Recent Faculty News

November 15, 2024

IDSVA is proud to announce the following professional updates from Dr. Simonetta Moro, Dr. Silvia Mazzini, and Dr. Elina Staikou.

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Dr. Simonetta Moro (President / Professor of Art, Philosophy, and Visual Studies) recently published "The Vattimo Dictionary: Some Reflections." In California Italian Studies, 13(2). 2024.

Dr. Moro at the book launch of *The Vattimo Dictionary*.

Dr. Silvia Mazzini, (Interim Director of School / Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Art Theory) moderated "ERETIKA. Una giornata di eresie intorno a Giordano Bruno" (ERETIKA. A day of Heresies about Giordano Bruno) at the Teatro Mercandante in Naples, Italy.

Dr. Mazzini, second from left at ERETIKA, November 7, 2024.

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Dr. Elina Staikou, (Dean of Students / Chair of Independent Studies and Dissertation Committees) published the chapter "Erotics of Decomposition: Cells and their Oceans" in the publication Erotics of Deconstruction: Auto-Affection after Derrida, edited by Lynn Turner. (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).