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GIACOMO PARRINELLO
CURRICULUM VITAE 21.07.2014
Louisiana State University, Department of Geography & Anthropology
234 Howe-Russell Bldg. Baton Rouge (LA) 70803 USA
(225) 578-6184
gparrinello@lsu.edu
giacomoparrinello.wordpress.com
EDUCATION
2011
Ph.D. (Dottorato di ricerca) in Historical, Geographical, and Juridical Sciences,
specialization in History, University of Siena, Italy.
Dissertation: Urbanization, Environment, and Society through Disasters: Messina
1908- Belice 1968.
2007
M.A. (Laurea magistrale) Summa cum Laude in History of Europe. University of
Bologna, Italy.
Thesis: Il tempo della rivoluzione Evento storico e rappresentazioni collettive in
Italia 1968-1977. [The time of revolution: historic event and collective
representations in Italy 1968-1977]
2004
B.A. (Laurea triennale) Summa cum Laude in Contemporary History. University
of Bologna, Italy.
Thesis: Il Memoriale di Aldo Moro: Una fonte per la storia dell'Italia
repubblicana.[The Memorial of Aldo Moro: A source for the history of
Republican Italy]
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Summer 2011 Intensive course of German language and culture. Goethe Institut, Berlin,
Germany.
Summer 2010 First Summer School of the European Society of Environmental History,
« Disasters, Events, Narratives and Temporalities in Environmental History ».
Port Royal des Champs, Yvelines, France.
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2009 et 2010 Doctoral exchange program under the supervision of Professor Michèle Dagenais.
Département d’Histoire, Université de Montréal, Québec. Fall sessions 2009 and
2010.
2005-2006
Erasmus Master Student at the Université Paris VII - Denis Diderot, U.F.R.
Géographie, Histoire et Sciences de la Société.
2003-2004
Stage at the Historical Institute Ferruccio Parri in Bologna, under the supervision
of Director Dr. Luca Alessandrini.
EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2013-
Research Fellow. Louisiana State University, Geography & Anthropology Baton
Rouge (LA) United States and Alpen-Adria Universität, Institute of Social
Ecology, Vienna, Austria.
Research project: River Basin and Water Circulation in the Transition to an
Urban-Industrial Society: the Po Drainage Basin, 1860-2000.
2012-2013
Research Fellow. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LudwigMaximilians-Universität and Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany.
Book manuscript: Earthquake Cities: Disaster and Urbanism in Modern Italy,
Messina 1908-Belice Valley 1968 (tentative title).
2013-
Italian Regional Representative of the European Society for Environmental
History.
2013-
Member of the Italian Association for Urban History AISU.
2010-
Member of the research team Orent “Osservatorio sui Rischi ed Eventi Naturali e
Tecnologici”, University of Siena and co-editor of the website www.orent.it.
2010
Inventory of records for the Italian Department of Civil Protection during and
intensive archival research session in the Department archives in Rome, Italy.
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND HONOURS
2013
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for Career Development (IOF), 36
months, European Commission, European Union.
2012
Carson Fellowship, 9 months, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and
Society, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany.
2008
Doctoral scholarship, 36 months, University of Siena, Italian Ministry of
University and Research– MIUR, Italy.
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2012
Travel Grant, E.V. and Nancy Melosi Travel Grant, American Society of
Environmental History 2012, Madison (WI), USA.
2011
Scholarship DAAD-Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, Goethe Institut,
Berlin, Germany.
2011
Travel grant and waiver of registration fees. ESEH-European Society of
Environmental History, 6th ESEH Conference, Turku, Finland.
2010
Bursary- waiver of registration fees. EAUH-European Association for Urban
History, 10th EAUH Conference, Gand, Belgique.
2009
Scholarship for international academic exchange, 4 months University of Siena
Siena, Italy. (Waiver of fees at Université de Montréal)
2005
Scholarship Erasmus, 9 months, European Union and University of Bologna.
PUBLICATIONS
Books and book chapters
2015
Earthquake Cities: Disaster and Urbanism in Modern Italy, Messina 1908-Belice
Valley 1968 (tentative title), New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, ESEH/RCC
series «The Environment in History: International Perspectives», p.306.
(Accepted, forthcoming)
2015
«Belice 1968: istituzioni, territorio, memorie» in Mariuccia Salvati and Loredana
Sciolla, eds. L’Italia e le sue regioni (1945-2011), Vol. 3 Pratiche, memoria e
varietà linguistica, section Luoghi e memorie, edited by Gabriella Gribaudi, Rome,
Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, p.45. (Accepted, forthcoming)
Articles in peer reviewed journals
2014
«After the Earthquake: Risk Perceptions and the Ambiguities of Nature in post1908 Messina, Italy», in «Risk culture and crisis communication», Kerstin Dressel,
ed. Special issue of International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management.
