Simone Attilio Bellezza is Associate Professor of Modern History at the Department of Humanities of the University of Eastern Piedmont. The fil rouge of his work is the study of national belonging and its relationship with other kinds of loyalty (social, political, cultural, and religious). He is currently investigating, through the study of the Ukrainian case, the importance of the relationship between diaspora communities and their original homeland in the emergence of the human rights movement during and after the Cold War. His book The Shore of Expectations: A Study on the Culture of the Shistdesiatnyky has been awarded the Pritsak Book Prize by the ASEEES in 2020. Together with Elena Dundovich they edited the volume Queer Transnationalities: Towards a History of LBGTQ+ Rights in the Post-Soviet Space published by Pisa University Press in 2023.
Simone Bellezza
Guest Speaker
Assistant Professor of Modern History, Department of Social Sciences of the University of Naples “Federico II.”
