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Adriana Luna González

adriana.luna@eui.eu

European University Institute
Department of History and Civilisation
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Firenze (Fi)
Italy

Mexican Citizen

Education

2004- PhD Candidate European University Institute in Florence at the Department of History and Civilization.

2005 Masters of Research, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute.

2001- PhD Candidate Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset in Madrid at the Department of European Studies, (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Fortuny 53, Madrid Spain.

Mphil thesis: Los derechos fundamentales en la tradición latina: Algunos argumentos de la Ilustración Italiana y los intentos de reforma de la Legislación penal en las obras de Cesare Beccaria y Gaetano Filangieri, supervisors: Profs. Francisco Rubio Llorente and Charles Powell in September 2003.

1993 - 1997 First Degree in Latin American Studies. Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National University, Mexico. MA thesis: La Escuela de Economía Política en Nápoles: Apuntes sobre la posibilidad de un lenguaje normativo al interior de la Monarquía hispánica (cum laude), supervisor: Prof. Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, El Colegio de México.

Professional experience

2008-2009 Research Project Freedom and the Construction of Europe, directed by Profs. Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen. http://www.iue.it/Personal/Projects/FreedomProject/

From September 2007 Webmaster of the project: Freedom and the construction of Europe. http://www.iue.it/Personal/Projects/FreedomProject/

From December 2004 Research assistant to Prof. Martin van Gelderen, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence. Editor of the Research Project Boccaccio Intellectual History. http://www.iue.it/Personal/VanGelderen/

From November 2004 Editor of the Mexican History Index, European University Institute, Florence. http://vlib.iue.it/history/americas/mexico.html

September 2004 - 05 Junior Academic Analyst, Department of European Studies, Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, Spain.

January 2002 - 03 Translation, introduction and notes of the book by Franco Venturi: Il Settecento riformatore. Torino: Einaudi, 1969, for the Instituto Mora, Mexico City. Forthcoming.

April 2001 - 02 Participant to the Research project: "The public property in Mexico in XIXth century" directed by Prof. Carlos Marichal, History Department at El Colegio de México.

January - Nov 2001 Collaboration in the edition and notes of the serie "Las Obras Completas de Alfonso Reyes" directed by Adolfo Castañón, Fondo de Cultura Económica, México.

January - July 2001 Research and cataloguing, Historical Archive of Wenceslao Roces" for Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, México.

August 1999 - Nov 2001 Research assistant, National Research System, assigned to the project: Political Science Introduction, directed by Prof. Rafael Segovia Canosa, Department of International Studies. El Colegio de México.

June 1998 - 2000 Adviser for the National Institute of Copyright, Public Education Ministry, Mexican Government.

September 1998 - 99 Research assistant specialist on Mexican Revolution Archives: Fondo Amado Aguirre y Santiago, Fondo Vito Alessio Robles, Fondo Carlos Basave del Castillo Negrete, Fondo Juan Barragán Rodríguez, Fondo Rafael Chousal y Rivera Melo, Fondo Gildardo Magaña, Fondo Heriberto Jara Corona, Fondo Jacinto B. Treviño, Centro de Estudios sobre la Universidad, UNAM, Archivo Venustiano Carranza, Fondo Reservado, Archivo histórico de la UNAM. Fondo Génaro Amescua, CONDUMEX, Fondo Emiliano Zapata, Archivo General de la Nación. (Projects directed by Prof. Gloria Villegas, UNAM).

January - May 1998 Research assistant, National Research System, Mexico to the project: A comparative approach of the relations Brazil-Mexico, coordinated by Prof. José Luis Reyna, Department of Sociology, El Colegio de México.

December 97 - January 98 Research assistant, National Research System, Mexico for the project: Unions in Latin America, coordinated by Prof. Francisco Zapata.

March 1996 - November 1997 Research assistant to Prof. Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez, Department of Sociology, El Colegio de México.

March 1995 - 96 Research assistant to the project: Ideological foundations of the Political Institutions directed by Prof. Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo. Department of Sociology. El Colegio de México.

Conferences

10-14 September 2008 Poster "'Common Sense' as the Principle of the Law of Nations in Gregorio Caloprese" at the Reforming the European State System in the Long Eighteenth Century Conferece, organised by Koen Stapelbroek, European Science Foundation, Vadstena, Sweden.http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/details/2008/confdetail259.html#c26493

26-29 August 2008 Paper 'El problema de la Virtud en el Lenguaje de la Economía Política: Nápoles y México', at the Lenguages de la modernidad en América Latina y la Península Ibérica Colloquium, organised by Elias Palti and Marta Elena Casús Arzú. XV Congreso Internacional de AHILA 1808-2008: Crisis y Problemas en el Mundo Atlántico, Leiden, NL. http://www.leidenuniv.nl/en/ahila2008/

26-29 August 2008 Paper 'El lenguaje de la Jurisprudencia Natural en Cádiz o Sobre la posibilidad de un lenguaje normativo en la Monarquía hispánica en la era moderna at Las Cortes de Cádiz y las revoluciones de Independencia en América Latina Colloquium, organised by Fernando Vizcaíno Guerra and Jorge González at XV Congreso Internacional de AHILA 1808-2008: Crisis y Problemas en el Mundo Atlántico, Leiden, NL. Martinez.http://www.leidenuniv.nl/en/ahila2008/content_docs/simposios_ponentes.pdf

