CURRICULUM VITAE

Family Name: Salomoni

First name: Fabio

Nationality: Italian

Phone: +90 212 338.1756

E-mail: fsalomoni@ku.edu.tr, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

EDUCATION

June 2014 Summer School “Memory, Culture & Identity”, Masaryk University,

Brno

Since February 2013 PhD candidate, Sociology, Masaryk University ( Czech

Republic).

Dissertation project : ‘’Cultural Trauma, Public Memory and National Identity:

the Madımak Hotel Fire’. Advisor: Prof. Radim Marada

2004-2005:

“Special Student”, PhD program in Sociology, Middle East Technical

University, Ankara.

2003:

Degree thesis, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Sociology,

University of Milan. “Modernization, Educational System and Society. The

Turkish Case from Tanzimat to the 80s”

( Prof. R.Moscati- Prof. L. Leonini). Full Marks. Summa Cum Laude

2001-2002-2003:

In-service training courses for teacher of Italian as L2.

Italian Cultural Institute. Ankara.

2001 Turkish Courses, 1-5 levels, TÖMER, Ankara

1987-1992:

Student at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Sociology,

University of Milan.

1986:

Diploma di maturità (Secondary School Final Certificate). Liceo Classico “P.

Sarpi” (Classical studies: Ancient Greek, Latin Language and Literature),

Bergamo, Italy.

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

June 2005- Present

Lecturer, Italian language, Koç University, Istanbul

2003 – 2005

Lecturer, Italian language, Başkent University, Ankara

2001 –2005

Teacher, Italian language, Italian Cultural Institute, Ankara

1994 – 1999 Volunteer teacher, crash courses, Italian for foreign migrants, Milan-Como

1992-1993

Supporting teacher, Primary-Secondary School, Revere, Italy

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

2005-2008

Correspondent, OsservatorioBalcaniCaucaso, research and electronic media

center, Responsible for the Turkey’s section

www.ossservatoriobalcanicaucaso.org

Since 2004

Commentator/ Newscaster, several Italian/Swiss media on Turkish/Caucasian

topics

1998-2000 Feltrinelli Publishing House, Milano, Internet Website’s Editorial Staff Member.

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

Member of IPSA (International Political Sciences Association)

Member of SISP ( Società Italiana di Scienza Politica)

Affiliated to SPM (Koç University Social Policy Center)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

July 2013-July 2014 Field Research, Sivas

2013 Field research, Istanbul

2008-2009 Field research. Istanbul, North-Eastern Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan

2001-2002 Library Research, Field research, Ankara

1989-1991

-Member, research group, on “Culture and Organization models of Football

Young Fans in Lombardy”;

Department of Sociology, University of Milan.

-Member of above group which took part in the European multi-disciplinary

research on « Le football et ses publics », supervisor Prof. P. Lanfranchi, Institut

Universitaire Européen (IUE), Florence

-Collaboration with University of Zagreb (YU) on the same topics

-Co-Researcher “Non-Profit Civil Society Organizations in Milan”, supervisor

Prof. P.Maranini, University of Milan

-Co-Researcher on “The role of Trade Unions among the worker young

generations in Suburbian Milan”, Camera del Lavoro/ University of Milan

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2008 MiReKoç (Koç University Migration Research Center) “Just behind the border:

Armenian and Azerbaijani Migrants in Turkey

2013 Orient Institut-Max Weber Foundation, Istanbul

Reception of Indian culture(s); Yoga Practices and Neo-Hindu Religious Movements in

Turkey

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

2015 (forthcoming) Migrations, Borders, Identity. Azerbaijani and Armenian labour

migrants in Turkey,, Isis Press, Istanbul

2013 ( Co-edited with Bernardoni, Nocera, Mat, Ruggeri, Maestri) Gezi Park.

Coordinate di una rivolta, Roma, Alegre

ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS IN BOOKS

2015 (in press) Kars and Igdir. Identities, Memories and Memorials in the Turkish-

