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ACADEMIC CURRICULUM VITAE GIOVANNA LELLI
UNIVERSITY OF GHENT (BELGIUM)
1. PERSONAL DETAILS
Surname: Lelli
First names: Giovanna
Sex: F
Nationality: Italian and Belgian (double nationality)
Place and date of birth: Moscow (Russia) 21/10/1966
City and country of residence: Belgium-1170 Brussels
Full address: Klokjeslaan 33 , B-1170 Brussels
Passport
Phone:
: YB0249733 Italian Embassy in Brussels 08/12/2016 to
07/12/2016
GSM 0479 11 37 30
Home 02 503 03 37
E-mail:
Languages
English, French, Arabic, Persian, Dutch. Italian: mother tongue.
2. ACADEMIC EDUCATION (AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL)
2.1. MASTER LEVEL
Diploma 2de cyclus – Master’s level degree
Title of degree at master level:
Maîtrise of Iranian Studies
Universiteit - Institution: Université de la Sorbonne - Nouvelle-Paris III (Paris)
Jaar - Year: 1993
Other academic degrees at bachelor and master level (including teacher training):
Title of degree Institution Year
Licence of Arabic INALCO (Institut National de
Langues et Civilisations
Orientales) - Paris
1993
Qualification interpreting and translation
(Arabic)
Italian Ministry of the Interior 1999
Qualification librarianship Italian Ministry of Education 2000
Qualification for teaching French in
secondary schools
Italian Ministry of Education 2000
2.2 OTHER DEGREES/DIPLOMAS BEYOND INITIAL MA LEVEL
Other degrees/diplomas (involving coursework, including doctoral coursework), docent training
Title of degree or diploma Institution Year
PhD of Iranian Studies
Università degli Studi di Napoli
l’Orientale (University of Naples
l’Orientale)
2000
Title of the dissertation:
Poetics and Rhetoric in the Epistles of Inimitability (Rasā’il al-
I‘jāz) of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavi (651 A.H. / 1251 A.D.- 725 A.H. /
1325 A.D.)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Giovanni M. D’Erme
University: Università degli Studi di Napoli l’Orientale
Date awarded: 2000
3. FULL CAREER
Function or duty Institution or employer from (d/m/y) to (d/m/y)
Rapporteur and researcher
European Parliament, Inter-
group for peace
European Parliament, Inter-
group for peace, MP Mrs. Luisa
Morgantini
March 2001 October 2001
Coordinator of Israeli and
Palestinian Issues
Aprodev
(Association of World Council
Churches Related Development
Organisations in Europe)
http://www.aprodev.eu/
November
2001
October 2004
4. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
please mention institution, duration, subjects / courses taught
Institution Duration Subject; course title
Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer,
Institut Coremans (Brussels)
2008-2009
Modern Arabic for translators and
interpreters
University of Ghent
Since September
2009 (ongoing)
-Modern and Classical Arabic (3rd Bachelor
and Master)
-Islam (religion and civilization)
University of Ghent
October-
December 2014
Modern Persian: Organizer and lecturer of the
Specialist course for the Doctoral School of
Art, Humanities and Law of the University of
Ghent: “Basic Persian for Researchers “ for
PhD students, URL
http://www.ugent.be/doctoralschools/en/do
ctoraltraining/courses/specialistcourses/ahl/b
asic-persian-for-researchers-2014-2015.htm
5. ACADEMIC CURRICULUM (SEE APPENDICES 1, 2 & 3)
I confirm that the above information, and the attached academic cv, have been honestly and
conscientiously completed and give permission to investigate their truthfulness.
