ACADEMIC CURRICULUM VITAE GIOVANNA LELLI

UNIVERSITY OF GHENT (BELGIUM)

1. PERSONAL DETAILS

Surname: Lelli

First names: Giovanna

Sex: F

Nationality: Italian and Belgian (double nationality)

Place and date of birth: Moscow (Russia) 21/10/1966

City and country of residence: Belgium-1170 Brussels

Full address: Klokjeslaan 33 , B-1170 Brussels

Passport

Phone:

: YB0249733 Italian Embassy in Brussels 08/12/2016 to

07/12/2016

GSM 0479 11 37 30

Home 02 503 03 37

E-mail:

Languages

Giovanna.Lelli@UGent.be

English, French, Arabic, Persian, Dutch. Italian: mother tongue.

2. ACADEMIC EDUCATION (AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL)

2.1. MASTER LEVEL

Diploma 2de cyclus – Master’s level degree

Title of degree at master level:

Maîtrise of Iranian Studies

Universiteit - Institution: Université de la Sorbonne - Nouvelle-Paris III (Paris)

Jaar - Year: 1993

Other academic degrees at bachelor and master level (including teacher training):

Title of degree Institution Year

Licence of Arabic INALCO (Institut National de

Langues et Civilisations

Orientales) - Paris

1993

Qualification interpreting and translation

(Arabic)

Italian Ministry of the Interior 1999

Qualification librarianship Italian Ministry of Education 2000

Qualification for teaching French in

secondary schools

Italian Ministry of Education 2000

2.2 OTHER DEGREES/DIPLOMAS BEYOND INITIAL MA LEVEL

Other degrees/diplomas (involving coursework, including doctoral coursework), docent training

Title of degree or diploma Institution Year

PhD of Iranian Studies

Università degli Studi di Napoli

l’Orientale (University of Naples

l’Orientale)

2000

Title of the dissertation:

Poetics and Rhetoric in the Epistles of Inimitability (Rasā’il al-

I‘jāz) of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavi (651 A.H. / 1251 A.D.- 725 A.H. /

1325 A.D.)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Giovanni M. D’Erme

University: Università degli Studi di Napoli l’Orientale

Date awarded: 2000

3. FULL CAREER

Function or duty Institution or employer from (d/m/y) to (d/m/y)

Rapporteur and researcher

European Parliament, Inter-

group for peace

European Parliament, Inter-

group for peace, MP Mrs. Luisa

Morgantini

March 2001 October 2001

Coordinator of Israeli and

Palestinian Issues

Aprodev

(Association of World Council

Churches Related Development

Organisations in Europe)

http://www.aprodev.eu/

November

2001

October 2004

4. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

please mention institution, duration, subjects / courses taught

Institution Duration Subject; course title

Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer,

Institut Coremans (Brussels)

2008-2009

Modern Arabic for translators and

interpreters

University of Ghent

Since September

2009 (ongoing)

-Modern and Classical Arabic (3rd Bachelor

and Master)

-Islam (religion and civilization)

University of Ghent

October-

December 2014

Modern Persian: Organizer and lecturer of the

Specialist course for the Doctoral School of

Art, Humanities and Law of the University of

Ghent: “Basic Persian for Researchers “ for

PhD students, URL

http://www.ugent.be/doctoralschools/en/do

ctoraltraining/courses/specialistcourses/ahl/b

asic-persian-for-researchers-2014-2015.htm

5. ACADEMIC CURRICULUM (SEE APPENDICES 1, 2 & 3)

I confirm that the above information, and the attached academic cv, have been honestly and

conscientiously completed and give permission to investigate their truthfulness.

date and signature

Number of supplements: 3 (9 pages)

Giovanna Lelli

Brussels, March the 12st, 2017

Appendix 1

PUBLICATIONS (LISTED BY CATEGORY, ACCORDING TO THE DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW, AND WITHIN

EACH CATEGORY ORDERED CHRONOLOGICALLY)

Articles

(a1) articles published in journals listed in the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation

Index or the Arts and Humanities Citation Index:

(a1) 1. « Pour une méthodologie du comparatisme. «La fonction du poète en Grèce et en

terre d'Islam », in Acta Orientalia, 62, 2, Mars 2009, URL

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/5857206

(a1) 2. “Neo-Platonism in Ibn Khaldun’ Poetics”, Al-Masaq. Journal of the medieval

Mediterranean, Vol. 26 (2), 2014, pp. 196-215 URL

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/5841841

(a2) articles published in scholarly or scientific journals with a wide distribution, international

peer review, and not included in (a1):

(a2) 1. “Arab-Islamic Reception of Hellenistic Science“, Advances in Historical Studies, 4,

2015, pp. 29-42, URL https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/5917623

(a2) 2. “Continuity and Ruptures in the History of Iran. Origins of Heretical and Debauched

Themes in Classical New Persian Poetry, Crossroads. Studies on the History of Exchange

Relations in the East Asian World, 13, 2016 [forthcoming],

http://www.eacrh.net/ojs/index.php/crossroads

(a3) articles published in national journals that use peer review, not included in (a1) or (a2),

chronologically ordered:

(a3) 1. Elements of Comparative poetics: Condemnation and rehabilitation of Poetry in

Greece and Islam [in Italian], Sophia. Rivista di dialoghi interculturali, 1999, pp. 49-57, URL

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6972085

(a4) articles published in journals not included in (a1), (a2) or (a3):

(a4) 1. “Comparatismi [Comparative Studies, in Italian]”, Parol-online, Quaderni d’arte e di

epistemologia (Electronic journal of the University of Bologna), 2000

URL http://www.parol.it/articles/giovannalelli.htm

Books

(b1) books as author:

(b1) 1. Giovanna Lelli, The European Community-Israel Association Agreement. An

Introduction to its Provisions, Implementation and Euro-Mediterranean Background (Brussels:

Aprodev, 2004).

(b2) parts of books :

(b2) 1. «Perspectives of Comparative Studies in the Time of Globalisation and

Multiculturalism [in Italian] in Multiculturalismo. Frammenti, confluenze e prospettive

mediterranee, ed. Rosalia Bivona and Giuseppina Igonetti (Napoli: Arte tipografica, 2001), pp.

85-105, URL https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6972068.

Other publications:

(c1) articles published in the proceedings of scholarly or scientific conferences but not included in

the above categories:

(c1) 1. “A Typology of medieval Islamic Poetics. Elements for a Comparative Analysis between

Islam and the West ”, in FILOZOFSKI VESTNIK-ACTA PHILOSOPHICA 20 (2), 1999, pp.201-204,

URL https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6972072.

(c1) 2. "Transculturality: a problematic Concept. Aesthetics between Islam and the West", in

Frontiers of Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics, ed. Grazia Marchiano and Raffaele

Milani (Turin: Trauben, 2001), pp. 465-475, URL https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6972054

(c1) 3. “Elementi per una poetica comparata del Mediterraneo medievale” [“Elements for a

Comparative Poetics of Medieval Mediterraneum”, in Italian], in Poetica medievale tra

Oriente e Occidente, ed. Paolo Bagni and Maurizio Pistoso (Roma: Carocci, 2003), pp. 293-

303, URL https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6972064.

(c1) 4. “Il commento di Averroè alla Poetica aristotelica. Elementi di poetica comparata

arabo-islamica e latino-cristiana” [Averroes’ Middle Commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle”,

in Italian], in Averroes and the Aristotelian Heritage, ed. Carmela Baffioni (Napoli : Guida,

2004), pp. 175-188, URL https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/5937320.

(c1) 5. “We come from afar. The Philosophical Basis of Ibn Khaldn’s Poetics”, in Egypt and

Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, VIII. 1, ed. U. Vermeulen, K. D'Hulster, and J.

Van Steenbergen (Leuven: Peeters, 2016), pp. 429–440.

(c1) 6. “The Meaning of Beauty in the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldûn”, in Egypt and Syria in the

Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras…. [Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming].

