C U R R I C U L U M V I T

personal informations
MARIA CHIARA MIDURI, Ph. D. Corso Francia, 362 10146 Turin (Italy) tel : [+39] 340.0960069 Turin, 15th, December 1981

doctoral thesis
Title: Holding Hands, Bounded Tongues. The Ethnography of Everyday Life in the Making in Inter-Ethnic Turin (Italy). Advisors: Prof. F. Remotti (Cultural Anthropology), Prof. M. Tosco (Linguistics)

education
2011-2014 Ph.D. in Psychological, Anthropological and Educational Sciences (University of Turin Turin (Italy)) MA, Hons., Cultural Anthropology & African Linguistics (University of Turin Turin (Italy)) Thesis: Il "codice" che guarisce: un approccio antropolinguistico alla lessicograa medica nativa chiShona. Studio e analisi del Duramazwi reUrapi neUtano." Summa cum laude and special mention and recommendation for publication. 2004-2007 BA, Letters & Philosophy, Ethnology (University of Turin, Turin (Italy)) Thesis: "Chimurenga! A Historical-Ethnographic Fuzzy Approach to the Mwari Cult (Zimbabwe)." Languages Italian: mother tongue English : uent French : uent German : working knowledge Spanish: working knowledge Norwegian: reading knowledge Maltese: reading knowledge Sanskrit, Classical Tibetan, Pali: for study purposes only African Languages: chiShona, kiSwahili (limited knowledge, for study purposes only) Intercultural Communication, Computational Anthropology, Sociocultural analysis

2008-2010

Skills

research interests
Primary Theoretical and Linguistic Anthropology Cultural Grammar Multilingual and Multiculturalism Human Ethology & Linguistic Ecology

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Mathematical Anthropology Corporate Anthropology Social Network Analysis Urban Anthropology

academic awards
March 2011 First Class MA Graduate in Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Letters & Philosophy, Awarded by the Academic Senate, University of Turin Outstanding MA Thesis, Faculty of Letters & Philosophy, Awarded by the Dean of the Faculty, University of Turin

March 2011

organizational duties
June 2011 14th International Meeting of Afroasiatic Linguistics. University of Turin (16-18 June).

teaching experience
2013 Ph.D. seminar on the Ethnographers positioning and role on eld: Linguistic Fieldwork, Campus Luigi Einaudi, University of Turin. MA level lectures on Introductive paths in Linguistic Anthropology (Theory & Methods), MA course in African Linguistics (Chair: Prof. Mauro Tosco), Faculty of Letters & Philosophy, University of Turin. BA level lecture titled "Lingue che vivono: Unintroduzione allAntropologia linguistica". First and Second year course in Arabic Linguistics (Chair: Prof. Claudia Tresso), Faculty of Foreign Languages & Literatures, University of Turin. BA level lecture titled "Introduzione allAntropologia Linguistica", as part of the mandatory rst year course in Cutlural Anthropology (Chair: Prof. Adriano Favole), Faculty of Letters & Philosophy, University of Turin. Seminar on Ethnosemantics, PhD level course, Dept. Of Anthropology (Ex S.A.A.S.T.), University of Turin. Graduate Seminar on Benjamin Lee Whorfs Legacy in Linguistic Anthropology. Co-hosted with Prof. Mauro Tosco, Dept. Of Anthropology, University of Turin. Invited lecture on Sapir-Whorf Hypotesis and Linguistic relativity, MA course in African Linguistics, University of Turin. Invited seminar "Il contesto sociale della citta del futuro", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Chair: Prof. Enrico Todisco, Social Economics and Social Statistics.

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2006

scientific project collaborations

2006 V.E.M.A. Project, Biennale di Architettura di Venezia (http://vemacittapossibile.it), Polytechnic University of Milan, Faculty of Architecture & MASS Studio. I worked on the anthropological study of perception, usage, function, and communication of human space in a new town project called V.E.M.A. The

project has been presented and awarded at Biennale di Architettura di Venezia 2006.