date and signature
Number of supplements: 3 (9 pages)
Giovanna Lelli
Brussels, March the 12st, 2017
Appendix 1
PUBLICATIONS (LISTED BY CATEGORY, ACCORDING TO THE DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW, AND WITHIN
EACH CATEGORY ORDERED CHRONOLOGICALLY)
Articles
(a1) articles published in journals listed in the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation
Index or the Arts and Humanities Citation Index:
(a1) 1. « Pour une méthodologie du comparatisme. «La fonction du poète en Grèce et en
terre d'Islam », in Acta Orientalia, 62, 2, Mars 2009, URL
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/5857206
(a1) 2. “Neo-Platonism in Ibn Khaldun’ Poetics”, Al-Masaq. Journal of the medieval
Mediterranean, Vol. 26 (2), 2014, pp. 196-215 URL
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/5841841
(a2) articles published in scholarly or scientific journals with a wide distribution, international
peer review, and not included in (a1):
(a2) 1. “Arab-Islamic Reception of Hellenistic Science“, Advances in Historical Studies, 4,
2015, pp. 29-42, URL https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/5917623
(a2) 2. “Continuity and Ruptures in the History of Iran. Origins of Heretical and Debauched
Themes in Classical New Persian Poetry, Crossroads. Studies on the History of Exchange
Relations in the East Asian World, 13, 2016 [forthcoming],
http://www.eacrh.net/ojs/index.php/crossroads
(a3) articles published in national journals that use peer review, not included in (a1) or (a2),
chronologically ordered:
(a3) 1. Elements of Comparative poetics: Condemnation and rehabilitation of Poetry in
Greece and Islam [in Italian], Sophia. Rivista di dialoghi interculturali, 1999, pp. 49-57, URL
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6972085
(a4) articles published in journals not included in (a1), (a2) or (a3):
(a4) 1. “Comparatismi [Comparative Studies, in Italian]”, Parol-online, Quaderni d’arte e di
epistemologia (Electronic journal of the University of Bologna), 2000
URL http://www.parol.it/articles/giovannalelli.htm
Books
(b1) books as author:
(b1) 1. Giovanna Lelli, The European Community-Israel Association Agreement. An
Introduction to its Provisions, Implementation and Euro-Mediterranean Background (Brussels:
Aprodev, 2004).
(b2) parts of books :
(b2) 1. «Perspectives of Comparative Studies in the Time of Globalisation and
Multiculturalism [in Italian] in Multiculturalismo. Frammenti, confluenze e prospettive
mediterranee, ed. Rosalia Bivona and Giuseppina Igonetti (Napoli: Arte tipografica, 2001), pp.
85-105, URL https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6972068.
Other publications:
(c1) articles published in the proceedings of scholarly or scientific conferences but not included in
the above categories:
(c1) 1. “A Typology of medieval Islamic Poetics. Elements for a Comparative Analysis between
Islam and the West ”, in FILOZOFSKI VESTNIK-ACTA PHILOSOPHICA 20 (2), 1999, pp.201-204,
URL https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6972072.
(c1) 2. "Transculturality: a problematic Concept. Aesthetics between Islam and the West", in
Frontiers of Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics, ed. Grazia Marchiano and Raffaele
Milani (Turin: Trauben, 2001), pp. 465-475, URL https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6972054
(c1) 3. “Elementi per una poetica comparata del Mediterraneo medievale” [“Elements for a
Comparative Poetics of Medieval Mediterraneum”, in Italian], in Poetica medievale tra
Oriente e Occidente, ed. Paolo Bagni and Maurizio Pistoso (Roma: Carocci, 2003), pp. 293-
303, URL https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6972064.
(c1) 4. “Il commento di Averroè alla Poetica aristotelica. Elementi di poetica comparata
arabo-islamica e latino-cristiana” [Averroes’ Middle Commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle”,
in Italian], in Averroes and the Aristotelian Heritage, ed. Carmela Baffioni (Napoli : Guida,
2004), pp. 175-188, URL https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/5937320.
(c1) 5. “We come from afar. The Philosophical Basis of Ibn Khaldn’s Poetics”, in Egypt and
Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, VIII. 1, ed. U. Vermeulen, K. D'Hulster, and J.
Van Steenbergen (Leuven: Peeters, 2016), pp. 429–440.
(c1) 6. “The Meaning of Beauty in the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldûn”, in Egypt and Syria in the
Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras…. [Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming].