(Accepted, forthcoming)
2013
«The City-Territory: Large-Scale Planning and Development Policies in the
Aftermath of the 1968 Belice Earthquake (Sicily) », Planning Perspectives: An
international journal of history, planning, and the environment, 28, 4 (2013), 571593. [Planning Perspectives’ candidate for the 2014 AESOP-Association of
European Schools of Planning Best Published Article Prize.]
2012
«Post-Disaster Migrations and Returns: the 1908 Messina Earthquake and the
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2010
2008
1968 Belice Valley Earthquake (Sicily) », in «Environmental Change and
Migration in Historical Perspective», U. Luebken, ed., special issue of Global
Environment: Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences, 9 (2012), 2649.
«Chi gioca solo e chi no. Ricerca sociale e azione democratica in Sicilia, 19521968», Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea. Dossier: Luoghi e non luoghi
della Sicilia contemporanea: istituzioni, culture politiche e potere mafioso, 3, 2
(2010), 1-28.
http://www.studistorici.com/2010/07/30/parrinello_dossier_3/
«La sinistra rivoluzionaria italiana dopo il 1968: esperienze orizzonti e linguaggi»,
Storicamente:
laboratorio
di
storia,
4
(2008),
http://www.storicamente.org/05_studi_ricerche/parrinello.html
Published interviews, book reviews, and proceedings
2014
Review of S. Castonguay and M.Evenden (eds.), Urban Rivers: Remaking Rivers,
Cities, and Space in Europe and North America, Pittsburgh: PA, University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2012, in The AAG Review of Books, 2, 3 (2014) 94-96.
2012
Oral history interview: «Il terremoto del Belice: intervista a Lorenzo Barbera» in
«Terremoti: storia, memorie, narrazioni», G. Gribaudi, A.M. Zaccaria, eds.,
special issue of Memoria/memorie. Materiali di storia, 5 (2012) 171-200.
2012
Multiple books review «Disastri, territorio e politiche pubbliche», Il Mestiere di
Storico. Rivista della società italiana per lo studio della storia contemporanea,
IV/2 (2012), 66-69.
Review of John Dickie, Una catastrofe patriottica, 1908: Il terremoto di Messina.
Rome-Bari, Laterza, (2008) H-Net Reviews, (March 2012),
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33523
2012
2011
Review of Bruno Ziglioli, La mina vagante: il disastro di Seveso e la solidarietà
nazionale, Milano, Franco Angeli (2010), Storia e Futuro. Rivista di storia e
storiografia on line, 27 (2011),
http://www.storiaefuturo.com/it/numero_27/scaffale/4_sevesodisastro~1455.html
2010
«Industrial Urbanization as a Pattern of Development: Disaster Explanations and
Reconstruction Strategy in the Aftermath of the Belice Valley Earthquake, Sicily
1968», European Association of Urban Historians-EAUH 2010 Conference,
Ghent, Belgium (2010).
Review of Andrea Noto, Messina 1908: I disastri e la percezione del terrore
nell’evento terremoto, Maneria Sovelli, Rubettino (2008), Storia e Futuro. Rivista
2009
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di storia e storiografia on line, 21 (2009).
http://www.storiaefuturo.com/it/numero_21/scaffale/4_terremotomessina~1294.html
Scientific blog entries and digital projects
2013-now
Environmental History Newsletter: Bollettino di storia ambientale, diffused via
email to Italian members of the ESEH and Italian environmental historians.
www.osservatorioambiente.info
2014
Field Trip Virtual Tour: Dewatering Wetlands: A Multimedia Map of the Po
River Delta.
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=z7EdWoDIV7gI.kXdxjlITp-LI
2014
Public Research Diary on Facebook: The Po Valley: Humans and Water in the
Anthropocene.
https://www.facebook.com/HumansandWater?ref=hl
2013
Blog Entry: Making Tracks: Giacomo Parrinello, in Seeing the Woods, a blog
by the Rachel Carson Center.
http://seeingthewoods.org/2013/12/04/making-tracks-giacomo-parrinello/
2011
Blog Entry: Giappone, 11 marzo 2011: appunti dalla periferia di una catastrofe,
in Orent, Osservatorio Rischi e Eventi Naturali e Tecnologici.
http://www.orent.it/?p=837
2010
Blog Entry: Belice, 1968, in Orent, Osservatorio Rischi e Eventi Naturali e
Tecnologici.
http://www.orent.it/?cat=39
CONFERENCE PANELS AND PAPERS
2014 - 2nd World Congress of Environmental History-WCEH:
Organizer: River, Region, Watershed: Scales in the Environmental History of Water
Systems, Guimarães, Portugal, 8-12 July 2014.
