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BENEDETTA CASTIGLIONI

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Position

Professoressa Ordinaria

Structure

Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell'Antichita' - DiSSGeA

Address

VIA DEL SANTO, 26 - PADOVA

Telephone

049 8274278

E-mail

etta.castiglioni@unipd.it

Curriculum vitae - BENEDETTA CASTIGLIONI

Actual position
Full Professor in Geography, Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua (since December 2011).
Chair of the master's degree program in Landscape Studies
Member of the Board of the PhD course in “Historical, Geographical and Anthropological Sciences”, Universities of Padua and Venice Ca' Foscari
Representative of the University of Padua for UNISCAPE (Network of universities for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention) and member of the Executive board
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Regional Landscape Observatory, Regione del Veneto

Previous positions and responsibilities
2012 - 2024 Assistan professor in Geography, University of Padova
2005 - 2011 - Assistant Professor in Geography, University of Padova
2004 – 2005 - Coordinator of European project Cultura 2000, “Karstic Cultural Landscapes. Architecture of a unique relationship people-territory”, Civic Museum of Montebelluna TV, www.3kcl.net
2002 - 2004 - Research position at Department of Economics University of Udine, European Project REGALP: Regional Development and cultural landscape change: the example of the Alps. Evaluating and Adjusting EU and National Policies to Manage a Balanced Change
1996 – 1999 - PhD in Human and environment, Department of Geography, University of Padua, XI cycle

Notices

Office hours

  • Tuesday from 9:30 to 11:00
    at Studio del docente - Sez. di Geografia, DiSSGeA, via del Santo, 26, II piano
    Si invitano gli studenti a comunicare la propria intenzione di partecipare al ricevimento tramite mail. Il ricevimento si tiene preferibilmente in presenza. In casi di necessità si può tenere via Zoom, usando il link https://unipd.zoom.us/j/94353560101.

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Research Area

Main research topic is landscape, with special attention to the relationship between people and landscape, the social questions concerning landscape and the possibility of using landscape as a ‘intermediary’ and a ‘tool’. The research concerns mainly the Veneto area, both the "Urban Sprawl" of the plain and hills and mountains, in particular on the following issues:
- theoretical and methodological questions concerning landscape studies, in a social perspective
- educational values of landscape; awareness raising, popularization
- analysis of landscape social perception and representation
- landscape democracy and justice
- landscape as heritage
- tourism landscapes
- energy landscapes
- landscape in population studies, with special concern for immigration processes and multicultural contexts
On these topics I have been involved in several research projects, and in following as a supervisors master thesis and PhD thesis.