2012 Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences WZB, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Humboldt University (Germany)

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Lorenzo Zamponi Nationality Italian Date of birth 25/3/1983 CURRENT POSITION 2015 Research fellow - assegnista di ricerca Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence (Italy) - COSMOS (Center on Social Movement Studies) Project: Living with Hard Times: Citizens Resilience in Times of Crisis Activities: political claim analysis on collective responses to the crisis in Italy, survey on individual responses to the crisis, coding of alternative action organisations websites and qualitative on alternative social resilience actions in Italy. EDUCATION AND TRAINING 2015 Ph.D. in Political and Social Science Thesis: Memory in Action: Mediatised Public Memory and the Symbolic Construction of Conflict in Student Movements 2012 Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences WZB, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Humboldt University (Germany) 2010 Master of Research in Political and Social Sciences 2008 M.Sc. in Communication - Laurea specialistica in Comunicazione delle organizzazioni complesse (110/110 cum laude) Università degli studi di Padova (Italy) Thesis: The circuits of memory: press, TV and the narrative of foibe Degree in Communication - Laurea triennale in Scienze della Comunicazione (110/110 cum laude) Università degli studi di Padova (Italy) Thesis: Communicating class identity: the trade union press in Treviso

2 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Research assistant Project: Living with Hard Times: Citizens Resilience in Times of Crisis Activities: literature review on the economic crisis, policy analysis on crisis-related governmental action in Italy, literature review and research on alternative social resilience actions in Italy, political claim analysis on collective responses to the crisis in Italy Academic assistant - organiser Project: ECPR Summer School on Methods for the Study of Participation and Mobilisation 2014 Academic assistant Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (Humboldt University) Project: cooperation in applications for international grants 2014 Project leader in the National report on students ( Rapporto Nazionale sui soggetti in formazione ) National Youth Forum ( Forum Nazionale dei Giovani ), c/o Office of the Prime Minister, Department of Youth. Project: national survey on the condition of school and university students 2013 Academic assistant - organiser Project: ECPR Summer School on Methods for the Study of Participation and Mobilisation 2013 Visiting Researcher Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (Humboldt University) TEACHING Lecturer in Italian Politics Elon University, North Carolina (USA), c/o Accademia Europea, Florence (Italy) Guest lecturer in graduate seminars Lectures: 9/11/2015 Memory and Social Movements in D. della Porta s seminar Silences and voices in social movement studies Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence (Italy) 28/2/2014 "Europe from below: social movements and public opinion in D. Lombardo s seminar Italy, Europe and the European Union: The Making of EU Sarah Lawrence College, Florence (Italy) 7/3/2013 Reactions in the protest arena II in H. Kriesi's seminar The Political Consequences of the Great Depression. 29/10/2012 Narratives and Social Movements in D. della Porta's seminar Changing Democracies: Social Movements and Beyond.

3 AREAS OF EXPERTISE Topics Objects of research Methods Social movements, Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, Memory Studies, Media Analysis. Anti-austerity mobilisation, student movements, social resilience, Italian politics, Spanish politics. Qualitative content analysis, qualitative interviews, political claim analysis, protest event analysis, discourse analysis, statistical analysis. Organisational skills Experience as project leader, in research teams and in organising conferences, workshops and summer schools. Software Language skills Office software (MS Word, Power Point, Excel, Access, OpenOffice, Libre Office), statistical research software (STATA), publishing software (QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign), graphic software (GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, InkScape), web publishing software (Wordpress, Joomla, etc.), web programming languages (HTML, PHP), Linux. Italian (mother tongue), English (independent user), Spanish (independent user) PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed articles Zamponi, L. and Fernandez, J. (accepted with minor revisions, forthcoming in 2016) Dissenting Youth: How Student and Youth Struggles Helped Shape Anti-Austerity Mobilisations in Southern Europe. Social Movement Studies. Bosi, L. and Zamponi, L. (2015) Direct Social Actions and Economic Crises: The relationship between forms of action and socio-economic context in Italy. Partecipazione e Conflitto 8(2), pp della Porta, D. and Zamponi, L. (2013) Protest and policing on October 15th, global day of action: the Italian case. Policing and Society 23(1), pp Zamponi, L. (2012) "Why don't Italians occupy?" Hypotheses on a failed mobilisation. Social Movement Studies 11(3-4), pp Essays in books Zamponi, L. (2015) Remembering Violence: Four Cases of Contentious Memory in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In: Bosi, L., Ó Dochartaigh, N., Pisioiu, D. (eds.) Political Violence in Context. Colchester: ECPR Press, pp Zamponi, L. (2015) Gramsci a Tahrir, tra spontaneità e teoria dei movimenti sociali. In: Ferrara, A. (ed.) Prospettiva Gramsci. Dialoghi tra il presente e un classico del Novecento. Bari: CaratteriMobili. Zamponi, L. and Vogiatzoglou, M. (2015) Organising workers counter-power in Italy and Greece. In: Buxton, N. and Bélanger Dumontier, M. (eds.) State of Power Amsterdam: Transnational Institute, pp Zamponi, L. and Daphi, P. (2014) Breaks and continuities in and between cycles of protest. Memories and legacies of the Global Justice Movement in the context of anti-austerity mobilisations. In: della Porta, D. and Mattoni, A. (eds.) Spreading Protest. Social Movements in Times of Crisis. Colchester: ECPR Press, pp Zamponi, L. (2011) La rivolta della conoscenza: il movimento studentesco. In Maida, B. (ed.) Senti che bel rumore. Aaccademia Press, Torino, pp Zamponi, L. (2006) Comunicare l'identità di classe. La stampa sindacale a Treviso In Ceschin, D. (ed.) Dai campi alle officine. Storie e lotte del sindacato nel Trevigiano. ISTRESCO, Treviso.