Armenian Borderland, Proceedings of the Conference, The Sealed Gate. Prospectss of

the Turkish-Armenian Border, Hrant Dink Foundation, Istanbul

2014 Gocmenlerin Italya’da Entegrasyonu (Migrants Integration in Italy), in Seker,

Sirkeci, Yucesahin (Edts,), Goc ve Uyum, London, Transnational Press,

2013 Gli attori di Gezi Park: una tassonomia in Ruggiero, F (ed) Occupy Gezi, Alegre

Edizioni, Napoli

2013 ‘Just behind the border: Armenian and Azerbaijani migrants in Turkey’, in

Karacay, A, Üstübici (edts), Migrants and Politics of Migration: Policies,

Practices and Trends in Turkey, ISISPress Istanbul

2013 “ Borders, migrants and refugees across the Turkish-Caucasian Space” in

Building Fortress Turkey at the Southeastern Borders of the EU? Özer Yeşim-

Baklacıoğlu, Nurcan (Edts), Mellen Press, New York-Lampeter

2012 “Italo Svevo:Italya’da bir MittleAvrupalı entellektuel” ( Italo Svevo: a

MittleEuropean Intellectual in Italy), Kitaplık, Istanbul

2012 “Liberta’ o controllo, ovvero della modernizzazione turca” (Freedom vs

Control: on Turkish Modernization) in Trinchese, V (ed) La Turchia d’Europa,

Mesogea, Messina

2012 “Göç veren ülkeden göç alan ülke’ye geçiş: Akdeniz modeli ve İtalya

örneği” ( Mediterranean Migration Model and the Italian Case) in Uluslararası

Göçü Yeniden Düşünmek: Yeni Yaklaşım ve Yönelimler Ihlamur, Gülfer- Şirin,

Aslı (Edts), Iletişim Yayınevi, Istanbul

2011 “ Neden bir İtalyan Tanpınar’ı okumalı ?” (Why an Italian should read

Tanpınar) in Handan Inci (Edt) Proceedings of the Istanbul Tanpınar Edebiyat

Festivali, ITEF/Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul

2010 “Just behind the border: Armenian and Azerbaijani migrants in Turkey”,

Research Report, MiReKoç, Koç University, 187 pages

2009 “ La donna turca: liberata ma non libera?” (Turkish woman: liberated but

not free?) in Paolini, G. (ed.) Donne e Fedi, University of Trieste Press, pag. 79-

106

2008 Introduction, Il libro di Dede Korkut, Aquilegia/Micron Edizioni, Milano,

pag. 13-26

2007 “Paradossi e dilemmi dell’identità nazionale turca” ( Paradoxes and

Dilemmas of Turkish National Identity) in Rampazi Maria Rita, Tota Anna Lisa

(eds) La memoria pubblica. Trauma culturale, nuovi confini, identità nazionali,

UTET, Torino, pag.127-148

2007 “La laicità turca” (Turkish Secularization) in Guida dei paesi dell’Europa

Centro-Orientale e Balcanica, CESPI/ Università di Bologna, Il Mulino,

Bologna, 2007, pag. 31-44

2006 “I giovani in Turchia ” (Youth in Turkey), In Guida dei paesi dell’Europa

centro/orientale e balcanica, CESPI/ Università di Bologna, Il Mulino, Bologna,

2006, pag. 73-86.

2005 “Balkan Migrations to Modern Turkey: Continuity and Change” in

L.Chiodi (ed.) The borders of the polity, Migrations and security across the EU

and the Balkans, Longo, Ravenna, 2005, 143-167.

2003

“ La Turchia di fronte all’Europa”(Turkey in front of EU) in: Guida

dei paesi dell’Europa centrale/orientale e balcanica. CESPI/ Università di

Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003, 35-41.

UNPUBLISHED WORKING PAPERS

2015 Sociology of Commemorations. Consensual/Multivocal/Fragmented

Commemorative Rituals and Devices

2015 Past, Memory and Social Movements Identity

2014 Individual, Collective and Cultural Trauma

2014 Collective Memory and Beyond

NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

2015 A.H. Tanpinar, bizzarro sismografo della identità turca, Roma, Lo

straniero,

2012 Lizbon: Bir Kayıp Kuşak, EXPRESS, Aralık

2011 “ Italyanca Aşk Başkadır” in Bize Her Yer Trabzon II “ Divane Aşık Gibi”,

Heyamola Yayınevi, Istanbul

2005-2008 128 On-line articles and interviews related to political, social and

cultural topics in Turkey and South Caucasus.