(c1) 7. “Irānshināsi dar markaz-i Urupā” (The Iranian Studies at the Center of Europe),
Proceedings of the First Symposium of Head of Departments of Iranian Studies in Overseas
Universities, Tehran, 16-17/01/2017 (forthcoming, in Persian).
Appendix 2
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES (LISTED PER CATEGORY, ACCORDING TO THE DEFINITIONS BELOW, AND WITHIN EACH CATEGORY
ORDERED CHRONOLOGICALLY)
(a) Study or research periods abroad of at least 1 month (please indicate institution, period and
nature of activities)
-Sudan: October 1986 – September 1987 (Khartoum University and Islamic-African Centre of
Khartoum): Arabic language and civilisation.
-Tunisia: Summer schools of Arabic in 1989 and 1990, one month each (Bourguiba University):
Arabic language.
-Syria: September 1991- June 1992 (Institute for teaching Arabic to Foreigners / University of
Damascus): Arabic language, history, civilisation.
-Iran: Mars - October 1996 (University of Teheran and Tehran International Centre for Persian
Studies): Persian language, literature and civilisation.
-Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories (1/3/2001 to 1/10/2001), Center for
Rapprochement between People in Beit Sahour Bethlehem / European Parliament in Brussels:
research on society and implementation of international law in the context of the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict.
(b) International or national conferences or colloquia which you have organised
-1. International Conference: “Medieval Poetics. Comparisons and Meeting Points. The Arab-
Islamic and the Western Traditions”, Università di Bologna and Università degli Studi di Napoli
l’Orientale, Bologna, 3-5 May 2000, URL
http://www.studidiestetica.it/files/SOMMARI/2000_22/zanardo.htm.
-2. International Hearing on « The European Union-Israel Bilateral Relations within the
Framework of International and European Law », Brussels, at the European Parliament, June
the 20th 2002. Organised by Aprodev (Association of World Council of Churches Related
Development Organisations in Europe), CIDSE (Coopération Internationale pour le
Développement et la Solidarité), SOLIDAR, EMHRN (Euro-Mediterranean Human Right
Network), FIDH (Fédération Internationale des Ligues pour les Droits de l’Homme), OMCT
(Oganisation Mondiale contre la Torture), WCC (World Council of Churches), URL
http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/international/palestine/eu-israel-bilateral.pdf.
-3. Invited lecture on "Averroes' contribution to the renewal of medieval Philosophy", given by
Professor Andrés Martinez Lorca (UNED University, Madrid), Ghent University, April the 27th
2012, URL http://www.flw.ugent.be/agenda/85.
-4. Colloquium: “Poetry and Religion in the Mediterranean Region in pre-Modern Times. A
centuries-long relationship between superposition, competition, alliance and division of tasks”,
Ghent University, April the 4th 2014 (http://www.poetryandreligion.ugent.be)
-5. 1st Symposium on the History and the Philosophy of Science in honor of Roshdi Rashed:
“The Arab-Islamic Sciences. A Living Heritage. Achievements in Classical Islam and
Contemporary Challenges of World Science”; Ghent University, May the 8th 2015, URL
http://www.arabislamicscience.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Symposium-in-
honor.pdf
-6. 2nd Symposium on the History and the Philosophy of Science: “The Arab-Islamic Sciences
(9th-14th cent.) in the longue durée. The Scientific revolution in Question”, Ghent University,
February the 12th 2016, URL http://www.arabislamicscience.ugent.be/wp-
content/uploads/2014/12/POSTER-final.pdf.
