Dr. Alessandro Testa since March at ISS

We warmly welcome Dr. Alessandro Testa who joined our institute in March and who presented himself during his lecture titled: "The vernacularisation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the politics of culture and identity in European public rituals". Alessandro Testa has a variety of research interests, in the areas of Anthropology, History, Ethnology of Europe, History and Anthropology of Religion. The main project, for which he has received OPVVV funding and an invitation to join the ISS FSV UK, is called “The Re-Enchantment of Central-Eastern Europe”. His project has been developed from the perspective of critical and historical anthropology of religious beliefs and practices in central-eastern Europe after 1989, investigated in the light of both historiographical and ethnographic methods.

Before joining ISS, Alessandro Testa was a “Lise Meitner” Postdoc at the University of Vienna, Austria (2015 and 2017). After receiving his PhD from the University of Messina, he was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Tallinn, Estonia. Between 2013 and 2015, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.  In 2014, he spent a short period as a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Halle, Germany. 

Dr. Testa will give provide a course Anthropology of Cultural Heritage in the upcoming Winter semester 2019/2020. Moreover, he offers to supervise various theses topics for students (see attachment). More details about his work are available here: https://alessandrotesta.academia.edu/