2007 “ Rūmī mistico poeta”, Popoli (Monthly Review), Milan

2006 “ La calda estate della Turchia”, Altraeconomia (Monthly Review), Milan

2006 “ Premio Nobel a Orhan Pamuk. La prima volta della Turchia”,

Liberazione (Daily Newspaper), Rome

2006 “ La Turchia e l’Europa”, L’Adige (Daily Newspaper), Trento

2003 “ Intervista con Orhan Pamuk”, PulpLibri (Monthly Literary Review),

Pavia

TRANSLATIONS

2015 (Work in Progress), Huzur, A.H.Tanpinar

2014 A.H. Tanpınar, Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü ( L’istituto per la regolazione

degli orologi), Einaudi Publishing House, Torino, Italy

2008 Editing and translation: Anonimous, Dede Korkut Kitabı ( Il libro di Dede

Korkut) Aquilegia-Micron Publishing Houses, Milan, (with the contribution of

the Turkish Ministry of Tourism and Culture, TEDA Project)

http://www.turchia.it/libriteda/teda.htm

The book has been presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 2009

2004

Editing and Translation: Metin And, Tükiye’de Italyan sahnesi/ Italyan

sahnesinde Türkiye ( Il teatro italiano in Turchia/ La Turchia nel teatro italiano).

Italian Cultural Institute, Ankara.

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:

October 2015 (paper accepted) Personal/ Public Memory and Cultural Trauma,

LIT CRI Conference, Istanbul

May 2015 Tanpinar Metronomo della modernità turca, Università di Napoli

(L’Orientale)

April 2015 Sociologia della Traduzione dal Turco all’Italiano, Istanbul, Istituto

Italiano di Cultura

February 2015 Working on Caucasian Migrants, Workshop on Migration,

Istanbul Marmara University

January 2015 Panel Chair “Re-thinkink Precariousness and Empowerment”,

International Workshop, Bogazici University

November 2014 Kars and Igdir: Ambivalent Memories and Identity in the

Turkish-Armenian Borderland, Hrant Dink Foundation, Ankara University

September 2014 “AKP-Alevis Relations: Contested Memories, Changing

Identities”, SISP ( Società Italiana di Scienza Politica), XXVIII Convegno,

Perugia (Italy)

July 2014 “ Performing a Religious Contestation Against the Justice and

Development Party in Turkey: The AntiCapitalist Muslims”, IPSA (International

Political Science Association), 23rd

World Conference, Montreal

January 2014 “ Gli attori collettivi di Gezi Park” , Round Table “Turchia:

Bilancio del 2013, scenari per il 2014” University of Rome “La Sapıenza”

January 2014” Gli attori di Gezi Park: una tassonomia” Round Table “ Gezi

park: Coordinate di una rivolta”, University of Naples “L’Orientale”

October 2013 “International Migration and New Actors on the Istanbul

Religious Scene: The Word of Life Church”

Workshop III New Religious Movements in Turkey, Orient Institut, Istanbul

December 2013 “Migrants Integration in Italy”

Conference “Migration and Integration” Ministry of Interior/IOM (International

Organization of Migration, Ankara

September 2013 ‘Glocalizing the Indıc Tradition, Building a Local Orient: Yoga

in Turkey’, 32.Deutscher Orientalistentag, University of Münster

September 2013 ‘Reception of Indic Traditions around “the Bridge between

East and West”: Yoga teaching in Turkey’, Annual Conference EASR

(European Association for Study of Religion), Hope University, Liverpool

May 2013 “Ville, Transformation Urbaine et Migrations Internationales: le cas

d’Istanbul”Workshop, Le quartier, le retour ou la fin? La fabrique du quartier a

Istanbul, IFEA (Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliens)

April 2013 “ Sai Baba Movement in Turkey” II Workshop on New Religious

Movements in Turkey, Orient İnstitut-Max Weber Foundation, Istanbul

April 2013 “What am I doing here?” Some Notes about Being a Migrant in a

‘New’ Migrant-Receiving Country” Conference, Perception of International

Migrants ın Turkey, Bilgi University, Istanbul

January 2013 “Basında Göce Bakış” (Migrants ın the Turkish Newspapers),

Conference, Türkiye’de Göçmen Algısı ve Alternatif Yaklaşımlar: "Medyada

Göçe Bakış", Bilgi University, Istanbul

January 2013 “Türkiye-Güney Kafkas sınırında sosyal hayat üzerinde sınırın

etkileri” (Consequences of Border on the Social Life in the Turkish-Caucasian

Border Region), Workshop “Sınır Düsünmek”, IFEA (Institut Français d’Etudes

Anatoliens), Istanbul

November 2012 Seminar “ Looking at India from 1960s Turkey: Cemil Meriç,

Cevad Ulunay, Hippies and Yogis” Workshop on New Religious Movements in

Turkey, Orient İnstitut-Max Weber Foundation, Istanbul

October 2012 Seminar: Life story of a”Mesopotamian” Yogi: Adnan Çabuk

Siddviho

Workshop on New Religious Movements in Turkey, Orient İnstitut-Max Weber

Foundation, Istanbul

Agust 2012 “ I have come to Kostantinopolis but I didn’t know it was in Turkey.