(c1) 7. “Irānshināsi dar markaz-i Urupā” (The Iranian Studies at the Center of Europe),

Proceedings of the First Symposium of Head of Departments of Iranian Studies in Overseas

Universities, Tehran, 16-17/01/2017 (forthcoming, in Persian).

Appendix 2

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES (LISTED PER CATEGORY, ACCORDING TO THE DEFINITIONS BELOW, AND WITHIN EACH CATEGORY

ORDERED CHRONOLOGICALLY)

(a) Study or research periods abroad of at least 1 month (please indicate institution, period and

nature of activities)

-Sudan: October 1986 – September 1987 (Khartoum University and Islamic-African Centre of

Khartoum): Arabic language and civilisation.

-Tunisia: Summer schools of Arabic in 1989 and 1990, one month each (Bourguiba University):

Arabic language.

-Syria: September 1991- June 1992 (Institute for teaching Arabic to Foreigners / University of

Damascus): Arabic language, history, civilisation.

-Iran: Mars - October 1996 (University of Teheran and Tehran International Centre for Persian

Studies): Persian language, literature and civilisation.

-Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories (1/3/2001 to 1/10/2001), Center for

Rapprochement between People in Beit Sahour Bethlehem / European Parliament in Brussels:

research on society and implementation of international law in the context of the Israeli-

Palestinian conflict.

(b) International or national conferences or colloquia which you have organised

-1. International Conference: “Medieval Poetics. Comparisons and Meeting Points. The Arab-

Islamic and the Western Traditions”, Università di Bologna and Università degli Studi di Napoli

l’Orientale, Bologna, 3-5 May 2000, URL

http://www.studidiestetica.it/files/SOMMARI/2000_22/zanardo.htm.

-2. International Hearing on « The European Union-Israel Bilateral Relations within the

Framework of International and European Law », Brussels, at the European Parliament, June

the 20th 2002. Organised by Aprodev (Association of World Council of Churches Related

Development Organisations in Europe), CIDSE (Coopération Internationale pour le

Développement et la Solidarité), SOLIDAR, EMHRN (Euro-Mediterranean Human Right

Network), FIDH (Fédération Internationale des Ligues pour les Droits de l’Homme), OMCT

(Oganisation Mondiale contre la Torture), WCC (World Council of Churches), URL

http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/international/palestine/eu-israel-bilateral.pdf.

-3. Invited lecture on "Averroes' contribution to the renewal of medieval Philosophy", given by

Professor Andrés Martinez Lorca (UNED University, Madrid), Ghent University, April the 27th

2012, URL http://www.flw.ugent.be/agenda/85.

-4. Colloquium: “Poetry and Religion in the Mediterranean Region in pre-Modern Times. A

centuries-long relationship between superposition, competition, alliance and division of tasks”,

Ghent University, April the 4th 2014 (http://www.poetryandreligion.ugent.be)

-5. 1st Symposium on the History and the Philosophy of Science in honor of Roshdi Rashed:

“The Arab-Islamic Sciences. A Living Heritage. Achievements in Classical Islam and

Contemporary Challenges of World Science”; Ghent University, May the 8th 2015, URL

http://www.arabislamicscience.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Symposium-in-

honor.pdf

-6. 2nd Symposium on the History and the Philosophy of Science: “The Arab-Islamic Sciences

(9th-14th cent.) in the longue durée. The Scientific revolution in Question”, Ghent University,

February the 12th 2016, URL http://www.arabislamicscience.ugent.be/wp-

content/uploads/2014/12/POSTER-final.pdf.

