Peasants prefiguring agroecology, critical pedagogy and peasant feminism: a participatory action research project with the Kenyan Peasants League

Affect into Action : Feminist Movements and the Production of Safer Spaces

The research explores the production of feminist spaces as safer spaces in urban contexts. How do feminist movements imagine, produce and preserve safer spaces? To search for an answer, I engaged with participatory action research (PAR) and constructivist grounded theory method (CGTM). In the cities of Rome and Madrid, that share general socio-economic, cultural and political features (Kantola and Lombardo 2017), feminist movements, as well, share similar frames, claims, and repertoires o...

La fortuna di Ariosto nella cultura letteraria e visuale del primo Novecento italiano

From the introduction: Trent’anni fa, Renzo Cremante osservava che «il capitolo della fortuna dell’Ariosto nella letteratura del Novecento, da Italo Svevo a Italo Calvino, è ancora quasi tutto da scrivere». È forse illegittimo, per giustificare una ricerca che ambisce ad affrontare organicamente per la prima volta un problema non secondario nella storia della cultura italiana, partire da una citazione del genere, proveniente da una parentesi a sua volta relegata in una nota a piè di pagina. D...

Ars memoriae and scriptura interna : nature, language and creativity in Giordano Bruno

This study is concerned with Giordano Bruno’s ars memoriae and the relation between his works on mnemonics and philosophy. The hermeneutic hypothesis that will be explored is that it is Giordano Bruno’s works on the mnemonic arts that first reveal his new elaboration of the concept of order, which will then be completed in his philosophical works, especially those focusing on the concepts of Nature, Language and praxis developed therein. The thesis is divided into six chapters that explore th...

L‟ «Ultraphilosophie» de Giacomo Leopardi et ses rapports avec Blaise Pascal dans le contexte de la littérature et de la philosophie moderne

ProNGF is a cell-type specific mitogen for adult hippocampal and for induced neural stem cells

The role of proNGF, the precursor of Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), on the biology of adult neural stem cells (aNSCs) is still unclear. Here I analyzed adult hippo-campal neurogenesis in AD11 transgenic mice, in which the constitutive expression of anti-NGF antibody leads to an imbalance of proNGF over mature NGF. I found in-creased proliferation of progenitors but a reduced neurogenesis in the AD11 DG- hippocampus (HP-DG). Also in vitro, AD11 hippocampal neural stem cells (NSCs) pro-liferated mo...

Topics in composite models and dark matter phenomenology

We investigate models of composite dark matter in which the dark matter candidate arises naturally as an accidentally stable bound state of a confining dynamics and with observable signatures in a wide variety of experiments. In the first part of the thesis we introduce and explore a new class of models with dark fermions in the adjoint repre- sentation of the confining gauge group. The low energy dynamics and the cosmological history are peculiar and provide a dark matter candidate with prop...

A "latinamericanization" of Southern Europe? : Anti-neoliberal populisms in comparative perspective

Esta tesis es un análisis comparativo de la evolución de las izquierdas políticas en América Latina y Europa del Sur, tras crisis económicas debidas a las limitaciones del modelo socioeconómico neoliberal. El alcance geográfico se motiva por la existencia, en los ocho países seleccionados (Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, Portugal,Grecia, España e Italia), de factores causalmente relevantes para mi argumento. Dichos factores son: la adopción de políticas económicas y laborales neoliber...

Polarizable QM/MM Approaches for Molecular Excited States in Complex Environments