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GIORDANO, Rosario

PhD Histoire de l’Afrique  - Università di Siena and Università di Pavia (VIe cycle, 1994), Full Professor in Storia e istituzioni dell’Africa, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università della Calabria – UNICAL.
Histoire de l’Afrique (coloniale et postcoloniale), histoire de l’art (art populaire, art urbain, peinture populaire congolaise – RD Congo), histoire et anthropologie africaine ; Afrique centrale (région des Grands Lacs africains), Afrique occidentale (Bénin, Togo, Nigeria).

Rosario GIORDANO, Ph.D in History of Africa (Università di Siena and Università di Pavia, 1994), is Full professor of History and Institutions of Africa at the Università della Calabria/UNICAL, Rende (CS - Italy), Department of Humanities/DISU. He is responsible for the History Section of DISU and a member of the teaching board of the International Doctorate of Humanities (UNICAL).
Member of national and international scientific societies, in the period 2017-2018 he was a member of the steering committee of the ’’Association for African Studies in Italy’/ASAI.

Editorial Boards: Director of scientific series « Mémoires lieux de savoir – Archive congolaise », Paris, L’Harmattan, (2013-); Co-director coordinator of scientific series “La Région des Grands Lacs Africains – Passé et Présent”, Paris, L’Harmattan (2013-); member of the editorial Board of the scientific series “Outre-Mers”, Peter Lang, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford; Co-director of scientific journal “Aiônos. Miscellanea di Studi Storici”, DISU, UNICAL; member of the scientific committee of the journal “Africa e Mediterraneo”(Bologna).

2017-2020: Principal Investigator of the projet PRIN-MIUR CONGO JSSXC4 2015; and partner of the projet “Post-Colonial Trauma: A Comparative Study of Return”, dir. by Center for cultural sociology, Yale University, and by Department of Sociologia e ricerca sociale, Università di Trento.

2025-2028: member of the scientific committee and member of the research unit of the Università Statale di Milano of the project "Strengthening African – Italian Museum Partnerships (SAIMP)", promoted by the Italian government (Italian Agency for Development Cooperation), which involves three African partner states (Uganda, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo) and is looming as a parallel action within the “Team Europe Initiative Strengthening African – European Museum partnerships”, whose general objective is to “Promote cultural co-creation and intercultural dialogue between the EU and Africa and between African countries, facilitate cooperation aimed at the protection and valorisation of cultural heritage”. 

GIORDANO, Rosario (2001), Europei e Africani nel Dahomey e a Porto-Novo. “Il periodo delle ambiguità” (1850-1880), Torino, L'Harmattan Italia.

GIORDANO, Rosario (2008), Belges et Italiens du Congo-Kinshasa. Récits de vie avant et après l’Indépendance, préface d’Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, Paris, L’Harmattan (« Mémoires lieux de savoir – Archive congolaise »)

GIORDANO, Rosario (Ed) (2008), Autour de la mémoire. La Belgique, le Congo et le passé colonial, Paris/Torino, L’Harmattan Italia/L’Harmattan.

GIORDANO, Rosario, B. JEWSIEWICKI, D. DIBWE DIA MWEMBU (Eds) (2010), Lubumbashi 1910-2010. Mémoire d’une ville industrielle/Ukumbusho wa mukini wa componi, préface de V.-Y. Mudimbe, Paris, L’Harmattan.

GIORDANO, Rosario (2020), Beyond the ‘Trauma’: Legitimization and Revenge of the “Anciens du Congo” (Belgian Congo 1908–1960), in: R. Eyerman, G. Sciortino (Eds), The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization. Colonial Returnees in the National Imagination, New York, Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 111-135.

GIORDANO, Rosario (2020), The masks of the savage: Lumumba and the Independence of the Congo, in: Matthias De Groof (Ed), Lumumba's in the Arts, Leuven, Leuven University Press, pp. 192-206.

GIORDANO, Rosario, E. QUARETTA, D. DIBWE DIA MWEMBU (Eds) (2019), Dynamiques sociales et représentations congolaises (RD Congo). “L’expérience fait la différence”, volume hommage à Bogumil Jewsiewicki, préface de Nancy Rose Hunt, Paris, L’Harmattan.

GIORDANO, Rosario, S. FEDERICI, E. QUARETTA (Eds) (2019), Vivre sur le seuil. Rencontres congolaises, “Africa e Mediterraneo”, Bologna, LaiMomo, n. 90.

GIORDANO, Rosario (2023), The Bula Matari (Breaker of Rock) and the Judges. Congolese Efforts in the Campaign against the Red Rubber Regime (État indépendant du Congo, 1902-1904), in “Cahiers d’Études africaines”, LXIII (1), 249, pp. 107-131.

GIORDANO, Rosario, F. AIELLO, E. QUARETTA (Eds) (2018), CongoArtPop. Peinture populaire congolaise : “Collection Jewsiewicki” (1963 tableaux), archive web plurilingue (Italien-Français-Swahili), Department of Humanities, Università della Calabria; http://www.congoartpop.unical.it/