CV Professor Nadia Breda Professor of Cultural Anthropology University of Firenze (Italy), Departement of Science of Education and Psychology Via Laura 48, CAP 50128 Firenze - Italy Personal Details Téléphone: +39 (0)438 470161 +39 3497135280 Email: nadia.breda@unifi.it HOME Address: Piazza San Marco 3/9 31020 San Vendemiano (TV) Italia Biographie Born in Conegliano (TV –Italy) the 31 may 1965 1993, Degree in Humanistics, with a dissertation in Ethnology (after a fieldwork in Mosnigo, TV, Italy) under the direction of Professor Glauco Sanga, at “Cà Foscari” University of Venice, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (Italie). 1992/1993 Erasmus Free Mover 1992/1993 to attend the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Toulouse, and to discuss the materials of my fieldwork with Professors D. Fabre, M. Llorca, C. Vassas, Ph Descola and other teachers of EHESS. I became a regular primary school teacher after passing a competitive examination in 1991 (Ministerial Decree No 25878, Ministry of Education, Universities and Research). PhD in Ethnoanthropologial Sciences at “La Sapienza” University of Rome, X Cycle, coordinated by Prof. Pietro M. Clemente, from 2.11.1995 to 31.10.1998. Summer School in Social Anthropology held at the Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, under the direction of Professor Cristina Papa (Erasmus ICP-96G-3010/14, 1 April - 30 June 1996). I got my PhD in Ethnoanthropological Sciences on 25.6.1999, with a dissertation on Anthropology of Nature, under the direction of Professor Maria Minicuci. 2001 I won a competive examination in the scientific-disciplinary sector M-DEA/01, in the Faculty of Education at the University of Florence (Decree of the Rector, No 377 year 2001, Florence, 27 April 2001, confirmation on Decree No 260, Ref. No 26458, year 2006, the Rector, Florence 19.5.2006 2011 Professeur of Cultural Anthropology, University of Florence (Italie) Research Interests Thèmes: anthropology of the nature, éthnosciences and cognitives sciences, construction of the biodiversity, anthropology of the water, indigenous and traditional knowkedges, Anthropology of the Thirds landscape, conflicts about the environement, sprawls cities, cultural-social hystory of Veneto Region (North of Italy), mémories and biographies into political écology, road biographies, environmentalisms, Ethnograpy of the trees. Fieldworks: North of Italy (Gazzo et Ostiglia between Lombardie et Vénétie –MN e VR-, Trentino, Caoria –TN-, Vallée of Vanoi -TN-, Vallée of Brenta –TV-, Piave river, Trévise, Frioul) communities : gatherers, fisherman, paysants, montagnards, farmers. Current Research Anthropology of Anthroposophy: From Rudolf Steiner’s conferences to an Anthropology of contemporary anthroposophy and anthroposofists : the network of waldorf schools, omeodinamic farmer, distribution of ecological commodities, anthroposophical medicine. Anthropology of écological mouvements: languages, , habits, pratics. Ecological marxism Research and fieldworks subsidized From November 1997 to December 1999 I collaborated with the Regional Park of Paneveggio and Pale di S. Martino (TN), for the planning of the “Etnographic path – Ecomuseum of Vanoi”, with ethnographic studies (in collaboration with Mrs Daniela Perco, Director of the Ethnographic Museo of the Belluno Province, and the anthropologist B. De Luca) and the production of the texts for the museographic representations of the Ecomuseum. The material (interviews – tapes, transcriptions and translations – and research reports) is deposited at the Park agency and used for the ecomuseum representations of the Agency. I received a second appointment by the Regional park of Paneveggio and Pale di San Martino (TN) from November 1999 to December 2001, for an ethnobotanic survey and I was enttrusted with its direction. first appointment for a research (October 1999 – November 2000) on local biodiversity given by the National Park of the Belluno Dolomites (BL), for the project “Anthropization of a territory: cultivated biodiversity”, in collaboration with the Ethnographic Museum of the Belluno Province. The project is financed by the European Community and aims at detecting vegetable species of particular interest for the individuation and conservation of cultivated biodiversity in the territory. An elaboration of a part of this research was published in the magazine “Erreffe. La Ricerca Folklorica” (Breda 2003) A second appointment by the Parco Nazionale delle Dolomiti Bellunesi concerned a comprehensive publication of the research results (Breda 2006). In 1998-1999 I carried out a research on the memories of work in the spinning mill at Valdobbiadene (TV). The research resulted in a collective publication (Breda, Cosmai, De