Luisa Passerini is Professor Emerita at the European University Institute, Florence. Her research and writing have centred on social change and memory in its oral, written and visual forms, with a particular focus on: African liberation movements; worker, student and women’s movements; migrant mobility to and through Europe; concepts of identity, love and Europe. Her most recent work examines hybrid cultural forms in the visual arts between Italy and Africa.
Her many books include: Artebiografia. Percorsi di artiste tra Italia e Africa (2024); La quarta parte (2023); Conversations on Visual Memory (2018); Storie d’amore e d’Europa (2008); L’Europa e l’amore (1999); Memoria e utopia. Il primato dell’intersoggettività (2003); Storie di donne e femministe (1991; new edition 2024); Storia e soggettività. Le fonti orali, la memoria (1988); Autoritratto di gruppo (1988); Torino operaia e fascismo (1984; new edition 2024).
Prof Passerini was based in the Italian Section during June 2025 and took part in several research events as well as meeting members of the Section and the wider University at Pembroke, Churchill, Murray Edwards Colleges and Kettle’s Yard.
- 17 June 2025. Keynote Lecture. Luisa Passerini, ‘Artebiografia’. Between Italy and Africa.
- 20 June 2025. Workshop. Perspectives on the Work of Luisa Passerini
- 24 June 2025. On Political Subjectivity. Luisa Passerini and Sally Alexander in Conversation