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The University of Edinburgh

About

Federica Pedriali is Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and Research Affiliate at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her work intersects Biopolitics, Cognitive Narratology, Continental Philosophy, Decolonial Studies, Migration and Diaspora Studies, the Environmental Humanities, Performance Studies, and Political Theory. She is currently working on bio power, dissonant heritages, and the future of change, having worked, among other things, on the specialities of war, totalitarian Europe, and the digital humanities also through several ongoing public engagement projects. She is the author or editor of 24 volumes. Her recent books include: (ed), Roberto Esposito’s Italian Thought (in press); (co-ed), Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War (2020); (ed), Gadda: interpreti a confronto (2020). She will edit the Roberto Esposito Dictionary for Edinburgh University Press, and is working on Italy by Design: Materiality and Commodification from Leonardo the MAXXI (under consideration by Toronto University Press). She was recently elected to the Italian Ambassador’s Scientific Council, London, is Co-Chair of Europe and the World, a two-year project sponsored by UNA Futura, UNA Europa, Brussels, and was appointed to the UKRI Talent Panel College, UK Research and Innovation.

Projects

Ongoing Environmental Humanities Work

  • FG Pedriali. In progress. The Future of Change. Single-authored monograph project. Intended publisher: Minnesota University Press.
  • FG Pedriali. 2024. We the Moderns Live: Contesting Bruno Latour with Davide Tarizzo. Conference paper. SIP, Society for Italian Philosophy Annual International Conference, University of Turin, 6-8 June.
  • FG Pedriali. 2023. The Nature-Culture Nexus: Towards a New Index of Biocultural Diversity. An Unconference. Invited Panellist. Public debate, University of Glasgow, 5 December.
  • FG Pedriali. 2023. Worldmaking (Four Dramas: Things, Places, Rituals, Resets). Invited Lecture Series. Department of Cognitive, Psychological, Pedagogical and Cultural Studies, University of Messina, 7-27 November.
  • FG Pedriali. 2023. Bioclastic Living (Latour’s Final Lockdown). Invited Lecture, MET Metamorphoses Seminar: New Mimetic Studies, Universities of KU Leuven and Leiden, 26 May.
  • FG Pedriali. 2023. Catharsis in the Age of the Metaverse. Invited Talk. Love Machine Seminar Series, Spring 2023, Inspace, Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, 28 April.
  • FG Pedriali. 2023. On Making Worlds from Containers: After McLuhan’s Medium/Message/Massage. Invited conference paper. Virtual Narratives and the Empathy Machine, International Conference, Brown University, 17-18 April.
  • FG Pedriali. 2023. Literature in Today’s World: How Can It Guide Us in the Anthropocene. Invited Lecture. Encounters Across Sciences and Humanities, Lecture Series, Italian Cultural Institute and Italian Embassy, London, 1 March.
  • FG Pedriali. 2023. Col pianeta al muro: omaggio spaziale all’ultimo Bruno Latour. Invited Seminar. Guest Seminar Series Riconcettualizzare il territorio, Department of Human Geography, University of Bologna, 2 February.
  • FG Pedriali. 2022. Public Humanities for a Drowning World. Launcher Event Proposer and Coordinator. SGSAH Environmental Humanities Strand. Ond Day Workshop. Guest Speaker: César Dominguez (University of Santiago de Compostela). Respondent: Federica G Pedriali (University of Edinburgh). Scottish Graduate School Arts and Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 12 December.
  • FG Pedriali. 2002. COw – Cultural Emissions World: From Decolonial Thought to Roberto Esposito. Conference paper. SIP, Society for Italian Philosophy Annual International Conference, University of Turin, 9-11 June.
  • FG Pedriali. 2022. COe – Cultural Emissions Europe. From Ecocriticism and the Posthuman to Roberto Esposito. Published Output. In Shift, 1-2: 143-153.
  • FG Pedriali. 2022. Guantánamo, Cuba and the Arts. Invited Talk. Decolonising Minds and Methods Research Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh, School of Literatures Languages and Cultures, 1 June.
  • FG Pedriali. 2022. STAR Student Action for Refugees. Invited Panellist. Public debate Climate Change and Refugees, Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh, 25 April.
  • FG Pedriali. 2022. Mimetic Living and the Future of Change (Rocks Have No Backs). Conference paper. The Mimetic Turn, International Conference, Homo Mimeticus Project (ERC), University of KU Leuven, 20-22 April.
  • FG Pedriali. Decolonising Minds and Methods. Guest Speakers Series Organiser. Guest Speakers Series, DELC Research Seminar Series 2021-2022.
  • FG Pedriali. 2021. Performing Enclosures: Great Arenas Won’t Lie Fallow. Published output. In OBLIO, 42-43: 160-174. Weblink.
  • FG Pedriali. Epidemos: On the People. Guest Speakers Series Organiser. Guest Speakers Series, DELC Research Seminar Series 2020-2021.

Partnerships

Selected Networks in the Environmental Humanities at the University of Edinburgh

Environmental Humanities Strand and Fellowship

IASH, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/environmental-humanities

https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/environmental-humanities-visiting-research-fellowships

EEHN Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network

CAHSS, College of Arts, Humanities, Social Science

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmental-humanities/

https://earth.ed.ac.uk/research-act-impact/environmental-humanities-network/

Studying Environmental Humanities at Edinburgh (Masters level)

Taught Masters with a focus on environment, culture and society

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmental-humanities/study-environmental-humanities/

Relevant Academic Units at the University of Edinburgh
School of Geosciences
https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences

Research Institutes, School of Geosciences
https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/research/institutes-centres/institutes

Geography and the Lived Environment Institute
https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/research/institutes-centres/institutes/geography

Institute of Global Change
https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/research/institutes-centres/institutes/global-change

Other Initiatives in the Environmental Humanities and Sustainability arising through UNA Europa
Edinburgh is one of the 11 Universities making up the European Alliance UNA Europa
https://www.una-europa.eu/
https://www.ed.ac.uk/global/partnerships/networks-alliances/una-europa
https://www.ed.ac.uk/global/stories/university-future

Professor Pedriali represents her School and Edinburgh more widely on the latest flagship UNA Europa project, UNA Futura
https://www.una-europa.eu/about/una-futura
https://www.una-europa.eu/stories/una-futura-gets-the-commissions-green-light

As part of UNA Futura, she co-leads the project Europe and the World (EaW) with KU Leuven
https://www.una-europa.eu/focus-areas/europe-and-the-world

She is also part of the UNA Joint Doctoral Programme in Cultural Heritage
https://www.una-europa.eu/study/una-her-doc/people
Info about the Sustainability Strand in the Alliance can be found here:
https://www.una-europa.eu/focus-areas/sustainable-development
https://www.una-europa.eu/calendar/sustainable-climate-action-una-europa-universities
https://www.ed.ac.uk/global/stories/una-europa-second-student-congress

Edinburgh hosted the first UNA Sustainability Conference of the Alliance in 2022.

Contact

Federica G Pedriali, Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies (F.Pedriali@ed.ac.uk)
Edinburgh profile – https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/federica-pedriali