Geographical Imagination of Armenian Labor Migrants in Turkey”. IMISCOE,

9th Annual Conference, University of Amsterdam

July 2012 Scenery of a Migrant Neighborhood: Case of Kumkapi, Istanbul,

MiReKoç, International Summer School “Migrants and State: the Case of

Mediterranean Basin”, Koç University, Istanbul

May 2012 “ Mediterranean Area and the Italian Way of Switching from Migrant

Sending toMigrant Receiving country”, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on

Migration: the Case of Italy, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç

University, Istanbul

January 2012 “ Urban Transformation and Migration in Istanbul” Seminar for

students of the Master Program in Political Sciences, Universite Paris-La

Sorbonne, organızed by IOM Office, Istanbul

October 2011 “ Migrants Settlement Patterns in a Urban Context: the Case of

Kumkapı Neighborhod in Istanbul”, Global Migration and the right to the cities

of the future, Istanbul Roundtable, COMPAS (Centre on Migration, Policy and

Society, Oxford University), Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul

June 2011 “ Asylum and Migration at the Caucasian Border of Turkey”,

CEEISA ( Central and East European International Studies Association), 8th

Convention, Kadir Has University, Istanbul

June 2011 Panel Chair : Diverging state policies towards migration: Is

international migration a threat to state sovereignty? CEEISA ( Central and East

European International Studies Association), 8th Convention, Kadir Has

University, Istanbul

April 2011 “ Spazio geografico e identita’ nazionale turca” ( Geographical

Space and Turkish National Identity), Seminar Dove finisce l’Europa? Insegnare

la Turchia, insegnare in Turchia, Facolta’ di Scienze della Formazione,

University of Milan II/Bicocca

April 2011 “Il festival di Hacıbektaş e gli Aleviti turchi. Un fatto sociale totale“

( Hacibektaş Festival and Alevis: a Total Social Fact), Conference -Un’altra

Turchia. Islam, pluralismo e gli Aleviti-, Rome

December 2010 Seminar “ Migration and Citizenship in Southern Caucasus”,

Yıldız Teknik University, Center for Global Studies, Istanbul

November 2010 “Neden bir İtalyan Tanpınar’ı okumali?” (Why Should an

Italian Read Tanpınar?), Istanbul Tanpınar Edebiyat Festivali, Mimar Sinan

University, Istanbul

June 2010 Speech “Just behind the border: Armenian and Azerbaijani migrants

in Turkey”,

Meeting MiReKoç: Dissemination of the Findings from 2009 Projects, Koç

University, Istanbul

June 2010 Seminar “Migrants Armeniens et Azerbaidjanais depuis les annees

1990”

–IFEA (Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliens) - Istanbul

April 2010 Tükiye’de Uluslararası Göç. Koşullar-Deneymler (International

Migration in Turkey. Conditions-Experiences) with Barbara Pusch and Didem

Danış, Orient-Institut-Galatasaray University, Istanbul

September 2009 Speech“Is the Turkish State a Religiously Oriented Political

Actor?”University of Potsdam, ECPR (European Consortium for Political

Research) 5th General Conference. Potsdam, Germany

June 2009 Speech “Armenian and Azerbaijani migrants in Turkey. An

Overview”Meeting -Eurasia in a Shifting Global Context: Building

Interdisciplinary Bridges-Koç University, Istanbul

June 2008 Speech “ Del parodosso ovvero del velo e della modernità turca”

(The Paradox or the Headscarf and Turkish Modernity)

Seminar at the Meeting “Turchia: il velo e la questione repubblicana” Bruno

Kessler Stiftung/Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

May 2008 Speech “Mediterraneo ed identità turca” (Turkish Identity and

Mediterranean Sea). Meeting - Europa Adriatica: Rotte e percezioni-, University

of Pescara, Pescara, Italy

April 2007 Seminar “ Siam tutti gente del Mediterraneo. Il Mediterraneo

nell’identità nazionale turca.” Scuola Dottorale in Scienze Umanistiche,

University of Trieste, Italy

October 2006 “La laicità turca” (Turkish secularization). Meeting -Tra

armonie e diversità: il caso turco- Palmanova, Comune di Palmanova/

University of Trieste

March 2006 “Social Origins and Structural Transformations of Turkish

Educational System”, Conference: Italy-Turkey: Dialog on Educational systems,

METU, Ankara

October 2005 “L’insegnante di lingua come mediatore culturale” (Language

Teacher as Cultural Mediator), First Meeting of Italian Language Teachers in

Turkey, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul

May 2004 Speech “Yabancı göçmenlerle ilgili İtalyan toplumunun tepkisi üzerinde notlar”

(Some Notes on the Italian Society’s Reaction Towards Foreign Migrants),

Marmara University, Department of Sociology, Istanbul.