conferences
November, 2013 Politiche Linguistiche per lo Sviluppo. Language Reach Europe - Confronto sui risultati della ricerca. Round table: "Quali politiche linguistiche per la scuola italiana, per le imprese italiane, per i nostri territori (citta e comunita locali), per lintegrazione?" Turin, Fondazione per la Scuola Compagnia di San Paolo. ANUAC Biannual Conference, University of Turin, 79 November 2013. Paper: "Processi di (ri-)socializzazione interculturale e intergenerazionale tra madri e gli ad Aurora (Torino)". The Fieldwork Playlist Conference, Goldsmith College, University of London London (UK). Paper: "Ludovico Einaudi: I Giorni. Everydaylife at the edge of Babelic Turin. Some notes from eldwork." "Antropologia della speranza. Dalla caritas Christi al "nuovo fare umanita" e ritorno nel quartiere Aurora di Torino." Il Sicomoro, Collegio San Giuseppe, Turin. invited conference by Prof. Emeritus Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Open Access Week at University of Turin, Dept. Of Library Systems. Paper: Researcher: A Day in the Life. . . Prassi della conoscenza nellera digitale tra accumulo e condivisione." Lands of Strangers? University of Padua, Dept. Of Sociology. Paper: "La barriera e la porta: dallidiograa alletnograa interculturale. Note a margine di una ricerca di campo ad Aurora (Torino)." Multilingualism: Language Power and Knowledge, University of Milan, Dept. Of Philosophy. Paper: "Tradurre le culture attraverso una cultura. Una riessione sullagency poietica linguistica-culturale in Antropologia". Centro Esperanto Torino, "LEsperanto e il mito della Comunicazione Interculturale", invited conference by Prof. Emeritus Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti.

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April, 2009

publications
2012 MIDURI, M.C., Il "disincanto del mondo". La scomparsa del Sacro nella prima eta moderna, GRIN Publ., Munich [ISBN 978-3-656-23906-2]. MIDURI, M.C., "Regole senza senso o senso regolato?". Rileggere la critica di Staal alle scienze sociali in una nuova prospettiva antropologica. GRIN Publ., Munich [ISBN 978-3-656-20520-3]. MIDURI, M.C., Leco di dio: Chimurenga! Un approccio storico-etnograco fuzzy al culto di Mwari (Zimbabwe), Edmonton, North Carolina, LULU Press. Please, nd a full and updated list of my publications and manuscripts at http://unito.academia.edu/MMiduri

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2008

reviews
2013 Alain Ricard, "La Sable de Babel. Traduction et Apartheid", Paris, in Language Problems & Language Planning, 37(1): 86-89. The full list of my published review is available on my Academia.edu prole: [http://unito.academia.edu/mmiduri]

education post lauream

2012-2013 2012 University of Michigan, Social Network Analysis Prof. Lada Adamic, Coursera Platform University of Michigan, Model Thinking Prof. Scott E. Page, Coursera Platform Diploma Specialization in Anthropology of European Migration & History of Migration, VIS Rome Diploma Specialization in Development & Cooperation Studies, VIS Rome

2009

2007

community service
20132013Peer Reviewer for the Journal of Mixed Method Research, SAGE Publications, University of Leeds, UK. Peer Reviewer for the Journal of Comparative Anthropology & Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania.

doctoral thesis
Articles in preparation Tuning Humanity One String at a Time: Learning discovery process and performance in a multicultural hamlet. The Guitar Lab in Porta Palazzo. [Based on my own ethnographic and voluntary experience as a guitar teacher for kids aged 12-14 in the after school program in Porta Palazzo historical hamlet]. Anthropological resilience at the crossroad of humanity. Communicative surviving policies in the Aurora hamlet of Turin (Italy) La solidarieta linguistica: tra sopravvivenza e competizione in contesti plurilingui. Il caso di Aurora (Torino). La percezione iterculturale e intraculturale. Dinamiche di solidarieta esogena ed endogena nelle 2G di Porta Palazzo (Torino). Promoting Activities and Community-based Ethnography: 2014 "Le speranze tinta crema di Babele. Storie di ordinaria umanita nel quartiere Aurora di Torino", LIndice dei Libri del Mese, forth., 2014. Comunicare insieme: Mani strette, lingue legate. Etnograa del fare umanita ad Aurora, una ricerca di dottorato che guarda oltre la diversita con gli occhi del simile. Borgo Doras Polyambulatory Christmas Newsletter. Manuscript. Co-authored with F. Gobbo, Towards a Quantitive Model for Language Policy Evaluation in Cultural Diversity Contexts. 14 pages.

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Some Methodological Notes on Mixed Method Research and Pluricultural Contexts, ms., November 2013. Notes & Queries dal campo. Aggiornamento e status della ricerca, Associazione di Volontariato socio-sanitario "Camminare Insieme", Via Cottolengo 247/b, Torino. December, 2012. Delivered at ASAI / Porta Palazzo in January, 2013. Un Dottorato interculturale. Note di campo e appunti di lavoro sul primo mese di eldwork - at Associazione di Volontariato socio-sanitario "Camminare Insieme", Via Cottolengo 24/b, Torino - 23rd October, 2012

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2012

April 9, 2014