Presenter: Scales and Narratives in the Environmental History of the Po River,
Guimarães, Portugal, 8-12 July 2014.
2014 - Annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History-ASEH:
Presenter: Water, Development, and Disaster in the Making of the Belice River Valley,
San Francisco, 14-16 March 2014.
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2013 - 6th Conference of the Italian Association for Urban History-AISU:
Presenter: Conoscere per governare: la produzione tecnico-scientifica sulla “natura
urbana” tra Otto e Novecento, Catania, Italy, 12-14 September 2013.
2013 - 7th conference of the European Society of Environmental History-ESEH:
Organizer: Governing Water Circulation: Watershed Knowledge and Management in
Historical Perspective, Munich, Germany, 20-24 August 2013.
Presenter: From the River to the Basin: Governing the Po River in the Twentieth Century,
Munich, Germany 20-24 August 2013.
2013 - Annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History-ASEH:
Presenter: Post-Disaster Displacements and Migrations: Case Studies from Twentieth
Century Southern Italy, Toronto, Canada, 3 – 6 April 2013.
2013 - Conference at the Rachel Carson Center, «Rivers, Cities, Historical Interactions»:
Presenter: Urban Sprawl and River Basin: a Methodological Exploration of the Po
Valley, Munich, Germany, 21-23 February 2013.
2012 - 4th International Disaster and Risk Conference-IDRC:
Presenter: From displacement to migrations, Davos, Switzerland, 26-30 August 2012.
2012 - Annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History-ASEH:
Speaker: Roundtable: Beyond the Book, Madison WI, USA, 28-31 March 2012.
2011 - 5th Conference of the Italian Association for Urban History-AISU:
Organizer: Città territori e società urbane di fronte ai disastri naturali del XX secolo,
Rome, Italy, 8-10 September 2011.
2011- 6th conference of the European Society of Environmental History-ESEH:
Organizer: Crisis on the Border: Disasters in Urban Coastal Areas, Turku, Finland, 26
June-1 July 2011.
Presenter: The Sea, the Land and the City: The Reconstruction of Messina after the
Earthquake of 1908, Turku, Finland, 26 June-1er July 2011.
2011 - Conference at the Rachel Carson Center « Environmental Change and Migration in
Historical Perspective »:
Presenter: Post-Disaster Migrations and Returns in Sicily: The 1908 Messina Earthquake
and the 1968 Belice Valley Earthquake, Munich, Germany, 3-6 August 2011.
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2010 - 10th Conference of the European Association of Urban History-EAUH:
Presenter: Industrial Urbanization as a Pattern of Development: Disaster Explanations
and Reconstruction Strategy in the Aftermath of the Belice Valley Earthquake, Sicily
1968, Ghent, Belgium, 1-4 September 2010.
INVITED LECTURES
2013
After the Earthquake: The Ambiguities of Nature and the Future of the Settlement in
post-1908 Messina, Italy. Louisiana State University, prof. Craig Colten seminar
“Urban Environment”, Baton Rouge, USA, October 2, 2013.
2013
Abbandoni, ricostruzioni, trasferimenti: le scelte insediative e il rischio sismico in
Italia da Messina al Belice, Conference of INSMLI-Istituti per la storia della
Resistenza e della società contemporanea «Storie di terremoti: incontri a un anno dal
sisma», Carpi, Italy, Avril 19, 2013.
2013
Natural Hazards and Disasters: The 1908 Messina Earthquake and the 1906 San
Francisco Earthquake, dr. Uwe Luebken hauptseminar “Nature and the City: Urban
Environmental History of the United States”, , LMU, Munich, Germany, February 2,
2013.
2012
Disaster Urbanism: Earthquakes and the Making of Modern Urban Italy, Rachel
Carson Center Lunchtime Colloquium, Munich, Germany, November 28, 2012.
2010
Repenser l’urbanisation à la suite d’une catastrophe naturelle : le cas de Messine, ,
prof. Michèle Dagenais course « Villes et Environnement », Université de Montréal,
Canada, November 10, 2010.
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LANGUAGES
Italian : Mother tongue.
Français : Proficient.
English : Proficient.
German : Intermediate.
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