Sofia Locatelli

Education:

• 2015-2019: Joint PhD in Jewish Studies, University of Bologna - École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris (Magna cum laude; title of research doctorate from both institutions). Supervisors: Mauro Perani, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

• July 2019: Summer School “Sepharad program: Language, history and culture in Toledo” – University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo (course Toledo and Sepharad: key period of the Spanish history)

• June 2018: Summer School “Sepharad program: Language, history and culture in Toledo” – University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo (course After Sepharad: five centuries building the Sephardic)

• 2017: Visiting doctoral student at École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris

• January-March 2016 (Hilary Term): Visiting doctoral student at Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford

• 2012-2014: MSc in Art History and Preservation of the Cultural Heritage (Summa cum laude), University of Bologna. Supervisors: Mauro Perani, Fabrizio Lollini

• 2009-2012: BSc in Literature (Summa cum laude), University of Bergamo. Supervisor: Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa

Research experience:

• January 2020-Current: Postdoctoral researcher - École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. Researcher of the project: "Scribes et Écritures dans l’Europe juive du Moyen-Âge: production, circulation et recyclage de manuscrits hébreux" (PI: prof. Emma Abate). Research, description ad cataloguing of fragments of medieval Hebrew books and documents recovered from book bindings and notarial files in various libraries and archives in Italy and Spain.

• January-June 2019: Research fellow - École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. Researcher of the international project "Books within Books-Hebrew fragments in European Libraries" (PI: prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger). Working on the fragments preserved in the libraries and archives of Northern Italy

• September-December 2018: Erasmus+ Traineeship - Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes-CNRS, Paris. Participation in the the international project Books within Books-Hebrew fragments in European Libraries. Working on the fragments preserved in the archives of Nonanotola (Italy)

• October 2015-April 2019: PhD Research, University of Bologna - École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. PhD dissertation: The tombstones of the ancient Jewish cemetery of the Lido of Venice: history, art, poetry and palaeography. Supervisor: Prof. Mauro Perani. Co-advisor: Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Awards:

2020: My PhD thesis was awarded the prize “Premio Scudo d’oro, in memoria di Paolo Giovanni Maria Coppola” by the Centre of Heraldic Studies (Arcisate VA, Italy)

2019 and 2020: Winner of a position as Italian language assistant in two high schools in Nice (France) through the call “Assistenti di lingua italiana all’estero 2019-2020” of the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR)

2019: Winner of the grant “Fondazione Camillo Scaglia Onlus” to carry out a research project at the Escuela de Traductores de Toledo (Spain)

2018: Winner of a scholarship “Erasmus+ Traineeship” of the University of Bologna for an internship at IRHT-CNRS, Paris

2015: Winner of a full founded Grant for a PhD position in Jewish Studies at University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus

2014: Winner of a Prize of the Department for the Cultural Heritage of Bologna University for the publication of my Master thesis as a monograph

2014: My MSc thesis was awarded the right to be published

List of Publications:

Locatelli, S., I registri dei morti della Comunità Ebraica e dei Provveditori alla Sanità di Venezia: fonti preziose per lo studio degli epitaffi dell’Antico Cimitero Ebraico del Lido, in «Materia Giudaica», XXIII (2018) [Journal Article]

Locatelli, S., Arte, storia, poesia e paleografia nelle lapidi dell’antico cimitero ebraico del Lido di Venezia, in «Materia Giudaica», XXII (2017) [Journal Article]

Locatelli, S., Cinque ketubbot inedite della Biblioteca Comunale “Luciano Benincasa” di Ancona, in «Materia Giudaica», XX/XXI (2015/16) [Journal Article]

Locatelli, S., - Perani, M., Le ketubbot italiane della collezione Fornasa. Una fonte per la storia e l’arte ebraica dei secoli XVII-XX, Giuntina, Firenze 2015 [Book]

Conferences:

15/09/2019: “I frammenti ebraici dell’area cremonese”, Workshop “37 anni di ricerca sui frammenti. Dalla Genizah Italiana a Books within Books”, Ravenna

03-06/09/2018: “Nuovi studi sull’araldica ebraica alla luce degli stemmi incisi sulle lapidi dell’Antico Cimitero Ebraico al Lido di Venezia”, XXXII International conference AISG, Ravenna

04-06/09/2017: “I registri dei morti della Comunità Ebraica e dei Provveditori alla Sanità di Venezia: fonti preziose per lo studio degli epitaffi dell’Antico Cimitero Ebraico del Lido”, XXXI International conference AISG, Ravenna

18-22/06/2017: “Arte, storia, poesia e paleografia nelle lapidi dell’antico cimitero ebraico del Lido di Venezia”, European Academy of Religion – Ex Nihilo zero Conference, Bologna

02/2016: “A study of a private collection of Italian ketubbot”, Yom Limmud Seminar in Jewish Studies, Oxford Chabad Society, Oxford

Affiliations:

• Member of the Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo (AISG) - Dipartimento Beni Culturali, Via degli ariani 1, 48121 Ravenna, Italia

• Member of SAPRAT - Savoirs et Pratiques du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle - 45-47 rue des Ecoles 75005 Paris, France

• Member of Almae Matris Alumni - University of Bologna, Via Marsala, 49, Bologna