-7. 3rd Symposium on the History and the Philosophy of Science: “Islam and Rationalism. The

Development of the Scientific Method”, Ghent University, April the 28th 2017 (forthcoming),

http://www.arabislamicscience.ugent.be/initiatives/initiatives-2017/

(c) International conferences, colloquia and seminars to which you have contributed (please

indicate location, date, title of conference and type of contribution: paper presentation,

submitted presentation, poster presentation, chair of sessions, reporter, etc.) If relevant,

indicate those where you were invited to contribute:

-1. Paper presentation: « Avicennisme et averroïsme dans la poétique et la rhétorique

islamiques médiévales : la tradition persane », 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston,

Massachusetts 10-15/8/1998, URL https://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Medi/MediLell.htm

-2. Paper presentation : “Il commento di Averroè alla Poetica aristotelica. Elementi di poetica

comparata arabo-islamica e latino-cristiana” [The Medium Commentary of Averroes on

Aristotle’s Poetics. Elements of Latin-Christian and Arab-Islamic comparative poetics],

Conference held at the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples on the Occasion of the 800th

Anniversary of Averroes' Death, January 14 - 16 1999.

-3. Paper presentation: « La notion de mimesis dans le Commentaire moyen d’Averroès de la

Poétique d’Aristote », 12th biennal Conference of the « Société Internationale pour l’Histoire

de la Rhétorique », Vrij Universiteit van Amsterdam, 13-17/07/ 1999.

- 4. Paper presentation: “The philosophical basis of Ibn Khaldûn’s poetics”, 22nd Colloquium on

the history of Egypt and Syria (CHESFAME) (10th- 15th cent.), Ghent University, Faculty of Arts,

15-17/5/2013.

-5. Participation as speaker: Round table of the international workshop on “Cosmopolitan

languages and their cultures”, organized by Prof. Dr. Wim Verbaal, Pirenne Institute for

Medieval Studies, Center for Medieval Literature, Ghent University 25/02/2014, URL

http://www.poetryandreligion.ugent.be/node/8.

- 6. Paper presentation: “Religious prejudices against poetry and singing in pre-Islamic Persia

and their impact on Islamic Persian lyric”, International Colloquium on “Poetry and religion in

the Mediterranean region in pre-modern times”, Ghent University, Faculty of Arts,

04/04/2014, URL http://www.poetryandreligion.ugent.be/node/1.

- 7. Paper presentation: "Aesthetics and Geometry", 1st Symposium on the History and

Philosophy of science: “Islam and Science: a Living Heritage. Achievements in Classical Islam

and Contemporary Challenges of World Science”, Ghent University, May the 8th, 2015, URL

http://www.arabislamicscience.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Program-revised1.pdf.

- 8. Paper presentation: "The meaning of beauty (al-jamâl) in the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldûn,

23rd Colloquium on the history of Egypt and Syria (CHESFAME) (10th- 15th cent.), KUL, Leuven,

20-22 May 2015.

-9. Panel member in the session on "Cross-cultural research", the Study Day on "Medieval

Studies as Academic Discipline", organised by the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies,

Ghent, May the 28th 2015, URL http://www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/news-

events/events/studyday2015.

-10. Paper presentation: “The Arab-Islamic Sciences in the longue durée. Searching for a

paradigm in the History of Science from the Antiquity to the 19th century”, 2nd Symposium on

the History and the Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, 12/02/2016, URL

http://www.arabislamicscience.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/PROGRAMM.pdf.

-11. Paper presentation: “Science and Beauty in the Muqaddima. History as a “new science” in

the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406) and Gambattista Vico (d. 1744)”, 24th Colloquium on

the history of Egypt and Syria (CHESFAME) (10th- 15th cent.), 19-20/05/2016, KUL, Leuven,

2016.

-12. Paper presentation: “Beauty, virtue and knowledge in Medieval Islam. A Survey of the

Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldûn”, International Congress on “Theorizing Medieval European

Literatures”, University of York 30/06/2016-03/07/2016, URL

http://www.studilefili.unimi.it/extfiles/unimidire/56101/attachment/theorizing-medieval-

european-literatures-programme.pdf.

-13 Presentation: “Irānshināsi dar markaz-i Urupā” (The Iranian Studies at the Center of

Europe), Proceedings of the First Symposium of Head of Departments of Iranian Studies in

Overseas Universities, Tehran, 16-17/01/2017, organized by the Iranian Ministry of Science

and the University Allame Tabataba’I (in Persian), forthcoming.