4 Voices in encyclopaedias Milan, S. and Zamponi, L. (2014) Demonstrations, Organizing. In: Harkey, K. and Golson, J.G. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics (vol.4). Sage, Thousand Oaks, pp Zamponi, L. (2013) Collective memory and Social Movements. In: Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B. (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Wiley-Blackwell, London, pp CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Organisation (2015, with P. Daphi) Before and after Taking the Streets: Social Movement Continuity and Social Movement Outcomes, panel in the 12 th ESA General Conference, Prague. (2014, with L. Bosi) Political Violence in Times of Crisis, panel in the ECPR general conference, Glasgow. (2014, with P. Daphi) Social Movement and Memories, panel in the ECPR general conference, Glasgow. (2014, with. J. Fernández and M. Portos) Contentious Politics in Times of Crisis, section in the ECPR Graduate Student Conference, Innsbrück. (2013, with J. Fernández) A Global Dissenting Youth? Student movements and youth activism in the anti-austerity and anticorporate mobilisations: relevance, role, strategies and effects, panel in the 11th ESA General Conference, Turin. (2012, with M. Vogiatzoglou) Linking collective identity and agency: Social movements, organizations and strategic choices, panel in the 4th ECPR Graduate Conference, Bremen. Presentation (selected list) (2015, with L. Bosi) Direct Social Action in Italy Across Time, presented at the LIVEWHAT Conference, Geneva. (2015) Dusty Glasses: Mediatised Public Memory and Student Movements in Italy and Spain, presented at the seminar Visibilities: Social Protest, The Media, and the Shaping of Public Opinion in Florence, part of the Social Movements and Media Technologies: Present Challenges and Future Developments seminar series, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). (2015, with L. Bosi) Which crisis, which protest, which politics? The public discourse on the crisis and political outcomes in Southern Europe, presented at the 12 th ESA General Conference, Prague. (2015, with P. Daphi) We've been occupying for 10 years. Repertoire (dis)continuity and activists' memories from the Global Justice Movement to anti-austerity mobilisations in Italy and Germany, presented at the 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, Paris. (2015) Imagined continuities and embedded memories: legacies of the past and strategic choices in the Italian and Spanish student movements, presented at the ESA Research Network on Social Movements Conference, Madrid. (2014, with L. Bosi) Direct Social Action in Italy Across Time, presented at the ESA Research Network on Political Sociology Conference, Copenhagen. (2014) Gramsci a Tahrir, tra spontaneismo e la teoria dei movimenti sociali, presented at the conference Antonio Gramsci classico del Novecento e le nostre letture del presente, Università di Bari.

5 (2013) Like it's always been done : Memory, tradition and habitus in the strategic choice of repertoires of contention in the Italian and Spanish student movements, presented at the SISP conference, Florence. (2013) Remembering (beyond) Violence: Contentious Memories of the Student Movement of the 60s and 70s in the Italian Public Sphere, presented at the ECPR General Conference, Bourdeaux. (2013) Students against the crisis: antecedents of the anti-austerity mobilisations in the Italian schools and universities, presented at the 11th ESA General Conference, Turin. (2013) Memoria, medios y conflicto. El papel de la representación del pasado en los movimientos estudiantiles de Italia y España, presented at the XI FES (Federación Española de Sociologia) conference, Madrid. (2013) Pre-occupied. Italian anti-austerity protests and the failed diffusion of the indignados framework, presented at the 20th International Conference of Europeanists, Amsterdam. (2013, with P. Daphi) Breaks and continuities in and between cycles of protest. Memories and legacies of the global justice movement in the context of anti-austerity mobilisations, presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Mainz. (2012) Memorias conflictivas. Representaciones publicas de los movimentos estudiantiles de los años 60 y 70 en los medios de Italia y España, presented in a seminar organised by the Centre d'estudis sobre els Moviments Socials (CEMS), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. (2012, with M. Vogiatzoglou) Labour as a movement issue in the precarity era: multiples dimension of precarity as a contentious resource in Italy and Greece, presented at the 26th SISP (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica) conference, Rome. (2012) Mediatised Public Memory and the Symbolic Construction of Conflict in the Student Movement: Italy and the «long '68», presented at the 19th International Conference of Europeanists, Boston. (2012) Precarious Present, Uncertain Future: Multiple Dimensions of Precarity as a Symbolic Tool and Resource in the Italian University Mobilization, presented at the conference "From Social to Political. New Forms of Mobilization and Democratization", Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao. (2011) Narrative of insurrection and conceptualizations of rage. Accounts of the riots of December 14th in the self produced media of the Italian student movement, presented at the 6th ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) General Conference, Reykjavik. (2011) The walls of the political city: Mediatised Public Memory and the Symbolic Construction of Conflict in the Italian Student Movement, presented at the IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) conference, Istanbul. (2009, with S. Milan) L'Onda calling: subversion and self-production of media discourses by the 2008 Italian student movement, presented at the 23rd SISP (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica) conference, Rome. OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS Referee for: Member of: Social Movement Studies, Interface, Polis, Memory Studies Research Network 25 (Social Movements) of the European Sociological Association Standing group on social movements and political participation of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP)

6 Standing group on participation and mobilisation of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing group on political violence of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Research network on social movements of the Council for European Studies (CES). Updated on 15 February 2016

2012 Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences WZB, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Humboldt University (Germany)

2012 Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences WZB, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Humboldt University (Germany) CURRICULUM VITAE Lorenzo Zamponi Date of birth 25/3/1983 Place of birth Castelfranco Veneto (TV) CURRENT POSITION 2016 Research fellow - assegnista di ricerca Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence (Italy)