Guests at the EHL 2016
Ilenia Iengo is a guest researcher in Political Ecology. She holds a Masters Degree in International Environmental Studies from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) with a thesis on the Urban Political Ecology of waste conflicts, toxic biographies and environmental injustice in Campania, Italy. She has been collaborating on the creation of the Italian Environmental Justice Atlas and works at the interface between academic research and activism. She has been part of the organising team of the International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE) held in Stockholm in March 2016 and the Stories of the Anthropocene Festival held in Stockholm in October 2016. During her stay she will be working on a paper on “The politicisation of ill bodies” upcoming on the peer-reviewed Journal of Political Ecology and a paper on “Guerrilla Narrative - a methodology for resistance” to be submitted to international peer-reviewed journals. Period: September to December |
Roberta Biasillo is a guest researcher in Environmental History. She holds a PhD in Modern European History and her doctoral thesis focuses on the interaction between Italian nation-building and modernization and forests. During her stay here she will be working on a project entitled “The 1882 shocking revelation – The forgotten disaster that disclosed the Italian environmental complexity”. Together with Marco Armiero she is also planning to co-author an article on environmental history and more specifically on the 1882 disaster flooding the North-Eastern Italy. Period: September to December |
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Salvatore Altiero is postdoc fellow from Rome who will spend 3 months at the Division on a grant from Italy. Salvatore has a PhD in law (he worked on environmental commons) and he is interested in working on environmental migrants and on commons. He is also a film maker (he just received a prize to realize a movie on oil extraction in Italy) and an environmental journalist. Period: June to August |