Luca, Scroccaro 1999). In 2000 I directed the project “Historical-anthropological research of the cultures of the Piave River”, having won the selection by the “Cà Foscary” University of Venice (research projects of young researchers, MURST financing in1998). An elaboration of the research was published in the magazine “Erreffe. La Ricerca Folklorica” (Breda 2003a). From June 2002 to December 2003 I was entrusted with a research on water by the Ecomuseum of Vanoi (TN). The research implied fieldwork in the villages located in the water basin of the Vanoi torrent, to which the Ecomuseum is dedicated, with a survey of all the aspects and themes connected with water. The communication of the resuts was made through a database containing the basic “components” suitable for the constitution of the Ecomuseum archives, the “sources” used in a critical way for the data gathering, a few “visual syntheses” and “synthesis files” of the achievements. The material is deposited at the Ecomuseum of Vanoi. An elaboration of the research appeared in a collective publication (Breda 2004a). Research and scientific eesponsability scientifique Responsable of Assegno di Ricerca of Département in collaboration with the Fondation “Michelucci” of Florence and IRIS Prato (Prato, FI). scientifique Responsable of Assegno di Ricerca of Département in collaboration with the Association “Anthropologique” of Firenze. scientifique Direction of the Internationale Accord of Culturelle et Scientifique Collaboration between the University of Study of Firenze and the University “Abdelmalek Essaadi” of Tetouan (Marocco). Member of scientific communitee of Centre Internationale Civiltà dell'Acqua (Mogliano, TV, Italie). Member of scientific communitee of 2015 Congress of ANUAC, Anthropological National Association of Universitarian Cultural Anthropologists Awards In September 2003 I received a mention from the Jury of the Costantino Nigra Prize for my book “Palù. Inquieti paesaggi tra natura e cultura” (Comunità Montana Valle Sacra, Borgiallo TO, Ref. No. 1643 of 30 Sept. 2003). Teaching Responsability at Université of Firenze Environnnement Anthropology LAB.; Cultural Anthropology and childhood; Ethnography; Cultural anthropology. Others collaborations Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche, Centro Internazionale Civiltà dell'acqua, Orto Botanico del Museo di Scienze Naturali di Firenze, Dipartimento di Biologia dell'Università di Firenze, FAI, WWF, Associazione Naturalistica Sandonatese, Comitato Parco Cansiglio, Associazione ConFiniComuni di BL, Orto Botanico di Padova, AIQUAV Italia. Main publications 2000 I respiri della palude. Una ricerca di antropologia della natura, CISU Edizioni, Roma. 2001 Palù. Inquieti paesaggi tra natura e cultura, CIERRE edizioni, Verona. 2003 Culture nelle grave del Piave. Gli uomini dei vimini, delle acque e dei sassi, in G. Sanga (a cura), Etnoscienza, “ERREFFE. La ricerca folklorica”, n.47. 2005 Breda N. (a cura), Antropologia dell’acqua, “ERREFFE. La ricerca Folklorica”, n.51. http://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=nadia+breda&acc=off&wc=on&fc=off 2006 “I fagioli scritti e l’occhio della fava. Strategie di antropizzazione del territorio. Ricerche su fagiolo e fava nel territorio del Parco Nazionale delle Dolomiti Bellunesi”, in AA.VV., Biodiversità coltivata nel Parco Nazionale Dolomiti Bellunesi. Indagini agronomiche ed etnobotaniche sulle varietà dell’agricoltura tradizionale, Parco Nazionale Dolomiti Bellunesi, Studi e Ricerche 6, Feltre BL. http://www.evidenzia.it/pndb/ebook/Biodiversita/Default.html 2009, “Terzo Veneto, Terzo paesaggio. Indagini antropologiche su ambiente e ambientalisti in Veneto”. RI-VISTA. RICERCHE PER LA PROGETTAZIONE DEL PAESAGGIO, vol. 12, pp. 38-44, http://www.unifi.it/ri-vista/12ri/12r_bredaabstract.html 2010 Bibo. Dalla palude ai cementi. Una storia esemplare, CISU, Roma 2011 F.Lai et N. Breda (a cura di), Antropologia del Terzo paesaggio, CISU, Roma 2011, « Viventi, anarchie, compensazioni. Antropologia dell'ambiente e Terzo paesaggio in Veneto e dintorni ». In: Lai F., Breda N. Antropologia del «Terzo paesaggio», pp. 31-51, CISU, Roma. 2012, “Periferia diffusa: perduzioni in Veneto”, in C. Papa (a cura) Letture di paesaggi, pp. 205-222, Milano, Guerini Associati ed. 2012, “La cattiva strada. Risorse contestate e disagio di uomini e ambiente in Veneto e dintorni”, in A. Rossi, L. D'Angelo, Antropologia, Risorse naturali e Conflitti Ambientali, pp. 155-180, Milano, Mimesis Edizioni. Nadia Breda Firenze 25 october 2013. PAGE 7 Prof. Nadia Breda Via Laura, 48 – 50121 Firenze tel: +39 055 2756101 | e-mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:nadia.breda@unifi.it" nadia.breda@unifi.it P.IVA | Cod. Fis. 01279680480