Valeria Galimi is an Associate Professor in Contemporary History at Sagas Department, University of Florence.
She earned her PhD in History at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (doctorante associée at the Institut d’histoire du temps present (IHTP)). After a stint as a post-doctoral researcher at the IHTP, she was Assegnista di ricerca (Research Fellow) at the University of Modena and Siena and at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo).
In 2016-2018 she was Research Lecturer (ricercatrice TDA) at the History Department, University of Milan and later accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor at the Sagas Department in Florence.
She has carried out teaching and research activities at Sciences Po Paris (2009-2010), the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Jerusalem (2010-2011), the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Jerusalem (2013), the European University Institute (2014), the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Washington (2016), and the SIRICE laboratory, Cnrs-Université Sorbonne Paris I-IV (2017). She was Visiting Professor at the History Department of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (2015), the Department of History of the Université Paris VIII (2018) and the Université Hauts-de France (2024). In 2021 she was Chercheure associée at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon and in 2022, Directrice d'études associée at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales in Paris.
Galimi has research experience in several areas of contemporary history, in particular, the political and cultural history of Contemporary France, the history of antisemitism and fascism in Europe, the history of intellectuals in the interwar period, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Galimi is currently writing a volume (under contract with Routledge) on political violence and “street antisemitism” in France in the 1930s focused on four cities: Paris, Strasbourg, Lyon and Oran.
At the Sagas Department, she holds positions for teaching organization and student service. She is a member of the Modern Transcultural Studies (MTS) research unit at Sagas. Also, at the University of Florence, she is a member of the scientific committee for the specialization course “Teaching the Holocaust”. She is also the department spokesperson for the Euniwell program (an alliance founded by the European Commission within the Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020 programs). Galimi is actively involved in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree “History in the Public Sphere” (Sagas Unifi, Central European University, Budapest-Vienna, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). Additionally, Galimi is a member of the teaching board of the PhD Program in History of the University of Florence and the University of Siena.
During the period spanning from 2023-2026, she is a member of the Board of Directors of Sissco (Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History). Additionally, since 2024, she has been Vice President of the Istituto storico per la storia della Resistenza e per l’età contemporanea (Tuscan Historical Institute for the History of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age).
Galimi has served as editor for “Histoire&Société” and “Mestiere di storico”. She is a member of the editorial board for the scientific journal “Società&Storia” and also for “Passato e presente”, where she is co-coordinator of editorial board.
Address: SAGAS Department
(Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo)
University of Florence
Via San Gallo 10 - I-50129 Florence
She earned her PhD in History at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (doctorante associée at the Institut d’histoire du temps present (IHTP)). After a stint as a post-doctoral researcher at the IHTP, she was Assegnista di ricerca (Research Fellow) at the University of Modena and Siena and at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo).
In 2016-2018 she was Research Lecturer (ricercatrice TDA) at the History Department, University of Milan and later accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor at the Sagas Department in Florence.
She has carried out teaching and research activities at Sciences Po Paris (2009-2010), the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Jerusalem (2010-2011), the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Jerusalem (2013), the European University Institute (2014), the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Washington (2016), and the SIRICE laboratory, Cnrs-Université Sorbonne Paris I-IV (2017). She was Visiting Professor at the History Department of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (2015), the Department of History of the Université Paris VIII (2018) and the Université Hauts-de France (2024). In 2021 she was Chercheure associée at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon and in 2022, Directrice d'études associée at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales in Paris.
Galimi has research experience in several areas of contemporary history, in particular, the political and cultural history of Contemporary France, the history of antisemitism and fascism in Europe, the history of intellectuals in the interwar period, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Galimi is currently writing a volume (under contract with Routledge) on political violence and “street antisemitism” in France in the 1930s focused on four cities: Paris, Strasbourg, Lyon and Oran.
At the Sagas Department, she holds positions for teaching organization and student service. She is a member of the Modern Transcultural Studies (MTS) research unit at Sagas. Also, at the University of Florence, she is a member of the scientific committee for the specialization course “Teaching the Holocaust”. She is also the department spokesperson for the Euniwell program (an alliance founded by the European Commission within the Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020 programs). Galimi is actively involved in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree “History in the Public Sphere” (Sagas Unifi, Central European University, Budapest-Vienna, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). Additionally, Galimi is a member of the teaching board of the PhD Program in History of the University of Florence and the University of Siena.
During the period spanning from 2023-2026, she is a member of the Board of Directors of Sissco (Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History). Additionally, since 2024, she has been Vice President of the Istituto storico per la storia della Resistenza e per l’età contemporanea (Tuscan Historical Institute for the History of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age).
Galimi has served as editor for “Histoire&Société” and “Mestiere di storico”. She is a member of the editorial board for the scientific journal “Società&Storia” and also for “Passato e presente”, where she is co-coordinator of editorial board.
Address: SAGAS Department
(Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo)
University of Florence
Via San Gallo 10 - I-50129 Florence
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La rencontre est la troisième d'un cycle lancé en 2017 dans le cadre des activités du groupe de recherche "Les langages de l'histoire dans l'Europe des Lumières" (coordonné par Catherine Volpilhac-Auger et Rolando Minuti) et poursuivi à Lyon l'année suivante, consacré au thème de l'écriture biographique dans la culture historique et littéraire de l'âge moderne et contemporaine. Après une interruption de quelques années, en raison surtout des problèmes causés par la pandémie, on reprend ainsi un parcours de recherche qui concerne un sujet sur lequel la recherche contemporaine a porté une attention considérable. La reconstruction biographique exprime de fait une complexité d'expériences intellectuelles et culturelles qui exercent de fonctions multiples-de la mémoire de soi comme construction de l'identité personnelle aux critères de sélection des biographies comme moyen de définition d'identités collectives-qui se sont diversifiées et transformées au fil du temps, proposant un territoire de recherche et de réflexion particulièrement riche et complexe, du début de l'époque moderne à nos jours, où les outils de la communication télématique ont changé radicalement les formes, la dimension et les contenus de la mémoire personnelle et collective. Sur quelques-uns des multiples sujets que ce thème sollicite, les participants à cette rencontre vont attirer l'attention, en ouvrant en même temps des perspectives d'investigation future.
https://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/icr/2022/08/05/cfp-witch-hunts-race-the-persecution-of-women-antiquity-to-the-21st-century/