Gabriele Proglio
Biography
Gabriele Proglio is an Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. From 2014 to 2018, he was based at the European University Institute within the framework of the project “Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond”, headed by Luisa Passerini, where he conducted oral history research on postcolonial diasporas of Somali, Eritrean, and Ethiopian subjectivities to Europe, which was then published in the volume The Horn of Africa Diasporas in Italy. An Oral History (2020). From 2015 to 2017, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and an Assistant Professor of Modern History at the Université de Tunis “El Manar”. From 2017, he was based at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where he conducted research on the mobilities and memories of migrant people across the Mediterranean, publishing the book Bucare il confine. Storie dalla frontiera di Ventimiglia (2015) as well as many articles. He also published a book on the Genoa G8 Summit protests, based on oral history interviews: I fatti di Genova: Una storia orale del G8 (2021). In 2021, he published I fatti di Genova. Una storia orale del G8 (The Genoa Events: An Oral History of the G8), a volume that collects the memories of the protesters at the counter- summit to the 2001 G8 in Genoa. His latest work, due out in October, is an oral and sensory history of Porta Palazzo, the largest open-air market in Europe, located in Turin. In this work, the methodological approach sought to decentralize the researcher’s subjectivity by adopting Édouard Glissant’s “right to opacity” for the creation of the source, and the methodology of “reflected memories” to interpret interviews gathered from eight women from the main diasporic communities in Turin.