-7. 3rd Symposium on the History and the Philosophy of Science: “Islam and Rationalism. The
Development of the Scientific Method”, Ghent University, April the 28th 2017 (forthcoming),
http://www.arabislamicscience.ugent.be/initiatives/initiatives-2017/
(c) International conferences, colloquia and seminars to which you have contributed (please
indicate location, date, title of conference and type of contribution: paper presentation,
submitted presentation, poster presentation, chair of sessions, reporter, etc.) If relevant,
indicate those where you were invited to contribute:
-1. Paper presentation: « Avicennisme et averroïsme dans la poétique et la rhétorique
islamiques médiévales : la tradition persane », 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston,
Massachusetts 10-15/8/1998, URL https://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Medi/MediLell.htm
-2. Paper presentation : “Il commento di Averroè alla Poetica aristotelica. Elementi di poetica
comparata arabo-islamica e latino-cristiana” [The Medium Commentary of Averroes on
Aristotle’s Poetics. Elements of Latin-Christian and Arab-Islamic comparative poetics],
Conference held at the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples on the Occasion of the 800th
Anniversary of Averroes' Death, January 14 - 16 1999.
-3. Paper presentation: « La notion de mimesis dans le Commentaire moyen d’Averroès de la
Poétique d’Aristote », 12th biennal Conference of the « Société Internationale pour l’Histoire
de la Rhétorique », Vrij Universiteit van Amsterdam, 13-17/07/ 1999.
- 4. Paper presentation: “The philosophical basis of Ibn Khaldûn’s poetics”, 22nd Colloquium on
the history of Egypt and Syria (CHESFAME) (10th- 15th cent.), Ghent University, Faculty of Arts,
15-17/5/2013.
-5. Participation as speaker: Round table of the international workshop on “Cosmopolitan
languages and their cultures”, organized by Prof. Dr. Wim Verbaal, Pirenne Institute for
Medieval Studies, Center for Medieval Literature, Ghent University 25/02/2014, URL
http://www.poetryandreligion.ugent.be/node/8.
- 6. Paper presentation: “Religious prejudices against poetry and singing in pre-Islamic Persia
and their impact on Islamic Persian lyric”, International Colloquium on “Poetry and religion in
the Mediterranean region in pre-modern times”, Ghent University, Faculty of Arts,
04/04/2014, URL http://www.poetryandreligion.ugent.be/node/1.
- 7. Paper presentation: "Aesthetics and Geometry", 1st Symposium on the History and
Philosophy of science: “Islam and Science: a Living Heritage. Achievements in Classical Islam
and Contemporary Challenges of World Science”, Ghent University, May the 8th, 2015, URL
http://www.arabislamicscience.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Program-revised1.pdf.
- 8. Paper presentation: "The meaning of beauty (al-jamâl) in the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldûn,
23rd Colloquium on the history of Egypt and Syria (CHESFAME) (10th- 15th cent.), KUL, Leuven,
20-22 May 2015.
-9. Panel member in the session on "Cross-cultural research", the Study Day on "Medieval
Studies as Academic Discipline", organised by the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies,
Ghent, May the 28th 2015, URL http://www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/news-
events/events/studyday2015.
-10. Paper presentation: “The Arab-Islamic Sciences in the longue durée. Searching for a
paradigm in the History of Science from the Antiquity to the 19th century”, 2nd Symposium on
the History and the Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, 12/02/2016, URL
http://www.arabislamicscience.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/PROGRAMM.pdf.
-11. Paper presentation: “Science and Beauty in the Muqaddima. History as a “new science” in
the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406) and Gambattista Vico (d. 1744)”, 24th Colloquium on
the history of Egypt and Syria (CHESFAME) (10th- 15th cent.), 19-20/05/2016, KUL, Leuven,
2016.
-12. Paper presentation: “Beauty, virtue and knowledge in Medieval Islam. A Survey of the
Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldûn”, International Congress on “Theorizing Medieval European
Literatures”, University of York 30/06/2016-03/07/2016, URL
http://www.studilefili.unimi.it/extfiles/unimidire/56101/attachment/theorizing-medieval-
european-literatures-programme.pdf.
-13 Presentation: “Irānshināsi dar markaz-i Urupā” (The Iranian Studies at the Center of
Europe), Proceedings of the First Symposium of Head of Departments of Iranian Studies in
Overseas Universities, Tehran, 16-17/01/2017, organized by the Iranian Ministry of Science
and the University Allame Tabataba’I (in Persian), forthcoming.