(d) Invited lectures at universities and scholarly institutions

-1. "Pour une méthodologie du comparatisme. La parole poétique de la magie à la littérature

en Grèce et en terre d'islam", Université Libre de Bruxelles, Département de langues et

littératures arabes, in the framework of the workshop on "Religions et cultures du monde

arabo-musulman: questions approfondies I et II", 20 february 2008.

-2. “An Introduction to Persian Language and Civilization”, Ghent University, Unity of Arab and

Islamic Studies, May the 3rd 2013.

-3. “Arab-Islamic Reading of Aristotle: Avicenna’s Neo-Platonism and Averroes’ Rationalism”,

Lecture given within the framework of Prof. Dr. Koen De Timmerman’s course on « Reception

of the Classics of the Greek-Roman Tradition in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Beyond »,

Ghent University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Literary Studies, 06/12/2013.

-4. “Arab-Islamic reception and development of Hellenistic philosophy and science”, lecture

given within the framework of the Doctoral school on "Methods and Interpretation in

Classics", Gent Institute for Classical Studies (GIKS), Ghent University, 05/09/2014.

-5. “Continuity and ruptures in the history of Iran: Religious prejudices against singing in pre-

Islamic Iran and their impact on Islamic Persian culture”, lecture given within the framework of

the Doctoral school on "Methods and Interpretation in Classics", Gent Institute for Classical

Studies (GIKS), dir. Prof. Dr. Peter van Nuffelen, Ghent University,04/09/2015, URL

http://www.giks.ugent.be/specialist_course.

(e) Obtained research funding, scholarly subsidies and donations (please indicate funding

authority, type of funding and amount)

-Full PhD Scholarship, University of Naples l’Orientale (1995-2000).

-Commissie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Commission for Scientific Reasearch),

University of Ghent, 700 euros of funding contribution for the organisation of the 2nd

Symposium on the History and the Philosophy of Science at Ghent University, 12/02/2015, URL

http://www.arabislamicscience.ugent.be/initiatives/.

(f) Promotorship or regular supervision activities related to theses and doctoral dissertations

(please indicate university institution)

-1. Master thesis of Mrs. Elies Roden, Abû Rayhân al-Bîrûnî’s Tahqîq mâ li-l-Hind. Een

onderzoek naar de astronomie in al-Bîrûnî’s Tahqîq mâ li-l-Hind , zoals geanalyseerd in de

literatuur erover sinds 1910 tot het heden (AbūRayḥān al-Bîrûnî’s Taḥqîq mâ li-l-Hind. A

Research on Al-Bīrūnī’s astronomy in the Taḥqîq mâ li-l-Hind as it has been analyzed by

scholarly literature from 1910 to present), Ghent University, 2016.

-2. Master thesis of Mrs. Souheila Yildiz, "The fundamental of Islamic jurisprudence (Uṣūl al-

fiqh) and contemporary linguistics" (2016-2017) (ongoing).

-3 Master thesis of Mr. Nikolas Geirnaert, “Gender-equality in the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia, a

comparison between Islamic law and the United Nation's Convention on the Elimination of all

Forms of Discrimination against Women” (2016-2017) (ongoing).

Appendix 3

ACADEMIC SERVICE (LISTED FIRST ACCORDING TO CATEGORY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY WITHIN

EACH CATEGORY)

(a) Scholarly service (relevant to the post applied for): scholarly advice, activity as a

peer reviewer, membership of scholarly committees, editorial boards, etc.

1. Member of the Editorial board of the journal Advances in Historical Studies, URL

http://www.scirp.org/journal/EditorialBoard.aspx?JournalID=2316#.V7bqH1uLRdg

2. Member of the board of the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Ghent

University, URL https://www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/aims/boardinstitute.

(b) Service to the community (relevant to the post applied for): public lectures,

information sessions, membership of professional organizations, possible functions within

university management or other relevant experience:

1. Member of Jury of the Auschwitz Foundation for the selection of original dissertation on

the historical analysis of the Nazi concentration system, 2006 (Fondation Auschwitz, Rue

des Tanneurs 65, 1000 Brussels).