of Conflict in the Italian Student Movement, presented at the IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) conference, Istanbul.
(2009, with S. Milan) L'Onda calling: subversion and self-production of media discourses by the 2008 Italian student movement, presented at the 23rd SISP (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica) conference, Rome.
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
Referee for: Social Movement Studies, Memory Studies, Interface, Polis
Member of: Research Network 25 (Social Movements) of the European Sociological Association
Standing group on social movements and political participation of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP)
Standing group on participation and mobilisation of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
Research network on social movements of the Council for European Studies (CES).
