Davide Sparti
Professor
Department of Education, human sciences and intercultural communication
University of Siena
Italy
Biography
Davide Sparti has perfected at the European University Institute and the Universität Frankfurt (as Research fellow for the A. von Humboldt-Stiftung), fellow of the Collegium Budapest. He is the author of eleven monographs and three volumes edited by him in the field of the epistemology of social science, identity theory, Wittgenstein philosophy, and the aesthetics of improvisation. He has also written more than one hundred articles collaborating, among others, with the following magazines: Aut-Aut, Intersections, Iris, Philosophy and Public Issues, Political Theory, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, European Journal of Social Theory, European Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy and Social Criticism. Invited as lecturer at the Universities of Lugano, Berne, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Berlin, Konstanz, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, London, Tours, Georgetown, Princeton and UCLA, as well as at the Basso Foundation and the San Carlo College of Culture, after being an adjunct professor at the Universities of Milano-Bicocca and Bologna, Davide Sparti is 2001 associate professor at the University of Siena, as well as a lecturer at the University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano) and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa). He is co-founder and member of the management committee of the journal Cultural Studies. as well as a lecturer at the University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano) and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa). He is co-founder and member of the management committee of the journal Cultural Studies. as well as a lecturer at the University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano) and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa). He is co-founder and member of the management committee of the journal Cultural Studies.
Research Interest
New tools for ethnographic and qualitative research; Theory of social action; theory of identity and social recognition; classic and contemporary sociological thought (G. Simmel, E. Goffman, P. Bourdieu) & Forms of production and consumption of performing arts, especially music and dance; social standardization of taste.
