Researchers in motion

Prof Mauro Pala, Full Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Cagliari, will be at the Trinity Long Room Hub (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) from January to March 2015 as a Visiting Research Fellow in collaboration with the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies.

Prof Pala has published extensively on European Romanticism, Critical theory, Cultural studies and Postcolonial studies. The title of his current research project is ‘For a Gramscian Reading of National Identities in Irish Literary Modernism’. In the Trinity Long Room Hub he will give a lecture titled ‘Gramsci and the Great Community: Subalternity, Hegemony and Autonomy in Irish Literature and Culture’. 

Daria Parkhomenko, Senior Lecturer from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BSUIR).

I’m working at the Department of Engineering Psychology and Ergonomics, giving lectures in Russian and in English as well.

I’m visiting the Department of Psychology, Pedagogics and Phylosopy of the University of Cagliari, in particular the speciality “Scienze della Comunicazione” directed by Elisabetta Gola.

I have already been to the University of Cagliari in June 2014 during a 10-day visit of stage and experience exchange in the field of e-learning and implementing ICT in the process of education.

 BSUIR presentation

Zuzanna Rudnicka comes from Cracow (Poland). She studies Foreign Languages at Jagiellonian University and has just completed a practical placement from 1th July to 1th August 2014 at the International Research and Mobility Program Office of the Universtiy of Cagliari. The office is also Euraxess Service Centre for Sardinia.

Her tasks included dealing with the Euraxess Centre activities and with the normal routine of the Office; monitoring the official European Commission website to check for fellowships and grants to be published in the Office website and sent to the mailing lists. She has developed competences in Italian and English languages, interpersonal communication, work in the normal office functions, and work in an international environment.

Agata Pilecka studies Economics at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She is going to spend three months from June to the beginning of September 2014 at the International Research and Mobility Programs Office at the University of Cagliari under the student exchange mobility programme Erasmus.

As EURAXESS Service Centre for Sardinia the International Office provides services for international researchers in mobility.

Agata Pilecka will be involved in an international environment and in the normal office functions. She deals with the Euraxess Centre activities monitoring the official European Commission website to check for fellowships and grants to be published in the Office website and sent to the mailing lists.

Moreover she has made a valuable contribution to the Office’s leaflets and blog with her graphic skills.

This experience will prove extremely useful for improving her language skills in Italian and English, and developing interpersonal and intercultural communication.

Philip Baldi, PhD, Professor (emeritus) of Linguistics and Classics at Penn State University (USA), will spend two months working on the Project Rappresentazioni linguistiche dell’identità. Modelli sociolinguistici e linguistica storica under the sponsorship of the PROGRAMMI DI RICERCA SCIENTIFICA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE.

Prof. Baldi is visiting the Department of Philology, Literature, and Linguistics at the University of Cagliari (Prof. Ignazio E. Putzu, Head of Department).  He will present a paper with Prof. Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo) in late April, and will also be giving a series of lectures on Language Universals in mid-late May, 2014.