【PERSONAL INFORMATION】
Name and Surname: Leonardo Franceschini
Birthdate: September 14, 1985
Birthplace: Rome, Italy
Citizenship: Italian
【EDUCATION】
From September 2015 to December 2018:
Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
P.H.D. in Humanities with a specialization in ancient and political philosophy.
PHD thesis title: “The original genos and its itinerary. Racism and biopolitics: genealogy and development of an encounter”.
From September 2017 to February 2018:
Visiting P.H.D. Scholar at East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL), Shanghai, China.
From January 2010 to March 2012:
“La Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Master’s degree in political philosophy.
Master thesis title: “Decolonial thought: epistemic alternative, political choice”.
From September 2010 to July 2011:
Ramon Llull University of Barcelona (Faculty of Theology and Philosophy of Catalunya), Barcelona, Spain.
Position: Erasmus Student during the master’s degree.
From September 2005 to October 2009:
“La Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Bachelor’s degree in philosophy and historical-social problems
Bachelor thesis title: “The concept of alienation in the Marx’s youth works between Hegel and Feuerbach”.
【RESEARCH】
Research affiliations:
Since December 2022 to date:
La Frontera University (UFRO), Temuco, Chile.
Position: Permanent member of “Red Anticolonial” research group.
Since October 2021 to date:
National Mayor University of San Marcos (U.N.M.S.M.), Lima, Peru.
Position: Invited Professor/Permanent member of “Philosophy and Liberation” research group.
Since June 2016 to date:
UPF Center for Gianni Vattimo's Philosophy and Archives, Barcelona, Spain.
Position: Internal permanent member and collaborator.
Research fields and interests:
Ancient philosophy
Biopolitics
Chinese Philosophy
Christians and Jewish studies
Comparative Politics
Comparative theology
Contemporary philosophy
History
History of art
International relationships
Literature
Marxism (the European tradition; the Chinese Marxism; the African and Latin American traditions)
Modern philosophy
Philosophy of law
Political philosophy
Political science
Postcolonial and Decolonial Thought
Structuralism
【TEACHING】
Since September 2023 to date:
Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai, China.
Position: Lecturer.
Courses held: Political Philosophy; Comparative Politics; History of Western Political Systems.
Since October 2021 to date:
National University of San Marcos (U.N.M.S.M.), School of Philosophy, Lima, Peru.
Position: Invited Professor.
Courses held: Racism, gender and colonial power structures in the ancient world (Course available in the University YouTube official channel).
From February 2018 to June 2023:
U.N.E.D., School of Philosophy, Barcelona, Spain.
Position: Contract Professor and Students Tutor.
Courses held: Ancient philosophy; History of modern philosophy; Logic; Marx and the Marxist tradition; Political philosophy; The women condition in the ancient times.
From November 2014 to July 2016:
University Foundation of Bages (FUB), School of Philosophy, Psychology and Pedagogy, Manresa, Spain.
Position: Adjunct Professor and Degree’s thesis Supervisor.
Courses held: Comparative Theology; History of Philosophy; Modern European Literature.
From May 2013 to June 2015:
Girche (International Research Group “Culture, History and State”), a study and research center in collaboration with the University of Barcelona (UB), the UNAM of Mexico City and the Federal University of Minas Gerais, School of Philosophy, History and Geography, Barcelona, Spain.
Position: Researcher, Professor and Seminars Organizer.
August 2014
African Summer School, Verona, Italy.
Position: Invited Professor.
Moreover, I have been invited to give lectures and seminars by the following universities/institutions:
De Aquino University (Bolivia); Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil); University of La Frontera (Chile); East China Normal University, East China University for Political Science and Law (China); Free University of Colombia (Colombia); Center for Advanced Studies – Southeastern Europe (Croatia); Collège International de Philosophie (France); University of Naples “L’Orientale”, University of Milano-Bicocca, University of the International Studies of Rome, University of Turin, University of Urbino Carlo Bo (Italy); National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico); National University of Micaela Bastidas de Apurimac, National University of San Marcos (Peru); The Autonomous University of Barcelona, University of Barcelona (Spain).
【PUBLICATIONS】
Books:
-Decolonizing culture: race, knowledge and power. Genealogies and resistances (Italian), Ombre Corte, Verona, 2013 (finalist at Castiglioncello Philosophical Prize as emerging author)
- French edition; Éditions L’Harmattan, Paris, February 2024.
-Genos kai apoikia. The race and the colony (Italian), forthcoming 2025.
Essays on books:
-Genealogía de laicismo y secularismo entre Estado e Iglesia, in AA.VV., Poder, religión y secularidad, Fondo Editorial Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Huanta, Ayacucho, 2023, pp.179- 181 (Spanish)
-El problema de la raça entre precolonialisme i postcolonialisme: per a una visió decolonial, in AA.VV., Cultural is Political. Girs culturals i postcolonials, Publicacions Liceu Joan Maragall de Filosofia – Dracmaycat Edicions, Barcelona, 2017, pp.187-214 (Catalan)
-Entre el nou i el vell feixisme: Pasolini i la societat de consum, in AA.VV., El futur a l’encreuada. Filosofia i societat, Associació d’Estudis Filosòfics, Barcelona 2017, pp.75-84 (Catalan)
-Colonia, colore, cultura: una radice comune dai travolgenti effetti politici, in Atti del Primo Convegno sulle politiche latinoamericane del XXI secolo, Cremona, 2015, pp.12-36 (Italian)
-Hacia una ontología política descolonizadora. Filosofía y Psicoanálisis en la primera obra de Frantz Fanon, in AA.VV., Cultura, História y Estado: Pensadores en clave macrofilosófica, La Busca Edicions, Barcelona, 2013, pp.113-130 (Spanish)
Interviews:
-By the Online Philosophy Megazine “Athene Noctua”: http://www.athenenoctua.it/intervista-a-l-franceschini-autore-di-decolonizzare-la-cultura-razza-sapere-e-potere-genealogie-e-resistenze-pt-1- 2/
http://www.athenenoctua.it/intervista-a-l-franceschini-autore-di-decolonizzare-la-cultura-razza- sapere-e-potere-genealogie-e-resistenze-pt-2/
-By RAI (Italy’s national public broadcasting company): http://www.rai.it/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-0c25b56b-fb10-46b2-9e75- 5fa4e330ff97.html
-Why only art can save us: an interview with Santiago Zabala. In Arcade Philosophical Review, Stanford University Press: https://arcade.stanford.edu/blogs/why-only-art-can-save-us- interviewsantiago-zabala.
【AWARDS】
PhD thesis awarded with international mention.
【CONTACT】
Shanghai International Studies University, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Songjiang Campus, Room 325B
Office hours: Thursday, 16:30-17:30
Phone: 13764725447; +34655742726
Email: l_franceschini@hotmail.it ; 3773317991@qq.com