(d) Invited lectures at universities and scholarly institutions
-1. "Pour une méthodologie du comparatisme. La parole poétique de la magie à la littérature
en Grèce et en terre d'islam", Université Libre de Bruxelles, Département de langues et
littératures arabes, in the framework of the workshop on "Religions et cultures du monde
arabo-musulman: questions approfondies I et II", 20 february 2008.
-2. “An Introduction to Persian Language and Civilization”, Ghent University, Unity of Arab and
Islamic Studies, May the 3rd 2013.
-3. “Arab-Islamic Reading of Aristotle: Avicenna’s Neo-Platonism and Averroes’ Rationalism”,
Lecture given within the framework of Prof. Dr. Koen De Timmerman’s course on « Reception
of the Classics of the Greek-Roman Tradition in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Beyond »,
Ghent University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Literary Studies, 06/12/2013.
-4. “Arab-Islamic reception and development of Hellenistic philosophy and science”, lecture
given within the framework of the Doctoral school on "Methods and Interpretation in
Classics", Gent Institute for Classical Studies (GIKS), Ghent University, 05/09/2014.
-5. “Continuity and ruptures in the history of Iran: Religious prejudices against singing in pre-
Islamic Iran and their impact on Islamic Persian culture”, lecture given within the framework of
the Doctoral school on "Methods and Interpretation in Classics", Gent Institute for Classical
Studies (GIKS), dir. Prof. Dr. Peter van Nuffelen, Ghent University,04/09/2015, URL
http://www.giks.ugent.be/specialist_course.
(e) Obtained research funding, scholarly subsidies and donations (please indicate funding
authority, type of funding and amount)
-Full PhD Scholarship, University of Naples l’Orientale (1995-2000).
-Commissie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Commission for Scientific Reasearch),
University of Ghent, 700 euros of funding contribution for the organisation of the 2nd
Symposium on the History and the Philosophy of Science at Ghent University, 12/02/2015, URL
http://www.arabislamicscience.ugent.be/initiatives/.
(f) Promotorship or regular supervision activities related to theses and doctoral dissertations
(please indicate university institution)
-1. Master thesis of Mrs. Elies Roden, Abû Rayhân al-Bîrûnî’s Tahqîq mâ li-l-Hind. Een
onderzoek naar de astronomie in al-Bîrûnî’s Tahqîq mâ li-l-Hind , zoals geanalyseerd in de
literatuur erover sinds 1910 tot het heden (AbūRayḥān al-Bîrûnî’s Taḥqîq mâ li-l-Hind. A
Research on Al-Bīrūnī’s astronomy in the Taḥqîq mâ li-l-Hind as it has been analyzed by
scholarly literature from 1910 to present), Ghent University, 2016.
-2. Master thesis of Mrs. Souheila Yildiz, "The fundamental of Islamic jurisprudence (Uṣūl al-
fiqh) and contemporary linguistics" (2016-2017) (ongoing).
-3 Master thesis of Mr. Nikolas Geirnaert, “Gender-equality in the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia, a
comparison between Islamic law and the United Nation's Convention on the Elimination of all
Forms of Discrimination against Women” (2016-2017) (ongoing).
Appendix 3
ACADEMIC SERVICE (LISTED FIRST ACCORDING TO CATEGORY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY WITHIN
EACH CATEGORY)
(a) Scholarly service (relevant to the post applied for): scholarly advice, activity as a
peer reviewer, membership of scholarly committees, editorial boards, etc.
1. Member of the Editorial board of the journal Advances in Historical Studies, URL
http://www.scirp.org/journal/EditorialBoard.aspx?JournalID=2316#.V7bqH1uLRdg
2. Member of the board of the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Ghent
University, URL https://www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/aims/boardinstitute.
(b) Service to the community (relevant to the post applied for): public lectures,
information sessions, membership of professional organizations, possible functions within
university management or other relevant experience:
1. Member of Jury of the Auschwitz Foundation for the selection of original dissertation on
the historical analysis of the Nazi concentration system, 2006 (Fondation Auschwitz, Rue
des Tanneurs 65, 1000 Brussels).