May 2004

Speech, “İtalyan sahnesinde ve tiyatrosunda Türkler” (The Turks in the Italian

Spectacles and Theater), Faculty of Literature, Geography and History,

University of Ankara.

November 2002

Speech “İtalyan eğitim sistemi. Türk eğitim sistemi ile tarihsel bir

karşılaştırma” (Italian Educational System: A Historical Comparison with the

Turkish One), Faculty of Educational Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara.

May 2002

Seminar “1990’larda Yeni İtalyan Sağı“ (New Political Right in 1990s Italy),

Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Ankara.

DOCUMENTARIES

2010 Videodocumentary (with Davide Sighele) “Il Leone e la Gazzella: Il

Festival di Hacıbektaş e gli Aleviti Turchi” (The Lion and the Gazelle:

Hacıbektaş’s Festival and the Turkish Alevis”) 30’,

OsservatorioBalcaniCaucaso, Rovereto, Italy.

http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/ita/Media/Multimedia/Il-leone-e-la-gazzella

The documentary has been screened:

-Seminar ‘Antropoloji Okumaları”, IFEA (Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliens)

– Istanbul,

February 2011

-Circolo Roma, Istanbul, March 2011

-RaiNews24, RAI 3 (Italy), TV KOPER (Slovenia), April 2011

-Conference “ Un’altra Turchia. Islam, Pluralismo e gli Aleviti”, Rome, April

2011

-Festival orienteoccidente, MART (Museum of Contemporary Arts), Rovereto,

Italy, September 2011

2009 Audiodocumentary (with Alessandro Broggini) “ Le madri del Sabato”

(Saturday Mothers), 30’, RTS (Swiss Radio Television). Broadcasted on 11

September 2009

http://retedue.rsi.ch/home/networks/retedue/laser/2009/09/11/madri-

sabato.html)

CONFERENCES/SEMINARS ORGANIZATION

May 2012, Co-organizer “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Migration: the Case

of Italy, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul

March 2006 Co-organizer, with Middle East Technical University, University

of Milano II-Bicocca, Italian Cultural Institute, International Meeting”Italy and

Turkey: Dialog on Educational Systems”, METU, Ankara, 24-25 March 2006.

October 2005 Co-organizer, “Italian-Turkish Publishers Meeting”, Italian

Cultural Institute, Ankara

ALIA

September 2011 Moderator at the Meeting with Prof. Silvia Ronchey (author,

with T.Braccini, of -Il Romanzo di Costantinopoli- 2010, Einaudi, Torino), ITEF

(Tanpınar Edebiyat Festivalı)/Italian Cultural Institute, Istanbul

September 2001 Speaker, “ Meetings with Professional “

http://www.itef.com.tr/tr/profesyonel_katilimcilar

March 2010 Moderator at the meeting with the Italian writer Fabio Volo, Italian

Cultural Institute, Istanbul

2010 Co-author and co-speaker, Radio Program “ The invisibles: Migrants in

Turkey”, Yaşam Radio, Istanbul

7-10 October 2009 Moderator and translator at the meeting with the Italian

writer Ermanno Cavazzoni, Kars, Turkey, for the project “ European Literature

goes to Turkey/ Turkish Literature goes to Europe”, Goethe Institut, Istanbul

March 2008 Moderator at the meeting with the Italian writer Tiziano Scarpa

(Strega Prize 2008), Italian Cultural Institute, Istanbul

October 2008 Interview, documentary Turchia, fidanzata d’Europa,

G.Pensabene, RAI 2,

Turkish translation available at http://www.abgs.gov.tr/index.php?p=42237&l=1

September 2008 Presentation, “ Il libro di Dede Korkut”, with Prof. G.

Bellingeri, (University of Venice), Mondadori Bookstore, Venice

1993 Collaboration to the book : R.Moscati – A.Dal Lago, Regalateci un sogno.

Mito e realtà del tifo calcistico in Italia (Football fans in Italy. Myth and

Reality), Bompiani, Milano, 1993.

LANGUAGES

Italian (mother tongue), French, English, Turkish, Spanish&Portoguese

(reading), Russian (beginner), Latin, Ancient Greek