Fellow 2022-2023 PAOLO VIGNOLO
Paolo Vignolo is an associate professor of history and humanities at the National University of Colombia, Bogota. He holds a PhD in history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (E.H.E.S.S.) of Paris. His fields of research and creation deal with public history, cultural heritage and memory studies with a focus on geographic imaginaries, live arts and performance.
He is an associate researcher at the Centre of Historical, Anthropological and Cultural Research –CIHAC of Panama, and was visiting scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University in 2013. He is also a member of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics of the New York University, the Transformative Memory Network of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and the “Collective memory and practices of resistance” work group of The Latin American Council of Social Sciences – CLACSO.
Publications:
1) Map of Revelation. Sacrifice and Conversion in the Planisphere of Juan de la Cosa. In: Sacrifice and Conversion between Europe and the New World, (Maria Berbara ed.) Harvard University Center of Renaissance Studies Villa I Tatti, Firenze: Harvard University Press, 2022.
2) Museos, Historia, Memoria. José Fernando Rubio and Paolo Vignolo (editors). Bogota: Museo Nacional de Colombia, 2017.
3) A Place for the Dead in the City of the Living: the Central Cemetery of Bogota. In: Reflections on Memory and Democracy. Marileen S. Grindle ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.
4) Festive Devils of the Americas. Milla Cozart Riggio, Angela Marino and Paolo Vignolo (eds). London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull, 2015.
5) Tierra Firme. El Darién en el imaginario de los conquistadores. Vignolo, Paolo and Becerra Virgilio. (eds.) Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia - ICANH, 2011.
6) Cannibali, giganti e selvaggi. Creature mostruose del Nuovo Mondo. Milano: Mondadori, 2009.