23 June 2008, Co-organised with Martin van Gelderen the workshop Body and Mind in Natural Jurisprudence 1650-1750, at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.http://www.eui.eu/HEC/ResearchTeaching/20072008-Spring/ws-mvg-23-june.pdf

11-13 October 2007, Paper "The concept of Happiness in Paolo Mattia Doria, Giambattista Vico and Antonio Muratori at the workshop Citizens, Parliaments and States: Towards a European History of Concepts, organised by Prof. Martin van Gelderen at the European University Institute, Florence. http://www.iue.it/HEC/ResearchTeaching/20072008-Autumn/ws-mvg-11-13-oct.pdf

10th July 2007, Paper "From Singuli to Cives in Early 18th Century Italy: The Readings of Grotius in the Works of Paolo Mattia Doria, Giambattista Vico and Antonio Muratori", at the Twelfth International Enlightenment Congress. Knowledge, Techniques and Cultures in the 18th Century, Montpellier, France 8-15 July 2007. http://www.congreslumieres2007.org/gb/front_programme_consult_gb.php?day=2

22nd January 2007 Conference "La crítica a la tradición de Derecho Natural: Notas para la reconstrucción del contexto constitucional decimonónico mexicano", at Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico.

July 2006 Paper "La recepción de ideas de Gaetano Filangieri en José María Luis Mora: un primer acercamiento al contexto constitucional mexicano", at the 52nd International Conference in Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.

April 2006 Paper at the Conference Rethinking the Iberian Atlantic, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.

September 2005 Paper "La Escuela de Economía Política Napolitana en América Latina: La recepción de ideas de Antonio Genovesi y Gaetano Filangieri en México en el siglo XIX", at the XIVth AIHLA Conference, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.

April 2003 Paper "The New Spain and Naples" at the Society for Latin American Studies, Annual Meeting and Conference, Manchester University.

October 2001 Organisation of the First Economic History Meeting, Economic History Association at El Colegio de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas UNAM and the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE).

 

Teaching Experience

January 2007 Seminar “Para una interpretación del Pensamiento Político Mexicano: La Lectura de la Ilustración Italiana en el México Decimonónico” at the Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad de Querétaro, México.

October 2007 Certificate, Teaching Skills Week , EUI, Florence, Italy

 

Publications

Chapter 'De Storia Civile. Algunas ideas de Historia en la Italia preilustrada: Giambattista Vico, Pietro Giannone y Antonio Muratori', in Ricardo Jarillo HERNANDEZ (ed.), Tiempo y region. Estudios Históricos y Sociales, Vol. I, Querétaro, México, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA)-Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia-Universidad de Querétaro, 2007

Paper 'La recepción de ideas de Gaetano Filangieri en José María Luis Mora: un primer acercamiento al contexto constitucional mexicano.' Istor, Revista de Historia Internacional, 2007, Número 29, Año VIII, p. 120-149, CIDE, México. http://www.istor.cide.edu/revistaNo29.html

Chapter "La recepción de ideas de Gaetano Filangieri en José María Luis Mora: un primer acercamiento al contexto constitucional mexicano", Universidad de Venezuela, Forthcoming.

Article "Religión y política en Europa", Spazio Europa , Università di Siena, N 7 Oct 2005.

Chapter "La Escuela de Economía política napolitana en América Latina: La recepción de ideas de Antonio Genovesi y Gaetano Filangieri en México en el siglo XIX" en XIV AHILA, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, September 2005.

Article "Una reflexión sobre la idea de Justicia en Europa", Spazio Europa , Università di Siena, N. 5, Marzo, 2005.

Article "David Mitrany y la alternativa funcionalista", Spazio Europa, Università di Siena, N 4, January, 2005.

Since 2004 Book reviews: Foreign Affairs in Spanish, Mexico City, ITAM, Vol, 4 Núm 2, 2004. www.foreignaffairs-esp.org

2002 - 2003 Translation, Introduction and notes of the book Il Settecento Riformatore by Franco Venturi, Torino, Einaudi, 1969 for the Instituto Mora, Mexico City, Forthcoming.

1999 - 2001 Book reviews, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Other activities

January 1996 - June 97 Database for the research project: "Public Education in Mexico", coordinated by Prof. Akio Yonemura, Economics Department, University of Tokio Japan-El Colegio de México.

1999 - 2003 Evaluation of Books at Fondo de Cultura Económica México.

1997 Edition of the book, Melucci, Alberto, Acción colectiva y vida cotidiana, México, El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, 1999.

Research Distinctions

Scholarship European Science Foundation Sep 2008.
Scholarship Spanish Government 2006-2009.
Scholarship Italian Government 2004-2005.
Scholarship Mexican Public Education Ministry 2001-2004.
Scholarship Fundación Ortega y Gasset 2002-2003.
Scholarship National Research System CONACYT Mexico.
Scholarship Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Italian Government-Società Dante Alighieri 2000.
Scholarship El Colegio de México A.C. 1995-1998.

Language skills

Spanish, English, Italian, French, Latin, German (basic skills).

Referees
Prof. Martin van Gelderen, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute.
Prof. Maurizio Viroli, Department of Politics, Princeton University.
Prof. Ivo Comparato, Department of Modern History, Università di Perugia.

 


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